Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-07-03
Cervais Grower Makes Success Of
Berry Growing Thru Application
OF Practical Business Methods
tBy the Country IsdIror.)

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When any man dignifies the caIIint
Of the farm with conspicuous intelli.
gence, honor and success, he is giving
to the world the legacy of life spent
in well doing. He is doing a granc
work for his day and generation. Such
man is Hon. Sam H. Brown of Ger
vais, one of the most honored of the
states legislators. Mr. Brown has
shown himself to be thorough and
skillful berry grower, and the impress
of his thought and wisdom upon the
growth and progress of the state is
deep and will prove lasting Mr..
Brown is too modest to make such an
expression of his business, but neigh
Dor who has known him for years is
authority for the statement that there
is just as much system in the conduct
or his berry farm as there Is in the
great department stores of the cities.
Every department of the great indus
try. said the neighbor, has system
which shows he is a skillful berry
grower. bringing to the problems of
the farm a mind finely cultured. His
range of reading has always been wide,
and embraces not only agriculture,
but all that is best in literature. Pos
sessed of wonderful memory and
pleasing temperament, he enriches ev-
cry task on the farm with the sun
light that makes life worth the living
and removes the drudgery which caus-
es so many young men to geek a vo-
cation in the city.
Al the present time Mr. Brown is
getting ready for the harvest of hfs
immense loganberry crop and about
the 10th of July will enter the yards
with his army of one hundred twenty
five pickers and harvest all that was
left for him after Jack Frost" passed
through the yards. The season is fully
three weeks later this year than usual,
and it is the latest in the history of
his yard with but one exception. Mr..
Brown employs resident pickers and
has his help all ready to enter the
field when the proper time comes
Many of these helpers have been work
ing for him regularly for eight or ten
years, and he always finds it a simple
matter to secure help in the time of
harvest. Mr.. Brown has one of the
best cultivated evergreen blackberry
yards in the state and it Is making
great progress. Young canes are set
ting nicely and by another season he
expects to harvest the greatest crcp
ever known to the growers of the val
ley.
The little green caterpillar. which
has been found in many of the berry
Yards in the country this season, is
also in evidence in Mr.. Browns yard,
and he is of the opinion that spraying
Is the only way to rid the country Cyl
the pests. In one yard the insect Is
quite prevalent. while in yard 3, across
the road, there are absolutely none.
Mr., Brown has thirty-five acres of
evergreen berries and will get fair
crop this year. Picking in this yard
will also be later than formerly,
For seevraI years past Mr.. Brown /
has sold his berries under contract
with the Oregon Packing company. but /
the contract has expired and he nss
not contracted his berries this wear He I
Is offering three cents for picking -no 1
Will pay one cent bonus. making four
cents that he will have to pay, as he 4
figures that his help will all stay 4
through the season and get the bonus !
Mr.. Browns accomplishments as /
farmer are truly of the highest order !
With him. success in the berry and in /
all collateral problems is work of /
conquest He seems to i
welcome all difficulties and has ex-
perienced a keen zest in overcoming
them.
Even the hard freeze last winter. I
which threatened entire destruction to
his fruit vines and trees, was accepted 4
with a wonderful spirit of cheerrm-
ness. Il