INDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE
AND WEST SIDE.
INDKI'KNIJKN'CK, I'OLK COUNTY, OUKOON, JULY. 17, 1902.
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STRAWBERRY INDUSTRY.
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POLK COUNTY THE NATURAL HOME
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No more welcome news ha come
to the knowledge of the people of
Independent and vicinity thin
the fact that the great strawberry
industry now engaging the Hlten
tini) of many is soon to he estab
lished here on quite an extensive
plan. Home ol our energetic and
nthuslatic eitUen have for some
time pant been looking up, and
working up thi very important
project, till it has culminated in
the organizing of a grower' union
t carry forward this industry UKin
a uniform and co-operative plan.
It in self evident that there in no
section of the country Letter united
and more promising of profitable
returns than in thi immediate
locality. The noil here is well
adapted to those varieties of the
strawberry, which command the
highest market prices. These
varieties can he raised here with
.J.M Jabor . and... xpenee, and in
greater abundance than elsewhere.
Moreover market are near at
band, or if shipping fuculitie are
desired, there are no better to be
found than in Independence.
From an industrial standpoint,
no preiiter rr more fortunate thing
ould happen to Independence. A
Mr. llofcr. of Salem, very truly
states: "It would give Ulnir for nil
the people at a time when work is
scarce and would put money in
general circulation. All that ia
needed i a spirit of rustle and
enterprise. No bonus, no capital,
do new equipment is demanded."
As the strawberry is indigenous
to this locality and can bo better
grown here than elsewhere, its cul
ture may be depended upon as
always successful.
In every enterprise the great
question always is asked, "Will it
pay?" It ia stated that last year
the .Salem growers cleared from
$125 to $300 per acre on their crop,
while Hood River growers realized
a net profit of $ 100. One quart Is
the average yield of a plant for one
season. Planted three feet apart
each way, the plants count 4500 to
the acre. This yields an average
crop of 200 crates to the acre for
five years Growers can very easily
estimate the returns from this basis
they are certain of receiving from II
to $2 per crate for their berries if
they wish to ship them and not less
than 75 cents at the cannieries at
home; hence the cost of production
being small the profits are satis
factory and sure. Our citizens
should aid i.i every possible man
ner the efforts of those, who are
endeavoring to push this enter
prise forward to a successful com
pletion. Independence has abundant
natural resources if only developed,
to make it one of the most flourish-
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Ing cities in the Willamette Valy j
and this strawlwrry industry lsj
certainly one of them.
Time to Train (Strawberries.
t'ol. liofer, of Salem, who is en
thusiastic on the strawberry ques
tion had two acres planted to ber
ries this year which netted him
$500. Two hunnred and fifty dol
lars an acre is a pretty good re
turn, he thinks. The Cotonel gives
the results of his experience of
many yean, in the following letter
to the Pacific Homistead of Sslcm:
June is the time to train the
vines for new plants to set out
early in the fall. If properly done,
grower of , strawberries can vain
nearly a year' time on new acre
age. There is all the difference of
a year between much of the nursery
stock from the far East and the
beet homegrown plants. It will
pay all who expect to grow for the
market to look after a grod plant
supply for next year. Some plants
will be needed to fill in missing
plants in old patches. If new
'acreage is to be put out making the
new plants is 'very important
Most strawberry growers raise
some plant to sell. For all these
purposes plants should be made as
strong as possible, and a few sim
ple rules about raising strawberry
plants may not be out of place:
1st The best plants are obtain
abln only from new stock that is
plants set out last fall or this
spring. Plants from older vines
have not the vigor and vitality of
growths from the younger stock.
2d. Do not make over one to
four plants from a hiil. By setting
the first plants that run out and
fixing them to the ground with a
stone or Jump of earth they will
root immediately. All secondary
runners starting from this new
plant should be removed.
By this process you will get
large strong plants with great root
power and with a fully formed
crown, and if set out as early in
the fall as the ground will permit,
you will get a profitable crop next
spring. Plants grown in this way
and set out in the latter part of
September or early in October will
look like a field a yeer old and
bear nearly as much.
It will be argued that this is a
great deal of work, and you will
ask "Does it pay?" I hove tried
both ways and am satisfied a trial
will convince you. The old way of
making strawberry plants was to
let a plant set all the new plants it
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would sometime 20 to SO, and
often a perfect mat of plants, none
of them large or strong, and most
of them puny, weak and emaciated
None of this kind of stock ever
makes much of a crop the first
year after planting. With such
plants the rule is to wait a year for
a crop. It takes a year to get
them on their feet, to grow a crown
that will produce fruit in profitable
quantities, for all time such plants
will never be as strong as if the
vines had been trained and limited
to producing on an average of two
new plants to the bill.
As the runners have to be re
moved from each hilj after the
fruit is ofT, it is not much more
work to train two plants for new
stock. Aftor picking, go through
the rows you want to make plants
from and remove all weeds, then go
through and train the two strong
est runners, laving a clod on the
runner next to the first joint and
pinching off the runner that is just
starting. Train them with the
rows so that you can run the culti
vator through once in awhile. One
hand can train several thousand in
a day. and each plant grown this
way. if set out early in the fall, will
produce 2 cents worth of fruit next
year of the finest quality.
If such plants are grown near to
where new acreage is to be laid
out, they can be removed in th
fall with the earth on the roots and
never stop growing.
It will be said this means work,
but it is work that pays. We have
been paying too little attention to
getting plants started right and we
have been growing too much poor
product as a result. A weak plant
will not only lose us a year in the
crop but will never havo the vitality
and productiveness of a proDerly
trained plant. I am satisfied that
it will pay any grower to raise his
own plants in this way. The
nurseryman who grows plants to
handle by the thousands, at $l..r0
to 12.50 per 1000, is doing it to
meet competitive commercial con
ditions, but the strawberry grower
for profit must go to the beginning
and grow his plants on correct
principles if he would get the
greaiest results.
If a Man Lie to You
And Bay some other salve, ointment,
lotion, oil or aliened healer is as good as
Bnuklen'e Arnica ISalve, tell him thirty
years of marvelous cures of piles, burns,
twils, corns, felons, ulcere, cuts, scalds,
bruises and skin eruptions prove it the
best aud cheapest. 25c at Kirkland
DrugCc's.
I'nIW Comity Man Attempts to
Kud III Life With Poison.
John Ii'tmington, an employe on
I. Hansen's farm, near Dallas,
took carbolic acid with uicidal in
tent, says o telegram to the Ore
gonian July 14. He left Hansen'
house before breakfast, went to the
pasture and there took a large dot-e
of the deadly drug. When found
he was in great agony. Medical
assistance was immediately sum
moned, and Remington was re
moved to the home of his father.
He is still alive, but little hope is
entertained of his recovery. He
li ft a note stating that the reason
f.r his rash act was because he
hud been disappointed in a love af
fair. Remington is about 30 year
of age, and the oldest son of Reuben
Remington, a well-known Polk
county pioneer.
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Changes Hands.
This week L. S. Perkins pur
chased the Rrisbine drug store at
Monmouth, taking possession at
once. .Mr. I'encins was ine lormer
proprietor of the establishment.
Mr. Brisbine, while he is undecided
what to do, may conclude to ac
cent a nosilion he has been ten
dered in the commissary depart
ment at Manila.
A Pleasant Affair.
Npeciul from lint nit VUta.
The ladies of the Woodman Cir
cle of Buena Vista, had a royal
good time at their hall Friday even
ing. The occasion was the semi
yearly installation of officers, and
in their usual whole-hearted style
of entertaining the ladies made the
occasion most pleasant. After the
installation ice cream and cake
were served and the remainder of
the evening spent in social con
verse. The new oflicers are: Guardian
neighbor, Mrs. Adda Pillar; Past
Ouardian Neighbor, Mrs. Addie
Calbreath; Advisor, Miss Lulu
Locke; Magician, Mrs. Carrie
Kreutz; Attendant, Miss Adelaide
Hecker; Captain of Guards, Miss
Ethel Locke; Inner Sentinel. Eaton
Revens; Outer Sentinel, "Gabe"
Locke.
This order is rapidly increasing
in membership here and its popu
larity is its own recommendation.
Three candidates were iuiiiated on
this occasion, and three more are
to be ushered into the order at the
next meeting. The ladies are just
ly proud of their organization,
which has a. bright prospect in
future. Already their roll-call
contains about 50 names.
Chautauqua Association.
'The Willamette Valley Chau
tauqua Association will be held
at Gladstone Park, near Oregon
City. July 8th to 19th; reduced
rates via Southern Pacific Co's
lines on the certificate plan.
Special attraction this season,
Chemawa Indian Band; base ball,
every alternoon; Chas. Craig the
noted impersonater. Dr. Robt Mc
Intyre, the great word painter of
the west, and Thos McClaTy. the
entertaining lecturer.
On July 10th the Hon. Henry
Wattersnn will sneak on 'Money
and Morals' and on July 11th will
deliver his celebrated lecture on
Abraham Lincoln.
July 10th the entire program
will he furnished bv pupils of the
Chemawa Indian" school, music,
vocal and instrumental, recitations
Kuan hull ami a errand closing con
cert by the Chemawa Indian Band,
should make this day one of
interest and entertainment.
For programs and further in
formation call on nearest Southern
Pacific agent."
To The Front!
Hjwcial from Hueiia Vista.
A wave of proirity, awakened
energy, aroused ambition, or what you
will, apjari to have struck this corner
of Oreifon. There is a buzz and a whirr'
of business about our ears that i re
freshing' new to the Wetf(Kter. In
city, town and village the influence is
felt, thouuh oerhaus only a few, here
and there, pause to consider and in
quire the reason.
There is an unusual influx of Eastern
people to our borders the past ten or
twelve months. Many of these strang
ers have cash and are seeking a location.
Houses id the storm-swept fcast have
been sold, and all bridge have
burned behind them as these people
turned to Oreuon. Homes they must
and will have here, regardlee of the
Cost.
The money placed in circulation by
these new comers, during the paet year,
would, if set out in round numbers,
amaze one. They have the money, we
th land. Herein ia the key : Land is
In greater demand, hence its value is
eohanced. Capitalists pay the laborer
and the laborer places his earnings in
circulation again, and times improve.
It is only a question of time, and
not so long a time as one might
fancy, until all the oesiraoie lanu
near the larger Dusines centers
will be taken; necessity, go farther
into the interior to find a home.
Birena Vhta should bid for its
quota of immigrants. Excellent
farming land and beautiful home
sites are all about us. The location
of Buena Vista itself is most
picturesque and beautiful. But
there is need of a rousing awaken
ing. There are too many neglected
fences, too many "shacks", too
many untidy yards and alleys, too
many placefewhere sidewalks should
be but are not. too many evidences
that the owners arefbecoming Moss
backs in reality.
Let each one take up this matter
and make it personal.
Let all work in unity at the end that
property may be enhanced in value;
that a desirable class of new-comera
may be induced to locate in this section ;
that other business enterprises may
find a welcome, and that we may
eventually become a live country vil
lage where peace and plenty will be the
lot of all.
Ballston.
Work hands are very scarce here
and farmers are short of help to
harvest their grain.
J. C. Wilcox went to Portland
this week to work.
Grandma Birks has been quite
sick, but is better at present.
Miss Winnie Sears has just re
covered lrom an attack ot so-called
smallpox. She was exposed before
leaving school at Eugene.
Our school teachers will receive
the following salaries next year:
Principal $45 per month; assistant
$35.
Edward Dorton rode the .Wood
man goat Saturday.
Jf H Butler has been elected
clerk of the Woodman camp here
in place of A. W. Thornton, who
has gone to rortiancu
There was a large attendance at
the annual basket meeting of the
Christian churches, bunaay. Mem
bers from Salem. Dallas, Sheridan
anu AmilV were ureecm. j. -n
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Dotson, ot rortlana, preacnea doio
morning and evening. Rev. Arthur
Ham of Bheridan assisting. The
next meeting will be held the 2d
Sunday in July, TJOo at isaustou
nicnic erounds. Sheridan church
will have charge, R. A. Porter is
chairman of committee.
Mrs. N. M. Conner, has gone to
Portland to visit her father, who is
dangerously sick.
Miss Lena Stouffer, of Dallas,
is visiting Milt Davis and family,
at Willamina.