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strawberries, are now enterins the industry and will be lieavy produeers in tlie 

 near future. This year, the demand for this populär fruit at the hi.ijhest prices 

 ever known was far greater than the supply, and no shipment was too small to 

 attract the buyer. 



Planted on the risht kind of soll and given reasonable care, the strawberry 

 grows to a perfection in Itoth quality and yield in Ore.iron not excelletl else- 

 where. There are many hundreds of acres of the bench lands of Western Oregon 

 that can be purchased at a reasonable figure, that present fine opportunities for 

 the prospeetive sti-awberry grower. Distance from market, which was formerly 

 a bar to raising berries in many of these sections, Is no longer much of a factor, 

 having been overcome by the introduction of motor trucks, many of which are 

 now operated by the purehasers of the fruit and call daily at the grower's patch 

 for the berries. 



The varieties of strawberries that have been the most widely raised in the 

 Eastern Oregon district are the Marshall and Wilson. The Marshall is a mid- 

 season berry of fine quality. not a very good shipper, and is therefore largely 

 consumed in local markets. The Wilson, which should be grown on rieh soils, is 

 a fine canning berry and, given care, is one of the heaviest produeers. The 

 Magoon, Gold Dollar and Oregon are some of the other Important varieties that 

 are being successfully produced in the western section of the State. 



Some of the long-fruiting varieties are now being recommended for this section 

 where canneries are loeated. and a considerable planting of these everbearing 

 varieties is expected to take place next spring. East of the Cascades, the Clark 

 Seedling, which is both a superior shipping and canning berry. is grown almost to 

 the exclusion of any other strawberry. Here it thrives and brings rieh returns to 

 the grower. although not such a heavy producer as some of the varieties grown 

 in the western section of the State. 



Like the other bush fruits. the strawberry at the present time offers a fine 

 opportunity for an Investment in fruit raising in Oregon. With new markets, 

 stabilized prices, and only limited capital necessary, the careful grower should 

 get big returns. 



THE CRANBERRY INDUSTRY IN OREGON 

 By W. E. Schimpff 



While the cranberry industry in Clatsop County is comparatively new, yet 

 cranberry culture on the Pacific Coast began about 35 years ago. Hector McFar- 

 lin. an old-time Cape Cod cranberry grower. came to the Pacific Coast and 

 established himself at Coos Bay, Oregon, where he set out a five-acre marsh. 

 McFarlin lived from the fruits of this acreage until his death, and always spoke 

 of himself as a cranberry grower, and never as a farmer. About this same time, 

 A. Chabot set out a cranlierry marsh of considei'able acreage in Pacific County, 

 Washington. Chabot died before his marsh came into bearing, and after his 

 death no real effort was made to keep up the same. Although. today, the old 

 marsh is badly overgrown with weeds and grasses, the cranberry vines, which 

 were planted 35 years ago, still thrive and bear some fruit. 



We might even go fiirther back in the history of this section and find that 

 cranberries had some value as a commercial product. Lewis and Clark found 

 cranberries at the Indian village of Wishrau, at the Falls of the Columbia River, 

 acconling to the .Journal of Patrick Gass, one of the members of the party. Con- 

 tinuing their journey down this mighty stream to its mouth, on the first visit of 

 the Indians to trade with them, Lewis and Clark purchased cranberries from 

 these primitive people. ]Mention is often made of this little fruit in the diary 

 of the intrepid explorers, and with elk meat. deer and other game, must have 

 helped in making their stay at the mouth of the river quite enjoyable. While the 



