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WILLAMETTE FARMER: SA.LEM, OREGON, SEPTEMBER 5. 1884. i 1 - ' B-. 'i hi i rJ (0 ; f 'I (J il iJli fi 811 i. I IMF i u L us i ' i I u Hi.' '! Hi ii i! ill i W0mMX ii-mied every Week by the tTITILLAf f'TTK FAIOIt'M PI III IHIIIW; CO. W TEI1M3 OF SUHSCIUITIOJ.. One year, (Potaico paid), in Advance I 2 CO 11k months, (PoiUljo paid), In advaneu 1 ?v Lees than six month will be, per month 26 ADVK11SISIMI RATES: Advertisements w 111 be Inserted, providing tn are stpertAblc, at the following table ot rated : One Inch of space per month 8 2 60 tfbre Inches of space per month 6 00 f no half column per month 15 00 On column per month 3000 thero is only bo much possible nnd wlio.it and wool must bo tho leading stnplei of all now regions lilro ouif. Whatever wo can do to increaso tin number of products should bo done and the man who succeeds in creating h diversity will usually thrive best. THE WORLDS NEEDS. MJUmple copies sent freo on Application. rublicatlon Oilke: No 6 Wwil-inton Street, lairs, rooms No C and fs Up TANYONK RKC1.IVIKG A COPY OF THIS l'Al'KIl WILL CONSIDl.ll IT AN INVITATION TO StmSCRT...:. 1 1 i- vniscntwi: to our government Hint tho l'iog.in Indians nro starving. They aieshut up in a ro-crvntion in tho mountains of Montana, w hero they can not glow tho neccFMiries of life easily, mon if they know how. Tluyaronot allowed tn go oil" tho reservation and tboy litorally aro st.u ving. Tho sight is dcploralilo and tho fact is digiacofnl to our nition, for government ollirers I wno inu.(3 ticalios Willi sucli tubes know well enough flint tlioy cannot becomo ti'If-Mippoiting. Tin; would hnt no kind woid-4 for tho man who loaves .ilnnptly and whose dep'irtiuo loaves ninny to giievc on ac count of their losses fiom dusting him. AV. 1). 1'ittingei, of llillsboio, has ab ut oiulcd and owes sixty thousand dollars, much of -it to peoplo whoio all was in his hands. IIo was county treasurer and his bondsmen arc heavily involved. Ho c.uiicil on a laigo business and tutted many who cannot piy. It is .1 had allaii. Sad for his family left bo hind to unutteiable Kinow; sidfoithe few who have lost their .ill by him; sad for him, because it maybe poihlu be me mt honestly and boc.imo involved and to failed. It is a pity ho could not hive bocn man enough tost.iyand ninke thu best of himself and all his ciicum stances. Tm- m.vu wo have been able to dis count California as to several lines of fiuit wo havo had to import in founor jeaix, poaches especially have jiiovcd oxcellenl and abundant. When wo do grow poiehus in this valley they aio of the best (piality. Much good fiuit is giovvn in out guldens hero in Silcm and the best is to bo found along tho slough in the guldens on (iaily hill. Above our own .110 the guldens of (.'. S. Wood woith ami A.L HiieUnghiim, who rniso miieli beautiful fiuit Mr. Buckingham fill iiished last spiing sonic of tho linest cheiuiw possiblu and now sends us a bag ot laiily Ci.nvfoid pom hen tint mo l.ugo and luseiotw. WheniMir a peaih tieo has half a chance it b .cm abund antly this jcm. SAVE EVERY ritlMG Haul tinios sometimes teaebcs lemons of economy and of good iiiiiungenient that piy well in tho long run. AVo have haul times becuu-o. wheat and wool, tho gieat staples of lmxluction heu, .110 at alow ligiuo. Wheat will bo pioduccd and sold below its nctuil cost to tho far nior, but wool is not tho solo pioduetion of n sheep, and with tho natural ineioiiso the mutton mid tho lloiee oven at 11 low piietifortho lat, tho sheep farinei will do well. Tho hop giower seems to havo a good pro-peel and hop yanls aro to bo found all over thu country. Stock men do well vvitli Iioisoh, euttlo and swino and pas tures aio paving bettor than giain. The daily buiuio-s is leeching moro iitten t'on among finurs, anil tho laisingof fowls is found of importance to those who invest c.nefully. Tho fiuit ciop i good as to apples-aml it is to bo hoped that those who havcoichuids will tiy to ihy the fruit well and so add to the gen eral nnonuo. This is a time when fnru.orj nuit ti no ovory thing tliny can a.' tuiituU into ea-h that will pay for the l.iboi . It is not al'Hio Oicgon and tho I'acitlo Noithwest that sutler, tho fannera of tho l'ist h iv oas much dilllculty in in ik ing Kith ends of tho j ear moot. The Uu-biiiulman lehito.s the geucuil conver sation tin' was had at a meeting of the r.liutra rarmers' Club, only a week 01 so .1 waul to n hard .voir on the farmer nnd talked over tho situation fully to eoiuo to tho conclusion that thero was but little that could pay them this ) ear. In Central Now York wheat was only ninety cents a bushel and they thought it could not pay. (Sonoral depression re sulted from tho drop in brcudstulTs mid thoro, iu hero, they found it necessary to economize iu all respects and to nmko every thing count that was possible. Farmer tho world over ha vo hanl tinuti. After all thu talk about diversity ot crops Good English authority says that in any case, wbatover the harvest at home may be, Great IJiitain will need 11,000,- 1000 quarters of 500 pound", and cart use 10,000,000 quarters of brpadstuffs from other countries. Sixteen million quarters are equal to four million tons, or four times tho probable surplus tho Pacific Coast can spare. This illustrates tho effect of our products on tho world's market. Only u fow years ago, say a quarter of a century, such a thing as breadetufTs from this sido of the world was unthougbt of, so it was with regaid to tho fact of wheatrgrowing in India All this has come upon the world sud denly and wo stop to inquire the out- coino and judge what farm production will tako in tho immediate future. hi wheat to bo produced in iucieasing ratio as new fiolds aio explored and inado ready for tho ploiv ? If all tho world has no other rciotueo and knows of nothing else tint can be done, then it is po-siblo tho same old channel will bo follow od and no new paths of trade bo opened. This supposes that man re sembles tho autor thu bee who'c instinct knows no ihange and whow needs know novaiioty fiom tho fashions that ant and beo have followed from beginning. Hut mail, ovon the plodding farmer, has more ouUomo than that and will dis cover new paths in the field of iigricul Line It baseomo to this: We must de velop something of v.uiety in produc tion, so as to find revenue moie roliablo than wheat-gi owing .tlloids. A young friend who has developed gieat energy and skill at farming and has luo.id acios that overlook Salem, eight miles off, in tho Waldo hills, sends uswoid with unfeigned rejoicing, that ho has glow 11 .1,000 bushels of wheat on his bill acies. We appreciate his cnter piihc and his iniinensu labor in securing such success iu pioduetion and the queeiy that comes to us is "What will ho do with it?" Tako whoat under its best phases, and tho most wo can hope for will not bo aicniunerativocrop. Tho writer referred to as high author ity considus that October must como before wheat will settle down to .1 steady and leliablo iiguie. By that timo tho not Id's Htatiticsians will iigiiio out tho supply and make soino estimate of the coining demand. Ah wo have intimated hcietofoio low wheal and Hour will eau-o 111010 extended uso of them. Tho poor will eat white and not black bioid any longer and manufai (mors will woik up low guides of Hour in v.uiousways. Our cnuntiy will not equal tho groat suiplusof two je.us ago,"und it will ho possible that all our biead can find hungry mouths to feed. Olio decided fact should bo hot no in mind- Thuvvoild has a va-t surplus of shipping. Dining late jears Kngland and Noiwiiy and Geiniany have beon building many ships expecting our coni inoico would requiro them, but com merce has gono down and all over tho wold tho geneial tone of trade is very slow. This will insure us cheap freights if wo manage well nnd do not throw tho oppoitunity away. Freights should bo as low in piopoitiou as all trado gen oiallyis Wo may not lealuo as low freights as have prevailed but tho world that needs our wheat has ships to send for it that will be glad to cany it for n low i.ito. soo how their best interest lies in co oporaion. If they could control, in some measure the products of the coun try, tho result would be that there would bo less glutting of markets with unsale able things. The world may have need, within a twelve-month, of all the farms can produce, but to rush tho proceeds of all the harvests onto its markets as soon as the harvest is over is certain to over stock the demand and to depress price. This can only bo avoided by co-opeiation among producers. Thero must bo or ganization, and mutual undeistanding and also a financial system by means of which a producer can borrow on tho value of his products and bo ablo to hold at least to prevent over-supply. W have novcr seen any thing suggested as a sufficient guard and protection of tho intciests of producers, savo the Grange The order of Patrons of Hus bandry covers all that giound in its in tentions and if thoe plans can bo thor oughly tested theio is reason to beliovc that they will secure llio bo-t possiblo results. handy, barrel, bo'v, or sack and sells for what he can get, whereas ho can easily buy boxes and good papor to lino them and pack his fruit in No. 1 shape, eo packed his fiuit would sell better and his reputation would be considerably en hanced. However, wo don't expect to see many farmers try to pack fruit in No. 1 shape and only throw out thit re mark as a proper suggestion. NEW ORLEANS CENTENNIAL. FARMERS IN A PANIC If farmers wcro organized for solf-pro-tection they could make a much bettor defence of their own interests than now. It is impos-iblo to organize the great mass of producers so as to control mai kcts, but some protection could be secured if farmers wcro ablo to command financial assistance in times like the present vvhon a necessity exists for pre venting the breadstuff's market from boing overstocked. In times of abun dance it would be folly to try to maintain high prices by any sort of organization, though it might bo that prudent manage ment could provent prices falling to a rate as ruinously low as now prevails. Tho policy of millers and all other buy ers is to let tho markets becomo over stocked and buy at tho lowest possible figiue. A p mic in broidstufis acts much the same as in stocks in Wall street. Tho limit is o.isily passed of actuaj value and all tho world sells at a sacrifice Tho remedy for this state of things is to relieve wheat growers of necessity to sell their crops as soon as tho haivest is over. There should bo some financial institutidn at tho command of tho farmer whoio he could borrow money on his warchou-o loceipts, and so bo ablo to handle himself well. The height market to-day controls tho price of wheat; high fioights are a controlling inlluence to keep w heat low in price. Selling too ficoly will ovortock all markets. Tho silvation of tho whout-grower lies in holding aloof fiom buvors. If not compelled to sell il will bo but a shoit timo bifoic the mar kets ovcrvvvhcio inu-t improvo. The vvhont pioducorsaro "beaiing" their own product by rushing to sell in hu-te. Tho Grango is intended to give fanners moro unity of interost and action. Its purj oso is to aid agiiculturo in all po iblo ways. If its influence was poiinanently es tiblished it would coniu lienor to ac complishing all desired onds thafi any schomo over piopo-ed for tho benefit of winking agriculture. Mr. W. II. Wadhams lately g.ivc us a copy of a letter received by him from Mr. Marvin, of Minnesota, who is TJ. S. Commissioner for tho great exposition to bo made at New Orcloans, and urges that Oiegon shall havo a good exhibit thero It seems that in rosponso to re quest received by Governor Mootly he in February last, appointed Mr. Jacob Mayer of this city and Hon. Jos. D. Lee of Dallas as commissioners from this State to take entile charge of tho matter. Owing to business engagements and to further aid in making tho exhibit a eieditable one to our State, Mr. Mayor a few wcekssincc appointed as his assis tant Hon. John "W. Crawford of Salem, It is to bo hoped that something m ty Le done that will givo visitors at tho cen tennial some idea as to what Oregon can do in the way of an exhibit of grain, minerals, woods, fruits, vegetables and fish. This exposition will open this fall and continue until next June, and will be a grand affair. Congress appropriated a million dollars towards its success and thu Southern people w ill cai ry ittlnough to n grand termination. Our harvost is now being gathcied and wo shall have many pioducts worth exhibiting. Our State can compete in many lines of pro duction w ith tho w holo w oild and Oregon can bomado widely an 1 favorably known if our peoplo will send samples of their products to bo exhibited at the great Now Oi leans centennial. POWDER Absolutely Pure. This powder never i tries. A marvel cf purity, strength and wholenomentss. More economical than the ordinary k'mli, and cannot bo sold In cumpctitlon wi'h tho multitude ot lew lest, short weight, alum or thoqphate powder. Sold onlv In car s. ROYAL Ahll0 POW UEIl CO , 100 Wall St , N Y. decly JfEW THIS WEEK. W. C. WAIU.VMIH, E. W. IiAllNES. warixxij: a karxes, REAL ESTATE AGENTS SALEM, OREGON. OFFICE. North of ChemekiU Hotel, Commercial Street, between State and Terry. Will give special attention t) tho calo of Ileal Kdtate In the City and Counti ; will rtnt housos or farms; collect mone and make prompt rt-turm. AUo stents for the fllNVKCTUI I Ml II II. I in: IXSI'ltAMF. COIIIMM, r lltiririrl,4'llli. organized in 184(1. Atsets over 5i 000 000 W II tike ri-ks anlnst fire. In the STAIK IsltX('i; IOHIMM', or Sail 111, ort-gun, C'ilui,iuoo 0 R E 1' EKE.NVKR Silcm A Iluih, binder, T II WaI, har wars mer chant; Johnsm, I mm t C , lot rclmnts 1 or'lan I F. N. Shurtliir, (dUMor if if-toim; J, A. Strowbridge, Liathcrnieic an.; I. VI Jl rr, boot and shoe dealer. juJtf WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY The Oldest Institution on the Pa cifflc Coast. TJIIKIY l'ltOfllsSDKs AMI IXsllMTOItS! Ttini.i: uiMiiti::) ami iihv .stuikxts A.tMMI.Ll. ABOUT FRUIT. IN THE RtD HILLS. '1 he lasting utituiv and good quality of tho soil of tho ml hills in this valley can bo judged from tho yield of inuiy i inns r-on tit of Salem, where tho hill r uigo U ton miles wide Mr Coffey owns tho old laud claims of Dr. licit and John C. lloll, eight miha from Salem, overlooking tho Santiam and tho Wil lamette bottom, tho highest land be tween hero and tho Sautiuu, where ho has hurve-tcd 3,300 bushels of tho choi cest winter wheat oil' of l'JS ncrc, aver aging twenty-tUo bushels to the aeio. llio members all 'looked for. They v.y at the mill hero it is as good wneai as grows, aveiiigiug tn poiuuis per bushel An old field that has Wen iu cultivation a third of a. century, to our knowledge,, averaged tl bu-helx, and not on summer-fallow. It never was fal lowed but once and that was not last xtvir. Tho rod hills, and Prospect hill iu particular, am hard to beat. OROAHIZE FOR SELF FR0TECTI0H Wo have no hesitation iu saying tho hanl times aro calculated to bring far mers cIo-mw together and enable them to Somo one tells us that people tluough the country are picking greon fiuit oft' the trees, in some instances to work up in their driors. If green fiuit would make good dried product but to bo worth a fair prico dried fruit must bo undo from ictually ripe fruit. AVe havo been woik- ing up somo fruit that was ovor-ripo and ouo person inteicsted undertook to show that it was wasted eli'ort. A tiay full of very ripe plums was pitted and put in tho drier and when it camo out it was found to bo super-excellent. It is a positive fact that fruit must bo ripe and cannot woll bo too ripe to dry well. In drying Harriett pears, onojear, wo found somo pieces that looked and tasted leathery, whilo tho remainder was very tender, encrusted with sugar, and tasted and looked liko coufcetioneiy. The poorer quality wa inciely unripe. Kipo fruit will cxopoiato quicker nnd be better every way and will bring moio money as a matter of cour-e. Thero are many family driers through tho eountiy and this year tho apploerop is x ory largo through this patt of Oregon. Thero are al-o many pears and theio is no reason why tho dried fruit interest should not bo in lib important. Thero is some question as to a market, becau-o dried apples como to Us from tho Kat and it looks very much as if wo might havo to sell very low if wedependon the homo market or exited to send Kast to comi-oto with the old orchards we If ft behind when woenxsod tho plains. That U tho reason wjiy wo say so much about the nevessity of manufacturing a gvxnl article. Hero again comes in a question of im pcrUuco. The farmer generally dries his fruit and puts it in anything that is J. D. JORDAN & SON. .... 81CCK3&ORS TO EDWARD LAMPORT, Dealers In Harness, Whips, Saddlery. Robes, Spurs, Dus ters, Riding and Striving Gloves. nepalrlnir neitl and nrrtmnlK done ot all times tfS"Carr ago tliinnilngaspciiilt). ConitrirJil Sired, Salem. ljeplSm - Something Fnexiiccied ! 'ITSEOROSJftjjijvjO) SSBEEJ ! Of ten d1)rent breeds to ha dliided ss rremli m' anion - thos 3 Kettius' up tho lar'.st clubs for the National Wool-Growers' Quarterly ThcofMal orjmof Tho National Wnoi Growers' AiS soilat.on Theso bhee,) are donated b leadline breed ers of he Unite J States to aid in stcuri.ran iraraedl ate and Imuetw cinulrtloii f r THE OlMP.ThllLY ever state and Tirriiorj. A ha-diome ol-ra-e mat;, anne, onlj 53 tenta war in ilul 4 ten, !n!lo kuC crlpilonsloceiin Lorpir 1.0'ars, cas'i leramlitloiii, etc., ad lies j n nil re. ' i uc yiluiml Modl-LroMfr,1 (lunrlcily. l3eP2t I Itt.burir, l'a. MwA. WW ISIAII DILLON A. SO.S LK I DILLON .4 SONS. Thice Huildings Used for Instruction. EXPENSES "REASONABLE. DI.J'AKT'III'.MHi I CjIIhio of Llbral ArtB II Coll.ge if M dkuie Dr. E. I". Fraser, Tean, 'ortliml. Ill Colletre of Law Judo Win Kan-sej, Dean. IV Wonuti'aColhjia-ilU Jei nle Irhrir, Uian, V Comwrvitot of .Mu'iu 11. I'atv in, Director. V I Lnivtr.ity Acudtuij V II VitDipartm-i t JiUiMarj Bridges, Instructor Firtt Term opens Sep tmbtr 1 lvsl C'ollcireof I.iwopo 8 Sept tuber 7, 131 College cf Vledieinc i pens o Liab.r 3, 1SI. TSend fvr Citatoti.H to UI1IIS IN M'OY, ng32lm Sillein oie'K'Ul. So. .'( ) ond jliTi J. Ten I l.i ml. fir ? 1 1 M t Ea - t.en nl A'cnti f-l Imperial Egg rio3, BSnr.e 3!eal, .laijjitin h Jgt'o 5ive, Fruit, Trees Etc, Etc. Tor cataIcjrA.es and ikseilpibnsof nheve, address: SIILLHK BROS., Se d Store, U9 fecond Street, . 1'orlUnd. Oreson IMPORTERS AND IREEDERSCF NORMAN HORSES ! (Formcrl) of f rm of E. Dillon .V Co ) XEW I.UlMRTATI(h Arrived in line condition June 13, ln Have now a larira collection of choke animals STlltLlj AND IIIHIiril 4RTEUS LOIU. IU T NMIintL, Opposite the Illinois Crninl and Chlca.o an I ltcn D.pt. Stieet cn run frotu the LateVr e ,v vVrtt eri.auaiuaiiuipglU, liioon.lii.ton ait WeHeruDe. lotejnmoomln.-:ou, dlrt to oinuhh, nointl. DILLON BROS., Normal. Ill rptlraj DIVORCES AHnOLUTE ninr.ir'F uiTumw 1"'""' ! wr. i'rrn rcnainj Uircueh felur Situation Gardener mWEVPYYBUlS EVPERIENCE IV V. Y STATE -1, "W -"?, JT" In LnsUnJ Unlo ittndi rrcpi tntion cf all kindi of fl uer,. m.. I.vlv, .. .., t. .-.. .,.. ::. . .' mMX irntpe vUcs, and ' Cr.iron. Addreit 111) sit j Vso the s:rw.inj: cf small fruit.. S.-Ubles. VV.u d l to co-us to CIHHI Es UNO, To J19. Coujcil liluff, Iowa. Faim for Sale. 1 OA AC?E FT'1 K,0UR M,LM SPCTII OF I Milf balem. In mu .tt nf .!... .11... , Urt. Uru, eojj house; j-ooj or. hard; U fenced all arour-d, and to irOM fenecd; Si arres In hfat: Jl acres in pwture; U aeres plo.rd re.ij tor lummer fallow. If j-oo .ut to buj a -rood farm come .rtd u nilus befon ur.1aint !--hrie. I ll sell cron itn. ThepUc U fdl l--J. For farther p,!. Ucularaddrn-i: A K HUNLAP. Salem. oV jun-ltf mt Mr -----.1 mil its THE LIGHTNING W KNIFE 13 THE BEST KNIFE IN THE WORLDt To Cut HAY it STRAW from the Mow, Stack, or IJundle, or IIAI.KiJ II A V, or Unihresut-d OATM iu bundles into Fine Feed TAlni liNwll.inviw... Diichln-r In lions and Alen- llOWl.WVIrlnirimuuNwila .n I mittlncp ntr ii.i, .. -.-rlw throuvh.readllv. Fnnn.Hh.ninu 'any of this work to do, should nol . S,?S P?htnlni?IIay Knife. &ii!10Vilte lKhtni--rHay Itoitof.Z&Ziirfi'!"! Miiiinai-i Bm niu - "-Dr IAIc $?$?)? 'S tocut a lS3 ClfSr? i:fVi,ii1.lJ-iVi..l L" w ii.icn on um,9 rUKHIKKvhlchfliira ' Millv JIHT redllv. Mannf.M i ir. ""' h WurJ-rar, Xmlml, Ms (rod. ,..; Oak Lawn Stock Farm. R. W. Carey, Salem, Ogn. . Irap-rter and Ilreecerel ... I mm9ftHmr'y,wrrW E p rf-ftin rny- fTf Xt EnfeUBG5?fiin7WBsHE7-. EibJ ftislBjjEaBllsfckw A ll---E5gP". A ltl'ttlll .. 1M.1. .r... ..... sii U ,"-l"nlre.'a mercin or Jmprored Shi? v 1,r,nr-"'l"J' th.WstV.iiuontblftoll. Also r.?. J.V,S-f'- !--" Me ! t(f" '"T " fiir for nalr. Jinllcfl THJE. TW IlL UK -t O.ine-s n U-r. Sul le. -".leu-, on -.ji. 1 '.T'"U)r-"u- ,n -L'-" chwckfc Von- for the m-dkal treaintin- of Tntrcnuli, ie.f ti ti-"e. 1 he Unit. tiu.11 j ' ..-" " ""--"a Mnlldne uppllod st th In'ni.st-, i-t ii. 1.1 i.-inii, v. It., Han till', or, r sum. Or. II sek rn.l crh p'e-.l animals. :-ll Veterihar-r and p-umutd. JnelTroJ