Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-01-01
FACES About RTH GROWING
Complied from Reliable Au-
thorities On Horticulture.
Pr.narsd for ,be NEw YEAk's JoUE-

[ Lev ia the one laid O1t sod plsntsd o.
,he late Mr.. WaIlaes, near Sa'em'
[ This orchard CONSISTS Of abo1t 30 acres .
in Bartlett pears- The trees are from B
three to six year, old; aod l am toio .
bz tho=e zho have visited il this sum- /
mer that il l. well kept aud promises
very much to its O1ners-
!. The pest which we fear most
ia the careless fruit grower,
through whose neglect our orchards
are 70 be restoeked from yea to year.
Were il not for the indifference 10 the
general welfare Of these careless huit
growers, this part Of the state would
s,on be an almost eoniinuOOs orchard.
i Good locations for large commeieias
orchards are yet abundant 10 this val
icy, aud at prices that ought TO oe an
\ linducsment TO set them.
The Mount Angel vineyard is 10
Gated on the south side Of the noun
tain, on which the buildings Of the
Benedictine Fathers are situated. The
soil here is Of basaItic origin, and the
ground was very stony; bot Nr. Cor
nelius removed all that were in the
way of thorough cultivation aud
/. planted his vines in trenches, two feet
wide and eighteen to twenty inches
, deep. His grapes are superior to any
thing have seen 10 the Willamette
, valley. He grows the following: Dele
: ware, Concord, aud Black Hamburg,
. and several varieties Of foreign grapes,
( which are very fine, and which he con-
E siders far superior to the varieties
I named above.
: While it has been demonstrated that
. fine liable grapes Of the American aud
: certain varieties Of the foreign sorts
o can be SUCCESSFULLY grown in the Will
lamette Valley, very few fruit growers
have turned their attention in that dir.
ection. In Marion County there are
two small vineyards Of about ten acres
each that are paying their owners well
one belonging to A. Mathoit, at
Y Butteville, and the other to Jacob Cor
nelius, a German, near Mount Angel.
The Butteville vineyard is located on
the southeast side of steep butte, on a
clay soil the varieties chiefly grown
- in this vineyard are Royal Muscadene,
n Chaslas Rose, and Black Hamburg
% This vineyard is ABOUT ten years old,
y and was heavily loaded with fine
~ grapes when was there, the latter
"a part Of September last.
d The year 1892 will be long remember
20 ed by the fruit growers Of OregoB ss
6O the first "Off year" on all fruits except
80 Petit d'Agen or French Prune, which
. came to the rescue Of all others who
% were fortunate enough to have a few
IS acres of this choice fruit, aud substaG.
As tistes the former assertion that Oregon
IS is prune growing country par excel
91oo lence in growing them 80 sweet, so
IS abundant, and 50 large that they are
81 being shipped in sacks and used as tor
. layers 10 the packing of prunes grown
30 10 other states aud countries of a much
OO iuferiOr quality. The Italian pruue
95 can nowhere be grown so fine as il
VI Oregon. In planting prune orchards
Is plant one-third Petit d'AgeB and two
"a thirds Italian.
50 The district comprising Marion, Linz
- Lane, Polk, and Benton counties
10 stands foremost in the extent Of avail
able lands adapted to the production o.
al the deciduOus fruits. The territory
~ covered Ia this jurisdiction lies in th,
80 very heart of the Willamette Valley
- and as a fruit growing center is devel
IL opins very rapidly; there having beer
% planted, as nearly AS | have been abl,
~ to ascertain without making an sctua
gl census, an area Of about 5000 acres
IS chiefly prunes, since the winter Of 1885,
u and 1887, when the first START in thi,
o. direction OF any Importance may b,
% said to have fairly begun. The acreag,
. u the respective counties is abou. a,
~ follows: Marion, $500 acres; Linn
n 800 acres; Lane 1900 acres; Benton
O6 1000 acres; Polk, 800 acres.
10 Accordlng to the estimate Of Mr.
I0 Shepard, there will be fron 2O,OJO 10
q 5000 carloads to ship annually Ia tbi.
IS valley. Ii isvery important that We
q I. be aole to handle it rlght. Toe Cali.
,S fornia Fruit Grawer says that "Pne
l6 time has passed when the Isolated in.
S divldual may achieve success wot,l ,
y the efforts by the old methods of com.
peung against his neighbor. Associa.
,6 ted method is the only logical aud bus
iness-like method OF conducting the
Y preparation aud marketing OF fruit on
D a large scale
u This paper also gives the result of the
Campbell Fruit GrOwers' Ass ,cia,ioo
: Ihey grade their prunes 40 to 50 (that
= :, Is, after they are dried that numer ~
h the pound, 50 to 60 80 To 70, 70 10 30
n 100 10 l0. Tue last named prun-.
a brought them eight cents a pound ns,
i 10 the grower, aud the former brouyh,
twelve cents a naunt IT,. -. -