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mm i vwtr xs v tw a. l t . ; J j ' i - i -i at z. r .'i l .fcWk-s. i VOL. XV. omonilcnr. MEETING TO FORM A WOLF HUNTING CLUB. Sam:m, Or., .Ian. 11, 1SS4. Editor Willamette Farmer: Pursuant to a call published in the Farmeh a few of the resident of tho southeast portion of Marion county met at tho storo of A. Avert and adopted the form of organization published below. ' An election was had and Lewis Petti john was chosen President, llnny P. Minto Secretary, and A. Avert Treas urer, and Lewis Pettijohn, A. Avert. and T. L. Davidson financial or awarding committee. I. Jr. Wagner, M. K. Moor, A. Hogg, II. E. Ankcny, G. H. Croisan and II. P. Minto of 'Salom, Charles Miller and William Pato of Jefferson, and How ard Hunsaker of Turner, wero appointed canvassers to secure members. There seemed to bo no division of opinion as to the plan adopted being the best that can be for clearing the distiict of the pestiferous cayotes. The sum of $25 was fixed upon as a prico for a cayoto scalp, which with fifty members would make a wolf cost each member fifty cents which would be reduced to twenty-five 'cents should the membership rise to one hundred, which should bo got in tho district. Tlic following is the form : .FORM Or ORGANIZATION 01' C'lUZMFKITTA W0I.F hunter's C1.UI1. Section 1. This organization shall bo known as the Chemoketn Wolf Hunter's Club. Son. 2. Tho officers of this club shall bo a President, a Secretary and a Treas urer, who shall each hold his ollice until his successor is elected and qualified. Spc 3. Membership in this club shall be secured to any person who shall sub scribe to its plan of organization and pay the fees and dues or assessments agreed upon by the clufr. Sec. 4. Each momber shall havo ono. voto. All voting shall bo done by ballot anil questions shall bo docided by a ma jority of tho votes cast. Sec. 5. Tho President shall call and act as chairman of meetings. Tli3 Sec retary shall keep a permanent record of all transactions of the club, and draw warrants on the Treasurer when ordered to do so by a voto of tho club or its duly elected financial or awarding committee. The Treasurer shall bo tho custodian of tho funds of tho club and pay out the samo undor orders diawn by tho Secre tary and signed by the Ptosidcnt when authonzeit by the club or its tmaucial committee. Sec. C. Tho President and two mem bers elected by tho club shall constitute tho awarding or financial committee, who shall receive ptifs of any wolf or oher animal for tho destruction of which a. premium has been offeri d h ivingbeen killed within tho club hnii -. tintl they or any two of them shall n ":i satisfac tory proof order tho Souictiny, who upon such order, shall draw bib warrant on tho Treasurer for the sum thus frund to bo duo ; such order shall in all c.iscs bo eigned by tlte President and in all cues tho scalp of the "dead animal shall l' surrendered by tho parties to whom the premium is awarded and shall be de stroyed in. the prcsonce.of the awarding committee, or a majority of them ; pro vided, wolves or other animal killed by poison shall not bo deemed t" Coii.e within tho rules of the club, or ! paid for from its fund-, KUI.KS. L The boundaries of this :lub shall bo as follows: Commencing at tho i-ity of Salem, and running up Mill Creek -to Turner, thonccalong the line of tho O. & C. Ituilroatl to Jefferson, thenco down the Kantiam river to tho Willamette rher, thenco down tho Wil lamette to Salem. Provided, any wolf or other animal whco destruction is paid for by this club which is started iusido of these bounds shall bo deemed taken within tho bounds although it may havo been killed outside, and any wolf or other animal which shall bo started outsido of these limits, though killed within them shall not be paid for by this club. 2. Each member shall pay to tho Treasurer of this club, upon joining the same, the sum of one dollar and th ad ditional sum of fifty conts for each wolf or other animal killed and paid for by the club. Provided, tho awarding com mittee shall have power to raise or lower the assessment an it may be found ncc sary to carry out tho requirement! of this rule. 3. The wnall wolf or cayote shall be tho unit for the destruction of which twenty-live dollars shall bo paid by the club.. A wild cab shall rate at ' one-half that sum or twelve dollars and fifty cents. A largo wolf at doublo the rate of a cayoto or fifty dollars, and a panther or cougar at fifty dollars. 4. When n llremium has been awarded and paid, the secretary shall, upon the order of tho awarding committee issue to. the members of the club notices of an assessment so as to keep the treasury replenished to meet the 10 quircnicnts of this club. The following became members : Lewis Pettijohn, H. E. Ankcncy, T. L. Davidson, G. 11. Croison, I. M. Wagner, M.11 Moore, ll. P. Minto, A. Hogg, Prof. T. C. Jory, and A. F. Davidson. A Disease In Sheep Who Caa Give a Cure. CnE3wn.i, Or., Jan. 2, 1881. Editor Willamette Farmer. Wc take the Farmer because wo like its mako up and wish it cou'd be placed in every farmer's family on this north west coast, and farther, wo wish more farmers would write their experiences for publication. We are always inter ested in reading letters written of per sonal experiences from farmers and their wives and children, but I think; judging from self standpoint, that many will say that they cannot write anything that will interest others, and furthermore that we ha so much to do. Our reading matter must not be laid aside any more than our out door work can bo neglected and so when can wo get time to put our thoughts on paper for tho benefit of others. But if wo farmers neglect to send along our items for publication we hope our editor will circulate "inote among tho farmers and gather them up for us. We would gladly welcome him this way. There is in this section much mystery as to what aitH tho sheep and causes them to die. It has boon generally laid to tho leach and that they had become sb diseased by running on low lands or around muddy springs. We wero told by knowing onos that if wo would ex amine tho liver we would find the duct full of leach, borne two years ago we examined caieftllly six in succession directly aftor death and only found loach in ono of them. Shico then my neigh bors and myself have from time to time given a careful examination to see if the presence of leach could bo detected and on some wo could find from four to six shile in others not a leach could be found. Some grow poor and some die 'in go. -d order so far as outward appear-auif-n showed. Some few snejl under chop- but most of them do not, Some cough and others do not, but all h.iw moie nr les red water around the hoar: from f.'itr to six quarts. In- tome the liver i- .spotted or mottled ; iu others there would be hard dryish spots in. the liver. All of which goes to show that it is a diseascdliver together with dropsy that takes them oil'. .Wo have read all tho work? that we could get on tho dis eases of sheep but do not us yet find any that give the proper name for it. Wo have tried tho variou- remedies, that we have seen published for the euro of leach or as a check, but without apparent suc cess. The best gunrd against it is to have plenty of good grass. Wo arc led to believe that the cause of so much loss iu sheep is lecaubo we paturo too close, thereby driving tho sheep to eat this ground moss or somothiiig else that does not agree with thorn. Who can give us any light upon this subject from their icrsonal experience. N. A. W. How:. The Mortgage Tax Lav and IU Effect. New Era, Or., Jan. 10, 18S1. I'.Jitor Willamette Farmer : ' This tax question seems to bo almost threadbare, but still as I am pursued I do not propose to give up tho field, pro viding you will indulge me with a little more room in your valuable paper. So far as my observation goes the man who is out of debt has good reason to complain as he has an unjnat pro portion of the taxes placed upon him. I was talking the other day with a man SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY who has two brothers living near him, he Baid ha was tho poorest by odds of tho three. Tho other two were a little in debt and by that means ho pays more taxes than both of thorn. A horse was bought for $150, the horso was assessed at ?50; the indebtedness taken out covers what the horso is assessed at andJflOO of other property besides, which in fact the man who holds the noto pays. All there is in the caso that is assessablo is thorsc and ho is valnpd at but $50. Xow you will say tho horso was not as sessed high enough ; that is fine logic that side foremost. But the man who had tho horso in his possession when assessed did not complain as the assessor said ho always aimed to estimate proper ty at what ho thought it would -bo sure to bring in cash at a forced sale. It gave a solid base to the property esti mate of a county. I will confess that I havo never raised a disturbance with an assessor for valuing my property too low nor have I ever heajd,of any of my neighbors doing it, and I will-venture an opinion that none of those who have been after mo with red hot pencils in the Disseminator, havo evor riiii d a row with the assessor for undervaluing their properly. Therefore if ho gives genoral satisfaction, .why begin any complaints J I still continue to believe that tho most correct way to collect taxes is to assess all property and money in whosoever hands it is found. Say, for instance, on tho first Monday in May. Knowing nothing about notes, mortgagos or ac counts. Taking out nor allowing any indebtedness whatever. In fact keeping out of other peoples business. Simply lot everybody pay tho taxes on all the pinporty tlioy havo in their possession upon a certain fixed day. Blanks can bo sent out among tho people to bo filled out upon that day, which they must swear to, if called on to do so, by the person who is authorized in each dis trict lo tako them up. Should tho Scotch loan company win tho suits they have commenced against the diU'cront counties, would if not place capital that claims its homo in Oregon to disadvantage? Well, it is about tho way the prosent system of doing busi ness generally comes out. When one man takes money belonging to anothor to use, let him become responsible for tho taxes on that money, although it may for a short time seem a burden upon the borrower, but I firmly bolievo that money would bo induced to comb hero into thoSlato so he could soon borrow under conditions far moro favorable to himself than at present. Tho present, law is doing a good job of keeping mony out of the State and thero are some who will find it out before 'six month". Thomas Uuhkman. Reno vat tag old Orchards. Pijun.ANi,0r., Jan. 10, 1881. Editor Willamette Farmer: In your issue of December 28th your conespondont writing from Haywards, California, offers some timely sugges tions alxjtit renovating old orchards. Xow that the completion of tho Xorth orn Pacific allbrds facilities to tho farm ers of Oregon for teaching a suro market for all their surplus fruit products thoie is no longer any excuse for neglecting the orchards which 20 or 25 years ago wero a soureo of so innnli piolit and was the pride of Oregon. Of luto yeuis thoy have been badly neglected, pruning and cultivation abandoned bucuiiho, said the fanners, "It don't pay." It is a painful sight to ride over tho valley and see this neglect; in some instances to see old orchards turned out into the commons like an old blind horse that has become useless, to dio of neglect. Thero is no longer any excuse for they can be reno vated and made to pay, writ for acre, better than tho Iwst wheat field in tho most prosjierous years and most f .not able markets. Let the work of renovat ing commence this spring; let it bo thor ough and complete and not neglected for any other work considered of .more im portance. Commence with the pruning knife and saw and remove the dead and superfluous branchescrape off the moss 4-. ."K, and old baik and givoj them n washing with limo or soap applied with a white Vrash brush ; then apply a top dressing of manure about the trees. It is tho work of ypars to plant, cultivate and bring a young orchard into profitable bearing. The old ones will pay well tho first season for the labor and expense be stowed upon their lenovation and will im prove j ear after year if rightly cared for. It is tiuo wo planted in eaily days some varieties that wo would drop en tirely if planting again for wo havo learned something by experience. But these varieties if not so useful as others we might name can all bo utilized by canning, dtying or niado into jelly or marmalade. Thero is a market for im mense quantities of such products, and hero an opening for a new industry in Oregon. Wo have tho material and may harvest tho crop beforo the present year closes. The fairest and finest varieties can be shipped to Eastern cities as green fruit, and all others canned or dried. Every farmer who raises a surplus of fruit should havo a dryer. Good evap orated fruit will find a ready market and in tliis way all can bo savod. I notice tho causes and the euro of dry rot in apples is roceivine attention from some of vour corrosnondonts and should like to see a satisfactory conclu sion arrived at. I cannot quite agroo with your cor respimdcnt, Mr. Jcssup, for I saw Oregon apples in her ' palmy days" from 1850 to 1870 when a commission merchant in San Francisco I handled thousands of boxes of Oregon npplca every steamer during tho Hush season. I can name certain varieties that wore in thoso days badly affected with dry rot so as to nat nrally affect their vnlito. In some variolic that troublo still oxists while in others it has materially disappeared. In those earlier days good care and culti vation has prevailed. In my mind there is somo other cause of dry rot which I do not understand. I trust tho investi gation may continuo till wo ascertain tho eauso and find n remedy. Lot us havo more light. J. D. Knait. The Northern Edge ot Marlon County. Monitor, Or., Jan. 1, 4S81. Klilor WilUimtto Frmw : Fall wheat looks well iu this part of tho county und nearly all tho farmers have put their spare timo in by doing tho fall plowing and getting ready for early spring sowing. Wo all look ahead for largo crops the coming season. Mr. Joseph Itoss, of Ilutto Creek, has a fiuo span of hortos that are very sick with the staggers and are expected to die. The staggers is a veiy bad disease and farmers ought not to keep their horses too fat in the winter season, or give them too much dry feed. They don't exercise enough and this is the cause of this disease. Give your horses plonty of bait and oak ahiH. To cuio the staggers, boil oats and barley and feed when cold. Fied as much as you think best, but dont give thorn any dry feed, even though they are crazy for it. Give them plenty of exercise and don't over-heat thotn for if you do your hotvj is gone up. Follow tho directions and you will not Ni botheied with blind stag gem. Mr. P. K. .Johnson, of Hay, icccntly lost a valuable span of horbes by over driving and then giving thcni too much cold water, and washing them off with cold wator. I liopo that all of you who are a friend to your faithful uiiimal will tako warning from this and tako good care of your dumb friend. J. W, T. Note. The staggers seems to be quite genemC we will reproduce an article on this subject publihhed last year from Dr. .fas. Wiihycimlio, iu our next. K Another Farm Data. OuesSwei.1, Or., Jan. 7, 1S8L Editor Willamette Farmer: I have just been looking over an article in your paper styled tho Farm Gate. As I am a farmer I have the right to and know how to appreciate tho gate. 18, 1884. But must bog lea o to differ with tho writer in some m peel's, u, wit : As to having as few of them as pos sible., I think tho f aimer should havo a good gate wherever it is necessary to pass through tho fence, and to hao every field and lot furnished with one, sufficiently wide as to admit of any farm machinery to pass through with ease. But if I had to procoed to as much labor and experience as ho speaks of in order to sccuio one, no doubt 1 should have but few. What the fanner needs and wants is a way of making n good sub tautial gato with as little cost as possible, and one that will swing clear and easy on either level or hilly ground and not sag. Xow I havo a plan and mothod of making and supposing a gate, from six feet wido to that of sixteen, that will work easy and swing clear either on level or hill sido land. All that is necessary to mako ono is to have six-inch fenco boards tho length you want tho gato, and threo pieces four nnd ono half, feet long of tho samo material, forty wrought nails, common fonco posts six and one-half feet long and thirty feet of fenco wire. I can tako that much material and mako and hang'a gato that will not sag. M. J. 11. Xoie. Our correspondent has sent us tho "ingredients" and ho must givo the cure. Ed. Ohio Correspondence. l.r.oNARDsituua, Doc. Ill, 18815. Editor Willamette Farmer: In this ago of variegated sunrises and sunsets, of ciop failures and disappoint ments, of dull times and political treach ery, I have drawn consolation from the Fahmku and read with interest many items in it, as from thousands of miles away its Inmost moral faro puts in ifs appearance from timo to time. Vour passing notico of tho Elementary spell ing book revived in tny mind many al most hallowed memories of backwoods bettloinetits, of log school bouses, of large families, of ..scholars iu b'no jeans and icd llannels, of beach fires and parched corn, of spelling schools and itinerant shadbollios and saddlebags, the itch and log-rollings, quillings tiud cabin raisings, unselfish and friendly neighbors, scrub cattle and tho murrain, sugar nmkini,' and frogs, woh es and wild turkeys, tho tinkling of cowbells and the screaming of malo bovines iu defiance, as from herd to herd thoy would answer each other, often ending in deadly ronconter, an occasional red man, and but one nig ger in Delaware county, Ponipoy King, who had been a servant of Washington ; Delaware with five hundred inhabitants; tho seat of government at Frankjintou, or Berksbhe, or Granville, or Zanesville, or Chillicothc, forever passed from them, and Columbus, their proud rival, tiding slowly and steadily amongst the stumps and swales of Scioto bottoms,! thought to mvself, such is tho romance of pioneer life, "carry mo back." Hut to go buck, "gain to the starting point, J vonldsay that this was tho era of good spelling, and forty years of ixidagoguing, with its changes in school-books, especially spell ing books, has been for tho worse instead oi the bettering ot mat most useful ac complishment, is tho lesult of etjieri once, and 1 lielievo you will ugieo with mo in claiming tho Elementary to bo second to none as a spelling book, not withstanding the il.ite of its publication, The new year now approaching brings with it many grao problems, whilst it teliovi's us from December-with its fitful changes from rain to sleet, and from leet to violent storms ot wind an. I snow. the thermometer playing up and down like a striking machine lunoug drunken boys at a county fair. Com lotting in the shock, or hi the crib, Kansas ship ping corn to supply one of the groat coi n growing regions of the world, mid yet fut hogs only worth four cuts u pound. These are not pleasant things to contem plate or realize, yet they aro iitublioru facts, and their effects are munifest iu tho sales of reul estate for the purpose of seeking'a new equable climate. Dela ware has a representative in tlioix'rsoii of Stephen U. Cruikshank, now iu Oregon, seeking a home; many others are await ing his decision whether it be Washing ton, Oregon or Nebraska. But of 1884, what shall we say. Un der present auspices our currency will lie meddled with, our tariff doctored, NO. 41). whether it makes it worso or hotter; a clnof niagistiatc must bo chosen (and God grant it may not bo some old stand ing candidate); the gieat agricultural domain of Alaska must havo a good re publican government j and soma Xorman and Clydesdale horses imported ; old war memories will have tp bo dug up and got ready for tho campaign ; shot-gun prac tice revived around ballot boxes, and re ligious intimidation, with its potent cor rective infiuences, used o darkies and presumptuous Republicans who dare to desecrate the sanctity of tho ballot box down "thai-," and wo pause and ponder. I saw by tho Herald and rresbyter that Portland, had two Presbyterian churchos,and both had large accessions, rocontly. This speaks well for Portland as woll as for this very respectable branch of Zion. I wish you and your many readers ti happy new year, a prosperous journey through life, and rest beyond lifo's fitful' scenes, where tho wicked cease from troubling and tho weary nro at rest. So mote it be. John Waters. OUR ILLUMINED SHIES. It is singular enough to watch thif sun riso or set and seo tho wonderful illumination of tho miner skv an hour or so after or beforo tho sun touches the horizon. Sunday evening thero wcin clouds that looked dark and forbidding, but they wero near by and tho crimson glow that lasted long after sunset was in the far boyond. Monday evening tho sun went down, out of our vision, at free o'clock and soon tho wondrous illumim1 tion began on tho south wost. Thuie was no cloud to bo seen. Tho sky wiih clcur; lustrous stars looked through it overywhere. After the sun went down tho crimson glow caino and spread beau tifully, gradually fading away an hour and a half after tho sun disappeared. Thote nro various theories as to the cause of this strange lustio in tho upper heaven, for this .matter, whatever it is, is said, by scientists to bo oor fifty miles high. Somo say it is "cosmic dust" thai ilo.its through bpaco and is held in tho very highest atmosphere It must w veiy light, whatever it is, and tho only pretense that claims it to Lo of earthly origin, suggests that it is smoke or vapor fiom somo of tho volcanic dis turbances that occurred last fall. Tlt.it theory is often accepted. Many sav it must bo that tho eurtfi is wrapped in tho tail of some comet and it only show. iu this way. It is something ttiuuj.o and uncommon and has been seen i.II over America and a great patt of Europe, THE BEST APPLE8 TO DAY. A subscriber writes to ask what : if the best varieties of apples for dtying. Wo do not profess to bo good autboitiy on this subject but woknow that of e.nly apples tho lied Astrachan dries woll .unl makes the best kind of dried i'lvt Tho Waxen is a very excellent cim! n applo and is as good fitiit as n.n - when dried. It lusts a long time, lius solid flchh and makos a good yield, l-i . that purposo it ranks among th i t Tho Baldwin is excellent to dry, r-'.ii it, Cider, the Fall Pippin, in fact aitj jp o I tart applo can bo dried, but totnu f.u f is mi juicy that it dries away too nii.tr,, For setting out an orchard to d t n is not advisable to havo many variil'is is ti havo fruit that will come in hei,..i mi and afford business tluough the v J. do Boisou, The Astrachan is rnrlj fit Waxen comes in eaily autumn, tui cau all'ord to plant a gro.it niifn- of these and thu Baldwin's. Youtmif. 'z out the MuiotiiM that thrive ltcst u: i .nt locality and soil. Any friend who -n give fuller information on this fo; invited to do so. Suiiscriiikrs wiix please buy i p I noto or hond by registered letter to direct. Don't pay it to any one else ui remit to us. We will .send a to Cpt showing exactly how their dates n! (id on our books. We cannot pay agv,it, for tho prico is as low as wo can affml to publish tho WittAMwrru Fiuieh. Terms, ono year 2.00 six incnths, 11.25. i