The West Shoee.
ruiimiil, Oregon, August, 1581.
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, A MIDSUMMER PICTURE.
Not long ago the field were wiving
in luxurious green, sending up their
my rind heads of bloom to Itcnd in
swelling wave before the sea-winds
that swept the valley, and cutching in
spiration from wind and tun and
shower, the emerald hue were changed
through July to glowing snpphircs, to
be aoon melted into gold. The hap
vests of the valley, hill and plain,
een from some unusual height, lecmed
like rich mosaic inlaid upon the land
scape by the patient plow. Man plowed
and harrowed in the seed, and then
stood by to watch the wonder-work of
nature, which swept the earth with
miracles of sun and rain, and brought
the spring-time to its aid; and when the
growth gave promise, sent the warm
thrill of Summct o'er the land to ripen
the emerald heads that June had fed
with showers, leaving Summer suns
and midnight dews lo perfect the gtain
for the coming harvest.
Then comes man again to save what
nature has bestowed. The scene has
chunged from quietness and Summer
leauty to toil and weariness. Thous
and of harvesters are gathering and
binding the gram in sheaves, and noisy
threshers are cleaning out the seed
from chalT and straw. Where lately
the waving grain was a scene of per
feet beauty, there are, perhaps long
row ot shocks piled, or, if the thresher
hat done its work, there is a pyramid
of sackcJ grain that tells of the almost
finished harvest. While the fall-sown
grain is being gathered, the later
planted field are turning to ripeness
and waiting their turn lo be cut down,
It it a season when the farmer's loi)
last from dawn till dark, but lie woiLs
lo save all the promise of the J ear. I
it not easy to rcalue the former' woik
unless you Journey through the farming
districts in harvest time, and tee busy
hands reaping the grain, and the as
sembled neighborhood exchanging In
Imr at threshing time.
The midsummer picture is a pleasant
one, lecnuse it ciik of pence and
plenty. As we see I he loaded wagon
hauling the newly-threshed grain to
the warehouse, we follow It In thought
through the channel of commerce to
see it finally distributed to rich and
poor in fur distant lands. Deep loaded
ships make their voyage over the
ocenns and up the great rivers to bear
away our products to feed toiling mil-
ions in other hinds. Just now the
farmer works with more earnest will,
lecausc he knows that the world has
need of all his products, and will pay
well for them, and with this riddle of
the future solved for him, his hours of
toil are lightened. There can le no
happier picture than this afforded of a
whole land bending to the harvest and
saving the prolific wealth that lulxtr
has produced.
CHOPS FOR iHHi.
In I, inn county, Nlmrod Price har
vested Jrioo bushels of wheat from Co
acres of laud. This Is the 3jd crop
from the same hind In jo year. In I hut
time it was in meadow twice, and fid-
low twice. In I Joialilla county, D.ivld
llolen harvested 38 bushel of when! to
the acre. Hi oats stood six feet, and
in some spots, six feet nine Inches high.
Host on Darr, near W cstoii, Umatilla
county, hat vested 5 1 bushels of barley
lo the acre. T. I.Gallagher s jjj-acre
field 111 the (reaewMjd country, (Cast.
ern Oregon,) averages 15 bushels o
wheat lo the acre 8,8. bushels of bar
ley was the yield of 18 acres, R. Ginn,
near Weston, harvested 34 bushels of
wheal lo I he arc. V M. Stccn got
iMrVt bushels of oats from t aire
and 1,840 buklicl of barley from 10
acre, b. P. Purdy got 985 bushel o
barley fiom to acrr. John Ridcn
auer't loaoe field of oj on Pea
Ridge, yielded 7$ bushels.
A.J. WUe'a wheal yielded a follows:
Fail wheal, 45 bushels l the acre;
spring 3J, ami volunteer, 17 bushel.
The Prospect form, (a Portland con
cent,) harvests IhisIicU of wheat
Thirty bushels to the acre Is the gene-
dl average of wheut in Umatilla Co.,
Oregon. In Kastcrn Washington it la
as follow! Around Pomcroy, 3S bush-
Is; Wnlla Walla, 33 bushels; Waits-
""IT. 30 bushels; Dayton, 17 bushels;
Moscow, 15 bushels; In the Palouse
country, generally 30 bushels.
S. Itamshy' 40-acre field of wheat
on Molatla Prairie, Marion county, av.
craged 13), bushel per acre; C. W.
Noblctl l6acrc field of wheat near
Needy, Cluckamus county, averaged 15
mshels per acre. Hon. Allen Em
rec's field of oats near Dayton, W.T.,
lehled 98 bushels per acre, J. Gnrncr'i
(Smith's Club Wheal) In a field near
Colfax, W. T., yielded 40 bushels lo
the acre. Dr. Illulotk' form, near
Walla Walla, yielded f ,ooo bushels ol
wheat, soma of the land going as high
a 50 bushels to the acre.
Oiikoun Twink i fast gaining
reputation abroad as lcing the best In
the market; and lo Albany belong the
honor of having the only twine mauu-
mtory on the Pacific Coast. Linn
county, and in fact most of the Wil-
timctto alley, is well adapted for flux
culture, and when placed In chuikII
lion with samples fiom Holland, Alls-
Iraliu, Russia and Ireland, Oregon llax
came oil victorious. There are field
in Linn county this season where the
flax stands nearly five feet high.
A I.Aitoi natural cave has I -ecu dis
covered at the head of Williams creek,
in Josephine county, Oregon. Il con
sist of a series of subterranean caverns
or chambers, through which 11 iierson
can walk fr some 400 or 500 yards
from the entrance, and there are still
clumbers lymd, the entrar.ee lo
which are too small lo admit a person,
but could I enlarged suflicicntly, it U
thought, by a little labor with pick ami
hammer.
Vai.im of Walla Walla Prof
a rv. I'lout the assessment return
we find thai the value of real proprity
in this rity is $914,790; personal,
$i7V5 making a total valuation ol
property the city of $jmo,a (all
over last year of $179,130.