Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-12-29

/ Ousnel. i nave three acres ol late
potatoes that are looking well. Cab
bage sells at soc per dozen. Nege-
tables and fruits of all kinds are
plenty and bring fair price, as we
have a canpery and evaporator here
I which takes all the surplus. We
have one-eighth of an acre in straw
berries and sold S9s.2 worth besides
using all we could ourselves. Our
raspberries and blackberries did
nearly rs well. This is a wonderful
fruit country and no denying it. l
never saw its equal. l can make
more money on ten acres of fruit
here than | could on l60 acres OF
corn in Kansas. l lived in Cloud
county nearly Il years and think |
know what am saying"
The Kansas paper says of Mr..
Grilley: "Our esteemed friend MIR.
Grilley, is well known here to be a
very conservative man and no one
will hesitate TO take his statements
as an exact expression of his views. "
FRUIT CULTURE AROUND SALEM.
For all ordinary kinds of fruit, of
the small and large varieties, this
part of the Willamette valley Is not
surpassed in the world. Apples,
pears, cherries, plums, strawberries,
raspberries, blackberries, currants
grow in the greatest profusiop. with
comparatively little care, and to the
greatest size, possessing the best
taste and favor of any like fruit
grown in any latitude.
Some doubt has heretofore existed
rs to the success of the peach in this
part of the state, but practical and
scientific tests have demonstrated
that care in selecting the variety
and intelligence in its planting and
care will insure a good fruit i'll the
peach line right here as can be
grown anywhere. The writer has
plucked and eaten right on the
town plat OF Salem as fine specimens
of the Early Crawford and other
standard peaches as ever grew in
Southern California or New jersey,
There are several successful peach
orchards in the neighborhood OF
Salem, but the growth of this fruit
is only in its infancy here. Accord
ing to scientific observation peach
land in this valley should be high
and slope to the sun and will be
better still if in close proximity to
forests or bodies Of water, these con-
ditions largely insuring against the
danger of spring frosts.
THE GREAT MONEY MAKING FRUIT.
While there is an immense
amount of money in the cultivation
of small fruits, which find ready
sale and are never in excess of the
demand at good figures, yet the
fruit which seems likely to take
precedence for cultivation on large
scale Is the prune, and the pos:ibili-
ties in this line are very great. Per-
haps the best information for the
thousands of Eastern readers who
will peruse this edition of the JOUR-
NAL will be that of an intelligent
correspondent who has had expert
ence and knows whereof he writes.
This gentleman says:
"a fortune can be made in ten
years from fruit ranch of forty acres
or even ten acres, mostly by anybody
blessed with that amount of good
land. ] will demonstrate how any
enterprising man with very limit
ed capital can also make himself and
family very comfortable and even
rich with ten acres of bottom land
if planted in French prunes or Petite
prunes d. Orgen, which is the same
thing. Land can be had near Salem
for from $50 to $3.50 an acre.
The trees must be grated or bud
ded on peach stock and be one or two
years old prefer rone-year-old trees.
They must be planted about twenty
feet apart, so it will take one hun
dred trees per acre. Good trees
ought to be had for twenty cents
piece, or by the thousand for ten
cents. The holes must be dug from
two to three feet square, according
to quality of the soil.
The fourth season after planting
and even the third, if your trees have
beeen well taken care of, you will
obtain about ten pounds of prunes
to each tree, enough to initiate your
self into the drying business. The
fifth year you will get about sixty |
pounds to each tree; the sixth year, I,
l20 pounds or more to the tree. AT
ter that your trees are in full bear
ing, producing according to location
and care, 100 to 800 pounds to the
tree.
Now let us consider the cost and
profits.
COST.
10 acres of land tSl50 per acre $500
1000 trees at 20 cents each------ 300
Flowing the land 25
Digging the holes es------------ 80
Planting the trees %