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W1LL.AMJSTTB WARMETt: SALEM OREGON, NOVEMBER 30. 1SS3. inued every Week by the , WIUAJfETTE FAKHF.R ll BLISIIIJK; 4 O . TERMS OP SUDSCRIITiON. lat year. (Pottage paid), In advance t 00 IIU oicnths, (postage paid). In advancv 1 -' IfM than six months will lie, per month 26 ' ADVEHSISINO RATES : Advertisement 111 be Inserted, providing tn i mii i lil ti attha fnllnwlriir ti1a nf r.tea ! Cue Inch of ipace per month w'r!in afbree inches of iroace Der month 00 st-balf column per month I&WJ Co column per month 3000 SflsJS.mple coplee ent free on application Publication Olhce. o 6 Washington Street. Up Aalri, rooms No. 6 and fit ALL PAPKRS IIISCOSTINrH) AT THE EM'IKA 31 ON OF THE TIME PAID JOK. Notice lo Subscribers. Orriciior Wlilamrttb Farmkr, ) February 28, 1(K3 f 9c oca Riudrrs : We publlih only a sufficient nnmbor of the Farmkr tm eupply actual prepaid subscriber and we cannot tup ffly back numbers. If It li desired by lubscrltiers ti iecure all Issues the) M.cat arrange to tend In their renewals In ample time to roach tnis office before expiration. .WA11 subscribers tan tell by the printed tag onlta JVthelr paper exactly when their time will explrcM Another Important point: ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND LETTEHS SHOULD liE ADDHESSED TO THE " WILLAMETTE rABMEB," 2,000,000 bushel. This i a poor fchow ilijy, but out farmers arc not ."-o depend cut on w heat crops as they were. They are sowinir more land to urates. This sejifcon, eenecinlly, they nre putting in n great de il of timothy nnd clover need n well as other grassc. The seed impor tation1) come by car loads and mo rapid' ly sold oil. That shows lees dependence on grain and more attention to meadow and pasture lands, licef, mutton and pork pay well at all times and with grass and rioter growing in abundnnco the farmer can produce thoc meats to ad vantage. The best meat we have coints fioni home pastures: meat brought from Ja'-tern Oregon becomes tough by being worried and driven and the cattle and fhtep fattened near here are of better quality in every way. EAST OF THE MOUNTAINS REMOVAL NOTICE. Our renders will pleaao bear in mind that our piuent address is Salem in- Btcad of Portland. All matters will re ceivo prompt attention if nddrcfi d to the Wll LA Ml i.tte Fakmi it, Salem, Or. IIf-miy WvwtEN, of tho Waldo Hills, Inst spring sowed one hundred acres of California priny wheat and liked it very well, us bet ms to lx; the c.ihc generally. Helms a pteuliar experience, however, that differs from most others. He says it came out well on all fides expecpt the Houth, that there it grow only (i to 12 inches high and full down so that ho could not Have it. It was well headed,bul iitraw was weak and very short. All his utigtiborH had the sumo experience with tlio fei.inio wheat, lie Kiip'poies it was because thu south hill sido was struck by the hot sun and did not feel the freshening iulluonce of tho cool north wind and tho hot nnd dry season made il short. The Wili.vmi-.tte Faumku is winding up its fifteenth year of publication. It is not a now scheirlo or a friend of short acquaintance hut has beon in tho field for half it generation battling for right principles and doing its best to sustain tho host interests of tho producer. Wo have hundreds of names on our list that wore there in tho beginning and we value such old friends veiy highly. Tho host of new people who como to this coast should feel conluicnco in a arm ing join mil that has lccn mi long in the field miller oiHi management, Tho price is reduced to eomptre with the co-t of ICastern join mils. Wo hoHi that ljt.-t-firn people will boconin our friends as wo ehnlldonll that is xissible to sustain thu inteiests of agriculture. A I'ONrhMpoitAiiv says that PhilipltiU, wnH right in his crop estimate Inst spring. We think not. Without qualil'uatiou Mr lUt. piououueed eiops short in all tlio Walla Walla legion, whereas there was no del'u ioney, or small if any, south of .Snake liver or in I'inatilla county. Mr. ItiU failisl as to his own immediate vicinity but was correct as to the greatei Million of tho custom country. Unii-1 tilla county has 10,(XH) tons sulcus, which is a million nnd one-third buhels of wlu at, Walla Walla has ..0,000 tons, or a million buhels Mtrplus; Cpoluiubiti 5W,lHK tens or (ititi.iu.li bushels;' (iarlidd county has oer 10,000 tons Mirplus so the eountiy along the Blue mountains from the I'matiUa liver toLnwiMou has one hundred thousand Ions of wheat, or three and ouo-third million bushels. That is a'tull ciop, almost, foi thoco four counties. Mr. C. V. Church, of tho exporting firm of Sibson, Church A Co., has re cently returned from Kast of the Moun tains and reportR that though rain fall has been light farmers are plowing. Some feir is entertained as wheat sown has made small growth and in some cases has not come up. This is the " off year" Kast of the Mountains, and there will not bo a large crop grown under am circumstances. Farmeis there luivo .in impression tli.it crops come best every other year and they pin their faith to the odd years of tho calender. Net j ear they will summer-fallow land to put in crops the year after. Next years crop will not much if any exceed the crop of this year. Mr. Church says the wheat crop of tho Upper Countiy was over estimated. The most to expect is a .shipping sur plus of 120,000 tons, as follows : Wasco, etc, 0,000; Umatilla, 10,000; Walla Walla, 30,000; Columbia '20,000; Jim field 12,000; north of Smke iier, 12,0(10 ton-. This makes 120 000 ton- in all. When we went thioiiL'h this ea-tern legion in July we gae exactly the .iboe figures for Umatilla, Walla Walla, Col umbia and Garfield counties and that was all we could fonu any opinion of. Others claim fiO.OOO tons noith of Snake river and we accepted that as coneet. but not or could see wheie they kept so much wheat. It piovcs to have been an out estimate. Kedticing the wheat and liour from Juist of the Mountains to actual tonnage foi .shipment tbeie will not bo over 100,000 tons for export. Western Oregon has also been oer estimated. The ciop of ISS.'i cannot Iw called over half a crop. We shipped 120,000 tons from this valley fiom tho Inmost of 1880. That was a good aver- ago yield. This jeai wo cannot ship over 00,000 tons. Tho showing is not great but there is no other country wc know of that could do as well. In this year of uncMimplud diouth tho Pacific imminent turns oil what would he an au'iago crop for a good jour in any Slate Knst of the Hoc ley Mountain. Nbson, Church A Co, handle- the greater jiortiou of the surplus fiom Kast of the Cascade. We loam they hao aheady purchased a million and a half of bushels of custom gi.un, equal to 15,000 tons, or cargoes foi thnty thip of 1,500 tons. the corn was frozen when not fully grow n and never can mature. Mot of the-' fanners have large droes of hogs to fatten and. as tho first hard fieeze will ruin what value this corn has, they are gathering and feeding it to hogs and miking what pork they can by that means. Over a large region there will not be a bushel cf sound corn saved and all they can realize from the eom crop is by feeding nnd ninking it into pork. Many of them hae not enough to fatten their hogs and sell them before in really Sood order. This is the fact concerning the poik market. Wo need not expect such low prices in tho futuic as exist under these circumstances. Mr. Powers says farmers "out west" work harder than our farmers do and live mmc economically. They grow win at, oats, nnd com, and keep a little stock, besides making garden. In Iowa they do not grow any fruit, and all Min nesota and northern Iowa and Dakota, w ill need our f raits, green and dried. oi lp ANI Ni.w suiisciunKiis are coming in at a veiy ploanut rate nnd thu removal of the paper to Salem ! appreciated bj inun living here who come in and sub wiilio Weee many more farmers than we did at Portland A 4 wo go there tiury week to study the markets wo m-cnniphli all wo could by being there. We h i mi beautiful home hero at Salem uud the fuii'-.t pt line oiclmrd in Oregon is situ disl only a mild or so awn), in the ml Iull.' Theso considerations make quite an Argument in fauirof tho change of lui-e, beeides .which wo sau one hun dred dollars a month in thocotof Hung and publication Woak correspondence on all farm topics and current events. It fcciti'iK if our leadeis bad forgotten tow ute. Vo u-od to fiveiuv great I mi ij letters from the pcopl and now hvoiw few. Wc. a well a our readers, vulue -och letieu highly uud cordially inute frivudt. to wiitetheni Tub Willi ,ii ru Vwiiy in ISMi hud Hkiirplus of l'.'0,000 tout of wheat or fOOO.OOO bushoU That was a good showing. For 1883 the urpliw will bo In, ho full did great d.mus-' to com in one-hall of tlntt or fiO.000 tons, equal to the northwest. Through a wide region ANOTHER PIONLEK'S LXfSKIENCE.y Our friend W. M. l'owei-, of .shedd, returned a few days ago fiom lus jour ney Kast with the l'ioneei- ainl assett-. that he had an enjoyable time at the Kast. On his ict tun he oneountoied feai fully cold weather at Chicago, and in Iowa and Minne-'ota, also through o i-t Dakota, but the tempeiature improed as they came West, until be leached Western Oregon and heie he tliul- the ftcaou win in and llowcir. in bloom Si far, our Noiemls'r ha- Ix'on mild and generally pleasuit. Hum bae mi been in excess of iuviU, and, until late ly, fanners did not find the -.oil wet dov u n as to plow ten iiu he deep. All the returned Oregonian-i we hae met say they hae found no country to compare w it It our ow u State They find xutlViiug from Morni, fixiui dnmth oi from frost. The drouth tint we expeii tuiml the past rvuon would detii the pnK-pects of any Katem State whereas our farmers hae made wh it would be hii nienige wheat crep at the Kat after a dry hc-iimhi that lastiil one himlul days iK'forc haro-t Oiirugion with tand. dnmths that would mill other eoiintri's. Mr Powers e.pluin the iniiMit.itionof new bacon and other irk nrislucts b explaining that pork mII m northern Iowa and Mimieviti for .!.."i0 perewt Pork lii been ti cent- a pound hereto tire and peihip- w mid remain at .m-vI pruvs only for tw- tliiin:- l'he Ivini Han market l pilllx iiel b pmlubi tion of, our pork prvUivt"', which dimin- ishiv. the forvigntdeo.iud.iur. reader will leitunubcr that a houjiv. (rut earlv MORTOAQE TAX LAW. The Albany Democrat thinks " real e"tato ought to be assessed at what it is reasonably worth and money taxed dollar for dollar," which is good doctrine, but it does not say what it thinks should be done with money when real estate is ns-e-sed at one-third its value. It seems to harshly criticise the Farmer becauo we think money bhould bo ns-essed in projioition to the valuation placed on real c-tate. The writer happens to bo a borrower to a laige ovtentand he lealizes the fact that the pro-ent law, together with the -mall wtluation placed on real estate, woiks mill on thoio who hae to wrrow. In fact they cannot boirojv. Money cannot be got on Oregon real e-tate anywbeie, all becau-e the hw, as it stands, ttixe- money two to three timc theaieinge tax on other piopeiti. If that i- ju-t, the Democrat i right; if it i unjust the Deniwrat is wiong. It look- to il a-" if all 1 1 1 1- talk about nionej lenders and taiug money, made in answer to the plain statement that money as mottage piy- double and thriblo ta,is pandeiing topiejudiceand unwoitby of honuiahle jouinali-m. Tho efTect of the law is to close out all moitgages and reloan money on pei-onal security. Thi i-, of courye, in law, dishonest, when done to eiadetax, but money o loaned can, and dot-i, and will evade taxation, and all the laws por"ihle cunuot nrcent it. Perjiuvbe- coiiips common and the public con science gets mom and more demoralized. This we con-ider unwholesome. We make no oppo-ition to a 1 iw that w ill tax all property and money at full . due or equalie taxation to the as--i$ment on ie.il estate. Tin- debtor cIihs in Linn county will be apt to realise the tiuth of our position fiom pergonal cxpeiieuce, as we do. Tho debtor class need- piotec tion ; tho way to piotect them is not to tax money three times, and foico the money lendei to collect in his mortgages or to put on the jackscrews loss while he wait, for customiis to pry up. The credit etem adds one-third to the aierage co-t of farm machinery. That wc have been told by those who 'ell it. It is often sold on long credit and that is nn inducement to buy. Many n farmer is kept poor by his pur chase of harvesting machinery that he gets on ' long time" but it generally is a much longer time before he gets able to pay. Some mcichants get rich and let their woll-to-do customers run long accounts, charging all they please for goods and interest besides It is actual ly true that merchants sometimes litci ally own their customers and that hard working farmers labor jenr after j ear for the benefit of such men. Such cases wo trust are few, but there certainly are such. The credit system may have exceptions. There arc cases of men who buy land on credit and manngo to pay for it, but as a rule store credits aie costly faors and frequently are unsafe ones. BUY FOR CASH. There is generally abundant iiionex to be liorroncd on good roil e-tate secui ity. The bankers refuse loin now, on account of dMike to the Moitgage Tax Law, but that is tho exception, not the i-h1i If a man w obliged to boirow, he should borrow fiom the piofes-ioiml lendei The merchant i not a lendet but a trader A.s a u-ual thing he needs allhisiapit.il in tiade II obliged to -oil on credit he iiiu-t buy on credit. If he gies long time he must nk long time He cannot bin ascheip on eiedit a- foi ei-h, nor i in he sdlns low foruvdit u forei-h. The eeitaintj of lo-s on bad dent- makes u nceess.uv ui.it chhiu miio- -hall be for a large perient of profit -.it liMt double thi profit he would expect on cash tiade. He make- up on credit eustoiiieis the certainty of lo-s be expects on -omeof them This i- a plain presentation of business fm-t. The stoic account is often the most insidiious lure to destruction It is so ea-y to buy o often hard to pay The credit syhtein eats up the eu-toin-T and seldom enriches the dealer It is a per nicious business all round. There i no farmer in the wot Id who cannot better afford to moitgage hi- f.uui to get money to square a chronic store account and commence life on a cash basis. If he has proper consideration of dut be will not siure econoin to lift th it mortgage and when lifted he will not le.ipt to clap on auothei. The mortgage is more honest and iiuwIh heaiier than the store Hccount. Instead of bixing nch an account keep something growing to sell till the ear round And ir.uW that ' off as you hae want. Aoid a debt ,is j on would poisou. 'Ohcuo iimii ,m I thing"' in good gospel and gool s-tise. I If ) ou must owe mom , owu, it u a professioinl lender, who can aft' ml to take ordinary interest, not to a strug gling merchant who often has to sutler BOW TO FAEM. Faiming seems to be a business like all others, where somo succeed and a few fail. Success means prudent man agement, industry nnd economy. Fail ure comes too often from want of pru- donce and familiarity with debt. Some men hae an intense horror of debt and keep out of it, and some rush headlong into it. When wc comcr-o with a fanner who is successful in all seasons, wo imariably find that he summci-fnllows for wheat and does not depend on wheat alone. He has stock of all kinds and makes grass play an important part in his bus iness. He succeeds because his mi-cel-laneous products bustain him and his wheat goes to piofit. Wehaxc recently gi on -e oral examples, and piopo-e to gnc many more, of men who succeed in this way. I3ut we beliee people gen erally depend too much on grain, and that they needlessly impoerish land by continual cropping to grain when they could put it to good pasture and make more fiom it and it would actually be enriched by feeding stock on the land We hear, also, that more attention will hereafter be paid to growing fruits and egetnbles. There w ill lie nn increasing demand foi all such products, and our fanners should apply themselves to un derstand thatdeniand and to satisfy it. The importation of cabbages, cauliflower and celery is ery great and needless. AVe can grow all these to advantage, of the ery best quality. That will be the w oi k of market gaideners near the town, but fanners vsho hae rich soil can grow cabbages and potatoes and many other ( ommoner vegetables and ship them to market with safety. We bae come to a time when the bain-ard must do its share tow aids sus taining the soil and all manure be saed and eompo-ted for use, if the faini is expected to retain its fertility. The farmer must study tho ways and means in oery department. The science of farming must come in piny, not mere diudgery of work. Tho farmers' brains must help him out oi else he wont do as well as bo might. When all is said and done the farm must depend greatly on meat produced, beef, mutton, pork and fowls. These af foul the farmer means for profit more reliable than anything el-e he can grow, l'oik must lie produced oil' of the refuse of the farm. This will not peimit fat tening large droes on good xsheat, but farmers can utilize small 'potatoes, -cieeiungs of giain, and whatever is not up to the mark forsalo at good piiccs to m ike their jiork. l'ork of the best quality can bo made by feeding barley, which is worth nliout in proportion of six bushels of bailey to fne of wheat for fattening purposes. This we hau'froinA. H. Johnson, the Poitland butcher and meat pucker, who-e expeiieneo is thorough in that line. He sprouts his barley U-foro ho feeds it nnd thinks it is as valuable so as if ground. Uarley can lie grown easily and much beaxier crops produced than of wheat. The water m which barley is soaked should be fed to the hwine for drink, as it contains nutriment. At Chehnlis we saw farmers grinding oats and wheat to gether for hog food. Hy prndent man agement every farmer can convert what would elo possess but little value into pork, and make a reliable income from th it source. O W. Hunt has n tiue pear orchard that ho Uses only for his pigs. Sweet jHirs and other fruit is good for swine, and trees grow well in any en closure where pigs run and feed. tendency tow aids contraction, flanks that hive heavy deposit can fe'ct along without heavy chculation. and such will draw in rather than lo-e money, as they occasionally do. All this time greenbacks have answered a good pur pose and have never been questioned It is claimed that paper is not money and that it i- wrong for the government to send out paper piomiscsth.it can only be redeemed with othei paper promises. That sounds well, but we all know that the United States did that very thing and fought out the war of tho rebellion with it. (iieenbacks did so well then that it doesn't look patriotic to go back on them now. Wo believe in the general utility of tho greenback. Financiers tnlk wisely of the excellence of the na tional banking system. We agree with that, for the national banks havo done well. But intere-t oh the national debt is now so low the banks say they can not afford to issue notes on that security and pay the taxes assessed against them. Then they can reduce their bank note circulation and bank on their own money. There seems to be plenty of bankers who bank on their own money. These can u-e gold or treasury notes. The time approaches when the United States will bo nearly out of debt. It seems reasonable enough for the gov vernment to issue national treasury notes to the full extent tho countiy needs and owe what it must owe in that way, so far as the country can use the notes. It will sae interest on the debt to that extent and will bo good, safecur roncy. The treasury can keep gold in reserve to the extent of 23 per cent, of the circulation, and redeem when called on for coin. The masters of finance may pick flaws w ith the greenback pol icy, but wo have tried it ' onco and it worked well enough. Make it safo and try again, say we. EDUCATION. It seems to be the object of many far mers to educate their sons at all hazards, and give them a good chance in the world. Eveiyboy should be educntcd, of couise. Hut to what extent, isanim portant question. Salom is a college town, and gives an example of tho woith of education to some and the injury it does to otheis. We say injury undcr standingly. It is an injury to a fanner's boy to take him fiom the faim and edu cate him through a course of years, giv ing him false ideas of life, making him feel superior to labor, yet hav ing his sub sequent life provn that education above a certain extent was wasted ; that he has not capacity to make good use of it. Wo have quite a number of instances in mind nt this moment where young men, after spending many years in routino studies and graduating with a diploma, have shown no talent for professional life. They either revert back to the farm or aro doomed to drag through life as "poor bticks," in somo professional calling, making n half living, commanding no respect for talents nnd never acquiring a competency. The education such nion need is to be well grounded in the common branches of learning necessary for uso in ordinary affairs of life. Oive a v oung man this much education, and if he has talents ho w ill make his way and climb to thohighest position. Clay, Lincoln, Douglas, Jackson, Garfield and thousands more had only this advantage and acquired the rest. All capable men can win success. If the boy is to be a fanner (and that is as safe and honorable as any profes sion) hi- education need not be tlio dead ami modem languages and the whole range of the sciences. It should iuelude the cliemistiy of agiieultuio and com mon mathematics Philosophy should bo studied siifticientlv to giv o the student information n- to the important princi ples of life and motion. The familiar cienco should lieeonie his familiar friend-, his naming should -uince to cover know ledge of History, biography, geography, and especially as to our own nation's cnieer and great men. To go further i- to vva-te tune and money. Thefannei need- ,, well-trained mind, but hi- education must come with study, all through life Many a man who could be a fanner to good advantage is siioileil by a father's ambition to make agivat man of bim. ,c a fanner a fair common ebool education and he can acquire a much more a- he ihoosos. Some of our mot intelligent farmers learned to re id h.v fire-light alter thev were of age. It U oiten i mi-take to school boi - too mm h. M my who have had such -ehou!ing, going thiougb the full college routine, when placed in po-i- nou to earn a living prove imomnctcnt . for ontui irv mi-iiu trail-iction- Edu cate jour Uivs for the farm. If they m mite t.i talent for intellectual off n let them do a- (Jarrield did earn their ivitv Those carp havo lieen -catteied all over tho country. They camo in pail, holding fifty apiece, and great caie had to bo taken in crossing the mountains to keep thorn from freezing. When tlw car left Washington there woie 2"i(Mhi flsh, 5,000 for Ohio, ti.OOO for low a. and the rest for Oregon and Washington. There vvpro so few that they were given to applicants only for ponds and lakes, and not for tho rivers. It is claimed that they may be fed on food from the table and grow a foot in a jean The City Council of Portland his passed a resolution impeaching Mavor Chapman for making n coirupt bargain with It. Besscr, previous to his election as Maj-or. The resolution recommends that n committee be appointed, empow ered to employ competent counsel and directed to institute proceedings against Chapman, to have tho office of Major declared vacant. PROSPECTUS. piOR THE PURPOSE OF PLACING THE W ILLAMETTE FARMER Within the reach of eierj- farmer In the Pacific North. et, we thall after this data reduce the price is folIcHs : One Year, In Ailvnncr, $ .(,. (InhxorTen, (money with names) is mi CIiiIm of Flrr. (money with names,) 8.13 tLCIubs can be composed of old and new subscriber! Postage Stamps will not bo taken for Subscription This new schedulo of prices Is meant to accomm-. date all class and leai e no room for complaint or dli satisfaction. At the price named above this paper the cheapest on the Pacific Coast. As many persons have objected to belnir asked tn paj In adiance we reduce the subscription price, to mose wnu mane advance pajment and shall never deviate froiu the terms stated. You can make rnoaev by prepayment, and we prefer that ail should pursue that plan. We Intend to make a farmers' paper thateiery farmer In the land will need and will not willingly do without. We understand the Interests of agriculture In ill this region and intend to continual! stud and ork for the advancement of the clats we represent. We havo correnpocdenu in all sections of the Pacific Northwest wlio will report the suu-ess of Urn. in0- In cicry localit). We shall ilslt all sections and personally- remrt our observations. We shall compile from our contu porarles of the press all facts relating to development and progress, and material Interests of farmers in ill parts of the ccuntrj . We shall keep pace with production In evert I-' iruwient, anu report, tnrough correspondents and from personal observation, all Important facts concern . Ing farming In all Its branches, Including productions of grain, grasses', fruits and vegetables; concernutr stock raising, tho value of cattle for meat and for dairying ; of horses for all purprses J of sheep for w l and mutton, or both ; of swine and poultry. Alio, ai to bees and honcj. We shall continue to stud the markets and Inform our patrons on all points, so that tliey will be able to Judge the situation fcr themselves. Our old patrons will bear witness we have worked faithful!) , In tha cannectlon, in tho past. We shall do so in the future. No dall) newspaper in Portland has eier giien the producers of the countr) such clear views of the world's crops and markets as the Farmer ofwn does. Our market reports have been worth hundreds of thou sands to the producers of this region, We shall carefully cull such miscellaneous matter for use aa will brneflt and instruct both young and old. The Farmer alms to be" an educator In eiery department of life. Our editorials will freely and independent!) discuss every question that Interests the people from the standpoint of right. So far as e have Influence, it shall be exerted in faior of good principles, good tot. ernment, true religion, temperance and fcr education of the misses of the Genera, and State Governments. The Home Circle is edited b) a lad) of mature experience In the labors of the farmer, and well acquainted with the wa) of the world. She interests herself In all the duties and pleasures of home. Thou, sands bear witneat to the ?ood Influence the Farmer exerts In many homes to make the Hies of mothers, wiies and children better and happier. It is aa a famil) paper that the Farmep sustains the closest relations to the people and exercises the most salutatory influence. The Willamette Farmer Is not local in character, as the name might mislead ou to belleie. It was named fifteen years aro, when the Willamette Vallev waa Oregon, but It hw expanded and grown with the growth of the count!) and represents all the agncul. ture of Oregon and Washington. This Is the farmer's own organ, open or all to relate experience, seek information, and state any grievance they ma) have to complain of againt who ever and whatever seeks to oppressor deceive th 11 Our columns belong to the people, and the ilueot tne FARvr chiefly depends on such popular utttnni.e The rilitor brings to )our js.i.tanie the enn. ence of XI )ears spent w this re.iou . In'.n.t- knowledge of the countr) man) teir lOnneami with ngrlculture and tail) rtar' acq'xintan wiih man) of )ou in the columns of the r n xyp ... .T!e i'.V10.110'! ' lrl,e' ' m-'J 1" evpeii n that It will brim; lncreiut.l ilr. iiIiiIaii u.. w . ... friend to aid us in that rc-sit, and shall pr ife NATIONAL CUBHENCr. Couitr svill soon be called on to pro vide s,.nio measure to regulate eurrencv. .National bank- pav considerable taxes, auo Jincv they buy government bond that oniy!crn :t nr cent, interest, thy rind htttyor no protit in the circulation Will some reader tell us how to plant uiey rvwoe m eii'iiangi's. mere i a a lew nuts to en.tire perfect sprouting. OLDS&KING, 1SG First Street, PORTLAND, OR. Wc cull Miceiul atten tion to our Large .4sort- HieiiD oi LADIES AM HILURLV.S CLOAKS. Which we offer at the lowest possible prices for goou goous. Our stork of tlrr sood' is always kept complete it? every department. By seiidiue an order to us hy mail auj reader of the FARMER can ob tain immmI.s us Mitixfactor- ily as if personally in our store. Q.Tki it' an teat c- taken la aUic Oids s by Mil. i fim m it wis. Tf Iiaaija tuiraMii latBbrvWI-1-Ul SJSTTI. M "a MM31. aaylunjrtlaAi(Ts. Ab-sur rrttia-y. jcj.l.M-Vm.rJi.rtj-a.rc. PATEHTS!5rSSEci sHlilMtnnLas aai Ham Snt at rweiajml Msk Jk ISM ili WlHI v. (
