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a I VOL. XIII. i PREMIUMS AT LINN COUNTY FAIR. (LAS I Cattle. A, S. Powell took following premiums: 'irst for Halstcin cow, 3 years olil ; graded icifcr, one year old; calf, ilitto; cow and calf ded. A. Wolverton, calf, first premium. class 2 HorieA. K. M. Doelelc, first premium fc.i each: Draft stallion, 3 years old; colt ditto ; graded ttallion, 3 years old; graded marc, 4 years old. Wm. Ryalls; fiist premium for diaft stallion ti years old, and draft colt. John Luper, giaded colt, filBt. Andrew HigTit, graded marc 2 jcars old, i second. J. P. Worth, draft stallion, 4 years old, trcon 1. Geo. MiiKniriit, diaft stallion, 4 yeaisold, first. O. M. Coffoy, draft stallion, 3 jcais old, second. roseph Lilc, giaded mate, 2 )eaiso)d,first. T. J. Edmondson. stallion Wide Awake. all work, 4 years old, first; grado'colt, second; ! stallion and fivo'oflils colts, first. Wm. Townsend took first -premiums for: i. Stallion, 3 years old, grade; ditto 2 yeais old; ditto 1 year old; grade mare, 1 year old; draft ( mare, 4 jears old; marc and family of 4 colts. I. R. Sawyer, first for span of roadsters, utd second for stallion 4 years old. C. 0. Barnes, span of roadsters, second. A. Hacklemnn, mare 4 years old, first, w i-i Abheep, Thomas Fioman took first premiums foi American merinos: Duck 2 years old, buck lamb, ewe 2 years old, ewe lamb, ewe 1 ycai old. French merinos: Buck lamb, second. French merinos: Buck 2 years old, wo l ear, ewo of any breed for wool, buck of nny breed w ith 3 lambs. C. P. Burkhait first lor I lencli nienno '.buck 2jeais old, buck 1 year old, buck lamb, buck of any breed with 5 lambs. D. M. Guthrie, first and second for Now Oifoidshiro bucks 2 years old; first and sec ond for flei.ee of wool; first for buck of any breed for w ool. Nimtod Price, liist for Spanish mcrmo ue years old. cuss fl Suine. Geoigo Hughes, giaded hoai 1 )ear old, ttOSOW. W. K. Pi ice, first for littci of Berkshires, ir boar 0 months old, for cross breed sow li lonths old; and second for sweepstakes for of any bleed; ditto for boar. Custer second for cross breed boar 0 uths old; and first sweepstakes, boar of breed. West, first for llerkshiie boar 1 year old; II months; sow 0 months; sow 2 years; nil for littlo pigs; sow 2 years old and 6 months old. First and second for ed sow 2 years old, same 1 year, and tame lonths, and boar 0 months. Litter of pigs, e, first; cross breed sow first; ditto C iths, second; boar 0 months, second; litter iigs, cross breed, first; sow and boar of any id, first. rs. C. P Burkhart first for pair of silver gled Hambuig chickens. sh Prico for chickens and ducks. W, Gordon first for chickens. '.. E. Parrish, pheasant spangled chickens j ant gold spangled ditto. ISeo. Hughes, pair of geese. Wo have not space to enumerate this w cek all the fancy and niiscellanioua articles, and ar not able to get the horticultural and veg etable premiums, which we hope to have. THE VALUE OF OREGON FRUIT. Poktlavd, Oregon, Oct. 4, 1SSI. Editor Willamette Farmer; our articles on fruit -lining, prunes, s, etc., in several late numbers of the sTabmer, I have noticed w ith much interest. 11m subject, I think, deserves more than a ing notice, Tra el among the farmers and i see on every hand neglected orchards, ing no income, the fruit rotting under f flfcl trees, which, if properly managed, might made the most profitable portion of the Twenty-five years ago the high prices fid for fruit in California stimulated the fluting of largs orchards and their careful (Mtivatioa for a number of years, for itwas fttS best paying crop that could be put upon li the land. After a few years California raised fruit in abundance and to spare, and the mount produced in Oregon was so far in ex- 'cess of local wants that fruit became a drug. Orchards were neglected; their products suf 1 Jsred to ripen, go from the trees and go to de- y- Many portions of our country and some for- Sign countries are destitute of fruit and offer a Stable market for this fruit, both canned kd dried. "By profitable market," I mean le, that will pay all the labor and expense of Ittiog it into marketable shape, and leave a jjjjf handsome margin for piolit. There appeals to biagcnei.il failuic of fruit crops this season in thoso States East of the mountains, and the demand for ducd fruits the net five months is likely to fai exceed all that Oiegon can possibly furnish. I would advise all, then, to sattheii fuiit; put it up in good shape ready to meet this demand. And :is I have com menced giving advice I would fuithei say, give all the old oichards a good hallowing to loosen up the soil around the trees; giic them a good dressing of manure; if yon liavn it, then mulch them thoioughly with the stiaw jou ate trj ing to burn up to get it out of the way. Mulch sufficiently to keep down all glass anil weeds anions the trees, do it now, this Pall or Winter, and in the Spring shaipui j out pinning knives and saws, and give the trees a judicious pinning, removing all dead and useless limbs and bianehis, and after this a good application of lime, whitewash will not hurt them. Do it and note the result next year. You will feel will it paid fin tho trou ble. While on this subject, take a pencil and note how malty trees jou have on an aeuyuul multiply that by the avciago number of bm.lt- els each tree will produce. Suppose votu ftuit to be worth S cents per bushel, and how much have you for the pioduetofan acre! Next onijwie this sum with the not proceeds of an aveiago acre nf wheat. Now with ftuit diii is and model n appliances for preparing the fiuit for the drier, ran't jou make it pay live cents per bushel for the ftuit? I think a little figuring of this kind, anil a littlo sober reflection will convince jou that wc had better reuovato the old oiehauls, and those who have uo oichards had better plant new ones and take care of them after they am planted. I hv r- ' utile expelltnee with a young oi chard. A friend of mine, not ten miles from Poitland, four years in.'o, planted an oich.ud of eight acres all yeailtng trees when plaited, mosl) peaches and Itali an pi unes, 100 trees to the acre. It has been well cultivated each yeai and carefully pi nn ed. This season a few of the trees boro fruit, sa) ten to thiity pounds of ti nit to the tree. I never saw finci trees nor finer fiuit on tiees. I instiucti'd him how to handle and put them up, and had the selling of w hat came to Poi t hnd m.uket. Did not sell a box of peaches less than 10 cents per pound, w lulu thu best of other peaches weie selling.it Hand Scents pel pound and common ones at 2 to i cents pel pound, and I could hac sold ten times as many at tho best prices. His pi lines sold at icent per pound mole than othem of the same variety. So much for taking pains to have the quality of the pioduct sent to maiket without fault. Ho has now about 900 pounds of thoso prunes dried. I have shown a sample of them to dealers in tho city, who, without exception, pi enounced them tho finest they ever saw; was promptly oflered IS cents per pound for the whole crop by two different dealers. I contend that It pays to take pains to put up any and all faun products in best niannei for market. We, pioneers, can recollect when Oregon wheat, though tho finest in the world, was as much a dnn? as fruit is now. But when we produced a surplus sufficient to load ships and send it to a foreign market, it received its just recognition and found an unlimited mar ket. So will it be with our fruit product; when we produce it in quantities sufficient to intra-1 duce it to foreign markets, we will find a large demand for it. I think, then, there is ample encouragement to renovate the old orchards and to plant new ones. In planting the old orchards, our most experienced nurserymen and orchardists made many mistakes. Past experience with the different varieties, our soil and climate, ensble us to plant new orchards without making a mistake. We know just how and what to do to insure suc cess, and the encouragement to engage in this branch of industry is greater than ever before, all of w hich is respectfully submitted. J. B. Ksai p. GENERAL NOTES D. W. Craig lost a fine yearling Shorthorn bull at Glendale. Farm, a few day since, by sickness. Cresswell Correspondence, State Journal Work at the yards in gathering and curing bops has finiihed. The ciop is gool and lager beer should be dies p. Colfax Democrat Mr. G W. Draper, near Eden valley, last week threshed a field of aliout seven acres of wheat which averaged a little over sixty bushels to the acre. Dayton (W. T.) Chronicle McDonald & Schwabacher last week shipped 500 tens of wheat in five days. Five men loadsd 12S tecs in one day, receiving 86 tons of it from the wagons. The boys brag on this day's work Pendleton Tribune One of D. "W, Hams men, who has been running a header, spoke of 330 acres averaging nearly 40 bushels, and none had gene under 20 bushels out of 1,000 !,' i t I Vr yy PORTLAND, OREGON, acres. Wo undei stand Mr. Harris ships '2,. 000 sacks of wheat this year. AH other farms are pioportionately as good. So you sec wo will be ablo to give to the lucid caters of tho w oi Id our allotted portion. Corvallis t!a,etle: P. M. Coopet showed us this week a small laspberry bush that com menced its growth this j ear, and now has a irop of full) matured hemes this is coitninly grow in ftuit in a hiiuy Oregon City .',nV ; Mi. .1. W. Olluld, of Wuwawai, W. T., but formerly of Mnlalli, has puicbased apparatus foi making svmp flout his 20 acres of soigluun. Ho will be a I 1 to make 7." gallons pel horn. Coiva'lis thnettr Capt. J, M. Ajlcs in foi ins us that on last, Sunday hu ate gteen peas from his garden, ou his Summit faint, from the same vines that ho had gathered a matured eiop in catly 81111111161'. Oregon City Kntefjii'w Some stiang-i look ing pheasants have been in this county, and as it is likely they are some of tin- lot sent to Or egon h) Consul Denny, 0111 spritsiiiiu should be careful about shooting any of them. Oregon City l'nterpiisf Mi. .F. M7 Taylor nised on twenty acres of land S00 bushels of wheat, an average of 40 bushels per acre. Tho threshing was a splendid job by a Buffalo Pitts machine, on tied by Ranch Biothers. Thomas McAudicw has sold 1.000 head of sheep, with then wool sheared of), to Ben Agee, of Doughs county, fur SI per head. Hu ptoposis greatly improving tho gtadu of his remaining sheep, and will keep a smallci band. Eugene llitanl. rlhe wh'at mat kit has stiffened up this week. Buim-!"- u -n 80 cents pcfbushel Thui-daj, but could se cure little at that figure. At this figure tho fanner would get "2 cents cliai of backs and warehouse chaiges. The Da ton (W- ') t'luun'uk s.i)s that foi the week ending Sept. 2lbt, 1,0')3,0!)1 pounds 01 S47 tons of down freight, principal 1) wheat and flour, weie shipped fioin the de pot, and 211 f, 204 pounds 01 1(7 tons of up freight were received. Salem ttulinuutii We aio iitfoimcd that there an; over one thousand white men and Chinamen employed on tho Yaquim mill Old, grading, etc. Moru laboteis will be set to work on the load as soon as carts, tools an othei implements can bo secured to woik with. Fanner are busy sowing their Miniiuer-fal-low ing fields. Experience has taught them that in older to insure a good crop, grain must be sou 11 in the Fall, and the fields, foul w ith weeds, and have planted successively for past ytais, must be Siimiuei plowed at least ovciy other season. Oregon City Unltrmur The Urnjuntait congiatulates itselt in having seen a 12-pound turnip. We have 0110 in our office, wcighiuir 10 pounds and 3S inches in ciicuinfenence. It was laiscd by Mr. Henty Critesei, ot Rock Island, in this count), and is of the old flat turnip variety. Corvallis dinette We hope that our peoplo will be prompt in subscribing to the Vaquina Bay harbor improvement fund. Ever)' one can afford to givo something to help this great work. Every dollar contributed is that much toward breaking tho back of the gigantic monopoly that is now riding tho people to death. Harvesting is about over in this part J the county, says the Yamhill lemter, Wv leain that Jos. Watt has a hundred acres to cut and thresh yet. We understand it is a piece that was cut down by tho worms in the Spring, and now has its Becoud growth. Yamhill against the world. Two crops of giaiu in nno season. Corvallis Gnzttte 'Ihoinas J, McDowill,-uf this city, is now digging tho second crop of potatoes from the Bame ground. Planting the first early in the season, and, tfter they had matured, dug them, and then planted the ground again the second croji now fully ripe as good as the first, being large, smooth and fully developed potatoes. Salem Statesman Mr Powell, living near this placs, showed us to-day a thing thst grew on a musktnuloit vine, but which looks like an) thing but a n clou. It is threo feet and three inches long, eleven incites around one end and gradually tapering until it is very small at the other end. It is curled up and looks very much like a snake. Tho San Francisco Alia says: The excel lency of flax grown in Oregon and Washington Territory has been so well illustrated by sev eral invoices scut to Belfast that a movement is bein? made for the extension of its cultiva tion. Iruh linei men propose to go into m;n ufactunn? Iiucn ou Puget Sound, Tl.u Is an industry t a; it sure to have great expansion, Eugene G zrJ We are Informed that the late rams dil coLtidcrablo damags to tho f AJhi FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1881. wheat, and flax not ) ct cared foi . Tho har vest was through with ncaily eveiy place, ex cept in the northern part of the county, near Junction, where there was giain still standing. Some fla has bien entirely ruined. The hops jet unpicked have also suffered fioin tho stoimy weather. 1'itlli t'itir Tho millers complain that much damp wheat is brought to inaiket. and desire, it stated that wheat that has been out in tho rain neeils to lie well dried before it is safe to mix with other wheat. A wagon load is not only liable to bo lost f 10111 that cause, but it may also spoil a thousand bushels of othei wheat with which it may come in contact. Jacksonville Times Bybeo &. Bishop's tin caller dtd good work this season, threshing :VI,77!I bushels of giain in ,"i0 days. Of this amouit there ncio 21,180 bushels of wheat, 12.S41I of oats and 5,714 of bailoy. Wc hope that others who had machines in operation will foi ward 11s an aicui.tte account of their work, as wc di-sire to iippiuviinato tlu jield of ihe county. Walla Walla I'nloii Dining the week wheat bujeis huvc been otkiing 0$ mid 00 cents pel bushel, the lattci puce for choice largo lots. Ocean freights keep up to a high figure, the late quotations being 02s 0d per ton, and, there appeals no chanca for a reduc tion. The storage capacity at Poitland is be ing rapidly exhausted, and warehousemen are notifying 101 respondents that the)' will not bo 1 expansible for damage caused by high water. Hitherto wo always thought Walla Walla was not the countiy for pearlies, for what wo did see, were small ami nothing but skin and stone, hut unco Dr. Blalockraises.Duachte. "which "nfrjpkSnUr Tarlinfla, we dueoycied "that we liiaircd under a wiling impression for fifteen j ears, and staud collected. In fact wo now believe that this country would pioduco twenty dollar gold pieces if wo could only get thu pioper kalo seed, (toldendalo (tnxitle- Last week Mr. Chinch, of the exporting firm of Sibson, Church A. Co., of Poitland, cmio here to look after the wheat tiadc. His agent, Ml. Lc.ich, came with him mil will rem tin as long as thuois any wheat in theiountiy to be bought. He furnishes tho sul.s and pays 00 cents at Columbus, 'll.cir Him last ccison shipped about one lomth 01 all thu w .at that left tin) Columbia nvci bisin, nnd will this yi-.ai hind off a still bigeer percent Union County Jleiuiil Tin amount of grant r used in Union count) this ycai will amount in tho aggregate to about 0110 million bushels. Our fiiinds on tho otliT mlc have beaten us tins jcat, and wo fear they will begin ctowing soon; so, in order to keep thou fioin ciowing too loudly, we will sty it is tho fiist time, and that they cannot do it only in aliout one jear out of five at least. Wait until wc havens good maiket as they have, and then our farm ets will shou them bow it is dine. Ihkcr County HteUllr Mr. J. M hwitt, a heavy sheep laisei of Bakei county, tells us that the following is a sure ctiru for scab in sheep- t0 pounds of lime, 20 pounds of sill phut, adil 10 gallons of water. Boil an 1 add cold water sufficient to make it fit for a sheep to bo plunged into all over or milk warm. He sa)S that tobacco and all other kinds of dip have breil tin own aside, and this is used here altogtthir with the best of results, and it gives entile satisfaction, Walla Walla ICiiiriMnn Wheat again is up to a minim' price, namely, 00 cents pi r bushil, but to be candid, the wheat market this j tar puzzles nil, Iist Spring we didn't know what xould or could raise it, but )ct it jumped from I'i to 00 cents, and now wo aro at a lns to know what will lower it, uultss it is next harvest, and all things considered, we now bclicvu wheat will Iw worth 7r cents a bushel rijltthcie, before the coining of the first swallow. Fanners, how do jon like that music? Con'alhs (Sauttt The following named gentlemen have kindly consented to receive donations of wheat at their respective ware houses for the Yajnina improvement funds: W, A. Welti, Corvallis; James A. Cauthorn, Corvallis; T, J Blair, Corvallis and Boone ville; J, II. Miller, Wells. Fanners who havo wheat 111 stire, and who wish to help 111 mak ing the Yafjuina bay available for shlppiuir kt the earliest p.stible date, are thus given an opjiortunity to contribute wheat instead of cash. Scud an order to your warehouseman to credit thu Ya'juma fund with such amount of wheat as jou may feel disposed to give. A Yakima correspondent writes thst the crops this J'rar lave proved moit abundant, the jitld per acre averaging over 30 buthils of wheat and Item 40 teSO bushels of oats and barley Threshing is not jet finished, but tho total Jitld of grain in the country dirtctly tributary to t pcfnt is estimated at aliout "5,000 butheb, and nearly 20,000 tons of hay; with of fruits and ve-g.tabltJi t is results bam ,'?,' '.V cxcccdcdtheeNpectationsot tho most sanguine. I have partaken of peaches from three j ear old trees, fully equalling both in size and fla vor tho finest grown at Hood livci. Tito trees have yielded fairly and next season there will in all probability bo sufficient to supply the maikuts of the entire section. Grapes of a lino quality are piodmcd; wlulo of melons, green com, tomatoes, etc, the maiket Is lttciall) ovoistoiked. Vegetables-i of alt kinds att tin an eiioiinnus size, of splendid flav 01 and most piolific jield. It Ls now a well ascertained fact that the sago brush bench and uplands of this section when irrigated, mo more valuable foi fniits and vegetables than tho bottom lauds. Mr darflold's Belief Ou Febnniy 8, 1870, after tho regular bus iness nf the day, it it stated, in tho foinial phi.iheology of tho J'irotil, tint Mi. Phelps (Connecticut) offered a resolution that the House has received with piofoiind soirow the announcement of tho death of Orris S. Peny, and that pinpei tiihute'H be paid fur hispub'ic nnd private vittues. One of tho spcnkeis wah Jiunos A. (lartield, who delivered a touch ing and fiatinnl iilmle, ending with the following: " Before closing, howevet, let 1111 refit to the ctownitig gloiy of his ltfo. Mi. Feny had a stiongieligious element in his character. ThiH was with him n great i.ontioll'ng force, anil nut a sentiment. No cloud obscured thu effulgence of his hope or dimmed bis virion. Clear and high, bis intellect and his faith lose above all stoimn and daikncss, aud'sustaiued him in sweet cniiit'":',"-1,tr";A '," "u"- Tealee! mjsteiics of pain, As hidend drew near hu cam') back to his homo alter a brief absence There, under his own roof, with thu angels of his household about him, he passed to his 1 e'st. 'thinking of tnals past, an 1 knowing us wo do how well ho had wrought foi the future, tiustnig 111 tho met its of his deal koid, ho could lepuat thu ski e t lines of lionsr; 1 Beyond the putting and tho meeting, I shall hu rooti ; Beyond thu farewell, and tho greeting, Hpjoiid tho pulse's fever beating, 1 shall be soon, I.ovo, rest and home I Sucit liopel 1Hil. till) not, butcomi'. Ilujoud tho fleist chain and the tew 1, I shall bu soon; Itcjond the lock-wastu and tlio rive 1, llejond thu ever nnd thoni'v 1, I shall bo soon, Ixive, n stand homo' Sw cut hope! ' Iah d, tatry not, hut coiiiu. ' "Av, thu sweeter wotd of inspiiatioii in thu volume of thu Book it is written; 'Ui 1 comu quickly. Evin so, coinu, Ixml Jiisus.'" And thus is chronicled thu tui'iiior) of a ntne so iiiiiiHei.il, su profound that thu great hall of legislation, with its scores of careless, worldly muii, seemed foi the tune tnuisliguitd, We all seemed to bo "sitting in heavenly places in Christ Jesus," Even thu reportcis' gallery, a cool, phlegmatic region, as you may guess, thnwed a suspicious, surreptitious dis play of pocket haiiilkiiclitcfs, and team were 111 thu eyes eif many members on thu flout. I have often heard General Gaifield eloquent, but I Imvo nuver, before or since, heard him approach thu touching pathos of that hum, 'I he- occasion was ripe for htm when hu ioc; hu felt the boll mil glow reflected front all hearts aioiiud htm, ami Iiim voice-, always sym pathetic, took oil an almost priestly (motion and an unconscious tone of exaltation that seemed ahovo mortality, as ho recited thu dead man's tribute til thu dead, 'I hu poem that formed its fitting climax seemed to glow with beatific llamu. Bummer In Horray. A wntcr in the September Atlanta1 Monthly thus nai rates her impressions of tho almost uniiite mipteel daylight of a Norwegian Sum mer 1 "One. conns actually to )i'.arn for a little Christian darkness to go to lied by, much as ho may cravo a stronger sun by day, to keep him warm, he would Iiko to have a rcasonublu night-time for sleeping. At first the to is a stimulus, and a weird sort of triumphant sense of outwitting nature, in finding onu's self ablo to read ortownto by tho sun's light till near ly midnight of tho clock. But presently it become clear that thu outwitting is oil thu other side. What avails it that there la light enough for one to w rite by at ten o'clock at night, if hois tired out, docs not want to wntc, and lon;s for nothing but to go to sleep? If itweredark, and hu longed to write, nothing would ho easier than to light caudles and wntu all night, if hu those, and could pay for ins candles. But neither money nor in genuity can compass for htm a normal dark news to sleep in. The Norw cgtan home is one half window , 111 tl tir long Winters they need all the sun they can gut) not an outsldu blind, NO. 34. not 1111 inside shutter, not a daik shade, to be seen; streaming, flooding, ladinting ill and around about tho rooms, comes tho light, wel come or 1111 welcome, eailyand late, And to tho words "eaily" and "late" there are in a Not way Summer now meanings: tho early light of tho Summer morning sets in about half past two; tho late light of the Summer mening fades into a luminous twilight about eleven. Enjoyment of this spcoics of perpet ual day soon comes to an end. After thn tiavclerhaH written homu to eleijliody once by broad ilaylight at ten o'clock, tho fun of tho thing is ovci, mutual sleepiness begins to hunger for its rights, anil dissatisfaction takes the place of w ondci ing amusement. This dis satisfaction leaches its chma in a few days; then, if ho is wise-, tho tinvclcr provides him self with soveial pieces of dark green cambric, which ho pins up at his windows at lii'il-timr, thereby making it possible to get seven or eight hours' lest for his tired eye'H. But tho icon lambliu will not shutout sounds; and hu is lucky if hu is not kept nwnku until 0110 01 two o'clock evciy night by the unceasing tread and loud chattel of the chtei ful Nor wegians, who havubcen forced to form the i.abit of sitting up half their night time, to get in tho couisu of 11 year theit full quota of lay-tiinii. 1 Across an Oregon Desert. (ieioigo Suhutnf, who went to Camp lluiney aftei some passengeis hu did not get, had quitu an experience both going and coming. As hu had novel been at lliiney before, ho found tho distance very long, 1 specially tho stretch auoss tho "dcseit " 'I bu JioUncu from Jacksonville to Camp Hainey via Lake view is 4S0 miles, v hich hu accomplished in eight days, but losing his liny tho distnnco tinvcltd wan consideiably nero.iseil. Both of Ml. Schumf's hoises took sick fioru dt ink ing alkali wutei, and ho was compelled to hire a span of flush hoises to ill n o lioiro with. Itiiiossnig thu dcseit from Gimp Hainey hu was aceoinp.iiiied by l.add Niv.igc mid Geo. Ilouald, and between the tlneo the giubsup pi) giew mi light tint the) hud to ti.avel sev rial ilajs on Homeopathic intioiis. When they cot into thn station the) wcru 11s hiiugiy asv.oive's Mi. S, siys soiim of thu volleys traviled wuiu beautiful, at one place hu saw a held of ratth) Ml, 000 strong; at nuothera hud of 12,000, with the glass kucc high. Eastern Oregon is 11 great com tiy - ,m nin tile ,SV. tim I. Weather Report, 1830 Dining Supti inbei, 1881, thiio wi lu 0 days dill nig which 1,1111 fell mid ail Aggregate of I 83 KM) in. of watei; II clear dajs uiid 10 cloudy dn)s, ollin than thnsu on which lain fell. 'Hid mean tempi latuiu lot thu month was fil-17. Highest daily mean ti'iiipuattiru for tho mouth, (ill9 ou thu tltb. Lowest daily 1111 an ttiiipciature, (V) 011 thu l!)th and 2(!lh. Me in ti'iupciature lot thn month, at 2 o'clock r. M (i'l,IO. Ihghuat temperature foi the month, M at 2 o'clock I". M,, on tho 12th. l-eiw'cst tempera ture, 47 at i) o'clock I', it,, on thu 8th. Tho prevailing winds foi thu month were from thu North during 22 days; Southwest, 8 elays. There vi us a thunder sliouoi oil the 2.M. No fiost duiing thu mouth. Dm ing September, 1880, there were 3iaiuy davH and 0 71 Hi. of wttci; 3 clear and 20 cloudy days. Mean temperature' foi the month, f9,73. Highest daily mean temperature for the - month, (.0 011 thu nth. 1OWc.st dally mean tciupeiuturu foi the mouth, r39 mi thu 18th nnd 30th. Em t, Oct. I, IhSl. I'. Pkaiicp, 1 I, 1 From Yamhill County. Siihiiiiav, Or., Oet. 3, 1881. Editor Willamette Fanner: Still it rams. Wheat is worth 83 cents at Sheridan, Farmers are busy sowing theii summer-fallow Alf. Wilson and his dogs had a te-inblo fight with a largo black bear last Wcdiu tday, which resulted in tho dcith of thu bear and All's overalls and five-of his dogs being badly torn; but with thu usu of plenty of alcohol ho thinks all will hud up in duo timu except tho overalls. J. O, Steven sou lost a S-XK) mare last Monday. Shu had been suffering for three wicks from internal injuries, causeel from getting fast in a log manger whiluout thrishiug. Tho ono-tbird of the threshing not done at my last writing has made but littlo progress )ct Although it showered most of thu day vesterday, one threiber iuii all day. Thu thrtshiitg not done 111 this neighborhood is as follows- A and J. Newel, one-half elay's work; Ira Stevens, mm day; Whaleing Bros., Ilvoor six days S J, Berry, 0110 and 0110 half da)s; Monroo Mor gan, two days, Allowing fiOO bushels for a els)s threshing, thu would amount to P,C00 bu.be U, which It it rains much longer will bo almost a total loss, us most of it is in the stack and iiotcapjiod fluih as this Mid tho present pnees charged for freight is very elu (ouragiiu to us farmers. A, IUn. HlLLUK,