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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 28, 1929)
ii - K- 4- PAGE TWENTY The New OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning, April 28, 1929 Industry Center mem 3CQ)inni3 L h Great Grape To 5 - ! Fiala Grape Juice Factory In First Season of Going Shows Very Good Progress About Sixty Tons or Enough to Fill 120,000 r int Bottles Pressed Last Year, and Sales Being Made Over Two States Mil mm is hit 'Tor ten years and much longer the Slogan pages and news and ed Itorial columns of The Statesman hare been predicting that some itiaj grape J nice factories would ta located in the Salem district because we can produce here, and all along hare been growing high quality Juice, grape, of the ltla lab ru sea or northern fox ra rieties, of the Concord family, such as are used for pressing for juice in the great grape districts f northern New YorkT. Pennsyl vania and adjoining states. 'There "hare been some experi ments made in a small way here during all these years. But last year the owners of the Fiala yards near Salem commenced manufacturing grape juice on considerable scale the first un dertaking of this kind with suffi cient Tolume to command wide at tention. , These neoole last fall pressed about half their crop, or V A A A . n n ..mi all .A ma V 11 T mini v v ivua . cuuugu w uv v the -equivalent in quantity of boat 220,000 pint bottles. Oar Largest Planting The Fiala Vineyards make up the largest single plantings of crapes in . the Salem district. years, started growing grapes for table use for the northwest mar kets SO years ago. Now his son, Arthur J. Fiala, carries on the business. This farm is located Just three miles from the Salem end of the bridge across the Wil lamette river; a mile east of the "Wallace road In Fork county. Kear the river; rich bottom land. The Fiala farm produces only one Tariety; a sport of the Campbell's Early. For 27 years it grew no where else on earth. It was orig inated on that farm. For the past three seasons plants have been sold to the public, and soon this I Tariety will have a wide dlstribu f tion, especially in the Salem dls- Crict. These grapes have been go I ing to the fruit stand of the Pa t cific northwest, in fancy lugs i- bearing the name, "Fiala Vine- yards." They have sold year aft ; er year on quality. The vines are trained high; the Fiala way; pe culiar to itself to get the aun- R fruit. The production Has lately r . i A. . i a tons a year, from 16 acres. It in creases with the age of the vines and there is no known end to the life of a grape Tine. The Fiala farm baa 34 acres of land in all; 11 acres now being in f asparagus; fancy quality; nicely fj branded and properly marketed. BThe 1929 crop is just now begin ning to go to the markets. This is a business, run on a farm. A family affair. Has' a trade name that is valuable. Mrs. Frank Fiala, mother of Arthur, may properly be called the senior member of the family business. This Is an arrangement that Is rather unique in this section, though not bo in older countries. It is one that might and no doubt will be followed here in many cases, developing and passing on established lines on the land from (father to son, from generation to ceneratlon r : There are not many tracts of 34 acres of land, if any. In the Sa lem district, that are doing more in gross returns than this one. There are few if any richer pieces of soil. It has the advantage of frequent overflow from the wil lamctte river. The Grape Juice Product The pressing of the Fiala grape juice last year was done at. the Woodburn plant of H. S. Gilo Co. The product was at first put into gallon glass Jugs. In this form. It will keep Indefinitely; months or years or decades. Some of It was sold distributed. It goes out In quart, pint and four ounce bottles, bearing the appropriate Vineyards brand. The distribution is reaching -pretty well over Ore-. gon and "Washington now, and the sales will increase with the com ing warm weather season. Grape juice Is largely a warm weather drink; though this does not sup ply to the. hoapHal and drug trade. In which it Is used the whole year through. . There are physicians who use the grape Juice diet. One In Salem puts , certain of -his patients on grape Juice: straight; wiihoutroth- er food, for days at a time Other physicians use the Fiala product, as does the one referred to. They get the product direct from the pressing, with all the sediment. The bottled product Is siphoned from the jugs, without the sedi ment. High Class Product The Fiala grape juice product is high class. It is selling on qua lity. The Willamette Grocery com pany Is handling a lot of It, in its big trade. The Blumauer-Frank wholesale drug ' concern, with headquarters in Portland, is dis tributing many cases of it, tp the retail orug trade of the north west. The Fiala product Is better than the average in quality; better than the best, best put up else where, In fact. It is richer; has a better body, and a more brilliant color. It will stand up against all comers. Then why should its manufac ture not.be increased? The Fialas think it will be. They are encour aged by the increasing demand; recorders after recorders, from good . Judges of quality, who pro nounce It the best ever made. Arthur J. Fiala thlnka that very soon, perhaps the coming season, they will be able to begin lacing some of the cranes of their neighbors, the Fiala Tarie ty. He hopes to be able to keen on expanding the business from year to year. Arceage Has Increased Five ' Hundred Percent In the Past Two Years Editor Statesman: We have Increased alfalfa acre age In Yamhill county during the past two years over too percent. There were some 240 acres or al falfa principally growing on bot tom lands, and at present we be lieve there are at least 2,ooo aeres. '.Where the soil Is well drained, deep and fairly fertile, plowed In the fall, with an appli cation of lime applied. Immediate ly after plowing and where the soil is worked shallow but yery firm, seeded May 10 to June 1, we. have had no failures. It Is In teresting to note that where alfal fa has . been seeded on poorly drained, add crV spring plowed soil without the use of lime or without thorough rolling or firm ing of seed bed. we have Terr few, if any, successful seeding. TJsee of lame Important In many eases the use of lime has meant the difference between success-and failure. In observa tions made, early seedings univer sally result In weedy or foal growing conditions. Again, where the ground Is left loose the plants dry out, and we find patchy or un satisfactory stands. . , .Stem rot Ja. alfalfa is, rather serious. It attacks the alfalfa plant In the same way clover Is affected, especially the second year. The common type of alfalfa Is more subject to this disease than Is the true Grimm. We are not growing very much asparagus In Tamhill county. Very little. If any, commercial plantings are to be found, but on the sandy type of river botom soil, found along the Willamette river, asparagus would do nicely, and a few of the growers are ex pecting to grow this crop. As yet information concerning this is not available. 8. T. WHITE, County Agent. McMinnville, Or., AprU 23, 1929. Grape Juice, Jelly, and Jam Factories fflHE Statesman has for years been saying and repeating I that we should have srape juice, jelly and jam factories )iam Tn 4 Via mIv aoaroa f fVila TiroTunmnrls. xenrk thi . kuw J Mr wr o - - I seemed a far err: an iridescent dream. I But it does spt appear in that light now. We have bur first grape juice factory, connected witn ana a part ox tne Fiala Vineyards, the lanrest operation of its kind here, and lone of the oldest and most unique. The grape juice out growth of this industry on the land Is having an encourag ing development Founded on quality, it has the earmarks and the promise of a large and increasing success. It is likely, to reach far beyond the products of the original plant ing for its raw materials. ' Salem has had some grape jelly and jelly manufactur ing in past years, and there are prospects for larger opera tions m this line here soon. . That Salem may become the Westfield of Oregon, and this district the Chautauqua grape growing belt of the Pa cific coast, there is no doubt, because we can Produce a su perior article here, in the vitis labrusca or northern fox va rieties, of .the'Ckmcord family, the grapef juice kinds. We can turn out a quality product, and that is the touch stone of success. There is a great field open here in these lines, and it is high time bur people occupied it. And it .is encouraging to be. able to note that an ambitious beginning has been made by ode of the pioneer families of this section. NEW KNIFE HANDY The handy man has designed a new knife for digging weeds out of the lawn. Take an ordinary old fashioned kitchen knife, file the end off square, then cut or file a V-shaped notch in the center. The cutting edge which is the entire end of the knife, must be filed and kept sharp. The long blade en ables the workman to cut the root of the weed far below the crown, and a small twist of the blade loosens the soil so that the weed may be lifted out easily without leaving an unsightly hole. Read the Classified Ads. Gideon Stolz Company , Manufacturers of . Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 6 Ore. H.A.IHydcCp. m Berry Plants, Seed Potatoes Berry Crates and Hallocks Portland Road, Salem, Orefoa BRING IN YOUR NEW WHEAT And exchange it for hard wheat patent flour, or any. of our long list of milling specialties. 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