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.