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WILLAMETTE FARMEK: SALEM, OREGON, JUNE 27, 1884
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throws out n spur that is pierced by Mill
creek at Huron's gap and runs west to
tho Willamette: the rise of land to the
south of the bridge, on Commercial
street, Salum, being part of this spur.
It looks very much as if the great river
had torn clown this wall, in its course,
and tliut tho hills of l'olk county that
run north, parallel with tho 'Willamette,
tn n-t have been a continuation of this
spur font out from the Cascade rango.
One of tho most beautiful of the
through tho season. The price of ricl
yellow butter makes it profitable to milk
this stock. It strikes us that calves can
be raised on milk from common cows,
some of which give a very great quantl
ty. It is worth making such experl
ments to be able to sell uolden hued Jer
sey butter.
A fact worth knowing is : that grade
Jerseys are certain to become good dairy
stock. It is easy to soon possess a Jer
sey dairy stocked from grades. Ineigh-
iiiitny charming drive out of Salem is ' toen months from commencing to bleed
that out Commorciul street across the common stock you will havo a half
long, covcicd bridge, through tho Sleepy blood heifer to milk. The luck of the
1 follow that is called South Salom, and Looneys in getting heifer calves is rather
their cultivation, and climate and rail
unite to perfect their growth. Appear
ances justify the confidence ieoplo have
in making it a leading product. It is
not possible to say definitely concerning
prices, further than that hop growers
will bo well repaid.
Much Afflicted.
.WANYON'K KKCKIVIKO A COPY OF
THIS l'APKU WILL CONSIDKK IT AN
INVITATION TO SUIISCUIHE.
Tiik ritiN n.if. picnic and Cole's great
circus will mako things lively in and
around balem noxt week. AH who can
do so should go to seo Cole's coloss.il
allows and btay over until after the
Fourth.
remarkable. D. II. Loonoy has, from
six heifers, fivo heifer calves and ono
bull calf. In 1S83 he sold a heifer calf
to G. W. Dimick, of French Prairie, for
$12". He does not really caro to sell as
he wants to work into a herd of some
The m:.viiii:k during the past wick
has been nhoweiy and at times heavy
rains picvailcd, and some caiiM) for fear
w.is felt that much wheat would go
down, but information to hand hIiovw
that such wax not tho case. Some fell
on tho piaiiic, whilst in tho hilU nodiini-
ago wan done.
then for ten miles south through tho
red hills and over varying uplands that
occupy the interval to tho Santiam val
ley. This hill country is generally good
farming land, especially for winter
wheat, and is the natural home for or
chards. Tho way is marked by good sizo before commencing to market them,
farms and comfortable homes. The All his stock, without oicoption, are
higher points give views of the distant solid color and black points, so are pure
mountains nnd snowy peaks and look ly fashionable. D. II. will purchaso a
oft" upon tho prairie, lcaving tho hills pure blood malo of W. C. Myor, of Ash
wo come down upon tho undulating Imt- land, for next year's breeding. With
torn lands that for several miles in width ten full blood females he will soon havo
occupy between the red hills and the a good sized herd. He has at home n
Santiam river. The Ankeny firm of splendid bull, now two years old, solid
1,000 acres is npproachod by the middle fawn color, and another bull ho hires out
road, tbo lieuna Vista feny road is still at one hundred dollars for tho season,
further west, and tho Jefferson road That is a famous section for wheat
passes throngh tho hills to tho East- growing. The old pioneers are generally
ward. All olfer eiy beautiful drives on their donation claims, or else their
Having occasion to go to the farm of
Mr. Wm. Townsend, six miles from Sa
lem, last weok, wo found him recovering
from typhoid fever, while his wife, two
daughters and son, and a hired man
woro all down with it. They had then
buried a son eleven years of age, and
Wednesday of this week the son sixteen
years old died. They are much afflicted
and havo the sympathy of many friends,
but tho loss of their sons is a cause lor
grief tha' tho world can never compen
sate. One of tho daughters was taken
ill wIipii attending school at Salem, and
took tho fever borne to tho rest, and all
have had it. Tho situation of their home
is high and dry, on a hillside, and seems
to preclude the possibility of any local
cause for this deadly disease. Mr. Town
send thinks it was caught by the rest
fiom the daughter who was taken ill in
P.ilein. Quite lately he lost a valuable
marc that died when foaling ; so he has
had a deal of trouble.
The ball to be given by tho printers
of Salem, July 4th, pi onuses to bo an
unusually pleasant all'nir. Tickets, $1.50.
The gallery will be thrown open to spec
tators at 25 cents por ticket.
"We had a pleasant call from Mr. J. C.
Elder, of Waldo, Joephino county,
Wednesday. He tarried only a short
time with us and if ever we can wo shall
visit him in his southern home.
John ISakkii, near Salem, has black
beiry vines that hao stood for twenty
years and he thinks their long .ontinu
nnco is due to tlieir not being hilled but
that the gr: und is kept level about them.
In our climate, whero tho summers aie
generally thy, it is not advisable to hill
up any growing plants on account of tho
dendency of tho soil to dry out moic eas
ily when hilled; but cultivation as a into
is to bo preferred to any other, as it keeps
the ground moist.
Tin: KAv.voi:-. of cut worms aio unpio
cedented and cover almost all the growths
of tho farm. Wo havo always known
that they damaged gardens but this year
they go outside of corn and cabbage and
cut down potato vines, injiiie wheat
somewhat and take largo fields of oats.
Kven hop yards mo injitied; great dam
age isdono to them by tho cut wonnscat
ing oft" tho growing shoots that will bear
bops this sciibon. Mi. Sottloinoier, of
Woodbuin, one of the most successful
nurserymen in Oregon, has sullmed great
injury from them as they cat out tho
gorms of tho grafts and so prevent their
groivlh. Some are killed, lie estimates
his losses at $'l,iKH) from them. While
they pievail generally to some extent
thoy exist in paiticular localities in mul
titudes and faiily becomo a scourge.
Various surmises arc made as to their
origin in such numbers but none wo
have heard seems to meet tho eu-o. It
is said that they are moie than common
ly numerous, also, o.i?t of the Cascades
Tiik Om (.on Srm: Fun will begin on
Monday, September 15, ami continueone
week. We hope to see the State Fair
meet w all a grand success this ear. !'
dicationsat present mo that it will do no.
Thcjsociety otl'eis Jilioial premiums, in
all divisions The sum of tlueo thousand
two bundled and fifty dollars inoU'eied
in tho speed depaitniont. The races
udcrtiscd me nhcady filled. Suiijo lino
trotting will take place this year (i- tho
society aie now in a position to lissuro
the public of dials for blood ns well as
speed, having secured memlicrshiiHutho
National Trotting Association. The
couuty exhibits will doubtless provXa
lino fcatuie of tho Fair this year. Wo
hope the farmers of Marion county will
take hold of this feature of the Fair and
mv to it that a good showing is made of
grains, fruits, vegetables and grasses.
The decisive action of the Hoard in
pioliiliting the sale of spiiituous liquors
and all gamblings, lotteries, ami gam
bling dovicos, we are pleased to note. We
feel confident that tho Hoatd of maiingeis
will carry out to tho letter, tho piohibi
tiou of those evils of our fairs. Our
citizens should do nil they can to sustain
the Stato Fair.
and tho two first named givo a grand
outlook over tho Santiam and Willam
ette bottoms, with tlieir wealth of hop
fields, and the broad prairies of Linn and
Uonton counties.
Last Saturday wo took the Jefleison
road to spend Sunday with a daughter
who lives in tho Santiam valley, twelve
miles from Salem and thico from Jcffer
bon, on tho original claim taken by Jesse
Loonoy over forty years ago, when his
neatest neighbor was D.m Waldo, a dozen
miles away in the Waldo Hills. Then
Salem was a mission school and tho na
tive glasses of tho rich bottoms giew up
midway to a horse's side. At that time
18111 tho piimcval world on tho San
tiam must havo been wonderfully at
tractive. The soil was as fertile as soil
could bo. Tho roll and swell of tho
prairio was varied by beautiful groves
of fir and groups of giand old oaks.
Kills of water wound through all and
tho hillsides abounded with springs.
Out in the midst of this charming valley
roso a butto covered with oaks and fir,
with living springs on all its sides.
Jesso Loonoy was in tho prime of hfo
and had crossed tho plains that summer.
ll Western Oregon invited his attention
but ho made his homo near tho eastorn
C'hehulpum, as the Loonoy Butte was
called by tho Indians, and his farm was
on tho natural meadows that lay to east
ward of it Thoso fiolds, after forty
yeais of constant cropping, turn otTgood
crops to-day and show tho lasting char
acter of Westorn Oregon soil.
David H. and Norris H. Loonoy have
farms loft them by Josso Loonoy, their
father; other and older brothers livo
near by, peipotuating the namo their
father mado honorablo by his life of
steadfast probity. They ahp--srJeni to
inherit his capacity fwrniiiintaining a
competency at fanning and stock rais
ing, for which'fTicir farms aro well cab
culutedyXriiero is no finer grass laud in
West
sons are miming their farms. IiBsides
five Looney brothers closo around can
be found Charley lliller, (who is such a
popular farmor thnt Marion county
sonds a Democrat to the Legislature)
John Harrison, James Anderson, O. O.
Glenn, Wm. Cosp.-r, F. Steiwer, Bell
inger, Libby, Pate, Doty, II. A. Johnson.
Many others of the old ploneois still
havo their land, while the sons of othor
worthy men perpetuate tho name after
father is gonn to his long rest. Farming
hero means stock raising; tho Looneys
always have heavy crops on summer-
fallows nnd have plenty of sheep to pas
ture it to advantage. They have a fow
mares to bring colts. Berkshire pigs to
fatten in tho fall, a fine lot of fowls to
help make a living and also take an in
torost in bee culture. Mixed farming is
practiced on the Santiam and is the
only true system. Their rich pastures
and heavy meadows aro proof that stock
raising pays. "While farmers cannot
spoculnte and bo worth millions, farm
ers, such as wo have named, command a
success that is greater and a happiness
purer than Wall street speculators ever
know.
Prophec ed Decadence; ot New England.
Tho famous orator, Wendell Phillips,
is said to have drawn this nicture of New
England and this ono of tho South in a
rccont lecture at Boston. What a con
trast twixt his uttoranco of thirty-livo
years ago and now :
Tho handwritting is so plain on the
wall that none but a fool need mistake
it. New England is doomed just as sure
as natural laws will produce fixed results.
New England has no soil worth mention
ing, and her wealth has nil been dcrhed
from her manufactures. These me
gradually leaving her. and eventtiallv
they will all go ; some to the West, but
most, to tne south, where tho advantages
for profitable manufacturing are all loca
ted. The coal and iron in the South urn
easily gotten at and inexhaustible in
amount, and tho iron mills, foundries
and machino shops can go to them better
than they can bo carried to tho shops.
Then tho cotton and woolen mills must
go there, for the raw materials are, and
are to bo produced there, most cheaply,
uniformly and better. Then look at tho
advantages of tho extra hours of day
light in a year's run. This, of itself, is
no small matter. As the South grows
stronger, tho wealth, cluture and power
of the country will we central there,
until she will becomo, not alone the mis
tress Of America, btlt tlln .-mitral nmnim
of the world.
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THE HOP CROP AND PROSPECTIVE MARKET.
SANTIAM TAKMlNa AND STOCK RAISING.
To the noi Hi of Sitleiu, for a day's ride,
the country is level prairie, only turietl
by grove of tlr forest and iscetuional
groups ot oaks. On the twit Marion
county Inu the Waldo Hills, rich, lulling
upUud that fiimlly grows into foot hills
of the Cascade range. Thin hill ivion
.'.stern Oregon than thes.0 Santiam bot-
tows altord, 11ns was no doubt what
induced Mr. David Loonoy to conuut nee,
a eouplo of years ago, purchasing Jer
sey stock. They havo always hail good
stock of various kinds, but not as a spe
cialty, until I). II. Looney brought seven
bead of full blood Jerseys, in ISSli, from
the best bred herd in California. lie
had two bulls nnd fivo heifers, all j ear-
lings, and last year took tho first prizes,
at tho Stnto Fair for best yeailing bull
anil heifer and Ixst Jersey bull of any
ago. I lis herd e.uno olT as good pattur-,
ago ns tho country afford. A small
stream flows through theirfanns; the
1 wo brothel's have ofamous pasture,
iniuTrrt)f-n-niivtntTof tamo and native
grasse, with pea-vine aud rushes some
times intermixed. On eighteen acres of
this they have twenty head of cattle, ten
horses, and as many sheep, with a dozen
hogs, and vet, over a good part, grass
can bo mowed for a good crop of bay.
Norris II. 1-ooney has not gone into
the full blood Jersey .took but has seven
heifers that uie half anil three-quarter
bloods. A single cixks with the Jersey
secures generally a g'eat improvement
in the milking and butter making quali
ties. Half and three-smarter blood heif
eis usually e.ilve at about eighteen
months old. At D.ivid Looney's they
milk four full blood, and four half
bloods, all young stock, and make fiftv
pounds of gilt-edged Jersey butter evoiy
week, after giving tho valves a liberal
supply. Several of them ho i confident
would make two oumls of butter a day
The hop crop of Oregon is mostly in
tins vauoy, wnero new nop yards were
sot out in 1882-83, somo of which will
come into full bearing this year, so as to
give at least twenty-fivo per cent, in
crease to the product. Much increaso
of acreago took placo over on the
Sound and in tho Yakima country, in
Washington, and some yards were
planted south of Snake river and in the
Pnlouso and Spokane regions. It is es-
limaUul-th.it tho Oregon crop will
amount to fftXM) bales of 200 pounds
each, or a million, pounds of hops,
while as many morb will be shipped
from tho Sound ports. At a rough esti
mate, wo should have a! million pounds
of hops in Oregon, and' fully as many in
Washington. Tho harvest may exceed
that yield, but will noi fall below it, un
less some disaster happens to tho crop
wo cannot foresee. Tho hop maiket is
excited by reportsfrom the English hop
growing districts, which state that a
blight is on the growing hops that ren
ders it probablo that tho English crop
will bo a failure. On thnt supposition
prices lurve advanced, and nothing can
le done towards buying tho growing
crntis. Some nun said hitch- that lm
"didn't believe hop growers would look
at nay cents a pound lor tlieir growing
crops, but that would be unreasonable,
for hops can hardly go at that figure
with what we know of the world's needs
and supplies. We leain from a. buyer
that he has offered twenty cents unavail
ingly. No doubt hops will mount up in
price, but our people have learned some
thing by experience two years ago. It
is certain the hop crop will do its share
to make the times improve, and may add
a million dollars to the finances of this
region. We shall watch tho markets
carefully to get the most reliable infor
mation obtainable for the benefit of our
readers. It was considered hazardous
to plant out heavy hop yniiU in InSJ, as
somo did, but they acted wioIy. The
blight in the old country seems to bo
continuous, and sometimes is felt in New
York State. Tho nsj of hops is also in
creasing, ami the business of growing
hops seems to be moiv a certainty than
it has lieon for some decades lurk. Our
country hnt proved to be well mited to
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