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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 11, 1873)
r-wfiMlr ..-.- I. WILLAMETTE :FAEMEE. Salem, Saturday, Jan. 11. 1,1 RnnovAi.. 'IluiKiiivKiiuftlrc line kcin rcicuud fo Slew ftrl'i Mock, Commercial clrtct Dp flair, (lnt font at the left.. , ,. rrr HurnEMK Coukt. The Supreme Court of Oregon met at Suleni, pursu ant to adjournment on Thursday, Jim. Oth. All the JudgcM were present. fJlBTUHNBi). Mr. F.,G. f-'yhwajtkn, Grand Representative fromOrcgoii to the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F.,(of the United Stutes, returned ty his borne In Salem ly lu( steamer, ff" (i KriiHimv. Head the mlvortlKiiieut of O. W. Wnlllng A Co., Oswege,' Ore gon They uro still in the field, and nave uioicnoiccst varieties or irint trees and shrubbery. Mend for a cata logue. Mti:a.m I'i.ow. It. It. Thompson, l'q., of 1'ortliiud, I ins -riit to Eng lnnd for steam plowing machinery, to bo uteri on Ills fimii In Yamhill coun ty. The machinery und apparatus will cost in England about ?l:',00O. l'riiMiNAi. Hon. A. J. Dufur, 0110 of the two I'. H. Coiiloiinliil Coininis Monerx for Oregon, who In town (his week and gnvo us u cull. Mr. Dufur linn Just returned from J'liiliiilcljihiu, whore he hut been attending n vsou of the t'oinml-slon. Gi;ni.su lti:.nv. Mr. Myers In iiiuklng preparations lo stint machin ery In thu Agricultural World. The lag factory of Jj. Cliccshroiigh Is mov ed into the building, and we lcnrn that Mchts. Cooke & Dennis will soon iiiovt; Into it their -usb, blind, and door factory. Di.atii oi N.roi.i:n. III . ICx .Kinpcr.ir Nnjioleon 111., who has been miflorlng for years finm Mono in the bludder, lately hud an operation per formed uimiii him for relief, but it was of no avail, und on Jan. Mb ho expir ed, In IIicil.Mh ycarofliNugc. liedled fit Chliclhiir-I, Kuglunri. Our Future Trade. J, I Tho question often arises in n .thoughtful'iaind, where Is to be the chief market of this country in the future? Everyone sees(hat when tho producing and manufacturing resources of " this coast," us wo cull the great western slope, nre fully de veloped, wo will need n foreign mar ket of considerable magnitude to consume our surplus. Wo will need to establish with somo part of the world a regular system of commer cial interchange, in order that those articles which wo can produce in superabundance may bo mado to purchase for asthoso necessaries or luxuries of life which we cannot pro duce. Wo think any one who looks at the map of tho world will recognize the absurdity of supposing that Kuropo is to bo our chief market. It Is understood by almost every one that for Mow freights sailing vessels aro still, and no doubt always nro tu be, the main stay of com merce. With all our continental railways it will not pay to ship grain to Kuropo that way. It must bo taken from our own ports in sail vessels. Now look what a route a bull vessel must tuko to go from the mouth of tho Colombia to Liverpool! Even that nock of land called the Jsthmus Is toowldo for a .-ailing ves sel to Jump over. Away to thu south, so fur that tho friendly north btar no longer serves them ns aguide, tho mariners must steer their craft till tho capo is rounded, then back again against storms and buffeting head winds to a full degree north of their starting point, twenty thous and miles, and more. And then look at the map of England. What a little speck It is. It cannot bo that all tho surplus bread of Oregon and California in tho coming years Is to find consumers In that little Mand. As to manufactured seven ! weeds, an exhausted soli, and Is (jo in the structivo for other reason. With tho initiated. Thcro are now tiMHrltiml TunnHiiKn uttwlfinfti various colleges of this country. In I remark that wo ought to depend on ten years they will mostly return to their own country to All various Im portant positions. Thoy will havo our languago and customs, and will bo more or less Imbued with our spirit and principles. They will not n moro diversified Industry, or what is called mixed husbandry, no pro posed to listen to tho remarks of his neighbors. Mr. Warren Cranston criueizeu mo statement of tho question at consld nnlv ho n lonvnn nf Minntrn In their 'crablo length, and maintained that men i-onnirv. hut. will do much to wo should ralso wheat for sale. Ho create a sympathy for us and pre-, is one of tho principal dairymen of paro tho way for our commorco into tho State, and, making uso or ins those hitherto secluded regions. Icows to crop tho weeds from tho In addition to all this, it Is more summer fallow, every second year no thnn probable that tho people of Ja pan and China will become to some extent a bread eating people. If instead of sending u constant stream of gold to China to he hoarded and as good ns lost, wo can pay for our teas and rice and silks by n mutual ImLnu n MT.n1 urntl nf whn.lt for KIllC, Ho did not proposo to sell wheat un til tho price would justify. Fifty cents or sixty cents will not pay, but whenever ho could get ono dollar or near It ho would lot It go, ho did not euro whore. Somo said feed it to Interchange of the ncccs-arlcs of i hogs, but this Is not n safe business, life, very much will be gained. Uut as wheat Is seldom low enough to if in addition to this tho hoarded Justify It. ir wheat coultl bo ohtatn woulth of twelve centuries that lies J cd for fifty cents a bushel generally, hurled in the flowery kingdom .should then it might do. In fact, his rule is be unlocked and sent drifting over .to feed it to stock when the price is the sea, who can tell what a stlmu- low. If tho question were to raise Ions would be given to trade and grain exclusively for shipment, he what streams of wealth would pour upon our shores '.' And we do tint believe that he who thinks such thoughts as theso Is wildly dreaming. Our national posi tion leads us thus to look.to the west whenever wo think of our probable future, and tho present condition of things in the empires named removes theso reflections from the realm of fancy. Wo nre Jooklng at (facts, and wo want all who read to do the same. One thought strikes us stronger nnd stirs us deeper every day : Wo can- Would take the other side. Mr. Geer asked Mr. Cranston if he tween feeding or selling, nnd in or der to do this he must bo n stock raiser. ' Sometimes It will pay best to feed grain to sheep, sometimes to hogs, nnd sometimes to cattle, occa sionally to poultry. Mr. Geo. W. Shell said "what will pay in other parts of tho world will pay here." Up tho valley ho saw a man with a largo band of hogs, and ho kept the samo number yearly.-. His plan is to feed his grain to hogs as soon as thoy cat up ono field thoy aro turned into nnothor, so that but Httlo of his grain Is required to be cut and threshed. Ho says some grain is wasted, but not enough to bring his receipts below ono dollar per bushel, nnd then a very import ant consideration is that tho land Is enriched by tho crop of straw and tho excrements of the swine, in Alscn, tho farmers nre In better cir cumstnnccs than wo arc, and thev do not, cannot, ship any grain it fe all fed to stock. Tho Alscn farmer think they realize about a dollar per bushel for their wheat. Mr. Shell being nn old nnd experienced mliw' counseled tho farmers not to nut their grain in tho mills to store when it is put in there, you may as wen mtvu iiiu iiiuiiuy lur 11, ior WilCn they have your wheat in store thov can control tho prleo as well as f incy owncu u. .11.1 l.la M'l.n.if .rpilliwl mill ' lllCy 0 IICd Ul.l UVfcV "II ....... h. ..... v. ...... - ., . . , , ,..,. feed tho bran nnd shorts to his cows, mud; wheat for , but hwfigfigg which interrogatory Mr. C. answered grain to stock. His figuring had al in tho nillrmutlvc; whereupon Mr. , ways been in favor or the hog, and Geer claimed that that Is tho very , !' ,uKl 5) moro for his wheat In thing ,o , i contending tor. only f' hu fttd pnlctlced turn ng Mr. C. did not feed all tho wheat, i i,0gs into tho standing grain, and but a nurt of it. Ho was suro Mr. ' wlillo the.v waste somo. thorn la a not hope much longer to prosper ns n raising grain, as a palnclpal business. people If Me are to havo no other to sell in tho bushel, for the reason art iclo to export but wheat, and no Cranston had about tho samo views. t'pstror cutting and threshing, and as himself, but they wcro separated ' "o sattorcd grain produces rfno fall us iiiiiibi.ii, nut wny ui.ro stpunueu fcC(j f()r C(ltt,0 ()r 8jleop besides it Is by tho bungling statement of tho 'tho best way he knows of for or qucstion. riulilng the soil. Mr. K. Ii. Hlbbard was opposed to'. Tno Secretary said It is claimed iy iiiiuij luijuvrq mm mi 110 nOWS- other market than that of Europe. Wui'onfcNH tlint wo can see but papers that we must rely in tho main UllOll our whnnt. (mti for uhlnnln that when wo do that wo cannot keep supply ourselves with imported art! .stock, and not being able to store our f'fs from Europe, Asia, nnd all the grain for a rJso In the market, must,rt lr' llVo"i "nj rrom It we ' ( Urn fn tilnlrn Muul 41.s. l...fnHAH . I.i.nnCoi'm v. Tholiiniiersol' I.imi county are moving in tin mutter of forming elulis, mid M'Veral are being organized in the county. On tlieliTtli, ft fanners' club was organized at Cow mi's Hchool Huuc, of which Martin Lujier. wus elected president, .luines Klnluymin, vice ptcsldcnt, and Alfied Wheeler "wretiiry. Wi will publl the proceedings In next l.uo. Si'Ai'i: CAi'iim.. Tim Legislature niljoiirued, us Is well known, without tlectiug Capitol Coiinnlssloiiers, mid it has Mince beeiut quertlon whether Uie Governor bus the jxiwer to upiioitit them. On llil- ituextlon, (lie Hull' tin Niys: The weight of opinion seems to be that the Governor bus the power. Dlxcurdlug all purty feeling In a mat ter which eoueeins the whole state, as this mutter does, we trust tho Guv eruor will go forward and make the iimioiutmeiitH nnd let the work on the imitnl commence. The erection of this building Is demanded by niunv coiiHldoratlons, and no great leugth of time Miotild bo allowcil to lup-c till It in begun. LniEitvu l'lie Oiegon Steamship I Company Inu gonerously lemoved tho i eliurge of M) cents H-r ton ilruynge at Portland on all pnxture Milppcd down the river on their bouts, but as u com-1 prensutlou hniadvuncisl tho rule ofi treight one dollar per ton between I Portland und San 1'iancNoo. . i rile following gentlemen were lat Friday elected Directors of Linn coun ty. Agricultural Association, for 1st;! : Jttnon Wheeler, H. Montgoniery," M. Lmiht, I). Fniinan, X. Price, .1. '.. Croue nud C. 1'. llurkhnrt. Dii:i. Nenr Vancouver, W. T., Jan. Mb, Seneca Knight, aged thirty four your. lKvea-ed was a brother of ltev. i. ..Kulglit,of this city, and WBV t'vojWyJ!wn In bis com- ruunlty. little u-o of our hecomintr n eroat almost alwnvs hnut tlmtiinmv.irii.n m 10 maKO good tho balance of .......... .. " ..?:.. - - ' '"'-. irauo iney can n our bank, nml tri? i .... . ...... i . ,.. nruiiiiciiiif u hi c.MKiriimr nonnin. n inercnanis or .nnnntntnvi, is r.. .,n.....i. ........... ..-. r-r .v iirucics i.ngiiiiiii mis no nccu. ."sue , -- . ,, "r"""""--' winiuiuwiu inuuuciiuii, .so inai me hits it irriiu'liiir uiir.ilnc ..f ti.i.i.l.. iVPu h.i.... i... i ..i .... :. I of us by way of the south polo. ' crraln for sale in h hnshel. ns h.. would en ""J r " "".mi. .im niiiiiy .,,,.. .... " . .. i. . ' " "" IIIUIILOiD KAKMirilf' CI.III. ( lub met at Henry day, Jan. 1, 1ST:I. Allen's, Satur- A. Leonard in tho chair; present, 15 jB to c-ittk' iueiiihcr.s; four farmers Joined tho Vo,)s ,'t,aS(. mitteoon market reinirts, read nntit' r ' V, article from the Orojnni to , ovo T "n what ho had frequently stated, viz: ' ' V . r .,V7,1 that that paper was In the interest of ' " b '"''V1' t,mt 's t'1 . Man Ari-oiNTJCU. John Mlnto, Jr., ht piolutl neelal polletmnn in Hakni. other regions on tho continent or Europe, produce a surplus oven of bread, lnineo produced a surplus last year. So wo .-co many reasons for bcllev ingtliat tlio Llveriool prices will not always nilo our.'graln market. Whore do wo look next'.' Mow natural that wo east our eyes towards tho sotting sun. What u -(might, broad, clear lilghway from here to1 Japan and China and (ho Indies. Tlie-o countries aro nearer to us than Kuropo, (hoy are moro popti- h J lous, (hoy aro more wealthy. Forty I millions of people in the little Em pire of Japan, more than throe hun dred millions in China, one-tlilnl of tho human race, with only (he smooth Paelllo between ii-uud them. And how sugge(ivo have been -oino of tho movements of those na tions in tho past tow years, with all our lasted progress nud achieve ments, wo as a nation have done nothing in (ho past ten years to com pare with what Japan has done, in reforming ovIN, changing mode-, of government, and providing tor pop ular education. In this connection con-ider tho fact that the .lnpaiico arc fast adopt ing tho American and European modes of dress. Thi- may -com to bo an item of little moment, yet It has a bearing on the quo-tlou wo tire ill-cu-sug. Stippo-o that forty mil lions of iKMiplo In twouty yoars from now should all drcs.- as wo do. 1- It probable (hut (hoy would produce within themselves, as thoy In a (housuul year-, all their attic eiouiiiigv ii in-iouu oi tnoirwixHien clog- and Mntw slipimrs thoy should adopt tho American .stylo of Units and -hoes, what tin Increase would then' bo In tho leather trade, what a market tor tho hides of tho cattle on i thousand hills in addition to being ours about following should be as tickle iu who can estimate iiiKiruwi-.wjMiii wai ovrn mtcna tho sune amount of labor and tlmo change would throw into tho vliui- is reduced to about half what it was are ui wiumcivu . aiiu uiumi m tho first -otllouiont of (ho State. cnanrea aro not only jMWsiWe, but Crop after crop of wheat and oats has prabfthle. They am IndecdaliMdy Lgiven us a multitude of noxlou- fill mir nVlbll'IK Kllist irn in Mm liiirMi'liliii.'nll' hn .11.1 ..,. ........ i I . 'Imiilr ..!. ln full .. A T i.. .1 1"" w.-,-..w --b- ... ... ... ... ....... 7v.i .. .m nub iiuiusu 10 raisu " !"f i.c iuii, uuu : suppose iney woum can mis good ndvlco. If some thing, and particularly wheat, could drawn en- soli were bo some continuallv in . ..1. . . ...i.it..i. i.i...r .zi . . .. inu semiig sun ure ycuow as gold. Do returned to tho soil. unions nro (Hoy or (ho wealth (hat , will mat iOO lbs. when .lull flow to us when (ho ships of bought nearly every fall for $3, and Intended for general onlratlon.but our future commerce go and como' after feeding him eight bushels of tho nowspapor men do not seem to iiirougii ino gates oi tno evening. '" " """ i.uiiviuiii- ioiiru.s iiiu nun U'uiicr.iuy succeeded 111 ircttlticrii weM. and ereot thosn mittn.. xvhrwo I. h.iinr nr i,,..i.i tn, i.i. ,ri. T... '." ' n" ,r0' "puungor ..1.......1 ...t......' '"i-i... ;...;":,...: ;.."..... . nrr..u i,re.,y,roi".,o '"?". '" v."-' "- i""k inua ifi'iiuiijii iu ngs, aim no niut tno incxnaustioie, tnero might across (Ho blue JMcIflc. Ther.vvsof mnuuro besides. iill(tlosnmthinn-n sense in raislncr orniln A hoi? tlmt i without mnlcliit; somo rot urn to the ft !, ' I'nmklln printed a maxim in rat, can bo p00r Hichard's Almanac, which was I for $3, and Intended for general application, but t bushels of tho nowspapor men do not seem to can bo sold for $12, which """crsinuu K so. "Always taking iwl iierbushelfnrtiinrFr.il., ?. . tno '"enHub and noverput- lifF f8 tlnif In, boou comes to tho bottom," i dollar tor each head tor (ho with them, only npplles to tho meal- wheat, can bo sold will allow and one i expen-oof feeding, Ac. He had tho tub In their pantry. Our farms are nvldnnen nf nllini. r,i...io.. 41... real lllcal-tubs. 1111(1 tor thnlit.it Henri. Vice President II. '., ....,. ,.,. T rs-niui r.... y .years wo liavo been taklucr out r . ' " " " iwu- uiid imvnr iuiltl.i.F I.. n.l .,( .?... e, wheat raised tho pre- pcoplo wonder why' wo do notmt ii.rvii l.-nrt l...,.t...l . ... - ..... .It. .". 'a . ----a" Club. Olllcrs ..lnetr.,1 f..r l. . --. .. , .u iiii:if1 WHICH ' i 1 ers lis lull ns ntlirsl. .From ,.., ..... . V, V. .. v would bring him about: ...,. ,.uh, I...-. .. v. v.err, presiueni; -,rr r.,llr 4...,, K. L. Hlbbard and I, F. Mascher ..... .1 " .?A"C,' vice presidents ; T. W. Davenport, ri.i.. I". ;. V . . . ,fcnury this remorseless stealing from the -ecrctarv; II. A. Leonard, treasurer ' Vs . " " nKa W0U11 ,ay ,h0 Tm '.or "o."f ro of years, how Mr. (e'er, cim.rnmn of ( o eo , I ! ""h? eml to.P". " " , o y ou think, wo shall ta'lto a price oeiOW mat Which Will give " u. iiiu uivm mu( mi ...., .,,.! r -u"n--, inosu who uxpecr. or imcpu millienUIOn for to enilcrato ns nnn na thou hnvn nv. sell tor fifty cents hausled tho soil, will euro llttlo for tho severest cost nio luturo, but those of us who ox- ..4 . I II - ttntf lllry Hhala.. .. AU.....1 (ho IMrdund mendiaiKs ,, of Z7kZZ:' (ho farming eoiuniunity. '.. . u. " ,s Miro t0 beconio Iwnkrupt. to our posterity, will look with ab horrence upon such a foolish and sul- Truly cs tnc nr acre. England; s ncrrlcul- turo wears out tho soil and emigrates Ho thought ll ntw nc,u T" ,rtttcr m,Bnt d0 rather ovorstntmi . '"? .V. -2V ",,.,'u.r w. AC"J tlw. iir,nii .,r ii, i. . , jusi oui iii iiioi-uciucuccnn orumu- the prollts of tho hog business, and loss new fields in any other diroc- wneiieer no buys n hog that will , "on, but Americans may ns well neat 200 lbs. after eating eight bush- como t( tho conclusion that they are els of wheat, ho Is trottlnrF hi... , 'outdono emigrating, and try to do i. .'. 3 fcciung mm for tho best with wliat thov havo. Tho roduoo erltlcl-ms uiKin (he quesdon and at- ,Ci , V a,ue I,mt ,s not Indians construct tlioir wigwams on live tor (end to giving (ho important points i ,uclnfl . ,mt I'oculutlngr. Hois a pleco of ground and remain there lelos of' as far as practicable lien a mlddloman. Hold grain for until tho soil becomes too rich with .. . V, I .. ' ' n,u'u,4U a fair price, even If vo ., "J" excrements to bo ngreenblo to their -nr. u. ui.eer Mid this question than IoliiI ii.i..r...t.. 7. olfactories, whon thoy pull up stakes I-iKdngill-cus-ed In various parts of but k.,V it i. .. tho ,no,1C'v' "'l move to a now and puro place, tho Stale an ovldene., ,. ...... b"fkeopl(ln your own granary.- and so on around tho country. Iu ioaX. Whenever you store iu (ho mer- " ' whole of tho American PlOarobogilinillgtOWllkoUPtOtie r nlmi.U ...lll. .l. U . Ur ..r...tl..n.itl.r.,....vnrvrleh.iin.I thll real lntens(s. Wo have hero n Him '.. r. .... ..." :K-m?' have Vmi son hnw fortuimtoiuidprovldon- .! ur iiiir nAitim ...ii j The nuestlon for ill-eu-lm. h..i.,.v ";. .:; "." ""V" " " iioMiiv...!. Ti,f Mu, ... " :. ;?: ?.ut " rum?us 8urc- " o nro told , ii wm or agriculture. ....... ", """' " hi. mm ol,r Whent crop is tho bank nf " oniuio ucrieuiiuro unprov ,""",n " ""l "o wi IKMiey ror.thnfih.tn t.i..i. t i" ...';. 'on ami increases (no yield i farmers in (ho highland district," iotbelievo ii - in,, V ', T . ? t wlii Now and Old mmldonibh. ti.,,.. .... . ' "ol ,,eUo " celling it for Just what unsclontilic nnd thoucrhtles .-. . "., .-1'V.tn 4 ,-Ml ring over tho unfortunate statement of tho quesdon, which was intended (o embody (he I-ue as to whether tho highland farmers in (his district should depend in (ho main on gruin-nil-lng or -lock-ral-ing for a living. Tho Secretory propo-cs (o omit nil (iio speculators and millers nro In ; ciined (o oiler for it." Mr. milliard had i .. . r." j".i. .or wiieii rnn .11. ...i.e. 1 -on ami 11111-.1 r..vi,n, i. ..it. ....... ... ........, . ...... .-.. nmu tini timt tho niMirifFincs nrecedeu us. I irtlielrlndh,ltlic imMluetimi ..r wi...,.t 1 ..' ' ,o;u!;'at,l,0.y will,,e ' lost If wo go on impoverishfngnnd moy- ns articular as ,,,, for tho ,tt,t ,........... Vi' ""! l " " Vnm to.m !t (ho Price. !'.'.'. " wl "9 ""ffW.!" &2&H Hi. i f,i..l,lmw I. .... , . ., V t. ' -ieiirjl lip-tin lliUI. OIlLF-lnen l,'0 COIUIUCIIt Willi IIIUIUIIS, lllIU Ulllb mo iiisiuou-, liavo Ik'oii continuallv eulilvntl,,,. ... .'""' ,u"r. since, .,,1,,jll tlwk .... fi, 011'nIiin-r. ohaiiglngthem. tlio-i vmhw f.,r Mi.i.,..,..., i .... f .... ;V V . ... . lon ,lll,t It Is not ' i,,,.,!.,,, ,.. ' ,n.i,ni ....ntinn T tho amount of until now the vleld iMr mr.. u.iih'u.i!... ,el . -crs in thisdis-Isay it is absurd to carry production to . i-. .i iuiii iilL'l II IIIIUI1II fjn .1 II. .1 ii-. . .... ii.. --t .. i - --'- iw. ii iivnirr iiilivh riiiir iiinr urnnmi Tiir umiiiiir iiti'mih i robing grain to sell iu the bushel, for 't'10 demand to a considerable when wo do that tho merchants ,n.i i .tcnt- There must always be los the millers have us at their mercy. Kvorv hrnin. .,......i .... . ' jV:. B"i io oo in such a condition as to be able to ehooo be- ex- loss un less thoro con be a divenlon or a change, and what the interest of the Oregon fanner demands Is that be shall be in that condition where be