Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887, July 25, 1884, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextWILLAMETTE FARMEB: SALEM, OREGON, JULY 25, 1884 u 11 l I ''1 .1 V J' l' I ! I mmm- ? ire irwued every Week by the iXTILLAMKTTi: t AKm.Il 11 III IHIII.NU CO. W TfalUlS OF HUJISCIUPTIO. One year, (PoftAfre paid) In advance $ 2.00 Eli months, (Pentose pafd). In ad; anci' 1.25 Lett than six months will be, per month 26 ADVERSI3INO RATES ! Advertisement will be Inserted, providing tb are expectable, at the following table of rates : One Inch of Hpaco per month 2.60 fhree Inches cf fipace per month 6 00 r ftC'half column per month 16 00 jn column per month 30 00 ta.8mrle conlw acnt free on application. 1'ublicatlon Office: INo. 0 Wuhligtou Street. Mlrs, rooms No. Band GJ Up Notice to Subscribers. Wc puLllth onlj a sufil lent number ol the Tarwi-r to supply actual prepaid subscriber and we cannot sup y back numbers If It is desired b) subscribers t ' secure all issues tbey est arransro to send in their runcHals in ample tunc reach tnis office beforo expiration. taTAll subscribers can tell I, the printed tajronTEi rthcir pjper cxactlj when tbeir tln.c will cxpire.Til another Important point: AM. COMMUNICATIONS nND LETTERS SHOULD HE ADDllhSSED TO THE "WILUMKTTK FAU1ILU," HTANYONE RECKIVING A COPY OF THIS PAPER WILL CONSIDER IT AN INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE. Mk. Bi.vim.'h letter of iieccptiinco is II very lengthy untl ablo review of nil the matters of ititeie-'t to tho Amoiiciin people. He takes u strong position in lavor of all good works, eivil hoi vice re form included, nnd shows tho side of tar iff protection to American industries. It is woll writton and covcrn the great field of political argument. Ho has iwiitcd for the national Demociiitic platform to bo mado public nnd so is lhlo to foitify himself ho far as it is pos sible to do so by argument and political reasoning. Tiu.nn has been n chnng?' in tho mill Jug industry in our city. Tin- City of fialcm Company km rooiganieil under tho heading of "Halom, Oregon, Ciipitnl Kloiir Milks Co. (Limited)," with Win. .Mtnpson niiuitigcr. They nuke an nouncement in this ibue of their intcii iioiih and also the locations of their rati ons wnrehoiiKOs. This conitmny is rep resenting Scotch capital and with char acteristic push will lunko thoir mills second to none. Thoy want ehoico nhcat and will pay tho highmt price for tho Bamc. This mill has no connection whatever with tho Salem Flouring Mills Company. Tin: v father is an all-aboibing topic at iicont, and commands attention. To jay it has slouned will express menger ly tho condition of allairs. Thoio were fears enteitained of lust, but nono has .ret appeared - that is, to any oxlont. Tbeio have been small patches of grain thiown down and in n few t ,ics it has coma up again. Tho damage is not one-tenth pint of what was expected. At the proMnt timo appeatances indi cate that a change has como with tho new nli.ues of tlto moon. A few days of sunshine and the harvest will be in hill blast. Willi i: a (ii;i:wdeal of hay is i-onie-xhal damagod by the uu-eiiounlilo rains it is not piolublo that much has been absolutely spoiled. Some rank grain is thiown down, which will causo tioublo mil expense to got it cradled, but wo do not hear that much grain is loally spoiled by the rains. To ollk't this par tial lovi thero must bo gteat loiielit to jmiViin and pastures. Wo can testify alio oichauls show linger and liner fruit than usual and are improved by the ihowcis. Take it all mound and thoio is leason to hope for a balance of advan tage to mow than componsato for tho slight injuiy done by tho "latter rain." LIEUTENANT C1KEELY KESCUED. Tor sou'ial yeais back tho public has read of tho hopes and fe.us expressed by Washington authoiities coneeiniug tho fnto of Lieut, (lieely and tho party of twenty-four in all who accompanied him to tho Arctic regions in 1881. Tho facts mo as follows I.ieut. Oroelj is an olliccrof tho flth cavalry, n tall, slender man, wluwo appearanco donotcs inoro neivous thin phv-.ieal foieo. Will power is strong in such men, and ho went un harmed through exposim", hanUhip'S, death and disaster More which stronger men g.io way and died. His assistant was Lieut. J. H. Lock wood of tho 2:ld in fantry. Thcio wore four other commis sioned officers nnd most of tho remainder ;uon commissioned men nnd some pii vutes. Tho coinpnny compribtHl twenty four in all. Tho steamer Proteus con voyed them from St. Johns, Xow Found laud, to Discovery Harbor, which they reached August 11, 1881. This tnpoditiott wa sent out in ac cordance with tho plana of tho Interna, tioual Geographical Congress that had htoly met at Hamburg. They wont to .vm-JZs-f TfcaiCariTJ ' raz? fri-V 7" ' Tr.' -- take charge of tho American station at Lady Franklin Hay, ono of a series of circum-polar stations for scientific oper ations. The point selected for their woik was Diocoveiy Harbor, latitude SI deg. 41 min. and longitude Gt deg. 45 min. wet; mo-t northerly of all points of observation, and one mot difficult of access. ine latest news iccciveu of tlic oxpo- dition wa-! a lottor wiitten by one of the mombci" dated September, 1881, soon alter too annul ol tho party. It was understood that (irccly and his party should make sledging excursions from that point and that relief vessels bhould be sent in 1S82 and 18S.'!, and so on un til they wcie returned. To state tho points briefh . tho lelief easel sent in 1S82 contonded with ice nnd could not proceed to tho northwaid as intonded, so cached stores wheic it was thought Orocly would find them on his return. The relief expedition of 1883 was also a failure. Lieut. Yarlington was in com mand and seems to haedono his best, but blame attachos to the chief of tho Weather Ihucnu, fieneial Hazen. Tho whole scientific woild was now aroused and in sympathy with plans for the re lief of the little party devoted to the inter ests of science, that seemed to bo aban doned by fate in the far regions of the icy Xoith. Our readers are familiar with the plans recently devised for re lief of Lieut. Greely. Secictary Chand ler of the Navy Department took tho matter in hand, planned tho expedition and equipped it fully, and carefully studied all tho features of Arctic explo ration necessary to understand tho ne cessities of tho case. Our government fitted out tho Uenr and tho Thetis steam ors, and Lngland fitted out and oflbrod the Alcit, famous alroady for Arctic ex ploration. This floet left our shores eaily this spiing, freighted with hopes and wafted with prnyers. Last Thurs day tho glad news was received that tho (irccly party was icscued and wo pro ceed to give tho details as briefly as pos sible. The stoiy of tho Grooly partyafibrds one of the most thrilling nnd exciting of many tales of tho Artio discovery. On the !22d of June, under gioat diffi culty, during a torrific storm, signals weio descried horn the shore and the steam launch from the Thetis made for tho land. Tho excitement of tho dis covery was hightcned by tho great dan ccr that accompanied tho rocuo. It was found that of the original twenty four only sovon woro living. All who suivivcd weio starving and could not oven go to meet thoir rescuois. Greely has lead tho piayers of tho dying just as tho roscuo xvas announced. Ho was diesied in fur; stood on his hands and knees; was haggard in tho oxtiomo; eyes deep sunken and his voice woak and faint. All were near staivation, living on mo-s, lichens and shiiinps to small they could not find enough to sus tain life. Tho scone of thoie-cuo is full of in tenso pathos; tho survivors woio almost insane with joy and had to bo fed caio fully and only peimitted to lmvo liquid food for sevcial days. Ono of tho seven, Seignant Lllison, died thtco days after coming on boaid. In tho November previous on a journey to find hidden stores ho was fioen sohis hands and foot c.uno oil' and lived eight mouths in that tciriblo condition. Tho story of tho he roic party nro senreo equalled by tho an nals of fiction or of truth. So long as they had any food all lived and boio up bravely, oven though there was ono ter rible winter when" they had only ice huts for sheltor and fur bugs to keep warm in. iliey survived the Arctic winter without any fire, eating their meat (seal blubber often) raw, nuikiug scientific obsoivntion- and exploring to a point higher than oven tho Lnglish exploieis had over reached. Here, in biief, is tho latest story of Arctic adventure, which is full of heroic endeavor and nlo adds to the wealth of science nnny nuteiial facts that are givjtly to the honor of our country and of our countrymen who made their way to within six degrees nnd a fraction, less than I ."it) miles of tho pole, to latitude SU deg. 21 min, and one of its. patties, while exploring, was actually drawn into tho opjn polar soi where Dr. l'avcy was ndiift ono day. In all thcirdistrcss they preserved thoir uvords ami instruments. According to instructions they made their way southward in tho fall of 1883, but the mistake of tho relief juities was in leaving food on tho wrong side of Smith's Sound, so they found no stores us thev came southward. It was duo to finding Kuglish stores, lon concealed, that they succooded at all and that any survived. They worn on tho edge of starvation when relief eniuo to thom and not u single ono of thttm nil could have survived three days longer. It w.u c- timatcd that sixty-eight hours would have decided tho fate of all of them. Several of them wero only saved by the most careful treatment. WHERE IT PATS. On the first ripening of peach plums we took a few to Salem and sold them for a fair price, but within three days farmers were bringing in thoir fruit and selling for 75 cents and oven less a bushel. Whereupon wo withdrew from the green fruit trade and took up the drying process. It is very certain that very ehoico dried plums and prunes will sell at 10 cents a pound, and that moans rl.CO to $2 for tho bushel of green fruit, less oxpenso of diying. Ten cents is n low price but it is certain to net the prune grower double what green fruit will sell for, besides which there is danger that green fruit will dccliy and be worthless! Tho man who depends on selling fruit in its ripe stato has uncertainty all around him. The demand is limited and uncertain and when tho market is over supplied prices drop to nothing; wheicas, dried fruit will keep for yeais and has tho world for a customer. AH that is requi site to make all fruit salable at fair price, is to evaporate it nicely and have it ap pear in good shape. Appearances have much to do with salablencss and pack ing in good form is a great help to ap pearances. The fruit grower who will grov good fruit and cure it well has a sure thing on a market at fair paying prices, while the slovenly man who does all his work carelessly has no show to get even what his waies should be fairly worth. UNPRECEDENTED FOR JULY. Never boforo, in the third of a centu ry since settlement has boon increasing rapidly in this legion, has theio been such a summer as this we are now en during. There is a tradition among ancient ones among pioneers that there was a summer previous to 1850 we have heard that it was in 184S when it rained all summer so constantly that no grain crop vvns saved. That was not a time when Oiegonians had begun to feed the w orld to any largo extent. Of course, it was a misfortuno to early comers to hnd their harvests hindered or destroyed. Now, if wo can foim an opinion of the result of recent protracted rains, thoy hav o brought calamity on many patient and long suffering people. Never before do we know of any such July rains as wo have had of late. Much of tho hay crop was cut and exposed to nil tho rains. Whole fields of magnifi cent winter wheat Ho prostrate and can only bo saved with difficulty. To very many wo fear it is indeed a calamity thoy will dcoply mourn, but it can bald ly equal the loss by rust some years ago. Tho evil is not unmixed or unmitigated, however. Tho pastures have revived nnd gaulens and orchards are improved. Wo sco in market tho largest and finest fruit over known, even in Oicgon. Our own expci ience is that fruit is acquiring gicat exccllenco as well as size. I5ut these mo secondary when wo roalizo that gtoat staples aro damaged so seriously. Tho loss of eaily whc.it, whntov or it may be, is in pait compensated for by the gain of lato sown ciops. Wo can hope for prosperity notwithstanding all the losses certain to be inclined. Theio is greater variety of production than a few years ago and wo can only hopo that tho rains will soon censo and give us oppor tunity to gathor up tho Augments that aro left. INDIA AS A WHEAT UR0WINO COUNTRY. The possibilities of India as a wheat growing country is attracting attoution and a few facts legarding tho past and proj-ont may not bo amiss. Our readers need have no fears of competition for awhile, but the facts wo append will only go to show what we will bo obliged to competo with, and tho noeefsity for being prepared to meet it. Also tho necessity of completing tho Nicaragua canal across tho Itthmu-, for it is not at nil improbable that America will meet with sharp competition in the wheat markets of tho world. India promises to become a most iuvitiug field for wheat production. The inciea-o of product during tho last few years has been some what lonurkable. Cheap labor, n rich soil, a teeming population aro some of tho advantages that India offers in the growth and production of wheat. Hith erto tho greatest drawback has lccn the want of transportation facilities. It hns been almost impossiblo to move tho vast crops from tho interior. Tuts iiuiiculty is being remedied, and with increased and suitable transportation facilities there setma to bo pr.ictic.Uly scarcely any limit to tho supply of wheat that can bo furnished from this source. Ten years ago India's wheat export amount- ed to 400,000 hundred weight. Now it is over 20,000,000 hundred vcight, or fifty times as much. Tho wheat pro duction of India is now estimated at 250,000,000 to 325,000,000 bushels. The capabilities of Indian exports of wheat are still in their infancy. They can be quadrupled without seriously embar rassing tho homo demand. The en largement of the railway service is sure to increase, and that very largely, this export. Indeed this has been the effect already to a remaikable extent. An in crease of railway service of 25 percent, during tho last fno years has been fol lowed by an incrcaso of wheat exports to the amount of 200 per cent. Tho aica of whoat production in India is almost limitless. In many districts a bountiful crop is now regarded as al most a calamity. In tliecenti.il piovinccs wheat solK at twenty cents per bushel, and it is esti mated they are callable of produi nig wheat for 20,000,000 more people than their present population. In this con nection the New York Times says : "In a laud of ncaily 1,100,000 square miles of area and a population of 250,000,000 with but 10,000 miles of railroad, tho fntuic which awaits only the increase of railways is one of almost inconceiv able progress." An experienced buyer of silks says that a good test to seouie ono from being deceived in the quality of black silk is to pinch a specimen on the bias and af teiward pull it in an opposite direction. If tho crease mode by the pinch looks liko a similar fold in a piece of writing paper, reject the piece unhesitatingly. On the contrary, if the mark smooths out and is hardly distinguishable, it is safe to purchase. PROSPECTUS. TT'OIl THE PURPOSE OF PLACING THE W ILLAMETTE FARMER W ithlo tho reach of every farmer in the Pacific North nest, o -hall after this date reduce the price as follows : One Year, In Advance, $ 3.00. i lub of Ten, (money with names) 15 OO Clubt of Fit r. (mono) with names,) 8.73 Postage Stamp- will not he taken for Subscription. Tins new schedule of puces is meant to accommodate all classes and leave no room for complaint or dissatisfaction. Ac the price named above this paper is the cheapest on the Pacific Coast. As many persons have objected to bein? asked to pay in advance we reduce the sub scription price to those who make advance payment and shall never deviate irom the terms stated. You can make money by pre payment, and wc preter that all should pur sue that plan. Wk intfmi to make a farmers' paper that every fanner in the land will need and will not willingly do without. We UMiiiwrixu the interests of agricul ture in all this legion and intend to con tinually study and work for the advancement of the class wa represent. Wk iuv E correspondents in all sections of the Pacifio Northwest who will report the success of farming in every locality. We mivli. keep pacti with prodaction in every department, nnd report, through cor respondents and from perconal observation, all important facts concerning farming in all its branches including productions of grain, grasses, fruits and vegetables; concernine stock raising, the value of cattle for meat and for dairying, of horses for all purposes; of sheep for wool and mutton, or both; of swine aud poultry. Also, as to bees and honey. We -inn continue to study the markets and inform our pations on all points, so that they vt ill be able to judge the situation for themselves. Our old patrons will bear wit ness e have worked faithfully, in this con nection, in the past. We shall do so in the future. No daily newspaper m Portland has ever given the producers of the country such clear views of the world's ciopj ami markets asthc Fakmiu often does. Our maiket re ports have been worth hundreds of thnnsauds to the producers of tins region. We shall carefully cull such miscellaneous matter for use as will benefit and mstruct both vonng and old. The Farmi it aims to be an educator in every department of life. OCR editorials will freely and intUnend- ently discuss every miestion that interests the people from the standpoint of right. So far as we have influence, it shall be exerted in tatnr of good principles, good government, true re hgion, temperance and tor education of tho masses of the (iencral and Stato Govern, meuts. Tin. Home Circie is edited by a hdv of mature experience in the labors of the fanner, .indwell acquainted with the wajs of the world. She interests herself in all thedutus aud pleasures of home. Thousinds bear w it ness to the good influence the Farmer exnts in many homes to make the lives of mothers, w ives and children better aiuVhappier. As a familv irn; the FvRaiti: sustains the closest relations to the people and exer cises the most salutatory influence. The WiLLAMETre Fvrsiir is not local in charac ter, as the name might mislead you to believe. It was named fifteen jean ago, when the Willamette Valley was Oregon, but it has ex. panded and prown with the gronth of the country and represents all the agriculture of Oregon and Washington. Tm is the farmer's own organ, open for all to relate experience, seek information, and state any griev ance they may have to can plain of aiMiust whoever and whatever seeks to oppress or deceive them. Our columns be leng to the people, and the value of the Far mer chiefly depends on such popular utter ances. The Editor brings to your assistance the experience of 33 ears spent in this region; intimate knowledge of the country; many vears connection with sericulture and tv.ui years' acquaintance with miny of you in the coluinns of the Farmer. The reduction of prices is made in expect- tiuu uiai it win unng increased circulation. We aak every friend to aid us in that respect, and alull appreciate the good will of all who do so. HEW THIS WEEK. Words Fail s?SSS StXBT Caster, of Nashville, Tenn., "tot the benefits derived from , Ayer's Sarsaparilla. llavlng been afflicted nil my life with Scrof Mla, my system seemed saturated with It. It came out in Blotches, Ulcers, anil Mattery Sores, all over my body." Mr. Carter states that he was entirely cored by tho use of Ater's Sarsaparilla, and since discon tinuing Its use, eight months ago, he has had no return of tho scrofulous symptoms. All bineful infections of the blood are promptly removed by this unequalled alter tlvo. ! PREPARED BT ' Dr.J.C.Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Druggist-; f I, six bottles for 15. SALEM, OREGON- CAPITOL FLOUR MILLS CO. LIMITED. (Kinrgitiiled from llic Cllj orSnlrm In.) BANKERS: FIRST NATIONL BANK OF SALEM. Head Office, Edinburgh, Scotland. Local Office and Mills, Salem, Or. Authorized t'tiptlal. ttoo 000. .1110,000. Preterit lnuc. SnLEM, Oregon, 10th July, 1834. Dear Sir: Referring to the annexed cir cular, I have the pleasure of informing you that the above Company having acquired all the valuable property, plant and privileges of the City of Salem Company's Capitbl Mills, has commenced to carry on the business of Flour Millers and Wheat Merchant?. You are doubtltss familiar with the build ings and michineiy, which are unequalled in this State, and I need here only Bay that, owing so the improvements introduced, this company is enabled to produce the finest flour that can be obtained from Oregon wheat, and which is already winning its way in public lavor in ureat Dmam and elsewhere. Very ample facilities are given at the Pub lic Warehouse at Salem for storage qf wheat. The Warehouse has a capacity for 200,000 bushels, and. whilo owned by this Company, is managed and conducted as n distinct and separate undertaking. The Company has also Warehouses at Independence Buena Vista and Marion, conductedon the same principle, where farmers are invited to store their wheat for which the highest cash price of tho day will always bo given. The Company looks on its interests and that of the farmers of Oregon as largely identical. In its efforts to produce a high class flour it can only succeed by having the co-operation of the farmers in raising that choke While Wheat which is so much valued for milling purposes. Every facility will be given as regards finances, arrangements having been made with the First National Bank of Salem to make cash advances against warehouse wheat re ceipts until you see fit to sell. Grain sacks can be had at the various Pub lic Warehouses, or will be sent to you when ever requested, and I hope to be favored with your business, which will at all times be es teemed by Yours faithfully, WM, SIMPSON, manager. CITY OP SALEM COMPANY. Selkm, Oregon, 10th July, 1SS4. Dear Silt: I beg to inform you that the buildings and property of the above Company have been sold ami transferred to the Salem (Oregon) Capital Flour mills Com pany, Limited, which will now carry on the business of Hour Millcia and Wheat Merchants. To this now Company I respectfully solicit your confidence aud support. I am, yours faithfully, WILLIAM REID, I'reilileiit Cllj iirsnlriu Coinnauj. NOTICE TO FARMERS, And all Interested In Fruit Drying. JOHN Jiitusir ct- soy, ALBANY, : OREGON Manufacture to Older GALVANIZED WIRE CLOTH For Trnjs and Fiuil Driers. ORDERS FILLED OS SHOUT JtOTICE. ALSO nuke to order MOWN MIBfc MAlTBKSSEs.Mlth or ulthout tlc,hteucr. PElllOHlTFIt 2I for Fanniiiz Mills, anl all U-idjol Wlltl. t'LOTM. OREGON WIRE WORKS, i""S Sm A Lit INT, Oreson. STUDENTS. IX PEXMAXSIIIP. TV. )lrfOVVi:il IS GIVINO LESSONS IN rialu and Ornamental Penmanship, In the Dorthttest connrof High nnd Court street. At i SO and 7 30 P M. Persons ttlhinj to take lesson can cartmenre an) da) In the tteck. Terms or Tulllou. tor plain ttrillny, 1J les sons, SiW, or lor SI lesson For pen draine, 14 lessons, W. or $10 per month. Old and jouns- are In tlted to atund. m.ir-stf rrlce-llst.etc Thoroughbred P'Ultry aud ems, 1011 Broadr ,-I 3 Oakland : : CaL S-ifebSm FANCY POULTRY. Plymouth Rocks EXCLUSIVELY. STRAnTOnUtted dampens of th. Tcintiasnt So i . " o05"..6- Cash must accompany orders. Addrws : J. H, GARRISON. Forest CrOTeTor laprilly Ilatn UlVtlVC'DDtia n.i.nn... fSSSihlS? J M-nALSTED'S ..-j rJtSfi. (I'trrc-v-wli From 120 up. II j ggy 1171 il pygfrfll Seed for der kW i !-" 1 Fl tlte -- .it. w?.jrp: . i it jftfe&j-