Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1919-01-30
Picked Up On The Street
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MANAGER SMITH, of the Silo De-
partment of Spaulding Lumber com
pany, commented emphatically on the
status of the silo business in the Will
lamette Valley ave anticipate very
good business this season, but it's al
fact that we are placing fewer silos
in the Willamette Valley than in some
other farming sections, The farmers,
and especially the dairymen, are get
ting the cart before the horse in rails
ing stock and depending on outside
markets for their feed. They have been
raising everything else and letting their
herds go to market when feed prices got
too high for them. Now there is
scramble to- build up the dairy herds
again. No farmer should ever under
take to handle stock without silo. He
is just like lumberman who would
undertake to log with oxen in the old
fashioned way. He can't get anywhere
under the present methods. There is
hardly a farmer in the valley who
couldn It raise some sort of silage, and
the man who has it is practically in
sured against short crop in the sum
mer." 8oM
PROF. STALEY.-'sWe are opening
up with the Majority OF. our former
students enrolled with the Capital
Business College, but the attendance is
,o4 xrbo+ ~ mould boya haap 20 +La
town had not been closed, | consider
that the worst financial disaster that
ever struck the city and l have always
contended that it was unwarranted. III
cost me approximately 800 a week
while it lasted. If fraction of the
money lost to business in Salem had
been devoted to enforcing a rigid quar-
antine the schools and business inter
ests of the city could have gone en-
without interruption. /, don t think the
business interests of Salem will ever
allow it to occur again. Yes, the col
lege is presenting an exceptional OPP
portunity to those students who have
been interrupted in their regular col
lege and university courses. We give
O young man or woman a chance to
carry on certain lines Of commercial |
study and at the same time put in a
portion of their time at work. +"
GLE MERCANTILE CO." There
is no reason why the uplands Of the
Willamette Valley should not raise the
same grade Of apples as Hood River
There are a couple of boxes raised in
this section, and they re some of the
finest ever brought into the house. The
apple growers of this section are not
taking proper care of their orchards
that's all. They bring in load of off
grade apples that bring about four bits
in the local market, and then they raise
a kick about getting nothing for their
produce. Hood River keeps up at the
front partly because of close organiza-
tion and partly because their new or
chards are given the most intensive
The Hood River system
would produce the same results in the
Willamette Valley" Il
ROB'T. PAULUS.-ESure, I'm in
favor of the bill for fruit survey of
the Willamette Valley. r. E. Decke-
bach and / were the ones who took
the first steps for that plan two years
ago when we got out blanks at our own
expense and placed them in the hands
of the assessor for distribution. We
didn't get the response we hoped to
from the growers but we collected
enough data to prove the necessity of
such a survey. 1t is one of the func
tions Of the Fruit Union to guard
against reproduction such as has oc-
CURED in past years, and this will only /
be possible when we have complete
statistics as to acreage and classes of
fruit. With this information in our
hands we might negotiate for markets
n advance of the crops. The lack Of
and close eOo-peroation /
IS the curse Of the Willamette Valley I
fruit growers. They don't seem to
nave foresight and vision enough to /
yrasp their own possibilities. Cali +
iornians appreciate all this and they are !
getting stronger grip on the fruit
industry of western Oregon every /
7ear."
T. q. DECKEBACH.-HYe Yes, the mat ,
.er of milk condensary in this city i
las been brought up in the past.
made an effort in that direction my Z
Ielf but couldn't get it across. As I
natter of fact, eondensary in this
ocation would not be Of any advant- /
Ige to the dairymen If it was operated /
~ the trust. The Marion County As. /
ociation can take care of all the milk
hat can be produced in this section G
md pay all that the market will war |