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VOL.. XL
PROSPECTUS FOR 1880!
Tho Willamette Faumku will soon cuter
on its Twr.Lrcn Yicak ov 1'unncATioN under
moro lavorablo assurances ot popular suport
than it lias cvor had, and ablo to do bettor
work than ovor it has done.
WHAT FHIEN'DS SAY,
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ance o( popular appreciation. Men wo havo
novor icen, but well known to u upon our
liat of subscribers, como to ico in and pay
their dues with expressions o( good will and
lromlo of influential support for "tho boat
paper InOregon." Notadaypuses that we are
not told by frionda that tboy and their neigh
bor valuo the Willamette Faumrr for ita
.sturdy independence of tono, its sincere de
votion to tho interest of producer!, ill good
aonto and good morala and ita correct roporta
of tho market. It la concoded that soother
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mercial statement..
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VHIAT UK CAM TO EXTRND Otm CHICULATION.
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of this busiiicrs, and they bavo demonstrated
tlut wo have tho ability to mako n good now
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OB.JliOTS IN VlliW.
Tho objects we hare in viow can bo briefly
otpressod as follows t
Tho WlLLAMinTK KAltMiut is published in
tho intorcst of agriculture ill the Btata of Ore
gon and Washington Territory.
editorially.
Us editorial columns givo a roviow of home
and foreign markets from tho producers
standpoint! odrocato his intorejrU rtftainst tlio
world, and hav xitvutt "dm.'J'ad miALi
WKVKIl BK8WATK0 Br MOMxr INTI'.llWTtl.
tiorrrwpoBMoncB. ,
Wo havo corrrspondonco from all parts ol
tho country, from well known farmers, and
this paper is especially tho medium through
which farmers mako know n tlair experience
and stato their viows.
Wows, , i ,
As many tako no other paper and depend
on tho FAlumi for news wu givo all tho Im
portant dispatches from abroad received up
to noon Thursday, at which tirco tho paper
j;oca to press, and tho State and Territorial
now a is compiled in full by tho editor himself.
Wo pay especial attention to all that re
lates to tho development of tho lic!fio North
went OTcry part of it. No paper in Tort
I tnd publishes fullor detaila of all that rotates
t tho material prosperity of thia region.
IlIIK IIOMK OIItOL.13.
Wo publish choico miscellaneous reading
relating to farming iukrests and other mat
ters. Last, but not least, tin IIomx Cirulk is
carefully edited in behalf of domestic affairs
;nd is especially liked by tho wives and
daughters of our subscribers.
Tho Fahhkk is always on tho oido of gooil
govommeut, good morals and good religion,
.ud exercises what influences it possesses with
constant remembranco of rcsponsiliility for itii
right use
w aim man.
Until tho firut of January wo offer a yetrs
subscription to any jierson who will send us
three new names aud $0, money. This aub
soription can either pay back dues of an old
subscriber or for the year to como for a new
one.
CASH IN ADVANCE.
Wo havo reduced tho price of tho paper to
Two Dollars, invariably ik AUVAWcr. The
credit system has proved disastrous to many
and we havo tried it until our list shows
!$(5,000 duo us. A thousand subscribers owe
us for ono year and hundreds owe us from two
to five years. Wo prefer to take less and get
it, aud have less trouble than we en luro now
from this sourcn.
TO VICTIMS OF RUST.
The past year liai been very hard on some
- indeed on many who have lost entire crops
by nut, and even the newspaper bill worries
them, but they will be all right in the future.
Iu such cases we feel inclined to mako easy
terms for the put and allow their to com
mence anew by paying 8'- for tho iar 1SS0.
Wo need all that is duo us. but in caso any
person has lost a crop and is embarrassed, our
proposition is that they go to our agent, givo
.i due-bill tor w'18 portion they cannot meet
just now, and pay ?2 Ia advance for I8S0.
Vo-ne owa for several years but havo been
struck by rnst, and wo Icavo t to their
honor to do fairly by us. We waut to keep
all our old friends wul give them all needed
Uvoraif they happen to bo tensporanly oat
of luck.
' a TrWiyf wmztz). m m v m aimw-rraas'iynvywvi mpm. m mrn. m rssiv.sii-55fy la
llliil I. Cr;S5KOT.DBK3. ttfiTV .T VXJTaJ
THE NEW YEAR.
Tho present issuo of tho Faumkii uthers In
tho now year, and with It wo oxtend our licst
wishos to all our readers aud hopes for their
contiuuod health nnd prosperity. Tko years
roll on and lcavo ua only anticipation and re
trospect. Tho futuro is beforo cs, and con
slits of tho unknown and tho unknowable
tho past tells us of somo successes achiovod,
many bopon doforrod nnd prospoct blighted.
Much that wo havo labored for has failed, and
as wo learn to plan for tho futuro from tho
oxperienco of tho past, tho years bring weak
ness and decay as well as wisdom, and wo
pans away with our hopes unfilled and our
plans unexecuted, leaving thoso who como
after 111 to gain their own experience, labor
for Impossibilities and pau away beforo
achievement can bo attained.
Nevertheless, tho futuro conies to us her
alded with hoj!s. Wo havo much causo for
satisfaction, oven with tho uncertain past, for
few region on tho earth havo so many actual
blessings and reasonablo onjoymonts. Look
ing forward, wo may reasonably expect more
than usual prosperity for 1830. Already tho
Fall sown wheat is crowing and covors far
more J than tho usual acreage. Tho prospect
for tho producer is good in ovcry partioular.
Tho movements of trade denoto general pros
perity through tho olvilitcd w orld,aud when all
tho laborers are earning good wages and all tho
industries aro actlvoly engaged in manufac
turing, as now, tho anticipation Is well found
ed that agriculture will prosper in all its
brandies. Huch w ill no doubt bo tho caso
with tho North Pacific region. Whoat grow
ers enn safely plow and sow to raiso all thoy
can to ndautago and uxpect n fair price.
Wool growers can anticijuito an activo mar
hot and good demand. Tho stock IntcrooUi
will thrivo when all others dp, aud in all tho
varied branohes of agriculture our pcopla can
oxpoct to bo reasonably favored.
For all thoso reasons it is with tnoro than
common earnestness that wo wish all tho
friends of tho Faiimkh a Hawt Nkw haii.
PROSPEROUS TIMES.
Our country has cnUrcd upon a csroorof
unusual prosperity. There will bo less of
tho tramp nuisance, becauso all working
men can f.nd employment aud there will lie
loss oxcuto for Idleness. Kvoryw hero cotton,
woolen and iron manufactories aro running
on full time, and prices havo already advan
ced about ns much as ia ncccsiary for tho
labor market to bo prosiorous and quite t
much m is healthy for tho consumer. Wo
havo for a number of years experienced
"hard timos," both in relation to.manufao
toring and agricultural interests, factories
havo iu many instances closed and in othora
run on short time so that distress has pre
vailed among laboring people, nnd at she
mmo time tho farmers of tho West havo had
hard times to mako their way and hold their
own.
This revival of trado put tho unemployed
to work and gives letter wages to those who
weroatwork. Tho products of agriculture
respond to tho impulse of business; cotton
aud wool aro at a good price and breadstufls
aro advanced so that thr farming interests of
tho United Stitcs aro reasonably prosperous.
There is ovory prospect that this favorablo
stato of things will last another yoar nnd
many predict a term of years ot prosjierity.
It is a study to watch tho courso of events
aud see how tho financial world becomes
excited and goes craty, ns lias been the caso
lately when stock operators in New York
put up a game that netted them millions at
the expense of the public. There is a gam
bling propensity that must show itself con
tinually in human affairs, but it is unhealthy,
and were it not for its exerciso wo might look
for moro permanent prosperity.
The present time of prosperity may con
tinue awhile but cannot bo permanent if half
tho schemes now laid ore carried out. Tho
railroad builders aro scheming to construct
roads everywhere, nnd wo shall havo our
share in Oregon and Washington Tcrritoiy,
It is probable that the work dono here will
be remunerative to tho builders, for there is
a new region to open up that will be pro
ductive front tho start, but tho chances are
that railroad building and manufacturing
will soon be overdone and when tho present
fever is c.T tho country will be left weak and
unallo to pay for tho reads or to mako us? of
theoter&tock of manufactured goods. This
is tho condition wo have Just rccocred frcm,
aud tho lesson taught is simply this: Fix
matters so that when deprcssiuu comts, as it
assuredly will, you ccn get along without
embarrassment.
Tho building of railro&tb makes prosfcr
or.s times, and v.e shall tco good effects frsin
tho bjilding of tho road, projected for Ore
gon and Washiugton. Tho buildirg of the
roads will open op a rich country for settle-
PORTLAND, OREGON, JAN. 3, 1SS0.
ment aud will induco immigration from
abroad. Tho revival of business at tho Knst
will help farmers there and give a valuo to
land that will onablo many, who nro intend
ing to remove tn this region, to sell their
property and movo here, who havo not here
tofore been nolo to dispose of their interest
bock there nnd movo away. Tho return ot
prosperous timos then will bo opt to bo
sensibly folt by tit.
If tho building up of all other interests
shall induco manufacturers to commence
manufacturing among us that will bo tho
most necessary thing for our prosperous
faturo. Wo can raise breadstuff and sond
abroad, but that is a slim reliance a wo bavo
to tako what tho world abroad will offer us,
but tho establishment of manufacturing in
dustries among us will givo us tho best as
surauoo wo can havo of n prosperous futuro,
Whatovor wo hear of revival of prosperous
times wo may as well maanagtj with all
prudence to tako adantago of them and not
forget that such excitement as we road of is
not tho healthiest sign ot prosperity. There
Is always an evil day in tho not far off futuro.
The Theory of Liver Fluko.
Ivditor Witiamctto Farmert
In last week's FAitMKn I noticod au artlclo
from Dr. J. 1. P. Van Den liorg on tho liver
flukoi while I do notwisli to dotract anything
from tho Doctor' very excellent and scien
tific nrticlo, as it embraces everything that is
necessary for tho prevention nnd treatment of
animals affected w ilh fluko, 1 cannot agrco
with his ideas regarding tho development of
tho fluko. lloaaysi "If a aheop is afflicted
with fluko it passes almost daily mature fluko
ovas, eggs or embryo, which fall on tho
graaseH, and other stock food thereon, or
they may bo transferred by the wind into tho
water tboy driuk thoy may also become in
fected by inhaling tho nir; tho egg aro light
enough to float in tho atmosphere; in this way
human being becomo infected with tho liver
fluke," which I entirely erroneous) there ro
to parishes which inhabit tho gall dints,
tho pasclola uepatcca and distomum lanceolt J
turn, the ojjgs ot theso parasites cannot bo
dovolocd there, but passe out with tho bile
and f.i'cea and hatch in pools of fresh water,
in which tho ombrys floats until it And a
mellusk or somo aquatic insect in which it
tnrjsta itself and becomes a brood caprulo) it
oiospcs from tho molluak or insect to herbage
Iu moist places, or water, nnd is taken into
tho stomach of tho nuimal with it food or
drink, and finds it way into tho liver through
tho gull dulcts. It is a well known fact that
animals kept on dry laud aro not subject to
fluke, which shows plainly that they are not
infected by iuhaling the cgi, neither from
eating tho oggs with tho herbage. It has also
bocn proven that healthy sheep can bo kept
with infected ones on dry land and not be
como infected. Tho development of tho eggs
into flukes can only tako place in truth water
and in frosh water insects, which point to
thorough drainage as tho most uflicicntincsn
ot limiting tho ravages ot tho parasito.
Jamih WirUYOOMDK, V. ,S.
1'autmmi, Oregon.
Agrees With Lorain.
LanjiCo., Oregon, Dec. til, 1879.
Ivlitor Willamette I'nrmeri
It scorns that your Yamhill correspondent,
who appropriately sigus hiimolf "Ilandom,"
lias fired somo random shots at tho facts set
forth in the correspondence of "Loraiuo,"
Now, the writor of this doe not know
"Loraine," except through his writing, in
the Faumer, and I havo no doubt, from what
I have heard from him, that bo is abundantly
able to tako care of himself, llut I only wish
to verify some of the argument of "!oraino"
as regards tho farming community iu Lane.
What ho says of tho farmers of Clackanus
county i true ot many in Lane.
During a residence of 25 years on a farm in
this country, I have observer! that where one
farmer has improved his eonditiou pecuni
arily, twenty have not. And I hao also
observed that a majority ot fanners aro in
dustrious, economical ami sober, nod havo an
average amount ot intelligence, though they
do not all know of tho million ot acre of
avallablo lands of tho richness described by
our brainy friend. But I know that many of
tho best farms In Ijiio county aro spotted
with mortgages which aro drawing interest at
a rato that defies both musclo and brains.
In conversation with an intelligent farmer,
tho other day, who psy SI SO taxo, I was
not much surprised to hear tho remark that
he inado only a simple living and no more.
Then, if this Is tho condition of those who
pay taxes to tho abovo amount, what must
bo tho condition of thow whs are in debt
and have rather poor furies t
Now, Mr. Kditor, I should like to iutcrro
gito cur ULLnoun friend (with a eupcraband-
anco ot briins) on socio point of interest to
us farmers, who ho seem to think havo nones
If farming in Oregon is such a pmfitablo busi
ness, why is thero no aalo for farms at pros
,ent? If firming pays, why docs not somo of
"Random's" friends invest iu farms, nnd with
their brain mako farming so profitable that
somo of thoso who havo farms and no brains
can sell their rich lands to pay their debts ?
Hut all the evidence tint is required to provo
that farming in Oregon do not generally
pay is th.i stvbborn fact that farms are below
pa.", in fact there are' no sale scarcely of
farm in this county now except to satisfy
tho demands of tho mortgagee
Will Mr. "Random" exercise hrs maaslvo
brain a little and toll us what It costs to raiso
a bushel of wheat on avsrago lands in tho
Willamette valloy t Then tell us tho cost of
marketing, keeping up the fertility of tho
soil and required fonoing ot lands. After
summing tip theso trilling expenses, ploaso
tall us what aro tho net profits. If your esti
mates aro oncoursging, doubtless somo people
with brains will desire to engago in fanning,
nnd so creato a dsmand for our rich lands
that are now under tho Influcnco ef bears.
The tacts in tho caso are in favor of " Lo
ralne." While his picture may bo a little
vordravu iu noma rcspaot, in tho main it i
too true.
And whilo on tho subject ot tanning, Mr.
Kditor, oxciiso mo for interrogating that
would-bo dictatorial lloaril of Trado who
honor your oily 1 Somo ot us would liko to
ask them politely who thoy nre, and from
w bonce have they derived tho authority to
undcrtsko to exclude all but tho most superior
quality ot whoat from shipment to Kiiropcan
markots? I whoat which will weigh tho re
quired numbor ot pounds to constltuto a
bushel according to tho laws of tho Stato to
bo excluded from tho market to satisfy tho
whims of a taw individuals who assume to
know all tho wauts of tho .Stato ? Are fann
er to be deprived of tho ability to pay their
debt with their whoat on account of tho
aetinot this Hoard t Wo know that good
wt.oi , such as would havo gone readily into
matUV, bad it not been for tho action of tho
Hoard of Trado Ire I'oiiland. hw been forcod
into aale at not moro than two-thlrds-it.
valuo to satisfy tho demands of creditors,
because wheat merchant would not handle
condemned wheat. Wo know of a farmer
who borrowed money to pay bis store bill
when hu bad good whoat iu tho samo mer
chant' warehouse that hu was owing. Rut
it would not pay debts on account of tho
action of this board of publio beneficiaries.
It ucoins that wo farmer aro des ro 1 to
understand that the great commercial inter
ests of 1'ortland demand that nonu but tho
plumpc.it quality of white wheat Hhould bo
oxportod for John Hull's peoplo to cat. And
should wo farmers bo guilty of raising in tho
futuro wheat that is either shrunken or
mated, wo will merit nu application of this
Hoard's boots, sir, and our trado with John
Hull will bo burstcd. Hut their effort to
establish tho highest standard for our wheat
iu tho l'uropcan market by excluding all but
tho best i. a delusion. There is 110 profit to
tho producor in bending nil hi energie to
fino wheat for export. Ho is simply shipping
tho cream of his sil and getting nothing for
it of account abovo tho cost of production,
aud has no prospects of getting as long as
transportation has tho power and inclination
to nb.orb all tho profits.
It would bo much more pleasant to draw a
brighter picture of farm life in Oregon, but I
do not beliovo that fact will warrant it )
aud in order to apply tho proper remedies wo
must understand tho nature of our ditoiao.
Wo will arrive ut tho fact by investigation.
OlUEUVKlt,
Turner items.
ToiihKK, Oregon, Dec. 27, lb7'J.
Editor Willamette Fanner:
The snow has gone off and tho average
Webfojt is happier than he was. Our town
i dull and wet, but business is dry, Tho
Sunday .School will give an entertainment on
tho 30th iutt., and that ' tho only ripplo nn
tho surface. Durinjj tho cold spell it is slid
tho whisky hero froio up, and it was ret-iiled
in chunks mid sticks, like candy. One party
is said to havn taken his to bed with him to
keep it from frccriiig took it iucido of him.
You tea bow hrrd 1 liivo strained to givo you
somo lien. items. M,
Good Words.
A friend write from Linn county : "I
shall send you somo more subioriber after
tho holidays. Tho F.w;Mi:r. is griming in
favor every day with thoso that rial it. Ycu
aro making n, good paper, and you w ill 1 o re
warded in tho near futuro."
Another friend vrito from Clackamas
county 1 "I shall try to gut up a club. I am
very much attached to tliuFAitusi:. It hall
the paper I taLoorcsrcforatni I dcu't intend
to lose it."
wi ifyuutxiuw mmt ' eiroryuiu nat' wargBP-
Moro Plain Talk.
Kditor Willamette Farmer!
I noticed an articlo in tho Faiimkh of Do-
comber 12th from a correspondent in Clack
amas county, entitled "l'lain Talk," in which
tho writor conveys the impression that tho
fanners ot this county aro bankrupt. I doubt
not Iioraino has been traveling in somo por
tion ot tho county whore somo settlers havo
milked the old roan cow for twenty years,
sowed tho same Held in wheat and oats for
that length ot timo, thereby impoverishing
tho field and the cow grows 110 fatter, and
they think Oregon aud Washington Territory
like tho Knglishman's owl, n, big nothing and
exceedingly poor at that. Now that portion
of tho county which seems so mu.h distressed
I in nocd ot somo ood working Orange in
which Loraino and other practical laborers
might suggest various modos of improvement.
I have residod in tho western part of Clack
amas county tho greater portion ot tho but
twenty-eight year and havo bocn ablo to
note tho continual progress of Its citixens.
Most of our farmers are thrifty and indopond
ent, many ot whom havo not spent moro than
ten year in making for thomselvea and fami
lies a comfortablo homo) somo aro financially
poor, always havo been so, aud tho probabili
ty i If thoy bad a good farm given to thorn
they would bo roduoed to ono cow and a
heavy storo bill in flvo years. I bavo asked
nomo of that class to subscribo for tho Faii
mkh. Answcri "Inm too poor," Well, sign
for omo other agricultural paper. Answer!
"I havo no timo to road," and doubtless If
thoy had been asked to cstimato tho coat of
raising an acre of grain they would havo re
plied, "I have no timo." This imaginary
lack of timo is, I apprehend, 0110 causo of
their complaint. Tbo inerclianU, steamboat
men and mcchanios of whom ho speaks, havo
bocn obliged to study as well as work. To
mako our farmers do this is ono object of tho
Orange.
Too many of us wear out our muscle whilo
our mind lay dormant, whereas a propor cul
tivation ot tho mental faculties would groatly
facilitate tho labor ot tho hand. If wo should
moot once a month, exchange ideas and each
jearn the oxperienco of his brother we Hhould
oon behold a marked improvement in tho
condition ot tho farrnors'lliroughoul our Stato.
Tho land iu Clackamas county is generally
good. Wheat averages 1)0 cent to $1 por
per bushel, oat lO to CO cents, potatoc .TO to
CO tents, with good management tho land
will yield a fair profit per aac, ami of courso
a mau must have acre in proportion to his
demauds. Our rolling land produces excel
lent clover, which is a finu fertilizer. Itmiiat
necessarily bo cut early, thereby killing tho
fern in two or threu years. The third year
it should bo pastured, then plowed and sown
to whoat. In this way wu can impruvo ex
hausted fields, aud it will not require a great
many acres fallowed with tlover to support u
reasonable family and moro than nuo cow, and
tho farmer will learn and be ablo to trade
where hu can get tho lient bargains, that bo
may not bo imposed iijioii by a single mer
chant, who know ho must wait two or three
year for bis pay.
As a general nilo nine hours a day for a
man and team each day ia sufficient, and in
stead of toiling from daylight until daitt lot
u devote an hour morning, noon and night to
study, and at tho end iT tho yoar I beliovo
we shall find ourselves happior, healthier,
wealthier and wiser for so doing. Wu can
know what work is to Ih dona the following
day, weok or month, and have tho tools in
order, and tho most speedy w ay planned out to
accomplish it, without any unnecessary d lay
or wasto of time.
Last year having n field in bad condition
(tho last crop having been almost a failure) I
concluded to try another experiment; I
stacked tho grain taken from twice the
amount of laud in tho center of the licld and
at thicshing timo scattered the straw over
tho entire field, then in the Fall ploughed it
under from ten to twelve inches; 111 the
Spring I gave it a shallow ploughing and
sotted it to wheat, from which I threshed
twenty-throe bushels por aero,
Wo all agree with Iratno that our piwrnnt
rato of taxation is beyond endurance. Is
there no remedy for the growing evil? I think
Uiu cxpeuu-s of our courts might be reduced
by preventing so many appeals taken from
tho Jutticu Court at the ox pernio of tho coun
ty, and by piiuuhiiig nil n.tty larcsny in n
different manner than by Uiarilnig them six
months awaiting thu regular term of court.
If farn era would devote n.oro time to tho iu
vnstigution ol county vofpuutiw, and our laws,
might there not be lea vaiisflfurcompl.iii.tl
Ia:1 iu hoar fiom cxpuriciitod farmer 011 all
points taleulatod to interest and benefit our
otvu class cf citiruu. II. '. II.
Srvmrni), Doc. 23, Ib7'J.
ScbKT.ms for the Wii-uucri J I-'akmbk.
Willamette Farmer.
When nil J In atlranco, at Uio low rat. o
80.00 Tor Annum.
t3T With Uio added expento c( an n
Urged limo wo cannot afford Uio ptpet
without pro papnent at Ion than
n-SB.oo.'n
Ilcrcatloc our InraiUblo ohargo will bo
2.00 a. "S"otl-t
imaixstr
TIN ADVANCE fC
NO. 40.
From Loraino.
Kditor Willamette Farmert
Your correspondent from Hillsboru, "Jona
than Cut and Como Again," (tho namo is too
long) complains that I did not suggest a causo
or euro. Now that Jonathan has askod indi
rectly for a causo and cure, I will tell him a.
few of tho many causes that mako theso far
mers complain, that I represent. I am satis
fiod that theso mon are to blamo in somo re
spects, and in other they aro not. Tho use
of tobacco is ono causo of 1 "I haro no money,"
Kvoty man that uses tho wcod will consume)
on an avorago 82.5 worth ot tobacco in a yoar,
aud I know ot mon that pay 8-10 por year for
tobacco. I havo no figures of tho import ot
tobacco, but I think that it would bo safo to
say there aro not less than 300,000 pounds ot
tobacco consumed iu this State, which repre
sent so mauy dollar gone; lost forever to tho
mon that will uso tho vlto wood, that tend to
dopravo their appetite; money spent that will
do no good. Tho rovcuuo on tobacco ii moro
than $25,000,000. Again, tho uso of intoxi
cating liquor is another causo tlutt "I havo
no money," This is one of the monster ot
tho land, that wo should handlo without
gloves. Tho liquor trafllo ot tho United State
is immense. I menu that tho liquor that la
actually swallowod amount to tho turn ot
$350,000,000 an imnunsesum. Think of it!
Again, nearly everybody uses tea; we im
port it at a cost of $20,000,003 yearly. Now
then, here nro tbroo Horn that represent
nearly $300,000,000 that ha dono us no good
whatovcr. It has dono us no good bocauto
tho pooplo have paid it out and tho monoy ha
found it way to tho coffers of tho money lend
er. Honco we fool tho absence ot tho cblak
of a dollar or two. Tho money paid for tho
items abovo would mako this country blos
som like tho 1 01c, If spent on our farms.
Would it not t
There aro many other itoms that might bo
mentioned. Tho liondod debt of the United
fitatestheSO,000,OOOwepayinterotonUiat
is unconstitutional. Tho asing of 00 por cent,
ot cotton in woolen goods. Tho adulteration
of sugar, coffee, tea, syrup, etc. Ia it straajr)
that the averagd farmer should say some
thing? Oan't wo mako our own good on our
loom at borne? I think wo can, and vote for
principle too, 'a tw movo aloug In our every
day lifo. Let us n farmer pronuso osib
other as farmers that wo will not mako use ot
anything that docs not tend to promote
health and prosperity,
Thero I 110 uso of cnos self becoming at
slave to tho uso of any evil. Tho euro I to
farm intelligently. Do not road three or four
agricultural paper and study over it till your
head nchei, but practice what you read, Da
not mako wheat n specialty; neither tho rait
ing of clover, or grass, but follow mixed fann
ing and save tho fragment of tho farm. Al
low nothing to go to wasto. A. Ilydosayss
"Tho income from tho farm Is not from n largo
stream, quick and violent, a-i Johnson calls it,
but from a miiltitudo t littlo rills, all lit
which need attention, and if, at any time,
there is a miiltitudo of leak the farmer' pond
may never fill up. It may seem a very small
matter to gather tip fragment, and theso
fragments may bo insignificant considered in
dividually, but, as the .Scottish proverb has
it, "many n mieklo mako a iiiucklr," A mill
iu a small fraction of a dollar, and singly is so
insignificant that it if not reprerrntod in coin
nr currency, but mills multiplied make a for
tune, Haid a broker who understood tho
valuu of fragment! "If I had tho sixteenth
of one per oent. of all tho money that pssc
through my hands I should have a pile,' A
neighbor who tho past fltimmcr visited tlto
western world for tho first timo, caino In
a few day since to toll 11 tho wonder he had
seem "I havo seen," said he, "coin fields of
a thousand acre, and wheat fields so largo
that the sun seemed to rise and set iu the
same field, and still tho farmer did not bavo
koinauy Lomfoit. of lifo around thorn as wo
lavu at tho l!at. They waited enough ovcry
year lo make a Yankee farmer comfortablo."
There it is; economy should bo our watch
wcul, and keep a hawk's eju 011 our finances,
both individual and national,
Du'.vi!Xi: 2.', I87D. Loumnk.
Rnilrcad Nursery.
Tho advcrtiriiiictt of II. W. Pretty man,
of Kant Portland, is woithy cl attention.
Tlio llnilroad tturtcry ha a well established
reputation, fur, though not thu oldest man in
tlio business, Mr. I'leltyinnii bn Lttu sua
restful in prnpigatli.g good trees. Hois in
the inarl.et n(T.'n vtith n full 11 soi Intent, nnd
you can lead hi ndte'itisemct lu this issue,
or send to hint for diMirintivo catalogue.
Dmu. IWifboi 2th. 1.70, ct l.rr res
dui on I'Mity Hill, r!lr. Of011, Mr,
tlitnum MNlul,nl, r.i;tMl 30 yun, Thu
f iiMfsd neiMionhM took plc from thu ttt.
JolmV liitholio Ommh 111 that city, on
Dfoci. ber t'Oth. lumlfsi.U l rptr please
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