Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-03-18

IDe toliOWluR statements NHedIlN ~
compiled by the Greater Salem CONNER
,eiai Club) are taken from a very inter
psting railroad folder published recent
ny by the Hartman lines;
IL contains, in all, 15l letters from
FARMERS, telling what they are doing,
what they have done, and how they
have done it. Following are all from
salem or vicinity:
Big Onion Yields.
]. "A. Dimmick, Hubbard, Oregon
Considerable land in Western Oregon,
known as peat and beaver dam land,
ks especially adopted TO producing
onions Any kind Of sandy loan or
rich bOttt ,m land will raise fine onions,
hut not as large a crop as peat or
tbcaver-dam land. ! count on selling
800 pounds Of onion sets from l
pound Of seed, or 10000 pounds sets
20 the acre. On the best land, $50 to
700 sacks OF large onions to the acre
are counted an average crop; 4 to 5A
pounds of seed are used 10 the acre.
Tho prevailing price in February Is
from $i.75 TO $2.25 n sack from ship.
Ping point, but We sometimes sell in
ahr field at sl.00 a sack. While
EInbbnrd is the home Of the onion in
'lustry, large quantities are also grown
an the vicinity of Salem, Woodburn, Au-
sOra, and other places in Marion coun.
ay. I could afford TO pay $500 an acre
for the best onion land, and clenr my
investment ON the first year crop.
Loganberry Yields Big,
A. M. LaFollett, Gervais, Oregon
The Loganborry is successful and
profitable crop In Marion County,
-Four years ago set out lot, and the
following year ! picked two s4-quart
crates 30 the vine. The next year
had crop Of 423 crates from 26O two
yeaF-old vines aud about $50 one.
year-old vines, In 1904 | picked GOD
crates from $50 vines. From acres
Of frst.year crop my son marketed
I,623 crates, We received sl.o5 per
crate for the crop, (, q. b, Gcrvais
Ths picking cost about 20 cents per
crate; crates aud boxes ~ ccnts, leav
grower Plants cast $50 per thousand
AID are set feet apart Wiring foI
the vines costs te5 per acre, The posts
with the wires are set 3s feet apart
and II takes 100 TO 200 posts W tn,
acre. costing from so to SEQ per acre
Counting 900 plants to the acre, The
cost Of putting out Logauhorries IL
about 900 per acre, and there is ap
pareutly no limit 20 the time patch
will last Cultivation is by pillow and
harrow,
Glover a Successful Crop,
NJ l.. Jones, Brooks, Oregon Re,
slower is a successful crop in westcrr
Oregon oa nearly all lands from th'
foothills of the Cascades 20 the Paci6,
Ocean. The value ot clover feed an,
fhe fcrtiiEiug qualities of the growinl
crop are well understood. From Q {,
ts pounds of clover seed TO the aeT,
are required, aud the Oregon growr
seed Is preferred. Tho present price
Of clover Is $40 per ton. baled, I. o, b
nearest shipping poiut, The hrst eroI
0H good land will reach tons pei
ARE An average crop of seed is 3 Il
q bushels O. the acre worth from as q
a. per bushcl estimate the cos, o
making the clover crop az "a per ton
balcd aud ready for shipment, rhi
Is an outside 6gure, whore all the worl
is hirei done, The expense Of balinl
l. tl.a0 90 o. per ton, the farmer usu
ally doing the rest ~ the work an,
Making this profit. Glover lasts Nv,
y.aars II YOU saw 20 8 pounds O
aluoihy secd with the clover you vii
eet grass crop that viii stand
years Clover on bottom lands last
= years slower seed costs Si pc
hushel fos hulliag Figuring s ton
40 the acre, dolpetiag % Tor baling
uould leave SEA Add the value Of
crop 81 seed and the value OF pastur
asd Improvement in the fertility o
khe soii. which win more than pay al
.sess of seed, wear and tear u maehin
eFy and fenee
nig Money In Hops
n. J. OttenheimeF, salem, Oregon
IA abe spring Of 1908 ! boaght rs
acres of land miles south of Sales