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tne OltEGON-STATESMAN Salem.' Oregon,- Sunday Horning; November 1929 IP W CCK -ROIOgaiK . yith Greater Market .Than Supply GQUIEE tSSISTS IE C0OP1TIS Program Started 18 Years Ago Has Been Adhered To With Full Faith OREGON STATE COLLEGE, Corrallis. Nor. 2. That the Ore gon extension service is devoting major attention to marketing farm nroducts. in accordance wttn program established more than 18 vears ago, was revealed when rep resentatives of the college headed by President W. J. Kerr appeared by Invitation before the directors of the Portland chamber or com meree to explain the nature and scope of the marketing leadership afforded. The college repoTt submitted by Paul V. Maris, director of exten sion, F. L. Ballard, state county 'agent leader, and George O. Gat ' Un, marketing specialist, included a chronological summary of 195 specific instances of organization or other assistance rendered co operative associations in this state since 1917. Good, Steady Leadership ..There has been no time daring the past 14 years that the exten sIob service has not employed one or more marketing specialists de voting full time to the farmer's cooperative marketing problems," said Director Maris, "and no time during which the county agents, agricultural specialists, admin is trative officials and the bead of . the department of, economics of j the college have, not assisted In developing cooperative marketing . in Oregon." The report revealed that there has been no important cooperative marketing development in Ore gon within the last 14 years not definitely aided by the extension service. It also sets forth tbat Oregon possesses what is consider ed a model cooperative marketing law. written first in 1915 by member of the college staff and revised in 1929 by the extension marketing specialist working through the Oregon cooperative council. Examples cited of existing sue cessful cooperatives Initiated and assisted by the extension serrice - are the Pacific Cooperative Poul try producers, the Pacific Cooper ative Wool Growers, North Pacifie Prune Exchange; and affiliated, lo cals, Lower. Columbia Dairy asso ciation, and the North Pacifie Nut Growers cooperative. Elf IK Will HAVE RIGHT OF WAY Turkey supplies through the country as a whole will run about 9 per cent greater than a year ago, with Oregon showing an in crease of. 10 per cent, latest gov ernment estimates indicate. That ; the later markets are likely to be stronger is indicated by reports showing that more than 50 per cent of supplies will be ready for the Thanksgiving trade. Arrangements to supply Ore gon turkey growing districts with the latest spot wire market re ports have been completed by the market news section of the Oregon extension service. An added ser vice to Douglas county growers and dealers is arranged through County Agent J. C. Leedy where- y reports received at the college by leased wire each noon will be rewired to Leedy at Rose burg, ed ited by him and published the same afternoon I in the Rosthnr Jfews Review. Similar service will oe supplied any county desiring to cooperate. FILBERTS FIND READY SALE i on OREGON STATE COLLEGE. ' Corrallis, November 2 Ore go a filberts are meeting such favor in eastern states that present supplies of members are insufficient to meet the orders placed with the North Pacific Not . Growers cooperative, W. H. Bent ley, manager, has notified the lo cal extension service. He has ask ed cooperation in getting word to , independent growers that a pro-, fitable market exists for all first class supplies tills year through the cooperative organization. "Not only is the filbert mar- . let active and much stronger than , It has been for the last two sea sons, but our own markets are much broader than ever before," said Mr. Bentley. "We want to fee able'to give as nearly 100 per eent delivery as possible, as it is ' agreat opening wedge to the sale of much greater tonnage in' the -future.'; ' , - j " . The association' will Vila year make the first shipments of full ear-lots of lilberts to the Atlantic - seaboard markets." " r While whole wheat many be suc cessfully fed as the sole grain In the scratch feed-for chickens, it Is better to include barley, oats, or a little cracked corn, says the Ore gon experiment station. '. ' Keep , Tour Money in Oregon Buy Monuments Made at " . - Salem, Oregon Capital Monumental Works J. O. Jones M. Co., Proprietors - All Kinds of Monumental . 1 - Work ," - . V Factory and Office: 1 . 2210 8. Commercial Sti Opposite L O. o. T. "r '- Cemetery, Box 21. rb.0M.CS9 V.Ealea, Oregon Coope rativev Sold More Filberts Than Grown by All Its M Filberts One of the Few. Crops the Production of Which Is Almost a Franchise Here, With Market Demand Exceeding Supply O" (The following very encourag ing matter is furnished for this annual filbert Slogan number of The Statesman by John C. Burt- ner, associate director of the col lege news service of the Oregon State Agricultural college:) . 'Well planned production, stan dardization of grades, tariff pro tection and unified marking are all tide up as essential factors in the future success of Oregon's fil oert mausiry, Believe growers, dealers and .specialists who have been in close touch with the rise of filbert growing to its present place of major Importance in Ore gon agriculture. filbert ere one of the few crops the production of which Is practical in this country and for which the market demand Kreatir exceeas ine domestic supply. This conaiuon- nas existed for many years, tne deficiency being made up irom European imports, mostly irom spain ana other southern European -countries. Fortunately ior me iniure or the industry in this state, the quality of Oregon grown nuts is so superior to the imported sorts that -most casual observation is sufficient to reveal it. Production practices are be in? standardised more 'every year, and some of the present unsolved prob lems win doubtless yield to an in vestigatlon which is now beinsr staxtea under federal support, the work to be carried on cooperative ly with tne Oregon experiment sta tion. Suitable grades have been established within recent years. which have aided materially in marketing the western erons. The chief concern at present is to de velop a steady demand throughout me united, states which will ab sorb the marked increase in pro auction expected annually as new plantings come into bearinr and older plantings produce increased yields. These markets must be ed ucated to the point where they are willing to take the tuperior west ern nuts at a premium price above the imported nuts, as even with the present tariff protection it is possible to deliver the foreign fll- Derts to dealers in this country at price Deiow that of urofitable production ror American growers, Developing Home Markets In order to develon these do mestic markets, a more or less un ified marketing program is consid ered necessary by those who have had experience with Oregon's fil oert industry. Fortunately the state has a strong cooperative nut growers' organization, which has been a vital factor in fosterine the development of the industry. i ne present situation in the fil bert world is concisely put in a recent statement by W. H. Bent- ley, manager of the North Pacif ic Nut Growers' co6perative, made to ra.nl V. Maris, director of th Oregon extension service. The as sistance of the extension service was sought as a means of calling attention to the present market ing situation. Mr. Bentley ealls at tention to the" teed of a unified sales policy, and points out the reasons. His statement follows, In part: "This season we have been very fortunate in our sales, and have sOldfirm for immediate delivery a larger tonnage of filberts than" we will probably receive from nri? existing membership. Not' only Is ine moerc market active and much stronger than It has been for the last two seasons, but our own markets are much hrnii than they have ever been before. and we are now reaching out into points as far away as New Eng land where a very nice business can be developed tor Oregon fil- eeris in U luture. We havn the trade interested, and we have their orders already booked for a many filberts as we can nossihir supply this season. We want to be able to give them as nearly 100 iwr cem ceuvery as we possibly can. It is a gTeat opportunity that Everything In BUILDING MATERIALS Cobb & Mitchell ' A. B. Kelsay, Manager .', 840 8. 12th St. Phone 81S Oregon Paper Manufacturers of BOND -T- LEDGER GLASS1NE ,L GREASEPROOF TISSUE . -- Support Oregon Products - - . - Specify "Salem Made Office Stationery Already embers we have this year, and we want to make the most of it. For in ev ery instance the business we can get and take care of this fall will be the opening wedge to the sale of much greater tonnage in the following years when Oregon will greatly need large outlets for the product of its many thousand acres now planted to filberts. Have Good Quality We have a good quality filbert this year and our plants are all wen able to pack a standard ar tide. This work is done by grad ing the filberts into three sizes and by running them under a suc tion machine which eliminates the Blanks. The grower receives grade receipt showing exactly how bis erop has graded out, and he will receive distributions . of re turns as fast as the proceeds of sales come into our treasury. We fully expect to have our filbert pool one hundred per cent paid off by the first of the year, and to have made substantial payments to our growers before the first of December. "Our opening prices on filberts at which most of the crop were soia were zo cents fof large Du Chillys, 18 cents for standard Da Chillys, 17 cents for large' Barce lonas, IS cents for standard Bar eelonas, 13 cents for babies of both varieties. We have since raised the Barcelona prices to 18 cents and It cents per pound re spectively for the large and stand ard grades, but have been com pletely off the market on all grades and varieties for the past several weeas. . The Prices Not HIch T "While the prices given above are not really high, they repre sent gooa return to most grow ers and have been the best doss! ble prices to obtain this season in competition with the cheap for eign filberts, which were largely soia through the summer at 13 cents, delivered, duty paid, to our ports. The price is somewhat high er today on foreign filberts, but the great majority of the Ameri can wholesalers bought the bulk of their requirements at prices close to the one quoted above. Our large Barcelonas will always com mand a premium over the large foreign filberts, while our Du Chillys are distinctly in a class by tnemseives and can always com mand a good premium over any foreign variety. The old 2 cent tarirr is still In effect this year, and without an increase in the tariff it is Impossible to force a much higher market on foreign filberts than the present prices. Some Straight Cars Go ,"The.North Pacific Nut Growers were the first organization to make large shipments of filberts east last season, and this year we will have the pleasure of mak ing several shipments of straight carlots of 400 bags each to At Untie seaboard markets. "The association has distinct filbert and walnut pools, and fil bert growers receive full returns for all filberts sold in any riven year's crop, less the actual cost of grading and selling the filberts. A grower can Join any one of our local packing units which is near est to his place merely by aim ing the association contract, which binds him for but one year at a time, and by paying the local mem bership fee which ranges from two to five dollars in the different units. There is no stock to buy. and all expense is deducted from anal returns made to the rrower in the last distribution on any given year's erop. This association expense averages around 10. per eent or the-gross returns. Hence. if Alberts sell for 20 cents, the net return' to the grower is dose to 12 cents. i "We trust that the above data will be of use to you in assisting our efforts at-development this year and thereby standardizing the zunert industry." ... Gideon Stole Maauiactnrers of Vinegar, Soda Water, Fountain Supplies Salem Phone 26 Ore. Pulp and mpany Paper for Your : 5 PHI Government Promises to As sist in Erection of Elevators COULOMMIEES, Franee-(AP) France is to have a modern sys tem ox grain elevators. Strange as it may seem there are but few elevators in France and most of those that are modern are at the ports. France's wheat crop is stored rather hap-hazardly, Jean Hennes sy, minister of agriculture, told a congress of farmers here that the government would help to build enough Up-to-date elevators to handle 30.000,0000 bushels, tenth of this year's harvest. It is the lack of storage facili ties to which Hennessy thinks is aue much of the wide fluctuation in grain prices. Small farmers sell their wheat Immediately after narvest and the market is glutted. ine government has an ''Arricul " vieun i una io loan on warehouse receipts but as there aren't' many warehouses, the fund is or augnt use. Wheat is sacked as soon i mresnea. I'art of the crop is threshed as soon as it has dried after harvesting but much of it is stored. In the stalk, in barns and sometimes in the open, protected witn a roof of straw. The loss is heavy through dampness and ueienorauon. . Shortage of threshing machines nas muen to do with this condi tion. To remedy this Minister Hennessy is encouraging cooner- ative owning of modern threshing uiacaines. Old-fashioned threshing, with a horse turning a machine gener ations old still is used in many pans or mrance. Now and then one sees hand threshing, the beating with flails of the grain scattered on a spot of smooth ground. Much of the hand- threshed grain Is damaged br the naiu. BEEKEEPERS WILL MEET IN PENDLETON Beekeepers from all sections of the state are preparing to 'swarm' in Pendleton November 4 and 6 for the annual convention of the Oregon . Beekeepers association. Most of the two days will be de voted to marketing problems and present or proposed laws, an nounces H. A. Scullen, secretary of the association, and state col lege extension specialist A. W. B. AJosness, manager of the Mountain States Honey Pro ducers' association will be one of the main speakers, telling of the marketing plans carried out by his organization. Several commercial men are also, billed to speak, in cluding Boyd Buck, of Walla Wal la; and Li. J. Dane, Portland. Two bee inspectors of Washing ton will be present to describe the workings of laws in that state. Possibilities of wider use of hon ey as a food will be explained by Agnes Kolshorn, assistant profes sor of home economics at Oregon State college, who has made a spe cial study of this subject. Zi. A. Scheelar. nronrfetor ar thm Scheelar Anto Wrecking company, left Friday night for Strome, Al pena, where he will visit for a month .with relatives. m "The safety of the first mortgage as an investment is empha sized by the recent fluctuations and sharp decline In stock mar ket values. Real estate has always represented the basic wealth of a country, and will continue to do so, in spite of varying con ditions. Its record as a sound investment is unequalled. "Mortgage investments are backed by fundamental values, and their worth is always certain. The income is definite and de pendable, and as the loan is paid up, the paper enhances in value. "First mortgages or first mortgage trust certificates there fore are the safest type of investment for the small investor, in suring him a dependable margin of safety Their known value is not subject to rapid fluctuations such as have been experienc ed on the stock market recently. - i The average investor will find that the return from a first mortgage investment will give him a greater yield on his money over a period of time Jhan any other investment he could make, k with the same large percentage of security and safely. "This fact is particularly emphasized by the action of the largest insurance companies of America, who select improved property and real estate as the basis for loaning billions of dol lars annually. Because of its stability, because of its soundness, becaue of its known value, it provides a safe investment for the large investor, but it also has the additional advantage of pro Tiding the small investor with safety.and dependability." Full Car of Filberts Has to Market, Another Being M adeUp Packing Plants of Local on f ilberts Now, and Walnuts Are Com , ing in Daily Increasing Volume The packing of filberts from the current harvest is getting under full headway now at the four local plants of the North Pacific Nut Growers cooperatives. One full car has already gone out, this one irom the Dundee plant, its destin auon being Denver. Another full car order to be rolled to Philadel pnia is Deing made up now. This one win be made up from the dif icicuk xocai pianis. ui course. many small orders from different points up and down the coast have been and are being filled. But the making up of straight car lots of filberts is rather a new tning, ior this rear. The North Pacific Nut Growers cooperative is a combination of theeal plants at' various points where there is a considerable . cre- age in these nut trees. The locals are called by the names of the towns where they are located. The Salem Nut Growers cooperative owns its own packing plant, at Front and Hood streets. It is equipped for the grading, packing and shipping of both filberts and walnuts, and chestnuts, too, for the latter line is Increasing stead ily. Making Some Changes some changes and improve ment in the Salem plant are being maue. une or these is for the bet ter grading -of walnuts, to corres- pona with the standards of the uaiiiornia walnut growers cooner. ative association. The grading and Backing of f li nens commenced at the Salem plant a week ago last Thnrarfav Walnut grading and packing will oegin mis week. Already a con siderable tonnage of walnuts is on hand. This is of course hminv increased dally. Five people are empioyea in the plant now. The number will be increased to 25 with the brisker delivery of the nuts. E. C. Ewing is in charge of the Salem plant. The other local cooperatives are at Dundee, Lebanon, Amity, Dallas ana vmey. Grading and packing plants are operated at four points, Salem, Dundee, Lebanon and Am ity. In time, of course, mark inl and grading will be done at all ine points where they are locals, and more locals will be organized. It will not be long till southern Oregon will need one, then more. Tne upper valley filbert grow ers are taken care-of by the Eu gene Fruit Growers association, manned by J. O. Holt. This is a very large association of farmers. However, Mr. Holt works in har mony and cooperation with the other cooperatives In the gradine and marketing of nuts. The Oregon growers marketed last year about 125 tons of fil berts, and not far from 1500 tons of walnuts. The tonnage of both filberts and walnuts may run a little lower than that this year. There are several causes given. among them the fact that there was unusually cold weather dur ing the time the pollen was ready. Just as the little red blossoms of the filbert trees were coming out. Some growers are bringing in reduced amounts of filberts be low what they brought last year. some are delivering larger amounts. Then new members are coming mostly new growers, whose trees are Just getlng into bearing. There are already about 150 of these, counting filbert or walnut growers, and those who produce both. As to filbert prices and sales. there la reliable Information in the article from the college in this issue. The filbert tonnage of Oregon in 1827 was about 60. P.3i?itgaG3 & SoCe TV M i, More Going Cooperatives Are Busy That the filbert industry of the Willamette valley Is destined to be. a large one, and a more than respectable member of our general nut growing family, there is no doubt, The principal reason is the fact that in this section alone, with parts of western Washington and north etn California, can fil bert growing on a large commer-H cial scale be attempted in the Uni ted States with any hope of suc cess. The filbert with us makes a franchise crop. With the other nuts that we can produce with success, notably the English wal nut and the chestnut, the greatest nut growing district of this coun try is bound to be developed in mis valley. The Bight Variety, Etc. What is the best variety of fil bert for our farmers to grow? The highest authority on this point is George A. Dorrls, of Springfield, dean of the Industry, who has associated with him now his nephew, Ben F. Dorris. In an article In its issue of Oct 2, quoting from a circular ol the Dorris concern that was distribut ed in connection with its exhibit at the state fair, the following points in the comments of Geo. A. Dorris Were riven hv Th Statesman. They were given then In full. They are only touched upon here: "No known spot on earth is more ideal for the production of the filbert than that part Of the northwest lying west of the Cas cade mountains," says Mr. Dorris, adding: "This broad statement is made after 30 years of personal experience and after weighing all miormation irom every available source as to results obtained else where." Mr. Dorris gave specific proofs. Trees in the Dorris plantings generally produce a paying crop at 5 years. A 25 year old Barcel ona yielded over 100 pounds, and a 16 year old tree of this variety over so pounds. "Plant no filbert tree without knowing Its parentage, remember. ing that like produces like," ad vises Mr. Dorris. "For the commercial grove, plant the best strain Barcelona and you will make no mistake. The Du Chllley ranks second, though with us the Barcelona is approximately three times as pro lific, and we know of no Du Chll ley in Oregon better than ours." "Sucker trees and layered trees will prodnce true, but the tipped tree is by all odds the best in sev eral particulars." (Mr. Dorris fully explains the reasons.) Mr. Dorris is a high class gentleman. He is not in the fil bert industry entirely for profit. He is an Oregon booster, and he is doing more than his share to wards giving his state a major new industry in filbert growing, by aiding beginners to not lose valuable lima In vettfno' nov re- filbert orchards. s n i Geo. a. Dorri. is the Burbank of th eOregon filbert industry, And his is not saying anything short for high praise for all the rest who are spreading the gos pel of the filbert industry for this section, of which there are many. In laying drain tile it is better to have the surface soil put next to the tile, as this allows the water to percolate through to the tile more freely, says the Oregon experiment station. Considerable interest in tile drainage is shown this fall with the coming to the state of a mechanical ditcher. M S I S B M ' iitfUll Presidentjof Turkish Repub lic Takes 13-Year Old Dad for Son YALOv A, Turkey (AP) ,Ke- malist Turkey now has both a great Mustapha and a little Mus tapha. With a gesture eloquent of oriental glamor, Mustapha Kemal, president of the Turkish Repub lic, nas adopted as his sou and given his name to a 13 -year old shepherd boy whom he recently raised with for a few minutes on the outskirts of this village on the Asiatic coast of the Marmora. The Ghazi and his suite driv ing to the model farm which the gentieman-iarmer president is about to create in the environs of Talova, stopped to ask the way of a shepherd boy stand amid his flock beside the road. The Ghazi was struck by the child's intelli gent face and look of ill-health. Questioning him, Kemal learned that he was the son of poverty struck peasants and that he earn ed 1.50 a month for tending the sheep. The Ghazi gave the boy 36 liras, equivalent of the shep herd's yearly wage and told him to come to the presidential villa the following day. There the Ghazi disclosed his identity, in. good fairy-tale style to the thunderstruck child and ar ranged for his Immediate formal adoption. -He has sent young Mus tapha to a. children's hospital in Constantinople to- recover from under-nourishment and exposure, after which he will put the boy through school. The boy is still too dared to say Filberts, A Franchise Crop. TE have more franchise "T than are Dossible in anv world. What the writer is nleaRH t n i one mat may be produced exclusively uue inai gives a nifffter average nn section, or which may be produced to lower cost nere And filberts make one PrnrS- TTieir CI n V mfrrr. iAM.....'ill -iL - r , iuwu wuiiiiueruiaiiiy vrnn success m no other section of the United States ! vS-,? mJhe SIem distnct' extended over the whole of the Willamette valley, and in part of western Washing ton and northern California. T As told in the article m this issue from the college, it is the only one of our major crops the market for which in this country cannot be nearly supplied ! And this condition will last for many vears. It will per sist until our groves cover 20,000 to 50,000 acres, instead of the 2000 to 3000 acres of the present, j The market will grow with our population and the ability of lour people to secure a high class nut sit reasonable cost. ) The prices of the present year for our filberts are not ?i!fcnot Mgh enouSh- Ifc is important that the Hawley tar iff bill giving better protection to our filbert growers should be passed and no doubt it will be in pimple time to help our growers in 1930; and perhaps give the boom in new acreage that is needed. h The pioneers of our filbert industry have borne the brunt and the costs of experimentation. They have laid the found ations well. The paths are plainly marked. It is but for the later COmers to tro in and tnko nnssp.fceirm nf fVicir inVion'fonrD L. JJ.( annintr nrt i Try t-wt owt- hvenAh -e, uui uuiu r1"3" 18 oouna to neip growing centejr oi all the wide The Want Ads- l One Sure Me thod of Profitably Disposing of Personal Effects THERE may. be some A bits of jewel -jv a dress, r handbag or a suit of clothes that you have no moire use for. : Insjert a Want Ad and the chant cellent that you "Will u"ci iui uiciih xreopie are looking for just sucK things every day. A reach them. Telephone 500 more than The Ghazi Is my fa. ther and I love him," and -When filer"! f in t0 E01" Yonpg -M.aUpha is the Ghaii s jirst aaopiea son but he has live adopted daughters, children of brotherrofficers who fell in the world Iwar or in the war of inde pendence. The oldest of iheQ daughters, Nebile Hanlm, wa. re cently married to a Turkish d.plo maf. The others are still in school two of, them in the American ..oil lege at Constaninople. jf Where farms are equipped with electrhjit, use of a power hay hoist vf ill dispense with the der rick hcirse and 4river, tests m;1(Ja at the iOregon experiment station show. $"he hoist can be operate 'i from the wagon. A good outfit costs ttpvd $80 to 3100 and is op erated kt the slight cost of lc i tr hour uuder ordinary current rates. A bullkin has Just been isUi describing the plan in detail. ioaijiar creosote "stock dins' are recommended W the r,r, experiment station for rid.ii hogs oti fleas. It may be ar.r,i;.,i either (with a sorav niimn sprinkler. Cnless the hoes ample protection from cold, or hot sun, it is essential that the appli cation be light. Spraying around the barn or shed three or four times during the season alsobfips to control the flea crop. Fall if the year is a rood tim to look;! after the home and mate any changes, in shrub bery or flower beds that are de sirable. In Oregon many of the most desirable shrubs or trees caa be obtained from the native wood? and moVed either to the fall or spring says the state college landscape gardening denarttnonf A little itudy of design in advance or planting will be well repaid later. cruris In the Willamette valley district of the entire nt.hJ Call a franchise crop is wun success nere, or ity than in any other better advantage or at i; of our ii loutstanding; franchise .. ' w general nut growing in .a. - mucn in making this the nut earth. es are ex- find a Want Ad will 7. .