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The New Oregon Statesman. Salem. 1 Oregon, Sunday Morning, February 17,I9t9
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THE eSatern represented In Sa
lem that contributes most to
the building up of . the potato
Industry along .the lines that it
must follow to be stabilized and
therefore successful in a commer
cial war it H. A. Hyde Co., 26J8
Portland road., That Is, on the
Pacific highway, where that com
pany has an assembling and ship
ping plant and, warehouse bund
ing of its own. i '
The home office of H. A. Hyde
company at Watsonville, Califor
nia, where It 'has' large nursery
operations. Portland is the north
west headquarters of the concern.
In some lines, like strawberry
plants, Salem is the place of its
largest operations. L. I. Pearmine
and W. H. Weeks are the man
agers of the Salem, business. These
men started growing and contract
ing for strawberry plants here 18
years ago. They added later as
paragus plants.
They Joined with the Hyde com
pany several years ago. "
Busy Times Ahead
As soon as weather will permit.
they will commence shipping
strawberry plants, largely to Cal
ifornia, and they must, send 4,'
000.000 of these plants, or 12 to
14 cars of them, to the growers of
that state by the first of May. This
i3 an increase of a half million
plants over last year. This will
make busy times for them. The
strawberry plants shipped to Cal
lfornla are mostly of the. Kick
Ohmer, Marshall and Oregon var
ieties. There are a half dozen oth
er varieties for which they bare
a. small demand.
They also ship all the standard
varieties of bush fruit plants, and
they furnish .certified seedba'tt,
etc., etc.. In car lot ofderB, fng
all over the country.-"- TheyeU
some strawberry and; bush., fruit
plants to local growers.
They also buy spagnum moss
fur the drug trade, and green
iuos for the nursery trade; about
12 to 14 cars a year. '
Certified Seed Potatoes
They send from Portland about
75 cars and from Salem 25 to 39
cars a year of certified seed pota
toes; mostly to California growers,
and principally of the , Garnet
Chilt Burbank, Earliest j of , All.
Qtieen and American-' Wonder: var
ieties, with several others.
Their Garnet Chilis, nearly all
go to one district In" California.
While the quality of this variety
was high last year, running
around 85 per cent V. 8. No, 1,
the quantity was not up to expec
tations, owing to a long period of
dry weather in the late summer
season. " '
The Hyde concern specializes
also on veneers for hallocks, berry
boxes and cannery slices.
More Than Certified
The seed potatoes the Hyde
reople send out are more than cer
tified. They are tuber Indexed, at
the Oregon State Agricultural col
lage. They have worked long on
the problem of the producing of
high quality seed potatoes, -and
they get results. Some, of the high
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The Potato Industry
50 "'0 ' s '
The central and lower Willamette valley counties, in
cluding Marion and Polk, are adapted to the production
of a good marketable potato in sufficient per acre tonnage
to make the; industry a remunerative; one, in ordinary
years. t ' . ' , . kk; ?k H j'kk k 'k
j If our growers will pay the price of seed selection,
rotation, proper cultural practices,! the use of the right
soils, grading, marketing and packing, which they must
do in order to stabilize this branch of agriculture, for they
have strong competition from the irrigated districts of
Idaho and from eastern Washington and Oregon and other
districts, -. ' : j 1 r . , ' i k ; k "" " '. . -
Salem should and in time will have starch and dextrine
factories, using the culls, manufacturing 100 or more
commercial products for which there will be a permanent
demand. M k. - .
We grow here a certified seed product that is wanted
by California potato growing sections; one not grown on
irrigated lands. We are doing this now, to the extent of
800 cars a year, and the outlet in the California demand
alone is double that tonnage. I Mkk k
, Potatoes are a good rotation crop! . A six year rotation
should be followed here, with flax and sugar beet among
.the six. : . k "11 i :
Some growers in this district are making a business of
potatoe production, year in and year out, and they always
have a market ; some years they realize good profits. In
poor market years; like the one of list year and this year,
they at least "break even," or more, j M
But there is no -certain prospect of profit for the care
less or the hit-and-miss potato grower here, in one year
after a period of high prices, and out the next with low
prices. ' M.r .
1 There will always be potatoes.? They make up the
world, largest vegetable crop. Potatoes are used more
universally than any other vegetable, i
The only way to cure the sick patient of the potato
industry is to follow the rules adhered to by the success
ful growers.
Quality of Seed Makes Every
Difference in Success
Of:Crop J j , .
Oregon grows annually about
50.000 acres of potatoes which
yield roughly 5.000.000 bushels
or 100 bushels per acre, esti
mates the experiment station.
These figure very largely! from
year to year. Of these 5,000.000
bushels, about one-fourth are
sent out of the state and .the
other three-fourths are used- at
hnma for table me and for seed.
The state every, year uses about
320.000 busnels oi seed. . -j
With no other crop does the
quality of teed vary so much as
in the case with notatoes, says the
experiment station. With wheat
seed, for example, there Is usually
a difference of not more than five
bushels at the most between the
yield from two lots of wheat of
the 'same variety. - Thus when a
man Is looking for wheat seed, he
is less likely to, ruin his chances
for success even if he does not
buy the best seed. With potatoes,
however; the seed often makes
. the difference between a big crop
or one so small that it does not
pay to dig. "'
Dosens of cases could be cited
where men had two quantities of
seed" growing side by side, plant
ed and cared for In the j same
way. where one lot made a paying
eroniand the other practically, o
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jrlald at jaU the entire difference
being la the quality of the seed.
On year, for example. - the larg
est grower to th Grand Ronde.H
valley bought certified seed which;
yielded at th rate of 209 sacks
per acre on Is acr.-' He planted
on acre of home grows seed and
cared for It la the same way. and
it yielded IB sacks per acre. Sim
ilar eases occur In every county
In th state: So It Is ..Import
ant that the grower know the
quality of his seed. j
Bow Can Grower Know? .
But how can he know th qual
ity of seed? It is impossible. !
says the experiment ' station, for
any man to look at potatoes In
th bin and be sure that a certain
lot Js good seed.
For example, one of the best
looking lota of potatoes ever ex
hibited was shown several years
ago In th potato exhibit section
of the land products show in con
nection with th Pacific Interna
tional Livestock exposition at
Portland. This particular lot was
so smooth and uniform that every
potato in the bushel was exactly
like every other potato, and every
one was the right size. The ex
hibit . was so outstanding that
many people asked for seed from
it and several fields were plant
ed. "None of them was', worth
digging: The plants grown from
this lot of seed were 100 per cent
diseased.
Many of the most serious pota
to diseases give no evidence of
their presence in the tubers. Their
only, effect Is to reduce the yield
of the diseased plants, v The -po
tatoes which these plants do pro
duce ar as sound In every way
and ar as f wIl shaped as the
healthy. , potatoes,. If , usd as
seed, .however, they again make
sickly, low yielding plants. . Be
cause of these diseases which' can
be seen only, when the plants are
growing.' It Is folly to try to pleja
out good seed merely by looking
at It la the bin. believes the ex
periment station, i ' i
1 Bin Selection . Not Good
Sometimes fields with a high
percentage of disease produce a
low yield. . but the - few sacks
Which they do produce ar of fin
quality, finds th experiment sta
tion, -while on the other hand, the
finest seed in the state might be
planted at the wrong time or on
Poor ground, so that the tubers
produced would be rough and ill
shaped. They might be of the
est record yields In the world have
been made with their Oregon seel
potatoes, on the reclaimed delta
lands of California.
The Salem district produces a
fine quality of seed potatoes, un
der natural conditions. It Is a
steady and regular industry, car
ried on under proper conditions.
This concern Is now contracting
for Garnet Chili seed potatoes for
this year's growth.
For Standard Variety
What" about, the future of the
commercial potato growing indus
try of this district? The managers
of the Hyde concern believe our
growers must confine themselves
to the Burbank variety, ana tnai
they must standardize, their. bus-
Iness In every particular. or .new
marketing output .'they are in
competition with the . a astern
Washington and Oregon districts,
and the Klamath Falls product,
where the standard requirements
are fully met. -'
Outside standard grown and se
lected and packed and marked
potatoes are coming constantly to
the local" market, and " the con
sumers demand the : best; espe
cially in low price potato yearB,
like this one.
The growers are getting only
90 cents to 1 a 100 pounds for
their potatoes now, and they are
not salable at that price unless the
dealers can recommend' .their
auality, or stand the losses In case
they do not satisfy their custom
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Thisj Is a atone wall condition
that must be; met. Some outsiand
ng gtqwers here now meet ll. All
must meet itj in order to fully sta
bilize! bur potato industry here.
There will; always be potatoes.
People will eat them, one to three
times a day. They make up the
world's: greatest vegetable crop.
There Is no good reason why any
one In the local field should have
to depend on outside growers to
furnish their potatoes. This is well
proven! by ' the experience of the
managers of the Hyde concern in
getting; grown here a large part
3f the California supply for seed
purposes
A- three year survey of egg pro
motion in Oregon. has been com
pleted by thetexperiment station.
un 10 ; rarms there were pro
duced, 1,356,764 dozen eggs. The
tverag cost per dozen was 28.1c.
The survey was mainly In the
Willamette valley
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highest seed vain, - hut anyone
looking at them would hesitate
to Ins them for seed at all.
Therefor, it is believed, bin se
lection of seed Is of little raise,
and sine there1 is' ho way of
judging thvalu of seed by look
ing: at th tubers, a ; chance Is
given anyone to sell, as seed, po
tatoes of little rain. The buy
er has no way of checking upon
the auality until his crop is part
ly grown.- - I ,
'i Have Seed Certification '
Because of the above condi
tions, a demand aros soma years
ago from large commercial grow
ers all over the United; States for
some sort of supervision of seed
potatoes in other words, a guar,
ante of some unprejudiced per
son which could giv some pro
tection to the buyers.; Similar-
system of seed
developed Un,-,
ly, growers of j really good see
wanted a guarantee of this kisf
so, a to put them on , a higher
plane as seed growers than peo
ple who wer taking no : pains
with their seedJ
So the present
certification was
der this system; the fields ar in
spected twice by a - representa-'
live of the extension servico of i
Oregon SUte Agricultural colege
and If the fields come up to the,
high standards set, the potatoes,
are Inspected again in the bin. If'
they still are' within the . require
ments, they are! classed as certi
fied or standard! seed. The stan-
dard seed Is a second grade which'1
is not quite so good as the certl
fled seed, but which Is reliable'
stock for th use' of commercial.
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A. B. Kelaay, Manager
849 S. 12tb St. Phone 813
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H. A. Hyde Co.
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Berry Crates and Hallocks
Portland Road, Salem, Oregon
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Dates of Slogans in Oregon Statesman
(With a few possible changes)
Loganberries, October 7, 1928.
Prunes, October 14.
Dairying, October 21. -Flax,
; October 28.
Filberts, November 4.
Walnuts, Ndvember 1 1.
Strawberries, November 18.
Apples,? Figs, etc., Nov. 25.
Raspberries,! December 2.
Mint. December 9.
Beans, ! etc., t December 18.
Blackberries; December 23.
Cherries, December 30.
Pears, January 6, 1929.
Gooseberries; January 13.
Corn January 2D.
Celery, January 27.
Spinach, etc, February 3.
Onions,; etc, February 10.
Potatoes, etc.. February 17.
Bees, I February 24. -Poultry;
and Pet Stock. Mar. 2.
City Beautiful, etc., March 10.
Great Cows, March 17.
Pared Highways, March 24.
Head Lettuce. March 31.
Silos;: etc., April 7.
Legumes. April 14.
Asparagus, etc.. April 21.
Grapes, etc., April 28. ,
Drug Garden, May 5.
Sugar Industry, r May 12.
Water Powerc, May 19.
Irrigation, May 26.
Mining, June 2. f
Land. Irrigation, etc., June 9.
Floriculture, June 16.
Hops, Cabbage, etc., June 23.
Wholesaling, Jobbing, June 30.
Cucumbers, etc., July 7.
Hogs, July 14.
Goats, July 21.
Schools, July 28.
Sheep, August 4.
Seeds. August 11.
National Advertising. Aug. 18.
. Livestock, August 25.
Grain Grain Products, Sept 1
Manufacturing, Sept. 8.
Woorworklng, etc., Sept. 16.
Automotive Industries Sept. 22.
Paper Mills, 8ept. 29. . - I
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