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About Tillamook headlight. (Tillamook, Or.) 1888-1934 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 23, 1913)
YOU BELIEVE THAT | WHEELER, OREGON, 1 The Manufacturing City on NEHALEM BAY is B ound to G row and that INVEST- MENT in W heeler Property will be Profitable. BACK UP YOUR JUDGMENT WITH YOUR MONEY. You cuill make money by Investing in CUHEEbER. For information regarding Wheeler, write to NEHALEM HARBOR CO., WHEELER, OREGON. Portland Office : Tillamook Office : 327 FAILING BUILDING. Care of F. R. BEALS. CRANBRRRY_INDUSTRY. Tillamook County Has Valua ble Peat Land. Tillamook County has quite a number of pieces’of peat land suita ble for cranberry growing that will be valuable whenever that industry is made a specialty J of in this county. It is a money maker when properly and successfully handled. Sandlake has probably the most acreage of peat land in the county, it being estimated there are 300 acres in that vicinity. Dan Good speed has twelve acres north of Tillamook City that is waiting to be taken in hand by some enter prising citizens and cultivated who wants to get into the cranberry business, and there are numerous other pieces of land in different parts of the county that is suitable for raising cranberries. Mr. D. Goodspeed lias handed us some literature as, we are en deavoring to boost tlie cranberry industry of tbiay count, which will bring a large amount of money into the county whenever it is pro perly developed. C. I. Lewis, chief of the Experi ment Station of the Oregon Agricul ture Co.lege, writes : Your recent letter to the college has been referred to this Division to be answered. I have also re ceived the package of soil. I am going to send you a carbon copy of some information that I gathered on cranberries on the Pacific coast which will be of somi assistance to you. To grow cranberries success fully you will need a jieat soil, should be scalped, that is all vege tation removed. Next you will want to put on from* 3 to 6 inches of sand. You will have to see that it is free from salt and that the land has not recently been flooded with salty water. You will have to keep the water table under control. During the summer you will need the water within a foot of the surface. You want to avoid land that has much clay as it tends to make your vines run to folage. The sample which you sent if typical of your entire patch I should say is good cranberry laud. It seems to be a peat soil, practically devoid of clay and if this is typical of the entire piece. I should think you had a pretty good proposition. Of course, it is rather hard to pass on a mere sample. You want to be sure and drain off the water if necessary to do ao. So many pieces are so close to the ocean that the tides keep backing up and it ia hard to get good drainage. The control of the water table ia fairly important. The Director of the Masaachu setts Agricultural Experiment Sta tion, Amherst, Maas, sûtes that cranberries are grown on reclaimed salt marshes, blit that the fruit will not succeed in such locations until the dykes have been constructed, which prevent flooding with salt water, and that a longer and shorter time, according to the general con ditions of the bog as the amount of salt it contains, would have to lapse in order to give the salt a chance to wash out before planting could be resorted to; that cranberries will stand only a limited amount, either in the water that is used for flood ing or in the land upon which they are planted, but it seems that salt marshes, when you have fresh water for flooding, can after a time be put in such a condition as to be feasible for cranberry growing. Mr. Otto Misclter, Chinook, Wash ington, states that he has about one acre planted, of which about one- fourth will bear this season. He ia growing the McFarland, which he seems to think is perhaps one of the best berries for this coast. The Cape Cod Beauty is also with him a good producer and keeper. One of his neighbors recently harvested about 60 barre’s from one acre, and this has been, I should judge from his letter, on an average, with the exception of two years ago when he only had seventeen. Last year, however, he harvested 440 bushels, or 130 bushels on the acre. He has never flooded, has no way of getting water in the summer. Sprays his vines every spring. Mr. Fischer seems to think $500 will be about the average cost of getting an acre of cranberries developed The cost of maintenance he claims, however, is very low. That is, a week of work in the spring will handle an acre. He has never been troubled with frost, and only one year in his experience has there ever been any trouble of that nature. He claims there is a great deal of land on the peninsula adapted to the culture of cranberries but that many of the marshes are very expensive to drain. Mr. K. A. Kennedy of Long Beach, Washington, writes that the industry in that section is new with them, and has been rather expen sive in developing, costing from $11» to $1,300 per acre, but that they hope in the future to materially re duce this expense. He has been working for two years on machin ery which he think* will materially reduce the expense, so that he can put it in for about $400 per acre. They have tried some bogs without scalping but they have not been successful. He believes it is not necessary to flood. He says that some of his neighbors are spraying for insects He thinks that some of his neighbors who do not flood have better results than those who do. He has harvested as high as 200 barrels and more. He thinks Cape Cod Beauty and McFarland are his two best berries. It coats him $2 per bushel to pick by hand and 60c to pick with a scoop. The Cape Cod sco<y> easier than the McFarland The berries have sreasged about $* per bushel f. o. b. He believeB there will be some 200 acres put into berries in their vicinity the coming year, It will take about "00 lbs. of vine to plant an acre. He ia selling land at $150 per acre in five acre tracts. Mr. Thos. Holtz, of Nahcotta, writes that there are about 80 acres of cranberries planted in Pacific County at the present time, al though they are not all in bearing, but there seems to be a great (leal of interest in the business, and promise of considerable develop ment. He thinks there are several thousand acres of bog fit for cran berry culture in his vicinity. He believes the first step in develop ing cranberry bogs is to put io ditches and dykes so as to give thorough drainage ; next scalping and planting according to the best knowledge on the subject. His ex perience has been that the muck is not as good for the plants as the top soil, and in scalping tries to keep aS much of the top soil as possible. He believes that it is well to cut the txigs up into small sec tions separated" by ditches, and , to board these ditches so as to keep the sand from washing down. He would also recommend keeping of the ditches pretty thoroughly clean from the weeds. He puts on about four inches of solid sand after it fs settled. Emphasizes the necessity of clean sand, and care that one should use to avoid the introduc tion of any clay into the sand. Pre fers the month of May for planting. He plants 10 inches apart each way. Some of his neighbors plant from 4 to 14 inches apart. He owns about 80 acres of lx>g fir for cran berry culture, and ha* about two acres of it planted, all of them be ing McFarlands. He believes this is the tiest berry on the coast, that it is the best keeper, and has the liest flavor. Hr started in business six years ago, and has done all hie own work, and plants each year a little piece. From the first planted section of about *4 of an acre he harvested 16 barrels last year. This year hie bog will lie in full bearing. From the second piece of one eighth of an acre he got 4 barrels last year, which he think* was an excep tionally favorable season One of hie neighbors harvested 130 barrel* per acre of McFarlands. He be lievea that flooding cranberries in winter ia not eaaential but rnay do some good in killing harmful in- I sects and a few weeds He believes one should not flood newly planted vines He think* there is little or no dinger from frost although the latter part of July or first of August one should watch out for frost* He considers the cranberry busi ness a good one and does not re gret that he has done into it Mr. C.;T. I-ansdsle, of Olympia, has not been ■■ successful as some. Says he baa lost so many crops during the past five years that it cuts the average returns down to an unprofitable basis. Say* there are good reasons for h.s loss, how ever. It is not due to unfortunate climate conditions or pests. lie Mr J. if. Arthur, of the Pacific and part McFarlands, he having says he has always flooded his Cranberry Marsh of Breakers, furnished the plants to the people bog every winter, and has been i Washington, believes that cranberry after they were thorougly accli slow in learning from experience, land will lie worth $2,000 per acre mated, although they were not and that this has been the main ■ in five years from now, baaing hie taken very good care of produced reason for his crop losses. He be ' figures on the small acreage that last year for the Cape Cod Beauties lieves that winter flooding is injur yielded and the profits, lie is op. 286 barrels to the acre, and tlie Mc ious to the fruit buds, and that he crating in a company which is «ril Farland», at the rate of 211 barrels is not going to flood in the future. ing stock, their bog lying in between to the acre. He believes that it is He did not flood last year, and his sand ridges which are found along safe to estimate KM) barrels per acre bog now looks the best in its his the long peninsula in that vicinity, yield where the bog« have been tory, the prospects being bright for it was probably .it one time the | put in properly. a heavy crop, fie has had no dis mouth of the Columbia but rocks Mr H. II. Williams, of Sea View, eases or insect pests so far. It lias and other debris have caused a till cost him $1,000 per acre to develop ing up. The soil is full of vegeta Washington, writes that he Ims but recently started in the cranberry his bog, but he believes he can do ble deposit, and is covered with industry, but knows a good deal it now for less than $500. He is peat. The land that he had in about it from experience in Cape growing six varieties of cranberries question required very careful Cod. He believes our condition« of which he considers the Hetalic handling since it was surrounded along the coa«t would be most ex He’l, the McFarland, and the home by a rim rock, and was a sort of cellent for cranberry culture. lie varieties the best. He has nine pot so to speak They (lug their sculps and removes all vegetation, acres planted, half of which is in ditches along the edges rather than sanding to a depth of 2W inches. bearing. He ha* land to sell and in the middle, • and (never cut -Has ditches and dykes dividing tlie would like to take in partners. through the rim rock, lit states bogs into five acre tracts, and is Mr. W C, Worden of Ilwaco, that if they did it would leach the prepared to flood for frosts, fire or Washington, has been interested bog out the same way that ashes peats. The varieties lie is planting in the cranberry business for nine ’ could be leached. He is able to arc the Early Black, i.ate Howe, years. He says that sometimes he hold water within 3 inches of the McFarlands, Bugle mid the Bell. can get sand 1(1 inches to 5 feet of, surface of the ground, lie says They have in all about 400 acres the surface, and when you can do that it ia useless to claim that there ' and expect to plant about 50 acres this it is Letter to scalp the land are no pests, because there are. I this year He believed the cost of and tale the sand out of ditches, He only floods his bi>> in winter maintaining depend« on tlie man- and fill the ditches with scalping*, time at certain periods, because of tier in which tlie bog is put in, lie.uses from 4 to 5 inches of sand. the benefit« which come from cei - 1 very ittle expense being incurred In fiis section marshes which have tain deposits which make a good after the fourth year. Frost has not been flooded yield more than top dressing. He also watches for threatened the bog* there occa those which have been. He says the hatching of the eggs, anil floods sionally, and he believes it 1« ne to drown the worms as early in the occasionally in marshes which are cessary to have water to flood. One flooded a crop ia Jost on account of spring as they make their appear of his neighbor« by the name of ante. Where eggs are entered the sun coming warm after flood Adams gathered 180 barrel« from ing, which blights the blossoms with a fibre niniilar to a spider web, i an acre six years old. Good eran Some of the marshes have been and generally hatch from two to 1 berry land is getting from 150 to slightly injured by spring frosts, three before the floweis actually .'{50 dollar« per acre nndevelo|>ed in and occasionally there has been blossom, and lie say« it take« very their region. some damage just before picking careful watching in order to drown by frost, and there has been some the pent« without interfering with They Make You Feel Good. If the water is put i The pleasant purgative produced scalding by the hot sun after rains. the blossoms on when the blossoms are in bloom Says, however, this rarely happens. by < hninberlmn'« Tablet* and the He has fitted and planted 314 acre*, it won d destroy it, and the pest« healthy condition of body and would not lie killed. If you do not and is now preparing another acre. mind which they create make one He does his pl. nttng in March and kill the pest before tlie flowers feel joyful For sale by Lamar's bloom you cannot do anything with i April, but prej area the ground in Drug Store. the summer, as he can do it at that it until a long time afterwards, I time cheaper and better. Thinks it which means that the penta have I cost him over $1,200 to complete his greatly injured your crop. Sny» he first acre. In this case he scalped is also troubled with a great many the ground, hauled the scalping water weed» which got into the off, and sanded it with a car His ditches and cross ditches, and must next acre and a quarter cost him constantly l>e removed This com $s.jn He dug ditches ami took out pany alone has at the present time sand, and filled the ditches with j some 55 to 60 acre« in standing Their varieties are scalping* The last acre which lie I vine« Black*. Natives, Karly planted he cultivated the ground Early Late Dark Reds, Me- . all summer, and destroyed all vege Reds. Be Is, two varieties | tatiou. He ditched and took out Harlands sand, and bought sculping» of a of Bugles, and Cape Cod Beauties. ' neighbor to fill the ditches. It cost , He tielieves it will take a num- I him $635 He has watched the ’ her of years yet to demonstrate j three methode with interest to see | thoroughly the best varieties to | whether or not they will make sny plant. He believe« that '.he lunilxi | difference in the quality of the ber I ha« moie of a tendency to fungus ries His principal varieties are I growth then Home of tlie other with the problem of buying Harness the McFarland an<J Cape Cod Beauty. verities, and Ims not given them you will find it distinctly sdvnnts- He believes his next acre will be ' wry good success 1 he Lafe Howe i geoun to come and do your select the Late Howe. The ocean ha* not i has given them good satisfaction. mg here. You will get the best flooded hi» land for many year«, if It has been his experience that salt qualities, the most thorough and it ever did. The price for raw land, ! marshes cannot be used to very < orus ientioii« workmanship snd be of which he ha» some for «ale, run* 1 good advantage Claims one of his charged the most reasonable prices. about $120 to $220 per sere, accord I neighbors used beach sand for the We can Sllpply single or double and has an absolute - ic 4 h or any single article that you ing to location. His mature Handing, A« far as yield is c*n- marshes have been yielding from failure. mar I m - in need of. cernee he »ays that in a patch >-on 60 to 140 barrels an sere yearly He believes it ia foolish to attempt to taming lets than one halt of an grow cranberries without sanding , acre not far from their place, p-v* ' of which was Cape Cud Beauties the ground. F W.A. Williams A Co.