Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-01-02

low Newtown and Red Checked Pip
pins, and there are large crops every
year. We do not pretend that we
have any peach land but there are
always plenty of peaches. The same
is true of all our small fruits. 1t is
natural small fruit country and we
are fairly swamped with small fruits.
The cherries, peaches and all our
fruits are of high color and excellent
flavor The apples keep we'll and are
solid. The orchard on our old home
stead has been bearing for over forty
years, and this proves that we have
natural site for orchard tracts. "
Mr.. Bents is the banker at Aurora.
Fruit Grower and Shipper.
John Murray who has farmed here
80 years has grown all kinds of fruit
successfully for that time. He has
about 20 kinds of apples, two of
prunes, ten of pears, two of peaches,
six of cherries, five kinds of small
fruits and one of apricots. He has
peach trees forty years old that bear
full crops. He has about 25 peach
trees in bearing. and they bear crops
every year. There is no trouble" !"
said Mr.. Murray, "in growing fruit
in this section. Not all land is
adapted to 1t, and not all fruit will
do well on all kinds Of land. have
shipped apples out of this section to
San Francisco for about eight years.
We can grow the Yellow Newtown
and Spitzenberg to perfection for
commercial purposes in this part of
Marion county. I speak from long
experience as fruit grower and
shipper The loganberry, blackber-
ry, raspberries, gooseberries and cur
rants are very successful here and
we have all the fruits referred to in
proof of what we claim" Mr.. MUIR
ray is owner of about one thousand
acres of land in this part of the coun-
ty and is so well thought of that for
many years the people of Marion
county have tried to get him to be
one of their county commissioners.
What Fruit Grower Says.
VIM. Bents, Sr., has about 100 acres
adjoining the Fargo Fruit tracts and
has farmed it all his life. He has
apples, pears, prunes, cherries,
peaches and small fruit His apples
are Yellow Newtown, Waxen, Red
Checked Pippin, Gravensteln, June
Red, and Red Astrachan He has
late and early Crawford peach trees
about 16 years old md they grow a
crop every year Zen bushels was
the crop on one tree. The pears are
Bartlett, Winter Rellis, Vicar of
Wakefield and Fall Butter. The
prunes are Italian and Petite The
cherries are Royal Anne, May Duke
and Black Republican. In small
fruits he has strawberries, raspber-
ries, dewberries. and Lawton black
berry I'VE always have plenty Of
fruit Of all kinds and with good care
and attention there is no trouble to
raise all kinds profitably. This may
seem like big statement, but | know
Of no kind that cannot be produced
here successfully. The apples especi-
ally have good keeping quality and
stand shipment we'll"
First Nursery Startfd Here.
J. W. Bachelor of Olympia came
to Oregon in 1853. HiG father located
in log cabin half a mile from what
is now the townglte of Fargo. A
nursery was started in 1854 from
seeds of apples and pears brought
across the plains In an OK team. This
was one of the first places where
fruit growing got a foothold on the
Pacific coast. There are still six
fruit trees standing that we're plant
ed in 1S5A--two Gravensteins and
four Baldwins. They are sound as