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IV i ;. , ' VOL. XVI. jarr$0tti!ttq. Woman on tlijtwr Triffla Editor Willamette Farmer ! In the January numbef (A (ho Jforth American Eeviow Senator It. Wj Blair states some plain truths to the JfaJronal Bepublican party. He tells them' fha "alcohol is already in politics," and tfaft they will mid themselves defeated in an election not so very rcinoto if thoy do not live up to thoir convictions oC duty upon the'great questions which are now coming up for discussion beforo the pco pie. Many thanks to the noble Senator for his fearless declaration of truth. Thousands of American women say Amen to these true, ringing woids of warning. However, ho fails to mako mention of another important factor in American politics, which will not down, but goes on steadily, persistently, by as serting itself I mean tiie prayerful, irresistible influence of the Christian women of America. For years these women have besought the Infinito One to show them the way to work effectually against the gigantic evil which is deso lating our land. They praye'd that sa loons might go, but the doors were not shut, the saloons did not go, and all bo cause "alcohol" was in politics dictating to parties and shaping legislation. By and by a homely truth forced itself home to the hearts of these women, that whatsoever was legislated upon the peo ple could be legislated off. Full of this new gospel, they went forth preaching the worth of the ballot, and man's obli gation as a citizen, only to bo confronted with another gigantic truth, that while they wero beseeching a miracle, man was striking hands with the powers of darkness, and alcohol was fortifying it self behind unholy statutes and consti tutional defects. Some years ago, when certain noble women presented their claims for recognition at the hands of the Republican party, they were told that their claim ought to be treated with respectful consideration, and that was the end of it. "We now are on the eve of another great political contest, great questions aro up for settlement ques tions which involve the happiness of women and the morals of a nation. Conscious of the fact that the platform of a party indicates its principles, we, as women, aro very anxious to know what the great parties purposo to do about this liquor traffic which, on the wheels of iniquitous legislation rolls over the lives and hearts of helpless women, crushing them beneath a weight they are powerless to resist. Let no politician console himself with the thought that we are women, power less, having no ballots, for women have demonstrated that they are a political power ; aye, even to the making and un making of parties. The election returns from Iowa and Ohio speak in trumpet tones in favor of woman's power in poli tics. We as women' are .to work either for or against Edmund Bnrke says, "when bad men conspire good men must combine." Women will heed the advice j we are combining. We seek to effect a revolution in the interest of good gov ernment, of righteousness, of home edu cation, of peace. We seek it by legiti mate means. We' seek it by agitation through the press, and on the platform, by meetings and petitions. That pro hibition is in politics is not our fault it has been placed there by the liquor men themselves. They have constituted themselves a third party and put the liquor traffic above all questions of policy or principle that may arise in govern ment They boldly defy law. They propose, with an enormous fund in their treasury, to corrupt courts, bribe juries and suborn witnesses. This, and more, they are resolved to do in solemn con clave. Aadwhy? Can ony honest pol itician answer truly! We as women have no creed, save that of "Cod and SALEM, home and native land," and before this all party preferences dwintllo into insig- cance. Moreover, we believe that gov ernment is instituted for 'protection ; when government cannot control ifsown vices it i defective. The liquet traffic is wrong eternally wrong tfterc is only one way to acJ nnd th.it is consti tutional prohibition of lh'6 wholo busi ftpss. On this platform wo' stand; nor will we move. We have enlisted for the war. We shall stay in this battle "until tins cruel war,is over." t Mock at us if you will. An old Ficnch proverb says : "What, woman wills, God wills," and in this nineteenth century the proverb stands a. luminous prophe cy! It is the Inminous prophecy still, and to its f uliillment the very stars of heaven run, and to its consummation we pledge our hands, our hearts, our lives. x Entre Nous. The writer of the above should not have been afraid or ashamed to put her name, to it. The Willamette Fakmer has always been openly an opponent of the liquor traffic and gives place willing ly to the foregoing. It is also opposed to anonymous publications and considers that argument derives greater force from being-identified with those who argue. Something About Drainage. Labimi, Or., May 12, 1884. Editor Willamette Farmer: Your remarks in regard to the subject of drainage, in the issue of May 9, is certainly correct, but it takes more than one little man to drain such a body of land as we have here in Lake Labish. Although one dollar per acre for all land included in the lake would drain it completely (about 1 2,000) yet that is too much for one or two to put in and all the other land owners get the benefit. I would be willing to pay $5, or even $10, per acre on 20 acres to even have the main ditch opened out and then ditch the land 'myself besides. The land is worth in its present shape scarcely any thing, but if well drained, one-third of the crop would pay interest on three or four hundred dollars per acre. But some parties here that own from 80 to 200 acres, let it lie year after year pay ing taxes and refuse to do anything toward ditching, and claim that to drain their own land is enough for them to do. But there is about 100 rods of the pro posed ditch at the lower end that is nec essary for an outlet that yet does not do the land crossed any benefit at all and the digging of this should be shared by all parties interested. This seems to me only fair and just. Mr. L. C. Fisher started a subscription paper this spring to raise money to do the wcrk, but the majority of thoso interested did not seem lo think it necessary to put in any coin, and as one of'" them expressed it, "it will be done anyway," and they get the benefit. So Fisher gave it up in disgust, and now there seems little pros pect of anything being done for another decade. Can the Fabmeb give us any advice on the subject T Respectfully, F. J. Beaty. letter from Umatilla County. Foster, Or., May 17, 1881. Editor Willamette Farmer : Tho.grain crops are looking exceed ingly well The acreage is not half so large as last year. There is a good deal of corn being put in and it looks well. About Centerville and Weston they are sowing from fifty to seventy-five acres to the farm. The ground is too dry to sow grain on. Timber cultures that have bad any care look well. One man informs me that be had on his timber culture 25 different varieties. Alfalfa has not done very well for me on bill land, although I dou't think I gave it a fair trial for 'the ground had not been cultivated long or wll enough. am going to try a piece of bottom land and see what it will do as our bunch grass will soon be gone on our farms aud we will have to find some substitute. . I shall also try a email patch of red clover, OREGON, FRIDAY, rlnhtffll out &ome cntalnhn trees two yeai's go this spring and they made last year rt gfdfvlh of five feet. I think every farmer, inespectivc of timber cul ture, should put out a. good Vised rove anu wnen there is more timber in the country v e will then have a more eve1" season and more rain. Our vegetables look ns well as thoy can. I live nine miles north of Foster. Geo. W. 1'ahkek. Onto Correspndence. LEjONAitnsBL'RO, April 28, 1884. Editor Willamette Farmer : In these days of seeming predomi nance of the Prince of tin- Power of the air and the coldest, dnrkesl and most for bidding April over experienced in this region, I again turn mine eyos; toward Salem. With seasons too shoitatboth ends, 'it is but natural that 'farmers should complain. For in this region called the groat corn bolt of Ohio many well to do farmers have even incurred debt in tho purchase of feed to pass their stock through the coldest, longest, and most relentless winter in the history of the past twenty-five years. Th6 only crop which last year panned out a re ward to the husbandman was potatoes, which now go begging a market at any prico against $1.25 per bushel in April of last year. Last year we all ate Michi gan and York State potatoes at afore mentioned rates. Kansas C5c corn, kindly shelled to hide spoiled corn, has had a wido introduction, because we could do no better. The prospect for seed com nre ot present a,' fearful menace to tho poor farmer -wfio from sheer necessity must purchase 'if he plants. Tho southern zephyrs which tore up trees and threw down fences, ruined buildings, and shadowed many streaks of country with terror and con sternation, has done much to weakon the attachment of the people to those localities which carry the evidences of a call from Mr. Cyclone. Give but plenty of wind or lightning and it takes the sand out of the stoutest heart the one can't be stemmed nor tho other dodged. Never in the recollection of tho writer has there, at this season of the year, been so little preparation or so poor a chance for preparation. r Wo are now passing-through the per iod of carp nnd Jersey cattlo ; of Mow tariff and cheap sugars ; of all wool cloths with cotton warps, and cheap calicoes; tho realistic change of from westward ho, to Florida or bust ; with everybody for Blaine and somebody for Sherman; big State conventions and collie pups ; Alvin Joslyn's ten thous and dollar challenge band and his sixty thousand dollars incomo; of Chicago wheat corners and busted lard dealers ; of high waters and city riots; with po lygamy a fixed institution and able to bully the best government in the world. With kind regards I am, John Waters, Jr. DEMOCRATIC KOWNATIOM. Jackson County. Representatives, J. R. Neil and Thomas F. Beall ; county judge, E. Depott; clerk, W. II. Parker; sheriff, A. S. Jacobs j treasurer, N.Fisher; commissioners, W. T. Rodgers'and C. H. Pickers: assessor. John Ash pole: school superintendent, W. M. Colvig ; Burvyor, james jenreys ; coroner, ut. iniow.i Yamhill County. Senators, J. C. Bra ley and C. H. Burch; representatives, J. C. Nelion, D. C. Coleman and H. M. Daniel; clerk, Georgo W, Brio well; sheriff, E. B. Collard; commissioners, Henry Gee and T.O.Goodrich; school superintendent, G. J. Burchett ; treasurer, J. L. Furguson; assessor, George W. Phillips; surveyor) Jell' Fenton; coroner, Gus Smith. University Commencement Exercises Prof. Uoyt will address tho students of Willamette University Juno 11. Hon. ltichard Williams delivers tho annual address, Mr. Hoy t following. It is hoped that all who were under Frof. Hoyt, or students prior to 18C0, will meet him. A picnic dinner will be given by his old scholars in the University Grounds, on the site of the okl "Institute" buildinc after the exercises ot the day, ?i MAY 23, 1884. Ilortittil.tirai. HORTI00LTUBA& JT0TSS With the completion and through ponmctioti ilfs ty rail Oregon fruits will obtain1 their merited reward. How is your orchard ? If you expect success see that the soil is in good tilth; Weeds should not be allowed to go to seed. There never was such a showing before in Oiegon and Washington as there now is in tho orchards. There is every pros pect of a good market. Wild strawbeiries.will be abundant this coming season if the signs of the times can bo counted upon. In fact nil wild fruits promise mudh. After tho present harvest, and when the fruit crop is all garnered, then will our farmers seo tho amount of money tnere i in horticulture. We predict a "boom" in tree-planting this fall. The demand for Oregon fruit will no longer be confined to California, but henceforth the market of the world will bn open for us. Ohicago will come hero for green fruit. The supply will hardly equal tho demand. Says the Dayton, W. T., Chronicle : , Mr. John. Goodwin a solid farmer of Whitman county and ono who has had a great deal of experience in Irui t culture, informs us that there is no danger of losing fruit trees by frost, if one takes care to set out his orchard on a hillside, instead of on low damp ground. Ho has experimented considerably and can prove bis tneory to De correct. Though corn should not be planted until tho ground is warm, there i an ad vantage in early plowing, partly to give opportunity for warming the seed bed. Some of tho very be6t crops have been grown on fall-plowed land, with tho manure spread on tho surface during winter. The need, for warmth in the seed-bed makes a freshly-turned furrow unsuitable for planting corn, though it is all tho better for oats and barley. But if corn ground is plowed early, cultivation to mellow tho seed-bed should be continued until planting time. Wheat rasing for export in India dates back about six years, but the increase is astounding. Thus in 1879 India ex ported a little over 1,000,000 centals, in 1880 over 2,000,000, in 1881 over 7,000, 000, in 1882 over 19,000,000, and in six months of 1883 over 15,000,000 centals. or at the rate of 30,000,000 centals a year. And the Bombay Chamber of Commerce officially asscrsts that India is capable of supplying not only tho wants of tho United kingdom, but an amount limited only by the question of finding a market for the producer and cheapening railway communication with the coast. Chemists who have axamined Indian corn find that it contains all th way from six to eleven parts in 100 (by weight) of fat. By proper means this fat can be separated from tho grain, and it is then a thick, pale oil. When .oils are heated sufficiently in closed vessels, so that the air cannot get to them, they are turned into gas, which occupies many times the bulk that the oil did. When pop-corn is gradually heated and made so hot that the oil inside the kernels turns to gas, this gas cannot escape through th,o hulls of the kernels, but when the interior pressure gets strong enough it bursts the grain, and the explosion is ao violent that it shatters it in the most curious manner. The starch in the grain becomes cooked, and takes up a great deal more space than it did before. Small rrulU ea the rum. Editor Willamette Farmer: I am often surprised that to few farm ers grow small fruits. It is raro you see raspberries, currants, gootberrieii, etc., on oven splendid farms. Why is this so? Is it laziness or carelessneMT Perhaps it is both. They generally say, "there's no money in small fruits." Ye, that is so! If thoro is not directly much cash in small fruits there is indirectly some thing of fur more value than mere money. Yes, two somethings pleasure and health. Wc spend money freely for both these. A little labor with the hands di rected by some brains will procure all these fruft, pleasure and health and thus enable them to save their money to v- ir,! ' V;v- FO, 15 buy the "gals" thoso fine diosscs "prom ises ffb'od whih ago, 'cause tho nice young' felloes' nf6 expected next Sun day." Well, now, suppose ''Sal" fth & tick dress and "her fellow" comes, sho foels good and just a littlo proud, and him n little, too. The "old 'omnn flies round, gets dinner, and on tho tablo is what? Currarrt jelly, jam and strawberry pie. They all smack their lips around tho table, and. particularly "Sal" and "hor fellow," after dinner. Its awfully catch ing, you know. Tho "old folks" feel "bully,",and the "little fcllom" feel "just splendid," with stomaclw full of "them are strawberry pies!,- So thoy all have an "awful good time." Well, straw borries, currants, goosbcr ries, etc., aro not only pleasurable to cat, and .healthy, but actually save money. Now, is there anything on top of dirt so splendid as a dish of ripo strawberries, ,, or currants, or oven gooscberrio3? If thero is, I'll get up beforo sunriso and run out in my linen to seo 'em. Chil dren, both little and big, love all the fruits, '"causo thoy are good." Then why not have "lots of 'em?" In a country liko ours, grand in all its features, magnificent in its scenery, transcendent in its mountain ranges, illimitable in its forests, laved by the mightiest of oceans, lined by tho grand est of rivers, and traversed by tho beau tiful Willamette, a climate unsurpassed a soil unequaled, surrounded by cloud capped peaks, peerless, puro, and grand, as God's own sentinels watching tho cen turies as they pass ; our destiny is in terwoven with our country ; our country is high in its mission, lofty in its design, peerless in its purity, whilo its glorious future illumons'like a sunbeam through a dark and lowering cloud, scattering life, light and beauty everywhere. So then, we appeal to every farmer; horti culturist, and agriculturist to do their best in building up our country and thus make it as glorious in Art as it is in Nature. Lot us show 'bur manhood, be gamo and grit to tho back-bone. We can court, win and wed Flora ; she will adorn our brows with blossoms and flowers. Wo can court, win and wed Pomona; sho will fill our hands and baskets with fruits of ambrosial perfume. Theso will bring health and pleasure as a reward. What adorns our country more than gardens of fruits and flowers? Give mo flowers and their fruits. Now, I havo a littlo vinoyard, an acre or moro of strawberries, currants, goose berries, etc., and 'twould do your bones good to seo the "littlo fellers" go for 'em when they aro ripe. Yes; they go for 'em like a geared streak of lightning down a peeled poplar polo. Hear 'em! "Ain't these good!" "You bet!" "Gol ly! Seo here! "What a whoppin' big 'unl Aint they awful good?" I've heard older people say similar things, too, about theso good things. Look here I Every farmer can have small fruits with a little elbow grease and a hint or two of brains. "Pearohed on that giddy height" "Mum, Bel ' stealing all the cherries!" More sometime. Jim Ticklk. state; Oruie Keooptlon. The members of tho Salem Grange will entertain friend and delegates of the State Grange on Tuesday evening. May 27tb, on which day the Stato Grange convenes. All ladies belonging to Salem Grange aro requested to bring such pro visions as may bo coven lent to aid in furnishing tho refreshment tablo for that evening. All old rnomU-rs and friends of tho Grnngo aro cordially invited to moot the State delegation in tho hall of the Salem Grange. ' By order oftho Committee. Near Weatherburg, on tho Baker City road, two highwajejaon stopped the stage and robbed the rmseenccrs. They had silk handkcrchlof .over their aces, and tooic the express box ana wnatthe pas musts threw out as. ordered, bat made no effort to search the passenger. rf '"w , r-fWV?iilA ,.-.. Ji.
