Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1906-06-25
SUNSHINE
INSURES
HARVEST
willamette Valley Is Verify a
Land Flowing With MIX
and Honey

er and the cessation Of the steady
spring rains have made the prospects
for splendid crops in the Willamette
valley certainty. 1t would require
something unprecedented and entirely
unforeseen to retard any Of the stable
products of the valley. The traditional
oldest inhabitant cannot remember
when wheat looked better than it does
at present. The acreage is large and
so far there has not been the slightest
! Indication of rust or of the presence
of the aphis. 1t is safe to say wheat
crop is all made and only awaits the
harvesting.
The same may be truly said of the
hop crop. Notwithstanding that low
prices have been the rule for a while,
so much money has been Invested in the
large hop yards that as much care is
being taken with the hops as in years
when big prices were expected. Hops
in the Willamette valley never looked
better at this time of year. The grow
eTs have been all the time steadily
cleaning up their yards and improving
conditions, so that the crop may be
harvested this fall more easily and
cheaper than ever before. There yet
remains one cultivation and one train
ipor hafo-n 4hA
The 1906 strawberry crop is now al.
most thing of the past. A few late
berries will be brought to the market
during this week, but next Saturday
will probably see the finish. The straw
berry crop was not large this year, but
the fruit was of an excellent quality
and ripened evenly. On the whole the
strawberry growers made money this
year.
The Logan berries are now at their
zenith. This berry, as is very we'll
known, is yet almost in the experiment
al stage, but it is proving an unquali-
fed success. The season for this deli
cious berry has been an ideal one and
the yield will be enormous. The de-
mand for Logan berries had to be Gre
ated, but it was an easy thing to do.
All the surplus of this variety in Mar
ion and Polk counties will be taken
care of at the cannery Of the Salem
Mutual people. 1t is believed that by
next year there will be a steady de-
mand for this berry and that the
prices paid next year will make this
the most profitable berry to grow.
The continued rains kept the early
cherry crop down. The yield was small
in most localities and the quality of the
fruit was not the best. But the sun
shine came in time to make the late
cherries, Royal AIMS, etc., big sue
cess.
The State Horticultural society will
bold a meeting in Salem, July 6 and 7,
and i'm connection with this meeting
there will be cherry exhibit. This
will be good thing TO rthe cherry
growers of the valley and there is no
doubt that there will be displayed at
this time the best exhibit of cherries
ever shown in the state.
The Salem Mutual cannery is buying
all the cherries that can be secured and
the cherry industry is coming to be
one of the biggest things for the valley
farmers.
Now that there seems to be no long
er any danger of continued rains, cut.
ting hay will be engaged in ON an ex-
tensive scale. The steady rains of two
weeks ago caused some of the rankest
growth of grass to fall down, but the
hay crop is very heavy. I'll is believed
that the yield will be far above the
average.
l.. M. Gilbert, the Rosedale prune
grower, says that the outlook for
good output of prunes is fair. 1t is a
little early TO prognosticate as to the
eUtensiveness of the crop, which, how
ever, bids fair 10 be larger than last
years The uarnes are beginning to
drop from the trees and it is hoped by
tn egrowers that many will drop so as
to give the remaining ones all the nour-
ishment that the tree can give 1t is
generally believed that the prune crop
viii be such as to amply tax the dtiers
10 their fun capacity.
The garden truck in that locality is
growing fine and hops are looking well.
Oliver Beers. when seen by a Jour
nal representative, reiterated the state
ment made by others in the Same local
ity that the hops looked good and were
thriving splendidly. The grain in that
neighborhoOd is growing fine. but it
kI.nk n.