Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-02-28

ue heiAsiif dIle0 and thuS hihdef tas
loss or deterioration in being held aft.
ler they are picked. So the culture Of
ILoganberries looks encouraging 10 tbs
prune grower, as they ripen almost
two months before the prunes ripen.
I Owners OF prane orchards in the
A Northwest are Just beginning to wake
up to the real value of an up to date
orchard. Values have increased and
they will continue to do so even though
prices do never again reach the high
price Of the past season. just as much
can be said for the Loganberry vine
yards in the Salem district. 1t is inn
POSSIBLE TO find a berry vineyard for
sale. Almost every day investors are
coming into the district asking where
they can buy q good prune orchard or
good loganberry yard. and are usual
ly told that the best are not for sale.
Nothing has done so much for Salem
1.-THE past two years or since the Logan
berry began to produce profit for the
grower as the Loganberry business. A
certain grower who owns a vineyard
Of thirty acres of Loganberries sold his
entire crop the past season and was
paid Sli.725.6l for same. This season
with u light crop of prunes this gem
tleman did much better on his Logan
berries than he did on his prunes. An
other gentleman owning the greatest
acreage of Loganberries in the Salem
district came TO the Northwest from
Iowa in 1a10. bought a large farm and
planted eighty acres of Loganberries.
This plantation being one of the first
in Oregon. is now one of the largest.
He makes the following statements:
our cultivation here is very thorough,
and | ascfibe to that great portion
OF my success as a producer. As soon
IN the spring as the ground can be
worked we plow four inches deep, and
then we hoe around every vine and be-
tween the rows, after that we cultivate.
with tooth harrow and corrugated roll
lers at least eight or ten times during
the season for the destruction of weeds
and the conservation of moisture.
Picking starts about the first of July
and continues for five or six weeks.
We use four pickers to the acre--over
three hundred in all---and they have
to work well to get the ordinary crop
off, say three or four tons. This year,
1919, it will run over four tons. The
crop is good this year and the prices
are good and the gross returns from
the eighty acres will reach between
100000 and $4O,00000. close to
$4,000 per acre ] keep account very
and in detail and I know
what the production and cost is. Thir-
ty dollars an acre covers all except
picking. This year the picking cost
$4,000 an acre, and figuring forty
tons to the acre would make the entire
cost per. ton $4,000, exactly cents
pound" Do you have to replant often
Is a question asked this gentleman?
NO. | have seen plants In California
l5 years Old bearing fully as well as
when they came to maturity" This
brings me to the prices" said the
grower. when the Consolidated
Iuice Company was formed. they found
hat in order to stop the plowing out
il the vines SOME thoroughly decisive
steps must be taken They at once or
Tered the growers a contract for five
Wears at three cents per pound. A one
pr two-year contract would not have
been effective against the black view |
point of the growers at that time, but I
! long contract made by themselves
20 themselves--many of them being
'tockholders-put production on a
permanent basis. That price was paid (
or the first two Years, then yoluntar-
~ raised to three and one-half cents. ,
ind this year to five cents a pound. |
rwo thousand five hundred tons is the
tuantity that will be put into the man.
fracture of juice this year. Berries
old to dryers brought five cents a
,ound last year. 1918, and this year are
to eight cents per pound. The
anne prices are being paid by the cold
process men, the Gamers and the fresh
ruit dealers. All of these companies
re eager for more of the fruit than is
low produced
The foregoing treatise is composed
or the benefit of the Loganberry in
erest In the Northwest and my. earn
st hope is that 1t win be valuable in
to those especially who are