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About The west shore. (Portland, Or.) 1875-1891 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1880)
June, 1880. THE WEST SHORE. '79 temperature must precipitate a larger amount of moisture in a warm than in a oold climate. Thus the following table shows thu average an nual rainfall in different latitudes, according to the estimates of Prof. Ijoomis and Uuyot; to which are added two columns, likowise indicat ing the decrease of rainfall with increase of latitude: Loomls. Guyot. Annual Annual Ut. Ralnfsll Lst. Kalnfall Rainfall lutnfall in ins. In ins. in inches. in ineliea. 0" 104 0' 100 Tropics.... 102 Tropics.. 00 10' 86 20' 80 Tempurato lUly 46 JO" 70 80 00 lono 3(1 Klllanil.. 37 30 40 40' 40 Frigid BU 12'N. Uor- 40' 30 60" 30 many.. 22J 60' 26 00' 20 St. Peters- 00' 20 70' 10 limy... 17 80 6 I It is evident that on the Pacific coast this general law is completely reversed, and it is equally obvious that there must exist some active physioal oause adequate to produco this anomalous result. (2. ) The seoond abnormal result indicated by our table of rainfall on the Pacific coast is that at Cape Mendocino (or about latitude 40 to 41) there is a sudden inorease of tho annual rainfall from about 20 inches to 44 inches, or more; with a more gradual augmentation from this latitude in advancing northward along the coast (3.) The third abnormal result, indi cated by the same table, is that between Man Diego and Cape Mendocino (from latitude 32' I'-' to latitude 40 20') scarcely any rain falls during the three summer months; but that north of the latter point the rains aro more uniformly distributed throughout the ditrerent seasons, although the winter still continues to be the period of greatest precipitation. The contrast in this respect between the distribu tion of the rainfall according to seasons on this coast and that on the Atlantic coast of the United States is strikingly exhibited by the following table of the average rainfall, aooord ing to seasons, at various points along the latter: I iliiiSdlilttaiii-HJN M8teSBS6S82i338S3388 W68&S8388fiR3B!s8C5Sfc iS8'SStiS53aiS'"'S3SS32 ass sRsassnassactes oiejoooo'gj-.js'ooooia-oao 2!o332S.S?lt!S!33:2! i ! i li iJilhl I Jililfilliij IllilHMiU . .i t- . .k. ...... I... 11... labia of ralll- 14.) I no lOUnil HOT ""wu "J f.ll . thia coast i not anomalous, being in c.m- i .Li .......l Un nt rain. It IS lormuy witn mo Mm. -- - - that the amount of annual rainfall in the great ... . a II - .AH.iHflMhIv li-aa California anil UVSjai vaiioya m a.aai i .. .l ... ... nf tho tlui ( oast in latitudes north of 41, where it is surprising how quickly the atmosphere becomes drained of its vapors as we leavo the coast and proceed in land. The Coast llange mountains along this portion of tho coast being ooolur, act more powerfully as condensers an the vapor-liearing winds are forced m the.wiH.rern alnrwa I'mf John le t'onie, in mhmg and BtttaUle Pnw, POULTRY FATTKNINtl BY TI1K FltKNCH MKTHOD. Wo havo froiiuont iiniuiries as to the method of fattening employed at thu largo poultry os tablishments of Franco. It scorns that the French system, after several failures, has taken root in .Massachusetts, and our poultry it row era will be intorestoil to read of the methods employed. The following statements, (Mm the pen of our occasional correspondent Mr. V. I. Philhriek, appeared some weeks ago in the lloaton CinVi- MMor.' It is probably well known that the procoss of fattening poultry for market is much better un derstood in France than in this country. A well-fattened chicken or turkey, according to tho fashion of our markot, is a bird that shows plenty of yellow fat, under the skin, along tho back and sides, while with chickens, to he salable, the-akin and legs should have a bright yellow color. In trance such poultry would bo clusseil only as ordinary, and would he utterly rojeotod by the opiciircH who pay the highest prices lor lux uries. The Wit miultry, according to the Froucli standard, should show little fat undor the skin, anil this should ho of a whitish color. Tho finest birds should lie heavy in muscle, and tender, the skin white and delicate. These , ...ii. 1 1 1 u aro fn.lv attain...! 1 1 v ii -iv ili in .M,i r.i . i... u' ......... 1 ... .'..a .price M SI ing, wii.cn nas ucen inrmsi unougn year. ... mf Wlirt( , (r , (f 1M ,atient experiment in Franco, and is now or mmU(r ()f , w m , the first tune, successfully mutated in this I prf today ,0 .lata, (Utd her people to d. country. .... .. maud, the fact that hore an Auiorican dollar la Many previous attempts at imitating the , W(jrlh lm, , rrencn system nave prove., .an urea, ...it . a.imnu tho bmkera ..f London Ik, more or lo.,. tested, and seems likely to come into greater favor as it is better known. It sells for about 10 to 1.1 uenta Hir pound alsivo the price of or dinary poultry, while it is claimed audi multry is worth this difference, since there is very lit tle waste in the shape of the grnaa and in.ligeat il.le vellow enuue which eniMimlieni the ordiu. ary fat fowl. 1'lieir arrangements are not yet fully oniii- Idol rd, sinco they only began to build in duly aat, Thia spring they contemplate erecting several additional buildings and fixtures. Kl'KOPKAN INFU'KNCK ON AMKIUCAN 0URR1N0Y, One of tho straugost an'ctaclns of modern times I. that of a great country, known through, out the civilised world by the products of her skill and industry and tho augrcasivo and tire less enterprise of her inhabitants a country that has made her iiilluenoe felt in every tra la center of the world, and can control the prices of production everywhere meekly asking every morning of the money loaunrs of city :i null away, and op the other side of the ocean, what her own coins are worth, the ore for which was dug out of her own iniiirs, aiid stamped with the seal and pledge of her gov ernment. Here is a eoiintry with inexhaustible stores of precious metals, easily mined, that are needed to develop the untouch?.) resources of its broad prairiea and teeming foreata, practi cally looking up its vast treasures, and allowing its broad expanse of territory to lie unimprnve. for no object in the world but the liohollt of the money lenders in Kiimihi and their agents here. Many paora are Hi the lial.it of quoting the price of silver in Ikiii.Ioii, with the remark that persevering character of several parties who have recently established an enterprise lor fat tening poultry after the French system at Med Held, Mass., gives promiso of success. One of thoir number sent considerable time in France working in establishments of this kind aa a laborer, in order to master every detail of the business. At present the Modlleld concern is killing daily about eighty fowls for the use of some of the best hotels in Huston. Tho birds are purchased by agents in various parts of the Htate, and aro placed temKirarily in tho "reception room" on arrival at the yards. Theso are simply will-ventilated sheds of ordi nary character, where the fowls are fed and al lowed to run at will until they are wanted for forcing. They are then placed in the fattening house, a warm, well ventilated building, pro vided with MOM for the purpose. For ten days they are subjected to a system calculated to re move the yellow fat, and then for ten days sub sequent are crammed with a .Hirrnlgo of milk and meal (barley and rice being largely used, with some corn), and at the end of 20 days are immediately killed, their room being dally re ..laeeil bv fnalilv purchased birds. The building haa aceommiHlatinns for 1,700 birds; M are killed daily, and H4 more take their plaoe from outside. The teniKirature of this building is kept at aliout MO" by steam .,. The MOM are daily cleaned nut, the k.ttam Ixiarili I" in.' washed and steamed, I. r.mnva all taint, f ha coin are so small that onlv one bird can lie kept in each. This attei tion to cleanliness, the lalr of prering food .,,.1 ti,,. droiainif of fowls for market, iiives con tant employment lo eight or ten men. Thirty oans of milk daily are required to mix tho food. This milk is at preaent purchased ofthe neigh boring farmers. The manure Iroin this style of f-l.i. of a thick, naetv consistency, diftV ....It tv, handle, but verv ri. Ii. and highly a teemed by the fanners in ths neighlorhood, who willingly pay one uoii.r m uwr.. wm Th .Mx.ltrv i.r.xlucwl bv this pr.'M is al Am h.uhlv salaamed by those who have I'hc boat interest of our country imperatively Ik.1i lil Icmaiuls that the money it may need come out of our mines instead of the colfon of the money lenders of Kuropo. The interest that we have paid thorn would liava peopled our tar ritorioa. built railroads and B.'h-.(hoiises, and covered our wildernesses and plains with citlas and towns and manufactories, and ma.li. us llie pr.aluuing nation of the world. Tho future greatness of our mn.lo nu.l nation deponim largely upon tho wixloin of Its legialaU.rs anil financiers in regard to the great queat.on of min ing. The bleeding artery of interest money that enriches the old oountry so that they art fattened aa upon blood, and impoverishes us, ean lie el.HHHl l.y a priqa i eouiurageii.oiil of our milling iniluslrioe. Our own mines can supply us with all the money that the industries of the country require. The mineral depoaita already discovorrd are aulllcieiit to guarantee a supply of precioua metal for more than one generation, and we have aa yet by no means begun U com prihnu.l the extent of our mineral resources. The individual or nation ia iiurt unwise and MUlk that borrows money and pays interest when they have in thoir Hwwaaiou rsswurcs that would bring the mouey aiwl aava the inUr eat. The aolaiU ia proutl to Ilia world to day of a great nation looking up her own treaa. urea of gold ami silvrr ami prauioua mutala, and paying mUreat for the gold. I )ur I"' 'pi" era patient and loug suffering, but we shall In surprised if there is not aooii sent a Kt.tion that must ua heard from the mining in trreat, against the iujnalloe of a legislation, or want of legialaUon, that ia doing It a poeitiva injury. V nan thai vona comas it will deinau.l attention and action, for iiiiniug his ..lin.nl in a lav Ucolnii al. ...tonal vaat and important. ''Wuyo Mmin'j Itrrtrtr, V . i . 1 1 -. 1 1 . -The mineral ralefttintle, Hlrj Oj hitherto unreported from the Uaiteti Slates, oectire on antmi'rtiial ore at tha Hagdail mine, TempiuU, Nevada, in radtatail tufts of white fibers four m. .... In length. man n is on w.c ;.f" ----- - ranges. Thia is much more conspicuously true --, -