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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 7, 1879)
sWHWrMtfU3ilStfr -'ff-r-XT .-a.,.. , .. Clw .S -3Ti,'CiZ-w -4dIX3MSlI.1JftW UA.JI. pjrlnnMjn. msifaHiKM 55mX23& li ADVEBTISING RATES, H MB cmnoK SJ2.S0 ?or XHo&th For an Inrli of advertlsmir space, for llio lint month; $4,00 2Pcr Month For two Indies; SS.00 er Month ttt three Inches, Kh nwontbte Itnat foi Ion; Utno adrcrtlaeiaetiti, Legal AdvertlNfmrnU PulilluhtJ on Favorolile Terms. nDMNESS MEN Desiring literal rpacewtU have pooU,l tAniWi not Icm than ttt per month for a column of twenty Itichas. VOLXJ. ABOUT NEWSPAPERS AND MAE KETS. Tlio Orcgonian informs its readers that thin paper in not a nowspapcr, and has to do pend upou tliat journal for nil newe of tlio markets. This is faleo; wo got up our mar ket report without rcfcrcnco to that paper; linvo never' paid tho least nttcution to its quotations, except to contradict tlicm fro ejucntly; nnd havo no confideuco in their ac curacy at any time. It liases all Hi claims as a newspaper on tlio fact that it monopolies tlio dispatches! hut an hour after its dispatches aro published they belong to wboovor buys tlio paper, and they are nono of them gotten tip specially for the Orcgonian in tho outset. Ks market roports aro inado known all over Oregon to the warehousemen and wheat npeculatore tho day before it publishes them, and arc oftimes the commou property of wheat buyers two days before they nro pub lished in its columns, and wo offer to provo this by any mponsiblo party, or firm, in this city fir out of it, that tho Orcgonian will name, and yot it puts on these ridiculous airs ami says tho F.viiMrn is not Aiiowr-iapcr. Wo froqncntly nro nwaro of facts on Wednes day that nro novur published in tho Orcgo nian until l'riday morning. Tho Orcgonian hnu made us allusion in months to tho fact that Oregon Valley w.icat is worth more money than No. 1 California wheat) and ban never, mat wc rememuer, told Walla Walla pcoplo that their wheat is wurth more than No. 1 California. It shows no interest in tho affairs of tho producer, and takes wrpains to post them. Wo can bring witneasce to provo that its commercial cdiror has privately conceded that it was impossible to mako n, market report to suit both tho merchant and tho farmer. Wo have no de sire for controversy, but wo shall not shun it, and havo no difficulty in holding over own when controversy is forced upon us. Our duty and our aim Is to keep our read ers posted on matters that interest them. Wo ask comparison between our market re ports and thoso of any other Journali and wo assort -that tho Oregonian's assertions aro falto when it says that wo depend on its col. umns for nows. Its daily issuo has a monop oly of news, but its weekly iuuo has not. We doult if it contains half a day's intelli gence lator than wo give. Ita monopoly is not a credit to it, considering tho fact that being a monopolist it gives the pooplo so lit tle for their money. Wo nsk our friends to disruw jnnrLtta with tholr neighbors who take tho Oxonian and compare our reports with theirs for months lack, and so deeido which journal is moat worthy tlio support of producers. Wo had hardly written tlio foregoing when a gentleman who has been recently through Washington county came into tho office and stated, as an exvnplu of tlio con fidence that the jwplo placo in market reports, that he several timet hoard the prico of wheat referred to, and the ques tion would bo ashed! "What paper did yew got that from? If it was tho F.ei:u.u, 1 bo liavo it; and if it was tho Orc-gouiau, I don't," Still later in tho day, a young man Minus in with a complslut from a gentleman who ouus a (louring mill over in Washington Territory that ho subscribed for tho Farmkr a month ago and it has not come regularly. Wo look at tho lit and find liia namo on it all right. Tlio joung msn says tho miller is very par ticular about the FAituru coming punctually, because it is tho only newspaper that he can depend on for the wheat market. These two instances, happening in ono day, and that too without any act of ours to call them out, show what newspaper has the con fidence of tho people, and Ivow much we aro indebted to tho Orcgonian for our market re ports. We leavo that newspaper to the en joyment of its news monopoly, on which alono it seems to predicate all its boastings but we deny that this news monopoly ex tends any further than its daily circulation. We don't have the favor even of an exchange with the Orcgonian. Wo buy its daily and pay for it punctually, and the news belongs to us when wo so buy it; but we bate to sift out the trash in it, carefully, and give all the telegrams of any importance. The Oregonian has no news monopoly in its weekly issue, and docs not take a single line of dispatches to be used in its weekly. It takes news from ito daily the same as we do. Pork Packing- Mr. A.'H. Johnson, Central Market, Fort lanel, is in the market, buying pork to pack and cure, and will pay the highest market price in cash. Mr. Johnson's is one of the oldest firms engaged in this business, having bad nearly twenty years expenenco of the tame in this city. This season there must be a rreat deal of surplus potatoes and shriveled wheat that will go for hog feed, and there ought to be a greater quantity than ever cf gbod pork itbt to'marktt. WINTER EVENINGS. Tho timo has como when the days havo tdiortoncd and long evenings aro upon us. Through tho country huge fires begin to cracklo as tho chill of November calls for them. All day tho teams nro plowing and tho farmer is determined that as little spring wheat as possible shall another year be liable to tho ravages of rust. This is the season when sociality reigns and friendly intorcourso is tho rule. Many neighborhoods havo do bating societies that cultivato intellectual tastes and test tho powers of friendly argu ment. Thero aro singing schools, spelling schools, grange meeting and the Sabbath ser vices that mako tho months pass pleasantly and givo opportunity for improvement, and ns tho family gather around the glowing fire side they read books nnd newspapers for pas time and for information, When wo rouaidcr tho changes of the scnions and alt tho vary ing circumstances of tlio year, wc porccivo that Nature has wisely ordained that monotony shall not mako us indifferent to life, but that tho changing months and recurring seasons shall stimulato our cucrgics and give us fresh impulsu and ambition. When November renchea us it finds tho harvest gathered nnd marketed. The pru dont householder has his stores of grain and fruit and veritable nnd his supplies of fuel all safely housed, and ho iirti nnd sown with confideuco in the future, even though fur onco rust has brought a blight upon his field. With tho rcstilta of last years labor in hand he labors when lis can, and when tho persist ent rains fall, cr tho cold winds of the ninth come witli ico or snow to lock up tho earth and lorbid the furrow , ho labors within doors or comforti himself by tho glowing fireside And after all tho hard things laid about win. tcr wo muttsconfess that wo then enjoy and rcallo tho comforts f.u havo laboicd for through nil tho jerr. If wo had peicnnial spring wc hould tiro of buds and bloom that gave no fruit. 1 summer was perpetual its heat would destroy tho fields and mako life burdensome. Ktorunl autumn would weary with monotoiny, but spring and summer, fol lowed by autumn end winter, givo us tho rounded yenr with its budding promise, its ripened fruit, its garnered ram and the en joyment of fruition wlicii tho inclement months lock tho bosom of tho oarth and na ture gics no sign of promise With tiiu winter evenings you must remem ber tho Fakmmi und contribute from tho ex perience of the J ear that is gono your results ond your experiments, Now is tho time to exchange experiences and call out interchange of Wow sand suggestions. Thero me a multi tude of subjects that should receive consider ation and we offer our columns for their dis. etitsion. l!ach ono of you can and should contribute uomcthing of personal experience towards tho common store. All must havo views to express or suggestion to mako on tho aricd themes tl.nt pertain to the wide domain of agriculture. PALL SOWING WHEAT. Wc hear that farmers throughout the val ley, and all over tho Eastern country, are employing every moment to improve tho fav orablo conditions for sowing fall wheat. Ono friend says in his region Willamette Forks thero is ten acres sowed now where there is usually one, and it is much the same in all parts of the State. In many districts the ground is so low that spring sowing has U-ti found rnott profitable, but tho experience of but year has driven them to all efforts to avoid rust. In this they show wisdom) but iu avoiding Scylla they must be careful not to bo wrecked against Cbarybdis, as the old Latins nsed to say. They now are in danger of having their fall wheat, sowed on low ground, winter killed. We have showed that drainage wa needed to mako suro crops, and we now call attention to tlio necessity for opening good main drains or ditches in all low land, and opening good dead furrows to lead into them, A man may not have the means to ditch his land thoroughly, but we believe many of them would make money to tell half their land and use the proceeds to drain the other half. Do what you can, then, to pre. serve your fall wheat from being winter killed, and do as much work as you can in a manner that will be of uie for the permanent draining of the land, so that the labor done this year will not be wasted. Much prairie Und could be made more profitable if it was thrown up in high beds with deep dead fur rows, whieh has been successfully practiced in many instances. Good farming will pay best, and fall wheat must be put in well to insure eu moderato returns. ERROBS. We discover that in some instances wrong statements of account have been sent to sub scribers. Any jierton can tell if the account received is correct by comparing the dates given with the date of the tai. PORTLAND, OREGON, NOV. 7, 1879. THE A8PECT IAST SUMMER. Last summer wo looked upon tho world's prospect for bread crop without daring to an ticipate tho present cituation, and icpcatedly hold to view tho prospect that freights would bo higher alter harvest, as they nro; and tho other fact that tho American wheat crop was unprecrdcntcdly large largo enough wo thought to guarantee that any Kuropcon de ficiency would bo maro than made up by American shipments Then it teemed an im possibility that wheat could go up as it has. Tlio situation in L'ngland, instead of simply buing below an average, is actually deplora ble, and tho wholo contiucnt of Kuropo is moio or less in sympathy with its condition. Under the circumstances, wo felt justified In keeping in view tho probability that wheat would not riso after harvest; and an other nason wo had for to doln was to hin der people from incurring debj on a prospect of largo crops and increased prices. As tho matter has turned out, I.ugland is i tho verge of destitution, and tho world needs all tho American surplus, and more too. Soma lotnplaiu that thry acted on our suggestion and lost money, which of com re, wo regret; but wo had no interest but to keep them faitly advised, nud wo never pictcud to lm ovcrwiie about tho fitturo. If tho Kuglish crop had been Ihrco-rjuartcrs of an average, all wo snid would havo been fully roahrcd. THE CENTRALIZING OF TRADE AND POPULATION. IMitor WilUmotto Farmer! Tho perusal of an articlo from tlio Attoriau in which tho author pi edictcd the great fu ture of Astoria, prophesying that iu tho not rcmoto future it would attain a population of n quarter million, has reminded your corre spondent to notice briefly some of the cen tralizing ofict, cr mibt say freakt, sumed by trade aud population in some parts of tho world, given without prejudice toward tho local poiut named, and only in n spirit of calling attcutian to tho facts as they are found to exist to-day. First, thcu, wo 2nd Astoria well situated at tho mouth of a mighty river, draining one fifth of an entire continent, its front yard has a harbor sufficient to anchor with safety the whole marino of tho 1'acific, and nearly Uie oldest town in tho fitatc, completely over shadowed by l'ortland, located over 100 miles iu tho iuUrior. Hut for this wo sco tho reason claimed that the farther a produ cing country cau bo penetrated towards its center by ocean craft, lit that particular point trado and population will naturally central int. Tho saino thecry is also held to account for tho stupiudous si no and wonderful growth of Loudon, situated ns it is ru the broad and easily navigabh Thames 100 milej from tho sea, Thero all tho elements that tend to cen tralis pcoplo and traffic seem to work m their most pel feet grooves. Indeed Uie iij and rapid growth of this city is fast becoming a wuudor, keeping no proportions with tho tountry, for tho growth of modern L'ngiaud is slow to-day. It is u question then how long this strongly rapid dcvclopcment is to continue. Wo say then that London, outsido of Its capitolian maguctism, owes its wonderful proportions to maritimo peuctratiou of a great productive center. Then how is it withLims, Peru? ltight the reverse, Callao's harbor is tho finest en South America's 1'acific coast. There then should havo risen a great metrop olis as that of San Francisco did on cur coast; yot the fact atauds to-day :hat the whole of a great traffio is tapped at Callao and drawn to Lima, 22 miles inland, and has built there a nourishing place of 10,000 inhabitants. Los Angeles, Cal,, is auothcr example of this kind, situated eight miles from iU port of en try, Santa Monica, it is a business place of 20,000 people, whilst its footstool by the sea presents the most stunted appearance. Many years ago the site of Cairo, at tho mouth of the Ohio river, was selected witli careful judgment as a point that to all hu man appearance was destined to become a great mart of trade, and much money spent there with thst view; but alas, how futile are man's efforts to control the strange gravita tions of trade, Cincinnati sprang up and be came great aboe, whilsta mighty current set in below, out of which has grown the splendid city of St. Ixiuis, leaving Cairo to-day with barely a local importance. Many more places might be pointed to il lustrate the odd freaks of tho not thoroughly understood laws that adjust the centers of trade and population, but ss editors abhor prolixity in anything but subscriber lists, no moro will be quoted to-day, Sa)s Shakes peare, "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will." Does not this seem to be the case when we come to survey tho locations of our great tenters of population and commerce! If we study the Indian history of our nation we find that many of the aboriginal centers existed once whero oars aic found to-day: trade in their caso had but little to do w ith it, but nevertheless sonic strango law collected them in certain localities whero long after wards tho whites congregated for profit and pleasure. Then, what i:cr it is that shapes thcto mat ters has certainly long since decreed that Portland, r.way from the sea upon the dreamy Willamette' banks shall be tho first and only center north of tho (ioldcn Gate. Astoria, to war against this now evident fact, must war against the inevitable. Mio will havo her lumber and her salmon, her government locations and seaside resorts, and will doubt less become a fino city of mainly local notori ety in our own land, and known in the anti podes as holding tho honored position of en trepot through which will ass tho mighty traffis of n forcvcr-destiuid greater city far up tho broud Columbia, F, M, I NMTOcroif, Or., Oct. 2S, IS"!'. Wr. hope to get 1,000 new names on tho list before January 1. Wc ha! 48 additioiix last week, end en the new names. PRICKLY COHFREY. Kditor Willamette Farmers Of thocomfrey, there are several wuiuics in cultivation oue, the "Symphytum eilli cinal,"a native of I'urojtc, mid whtcli l.ai for a Inug timo liecii grown in the gardens as n domestic medicino for coughs and colas; next wo havei "Wild comfrey" or "cynaglot sum Virginicum," indigenous to the United States, t lie leaves of which arc smoked ana said to resemble tobacco; then we havo the- "spot ted comfrey" or "pulmonaria moculata," this also, boicguiedos a elomestie medicine, but has no medicinal virtues worthy of note ; and lastly, v t havo tho "prickly comfrey" or -vmrfcim1, ftjiwrriumui," which is, beyond compare, tlio most valuable fwldcr Lii.t Is cultivation. It is, however, not to bo won elercd at that grcatdiiTcrcncoof opinion arii-M in the minds of many simply because they elo not know what llicy arc talking nliout I Ono man from tho llnteni States, pcrliap, will say, "Oh, wo hai comfrey growing in our garden back lim wliero the women useil to mako a cough medicine of it; it's no account!" - ho is talking about the common IJitojK'au comfrey, eir, jierhapK, the spotted wmfrey, both worthless plant. Again, tome one from tho Southern State will cay, ' 1 know tho comfiey back homos the nler used to nmoko Jt when they had no tobacco; it's no account l"-thit man is talking abaut the wild American comfrcj . Itoth, howevei, ix prci tKisltivu opinions imwliit they really kuuw nothing about. Such, however, is hu man nature, ar.d an exemplification of the ig norant conceit of tho uneducated. The true fodder plant is tho pricLly comfrey of the Caucaiai, nnd with it only will satisfactory results bo obtained. I'.irliei should, there fore, take e-aro to obtain their stud: from some c no who can bo depended uou to gho the true variety, and who knows tho different varities and can distinguish e.im from the other. Tho prickly comfrey, forty years lyu, wos known to tho writer of this article, ami used by him in Furopo as a fodder plant for milch cows, horses and hogs, and it itwoionly brought prominently before tho notice of American culthators in lt77, Su hard is it to convince farmers that there arc better and moro profitable plants and systems of work ing than either they or their fathers beforo them were acquainted with. The prickly comfrey is propagated only by root cuttingi (at least its proiugation by seed is so very precarious and difficult as only to be undertaken by experienced horticultur ists); but from root cuttings it is very easily propagated at all times throughout the year, except when tho ground . actually frotcu. For this purpose, the roots are cut into pieces one inch long, or less, aud buried in wet sand or moist sandy loam, whero they will throw out first callus buds and rents', and, if transplanted into rich soil, will exhibit a growth absolutely attouishing. It should bo planted at least three feet apart each way, and four feet apart would be eveu Utter; and, as it sends down its roots deeply, is in dciendeiit of the drouths. It may bu cut five or six times during the season, which lasts from the earliest spring vegetation until the hard frcsts of mid-winter. Its growth is so rapid and vigorous that I have see-u and measured one-half inch of growth iu one night after cutting, and mine had new- Icatts three inches long in three days from cutting. It will jield per acre, with proper cultivation and manure, twenty Urns of leaves tho first season, fifty tons tho second, tnd from eighty to over one hundred tons of green fodder the third year; and the leaves, if treated by the principle of "tritiUge," cau be kept as preen and sut-;u'.ent fodder all winter. The nutritive matter of the phut u re- ru ft . fliSr Jm-LZ- W&LJ2AaM Vm --a.trr t- t-"" zz - mirkablr, 1). Voelkrrs analyst being na fob low a : litHi In nal C.ikul t'd Sttm In e.'tfrnl't'il iimlttate dry nt.U(.' dry Wntor 88,400 01.74 llcsh formers 2.712 23..17 .r.'.l 1.1.00 Fat formeri. O.SHS .VJ.40 ."..SI 72.40 Ash .... LOW 17.14 .7 14.15 100.000 100.00 100.00 100.00 This weiuld give a producuof natural nutri ment of 20,000 pounds, or equal to 30 torn of best bay or 100 tons of corn fodder per aero; a yield astonishing in itself, nnd far beyond any known fodder crop. Hut to obtain these high results, manure and clean culturo must rrbt bo neglected, as all largo producers are largo factors. Thero is hardly any limit to the amount of manure you can mako it consume, and it welt repays liberal dressing by its increasing yield. This plant being an different iu appearance and smell from othti fodder plants, cattle sometimes at first w ill not touch it, and iu such cases will haw to bu "humored a httlo" just at first, rJtcr which th.n-will prefer it to nil other kinds of feed. In such cases, if Uie cows are found to refuse it when fresh cut, it can simply I left to wilt for a couple of houri, when they will bo induced to try it; or the leavci may be dampened and sprinkled with bran or shorts fur n few tlavs each day, losiening tho quantity of bran till tliyy taku to it plain, win u they will he like tlio Irish emigrant who has fur the first tiinu teen or tasted a watermelon or tomato, pud will not require much coaing "to try it again when he gets in a guod patch," So with the milch crws and the comfrey. As the KatUui seeds men nro offering tlio roots nt high pricc-H, tin principled parties will endeavor to palm off tun worthless varieties upon tho ignorant. 1 would, therefore, add. that the plants grow u by Dr. Thornton, ei( Frccpoit, Washington Territory, whose advertisement upiivars em another. juko it this paper, are claimed by him to bo tub tri.o Caueneiati varisty of prickly coinfrcy ono bundled cuttings can be so tr.nltipiied us to mako 4,000 plants, cr enough for one ncru beforo the end of the first season, ns if root cuttings arc ob tained now. anil planted nut in good soil they may be taken tip iu April or May and cut up into pieces onu inch long, or even leu, and replanted, when they can again bo taken up and cut up iu July, and so on in September and November. Wlllometto University. rq caking of tho oficr made by tho Method ist Conference to give Uie Academy block, IVrtlaud, tn aid tliu endowment of this insti tution, the statesman raysi la order to re euro this nirer, 2 1'-', MX) mutt bo raised by tho friends cf tho University, whieh, toguthor witli tho proceeds cf tlio salu rf tho l'ortland block, shall constitute nn irrcduciblo endow iiicnl fund, only tho iiicomu from which can boused. This will t-ecuro tho future of tho University forever. Without nn endowment fund n university can long surviro and Wil lamette University has no such fund that yields an income. Miall Salem permit this mnjniflcent opportuuity to gu bj, and leave it an opcu tpicstion whether the university, in order to succeed financially, must not bo trans ferred to some other locality, where larger means can be commanded! Much as some of tho citizens of Salem havo elone in tho post for it, wo are certain tho community will servo its own interest richly by liberal con tributions toward raising tho required JI'.V X). 69,000,000 Bushels Short. Tlio possible price of wheat before the next crop U harvested may bo judged from the fob lowing facts; Furore, South America and the West Indiee requiro 283,000,000 bushels of grain moro than they have produced. Tho estimated yield of the United States is 443, 000,000 bushels; tho home demand fur food and seed, 270,000,000 bushels; tho surplus for export, 173,000,000 bushels, After nil this vast quantity has Uin suit abroad there will still bo a deficit iu the world's supply t the extent of 1 10,000,000 bushels, lUtiina tin that Canada, Chile, L'tnciia, India ind Australia can spare .11,000,000 bushels, there will still be an ubsoluto deficit of 0,000,000 bushels, which can only be met by descrcwed consumption. Fuhel & Roberts. 'I iiis firm have an immense establishment at the comer of First and Alder streets, this city, where they can supply gentlemen visit, ini; this rity with every article of ilrens goods needed for a gentleman's wardrobe, to include every variety of underwear, clothing, hats and caps and l.oiicry, and suits guaranteed to be a irfct fit will bo made to order. This will be intcrcstii'g news to our joung friends contemplating matrimony, or who want a "perfect tit" to elo the social events of the comitf .eaw, TEMIB OF SUHSOBIPTION- nil ortiti Tin Willamotto Farmer, Wfie.1 paid In advance, ai the low rile ol sa.OO Xcr Annum. 3T With the added expense of an en. Urged Issue we cannot afford Uie paper without pre pairnental lets than U'82,OO.VI lUnattor our ImaiUVIs oliarye llt I Q.OO v Yoar! IXVAaUBLT TIN ADVANOMf'tt NO. '38. NORTHWESTERN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The Northwestern Horticultural Society met in tho Council Chamber, on Saturday, Nov. 1st. Iu tho nbsenceof Fre-sidcnt Luclliug, Vice Frcsidcnt Walling took the chair, and W. 8. Failing was elected Secretary protcni. Owing ton surfeit of Fair or tome causa un known to thoieo present, tho nttendanoo wait not large, but great interest was taken by those present. The regular order of business! was disposed of. Tlio Commilteo in ehargo of tho Horticultural Exhibit, at Mcchanica' Fair, reported through Mr. Hnuson, who presented bills for payment of expenses of exhibit, and they were ordered paid. Presi dent Luclling scut tomo Japanese persim mons, nearly ripe, and line looking, nud also some seedling pears, which were very line. They were larger than the Scckol, juicy nnd rich, and in flavor resembling tho Seckcl aud Winter Nellie, two of the best pears in use. It will be sn acquisition to tlio fruit grower, and deserves a name nud place in tho Nursery man's Catalogue. A general talk was lad on tlio importance of growers leaving more atten tion to producing seedlings of different kinds of fruit, as soinu of these produced are of tlio finost quality. Adjoin lied to meet ajiain ou first Saturday of December, when n larger attendance it cxptcted ; and also nil exhibit of fruit; und if every eitio who comes will bring a few peciir.cn, (lie show veil! hequito interesting. How U Thiol A We-at (Jhuhnlem coireioiideiit ol the I.a favitte Courier savs i The people of this val ley who have hauled their wheat to the river and stored it iu the ltogers warehouse, aro very much chagrined nliout tho way tho Ore gon City Mill Company ure doing. This com pany, last harvest, let out wheat sacks freo of charge to f tvrintrs, condltlcued they would sell their wheat to them, promlsizitig at the-tiW. to give l'ortland prices fur whrnt. Hut up to this timo they hnvu not done e, and refuse) to buy only small quantities at n timo. They have shipped off tho licit wheat to Oregon City aud now tell tho farmers if they sell to other buyers they can only replace their wheat witli tho inferior quality left in tho warehouse here. This is certainly a great imposition ou the jfoplo of this valley that tlio greater portion of us will havo tn stand this year, x.i li.ipn. Uut let that company re member that Chuhalem rau 1 e bull-dored but once- -only onco in the saiuu way. Successful Forming. Mr, Wm. Ilciiklc, becoming tired of city lib-, bought tho Henry place, adjoining tho city. Although a small place, not more than thirty acres, pcrhajm, Mr. Hcnklo is making it very productive, by farming it right. Ijui week wii noticed a squash from his garden, at II. 1 Harris' store, weighing 82 pounds. IC it is as good iu proportion to its size as somu nf tho smaller ones we- taited, it can't be beat on tho coast. Mrs, II. teems rwrfuctly at home, as she can raise her chickour, ducks, pigs, etc., make her own butter, and enjoy all tho advantages of a happy farmer's w ife-, w hilo only about ten minutot' ridu from tho busy hum of the city. They are nicely located in their old days. Their big farm, tight mile distaut, was too far from town to suit them. ICunnllis Oaette. John Hughes, Salem. Thiswtll known merchant has an txtuuiivo trade in groceries aud provisions, oils ami sj-iiuts, aud many other goods named in his advertisement, which uppcars this week, Jf you wish to be convinced that Salem mer chants are up to the time, just call ou any of those who advertise in tho Faiiums, ami you will diieovcr that they aio ou hand with liberal views aud good bargains, Mr. Uiiglicn has a large stock, and docs a large business with men who have been his regular custom- era for yearn. Nursery for Balo. As will be seen by e,ur advertising columns .Mr. hcth Luclliug, proprietor of tlio well l.iiortii Milivauklu r.uiscry, which has ru ex cellent reputation audiatwivculeiitlv located, ofieis bit entire nursery for sale. 'J Uv death of his son, who took the. active management of thu nuisery business in Ms own bunds, has caused Mr. Luelling to come teithisdutermin- atiou and wo have reason to suppose-' tl.at bo will makti a liberal offer ts any suitable pur. chaser. trance Election. Saum, Or., Nov. o, ij'J. The elee tion of otlceri cf Marion County I'onoina, Crjiijfc, fur the ensuing jcar, will bo Lehl at tlio (Jraiijju Hall, iu Salem, Friday, 14th iut., at II tc'ick A, v. I.'. Stkono, Sec'y. K