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About The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1924)
A HOOD RIVER GLACIER, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1924 ; Wishing you a very Merry Xmas NEWTOWN IS VOTED BEST and every Happiness during CONFERENCE REPORT IS GIVEN OUT the Coming Year.' Ofdwdista Are Urged to Diversify With Pears, 'CkërntoT bêÜTMr2^ operatioa is Urged Q KRESSE DRUG CO per acre are relatively high. It was advised that potatoes should not be grown unless an average of at leas» 110 sacks per acre could be obtained. Practically all of the county’s pota toes are grown in the Parkdale dis trict, and freight rates from this see tlon are on a parity with central Oregon, Yakima and the scuthern Willamette vaUey as far aa the Cali fornia markets are concerned. The poultry Industry of the county Is of recent development, the major part of the total volume of poultry products being produced on farms where poultry Is not considered a very important part of the farm en terprise. The fact that conditions here are very favorable to egg pro duction, that orchard soils would be enriched by the fertilising value of >. poultry manure and . -• that . tho apple orchards of a» acres and less often have tstar to invest in farm side- lines led to the conclusion that poul- increased the cowv- try keeping . _ be IBBR.,BL . m __ ty. MHiiagement practices were laid down in the committee's report as a guide to those who would follow that recommendation. . I A. W. Peters was general chairman of the conference. Chairmen of the respective conferen«*e grout* were: C. A. Reed, apples and pears; Albert Case, cherries; I. R. Acheson, tar ries; R. J. Mclsase, potatoes; E. F. Batten, dairying, and J. It. Nlckelsen. poultry. The reports will be printed In bul letin form and distributed to all farmers in the county through the branch experiment station. This was assured when the county court, at the request of the conference, agreed to finance tlie cost of publication. COLD WAVE About 50 Hood River county farnt- While the bliszardlike weather lim rs and fruit grotvers braved a near ited the attendance, the quality of blizzard here Saturday afternoon to exhibits at the second annual Hood attend the final session of the county River county poultry show draw agricultural economic conference and plaudits from faculty members of the adopted reports of committees on Oregon Agricultural College here for the occasion. fruit growing, dairying, poultry rate ing and potatoes, covering the pro A silver cup, awarded by W. p. duction and marketing of these major Lara way for the sweepstakes bird at local agricultural enterprises. These the show, was won by Bert Senter reports represented the results of on a White Plymouth Boek cock. weeks of effort on the part of local Other awards were as follows: growers working in conjunction with Rhode Island Beds—B. 1*. Battan. representatives of the state agricul first and second on cock, first and tural college experiment station and second on pullet, first and second on cockerel, first on hen and first on extensive service and are designed to furnish a guide for future develop young hen: Ralph R. Lewis, third en ment of the county's agriculture. cockerel, third on-pullet, second and third on ben and second on young A review of apple production in the pen; Mrs. E. J. Nicholson, third on county with definite recommendations young pen. as to the need to standardise on cer Barred Rocks—Alva Sherrill, first tain varieties. Increase average pro and third on hen, third on pallet, duction per acre and diversify horti second on cockerel and first on old culture here with increased planting« pen. of pears, cherries, strawberries and White Plymouth Rocks—Bert raspberries; carpful analysis of (he ter, first, second and third oar possibility of meeting feed require first and second on cock, first, ... ments before expanding the dairy in btid and third on pullet, first, second dustry ; that -expansion of the poultry and third on cockerel, first on old pen industry along sound lines would lit and first and second on young pen. in admirably with the small orchard White I/egborns—C. D. MirkaBrn. - these were features of the several first, second and third on pullet« first, reports that thoroughly analyzed the second and third en hen, float un agriculture of the county and luid cockerel, first and second on cock, down guide posts for intelligent de velopment of linea of agricultural en- Pioneer families of Hood River first on old ¡»en and first on young terpriaea beet adajited to local condì* crowded Riverside church yesterday pen; Chas. Lee, second on young pen; tlous. afternoon to pay their last respects Henry Sieverkropp, second and third on cockerel, and Macrum and . The apple committee pointed out to Martin 11. Nickeloeu, who. figured third on young pen. that at the present time there are prominently In the civic and indus Rabbits — , J, A. Ward, flrat about 19,000 acres of bearing apple trial upbuilding of the comunlty. Giants, and Cascade trees in the flood River valley and Aged 70, Mr. Nickelson was a native Checkered Farm, first on Chinchilla recommended the Yellow Newtown as of the laic of Fuhr. In ysuug man the variety around which the indus hood he married Miss Inga Harden, try should develop, with Spitsenburg, who passed away early iu 1922. At the time of the Franco-Prussian Arkansas Black, Delicious, Graven- stein and Ortley named as other war Mr. Nickelson came to America, varieties to be used in building up leaving ids family to follow later. economical orchard units. Success or He settled in San Francisco. Mrs. failure in the apple business, it was Nickelson crossed the Atlantic and said, is largely a matter of vari the continent with her two small There seems to be aa almost pai- eties. Annual yields of at least 250 sons, one seven and the other five. versal demand among producers of boxes per acre are neceaaary to ob The latter (he father had not seen agricultural products In Orego tain a profit, the conference declared. until hla arrival in California, The considerable of the trade that A survey of 70 leading orchards ii| family came. north to Oregon. They sbonid be one general over the valley made by the local branch settled at The Dslles, Where Mr. brand for commodities grown experiment station and covering the Nickelson was chief blacksmith for North Pacific territory so that tbs six-year period, 1913-1918, showed the 0. R. A N. Co. for 10 years. They advertising of each commodity asAy that 25 per cent of the surveyed or then moved to a homestead near Mo- be tatieflclal to all other aosaauodMto chards produced an average of 386 Mier, remaining there tor a time until put out under this over-riding brand, packed boxes per acre, while 37 pea they tame to Hood River valley 42 shd sfter considering the matter with cent of these growers averaged only years ago. In 18H5 Mr. Nickelson many of these Interested th 188 packed taxes. Thesaverage for built the first house in the Barrett the state, it has been decide all growers was 264 packed taxes. district. H. M. Isenberg now lives best method of securing this Cost of production compiled by the there. In 1891 be established a gen- words, that a contest open station showed that ever Rlver on the site world should be put on. Therefore» is now the marketing committee of the Port- daced an average of 150 packed tax located The ci mauiliei of-^soMMMi es per acre did so at a cost of $1.82 incorporated and Mr. Nieketoen be- the following action. Thia, bomeedr, a- box» 300-box yields cost $1.10 per itmf Its first treasurer. , A library la not with any idea of eliminating ...i.l.ll.h.-l U I..I 1.» U-'MU made any tax *64 500-tax yields were ----- ’ brand 7 TOW of ta vain« UM. duced at a coat of 91 cents per tax. the first librarian. To put on a co contest and offer a The average prices received by grow Sturdy in character, honest tn prise to the person who Mads In to ers in these five years for Yellow transaction, careful tn business, he then» the most satisfactory word ar Newtowns and Spitzenburgw, the two was sought by the people for posi words to ta used as an over-<idtag leading varieties of the county, were tions of trust. That was why be brand fur products of the North Pa respectively $1.29 and $1.22 per tax. was school clerk for 10 years In the cific territory. , Tn order to assist thosq wlshis Conclusions drawn from a study of Frankton district and 17 years in three coat of production figures were: Hood River. That was why he was submit names in the contest, the First, that average production of ap for many years secretary of the mittee states that the word wanted ples in this county must lie Increased Farmers' Irrigating Co. Indeed, in must be such as would Include the If a profit is to be derived; and, sec days of bis store-keeping, before the products of Washington aa well aa ond, that tlie small residential grower city had tuinks, he was given the Oregon, and must typify the North who can diversify to some extent and strings of townspeople and intrusted Pacific territory as well aa the pb eff perform all the labor Involved has a with' the special funds of organisa acts. distinct advantage over the grower tions. The word or worda should in some Mr. Nickelson la survived by the way relate to agriculture and horti who must hire a large portion of his following children: Senator J. R. cultural products as well as to the labor, Tlie conference was emphatic in Its Nlckelsen, C. D. Nlckelsen, Mrs. A. G. especial climatic conditions which belief that northwest apple producers Frohn, all of Hood River; Mm Rose produce the quality and quantity of must cooperate in distributing and Nealelgh, of Oregon City. and Mrs. products of the territory, especially fruits, vegetables, nuts and dairy advertising the apple crop. It was William Bullard, of Ione. pointed out that In 1917 the United The funeral ahrmon was preached products. The committee hopes contestants States as a whole marketed 418,183 by Rev. W. N. Byars. Interment fol will find «»me word or words which cars of fruits other than apples and lowed at Idlewilde cemetery. that In 1923 all fruits other than Mr. Nlckelaen'was a member of the Ims no reference to a sun baked des apples climbed to 322.397 cars, an Knights of Pythias and A. O. U. W. ert condition and not a flooded laud, Increase sf" 47 per cent in seven He leaves a sister, Mrs. Mary Wyss, but just that condition of sunshine end rain which brings the perpetual years. of The Dalles. verdure and the fresh air resulting Other recommendations bearing on apple production here included a dec in the fine products which can be put laration that the county's horticulture out to the trade in quantity and qual should be more diversified and that ity. fresh or packed. We who live here know that this the apple orchard should be supple country possesses a climatic condition mented with strawberries, ras|»i>er- ries, cherries and pears where these which, ff expressed In the right word crops are adapted. A. I. Mason suffered a loss of near or words, and used aa a trade brand, Thirty years' experience has shown, ly $30,000 Monday at nightfall when will convey the Idea to the outside the pear committee said, that certain his Pine Grove packing houae, with world through our products and . Ad varieties of pears can be successfully all equipment and contents, including vertising in connection with them. Tlie committee trnsts that time grown in this county. Moderate about 1,000 boxes of apples, burned plantings of winter sorts—d'Anjons, to the ground. Neighbors and a truck nnd thought may be given this matter Bose snd Winter Nellis in the order of the city fire department rtuponded by contestants so that only worda of named—were recommended by the to a call, and a huge water tower, a merit may be lent in. The contest will end December 81, conference, especially for the grower mld-Columbia landmark, and the resi and all suggestions should be mailed who has over-specialized In spple dence were saved. growing. Pear plantings on soils not The packing plant and equipment to the Marketing Department. Port suited to apple growing were dis were valued at about 828,000. They land Chamber of Commerce, Oregon couraged. were covered by 50 per cent insur Bldg.. Portland. Ore. A committee of seven has been ap Data presented to the conference ance. The apple loss was fully pro justified the decision that strawberry tected by insurance. The packing pointed. consisting of E E. Farille, growing has a definite place In Hood plant was the first of any magnitude editor of Western Farmer: Geo. E. River county agriculture, that the built In this eount.v. It wsh a model Hall, of Hall A Emory Advertiatag present acreage of 150 acres of sweet for packing plants here and in man£ Agency : D. M. Boteford. Botsford- cherries Is capable of expansion and other districts. Twelve years ago it Constantlne Agency; H. M. Haller, should be Increased and that produc wag the custom to take, visitors to of Kelley-Clark Co., brokers: A. H. tion of Cuthbert raspberries fit in the valley tt> see the Mason packing Rintirr. Johnson Lieber Co.. bsakets; W. L. Ts.vlor, president North Pa well with apples, pears or cherries. plant. There are at present about 75 acres The origin of the Are was not def- cific Cooperstive Prune Exchange, of of bearing raspberries in the connty, initely determined. Mr. and Mrs. Portland, and D. E. Towle, manager with sn additional 50 acres from Mason were In the city. Their son. of Tlie Berry Growers Packing Co., which a commercial crop has not yet Fioyd, who had visited the packing of Gresham. Prtzea to be offereded are as fol been taken. plant about 30 minutes before the fire The dairy report as adopted ¡¡r started, saw nothing wrong. The lows: First choice of judges, |50: ried the warning that any expansion flames started while he was in a pas second choice. $25. __ If the word chosen by the Judges in dairying should be made only af ture driving In horses. It is pre ter determining that the feed problem sumed that the pipe of a largo heater, is submitted by more than one person can > lie satisfactorily met or that the used in the packing room during the the prise will be divided equally by-products obtained from milk are cold weather became detached, falling among those suggesting that word. of sufficient value to offset any feed and Igniting the walla. If either of the words chosen go disadvantage. At the present time first or second choice are accepted there are 1105 cows in the county and put Into use by the trade who owned by 563 persons, 342 of whom are to nae this over-ridtag brand, an own only one cow each. The county additional $50 will be paid the par produces over 200,000 pounds of but son presenting Mat word. The com terfat annually, which la an average mittee also dealH1 14 that of about 200 pounds per cow—a figure any words or phrases presented ta that la some 30 'pounds greater than The students of Oregon Agricultural thé contest and not selected by -the the state average. Concrete suggea- College and University of Oregon, judge« will be considered as open to tions for profitable dairy production home for the holidays, and the alumni use by anyone and for the wCTe Included in -the report. of both institutions Will join at the good of an state products. The potato group showed that the Oriental cafe next • Monday evening acreage of this crop has decreased for the annuel joint holiday dance. The memliers of the Women’s Union from 611 acres in 1909 to 400 acres Alnmni and atudenta of other colleges of Riverside nhurch will hold a lunch in 1924 and that at the present time and universities will attend the party eon meeting at the church parlors at the county has an exportable surplus aa will high school students. 12.30. tomorrow, Friday. All at» ta- of from 30 to SO cars a year. Com strncted to bring their own sand mercial growers average about 100 Watch party dance at Rockford es and to come prepared la do sacks per acre but production - costs December 81. Everybody come. inf. M. H. NICKELSEN’S FUNERAL YESTERDAY I wish you all A Merry Christmas ! o PRIZE CONTEST FOR OREGON BRAND NAME W' J. G. VOGT Oriatataa d§rertiitgg! YOUR PATRONAGE HOOD RIVER DRUG CO Squib b’s Chemicals FIRE TAKES MASON APPLE WAREHOUSE Jankes’ Chocolates That the Holiday Season may bring yon Joy and Cheerfulness, Content ment and Fellowship with a generous amount of worldly goods is the wish of THE HOOD RIVER A That’s our wish to all the folk of the mid-Columbia. R. 0. SCHE, THE JEWELER Pythian Building ANNUAL COLLEGE HOP NEXT MONDAY NIGHT