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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1886)
WILLAMETTE FARMER : SALEM, OUJSGON, JULY 1(5. iss; ittutd eery Week by the xrti.Mi.rr. i iiiiiKitrimtwiiisiico. TEIlMS OK SUllDOKIITIOHi One year, (I'MUge pal J), In advance $ 2.00 iU montha, (I'oeUgo paid), In advancv 1.56 UrithantU months will be, per month M ADVEIISISINO HATES t aiTarUtcmenta lll be inserted, proildlng tl ite tiptctahlc, at tin following tbl ol tatca : Ont Inch ol ipt.ce "wr month. . I 2.50 TOirM Incite of ipaceper month 00 l ofhaU column per month I z On column per month W.00 ULBimpl coplet tent free on application. I till) rAl Elf HOWKMiV CO'H Vtwapn-n-r AilvtrtlaliiR lH-reaii (10 UntUUl KKTISIMO UTIUCM Ml fff TUtllV. uiny bo uiaili) for It In II WW I WHIM In an auth Mi published lust week in tho I'aii.mi-.I! by our friend Mr. A. 1 Davidson, of Croston, wo mako him eny "my insignificant cherry trceB," etc., when it should bo my "mngniilcent," i'tc. .Such orron are unavoidable soinc timca and nt tho h.miio tinin nnnoying to ue. Tim iiiimhu, nl .Salem, to connect Marion and 1'olk counties, is undoubt edly going to bo built, 'ih Salem lini voted .f 110,000 ; Marion county donates f'lo.OOOj l'olk county refused to do any thing, but it number of citiens mot and pledged $5,000, making 11 total of $50, (K)0. It will bti a convenience indeed. nn extraordinary figure under ordinary circumstance. If hop? are going to bear a good price the grower can hold on and realize all there is in it. livery man who sells weakens the market. If the hop Kiowcr wants to cot hi- full share ho must study tho Held, learn all the points thcroarc, and then uet on his judgment. No man can sell on present information with any reliable ceitainty. Yc nolico hop yards that arc badly neglected and will not nearly givo an averago yield, and hero wo aio on tho oo of a rise in hops! A man who lmsen't faith enough in tho business to "stay with it" never should go into it. This is always tho case and tho country Jo03 a (rood crop while tnc in dividual loses what he has waited and planted for. In many things this same rulo applies I'nlcss you hnvo faith enough to hoop your endeavor don't try to rniso hops or anything elso of an un certain nature 1H8ECT3 AND THEIR ENEMIES. Tuo Itelatlon-i of the Fkrper Thereto -How thoy Orljlnate and How to Depone Thorn. HY I . -. MATTEMJV. LAUREL UILL ABOLISHED Tin: i,nn: law expire with this issue, and wo prt-Mtmo Ilia, thojo sportsmen who lot c to -laughter will Ix'gin their work. It is u pity Hint ticHspassing is m) common throughout the St-ito mid Hint tho law iH mi disregarded when it comcB to our wild game. Lot tho birds alone for awhilo yet, as they am not half grown at this time. On; t kikmi, tho Saloni Statesman, r-ccins olVeuded at the l'olk county board eoniiinssionciH for not aiding our liridgo project. Wo hopo the hasty woids written will bo retracted, as it will do no good to bulldoze n mcastiro through. Wo entertain but littlo doubt but that Toll: county will aid tho enter prie. It is just its well to let that xiigiift body take their time, and when they muk" their thud report will be time onough to growl. i lltuvMriM. hat begun in earnest throughout the Wllhunctto Yalloy. The t-oiind of the reaper and tho hum of the thresher is now an every day occur renco. Ah a rulo tho growth of all pro ducts lias been good, and notwithstand ing a slight lack of rain we shall see as Jargo a Mirplus as over come forward from tho Willaniotto vallov. Wool has brought a good price, liny is hciuce and brings a good piiee, hops aio up in the world again and bid fair to go higher.no wo have hopes that other products may pay a hlglier price. Wo see no i canon why lienor prices should not provail throughout tho I'nitcd States generally. ThoCasendo wagon road company that now owns tho old Barlow route across tho Cascade mountnius, via Ml. llood, has mailo an improvement that abolishes tho worst hill nnd obstaclo on tho whole routo. Kvery ouo who has crossed thero ronicmbers Laurel Hill, u bold ridge, that fronts tho tj'undy and makes tho wort sort of an ending of tho mountain journey. Tho old Siwash trails always followed tho ridges and tho Harlow routo followed the Indian trails. One reason why tho Indians kept on tho highoU laud was to bo a bio to sco in all directions, another was because there was very littlo timbor on the highest ridge ho tho way was hut very littlo ob structed. They made signal llres on high points and always kept on high Infill tn limit htenutu iiiifiriiirw mirrlil mitt;. I against thorn or friends might mako to thorn. The emigrants took it for granted that tho Indians had tho best route and noter lookod for better. Tho company concluded to investigate and found a birds and in six years Oregon would be good route, without any stoop road on an uninhabitable dosert. Locally man Nature, lavish of life in tho lower or ders of creation appears moio intent on multiplying than in perfecting tho kind. And it will bo observed that creatures living on vcgotablo food are mote pro line than tho carnivorous, and alo that their fecundity is in a corresponding ratio to their sizo, tho smaller the being tho moro numerous his piogony. And wo find also that mankind receives moro injury from tho contemptibly mean and small than from the more ap parently formidable invasions of tho large. Against the largo animals he can uso united strength, or make up by art fordollcicncv of power. Hut with those now under consideration it is otheiwisc. No force can be brought to bear against their non-resistanco; no arts can appre ciably diminish their amasdng propaga tion. Tho destruction of millions may bo replaced in n. few weeks time, nature supplying thoir want of fecundity. And here proud man, the loid of cieation, is brought to bay by the small est and lowest of his subject-', and is compelled to roly for his own welfuic, and even his oxistenco, not to mention his supremacy upon such of his subjects as voluntarily como to his assistance, nnd in serving their own purposes, re lcaso mankind from his awkward, if not perilous position. This is no fancifully drawn picture. It is the practical and iriopntable fact. Mankind arc depend out every day of their existence on the insect-cailng birds and iiednceou" iiibccls to somo extent, for wore these not continually and actively employed in reducing tho numbers ol the vege table eating insects, these, from their prodigious fecundity would in it veryfew years overrun tho wholo earth and do vour every green thing. Keniove the does not go far enough. In nil our schools a natural history branch should bo taught, as a companion to geography, (and it is really the most important of tho two) and teachers should be requir ed to be qualified to teach the rudi ments of this useful seiuuee, as well as otheis. Kveiy pupil of proper ago Heppner Gazette Is Not a Clam I Neither is it n mountain oyster; but it is a wordly paper scribbled up in plain U. S. languogo and printed on n sweat power press in n part of Eastern Oregon whero cords and cords of vacant govern ment and railroad land still lies out doors. It never stolo hogs, but. it la onttirmirta Krt-Trt tvil lit (Itn tinireliltAtxi ..t.-.-1.t I.. .. -... ! ! I (nil It 1 iW 1 1 ! I 1 ( ei I ... - . . . . . siiuinu uu Miinim-ii hiii. im.i. ...zia. gnmp0 copy With description of the toxt books and every school house Hcppncrhillscountry.lOcontflinstainps. should contain a collection more or less No discount to bummer. It never sucks nnmtilnli. it' nntlirnl hUlorf stinoimnns. r-tfgfl. AttllrOSS, J. . Islington, liepp- and lectures and illustrations should bo ncr' Oro- a part of the regular school exercises. Fnrmor's Attention' It is a well nd the college, the Sunday school and known fact that tho man thut buys the it, along tho odgo of tho ravino at the side of tho groat hill. They hud to chop away considerable down timber, which tho Indians could not easily do, so went on tho ridge. Whon this now track shall bo tluished .Mr. Mcl'own of tho wagon road company says a good team can go from l'ortland to ML Hood in a day. It seems incredible that thou sands of people have every beacon Irav clod over tho Cascade mountain) and have climbed or descended this terriblo hill for moro than forty years and all tho timo nu easy grade could have been had neat by It. THE OREGON EXHIBIT CAK HOPS -onio weeks ago there was a minor (hat all the hop-yards in New York State weie ludly damaged by lice and the pro duct would U woithless if appe.uauees did not change. Since then this news M'onm to be confirmed and the cd'oct is -ecu in a ery decided advance in hups rhegie.itcjit pioductiou of hop is in New York Slate and whenever hops mil there tho market ioh-hhuIs as at this nine. We hear of I- cents being oll'cred in one locality and 18 in another, and again that holders aio asking -5 cents u'lits 1HT pound. Thero is no other item of eoinuierco of equal importance that rules in such an arbitrary manner. Some lime ago (three years) thero was the greatest disturbance ever known and the hup men grew rich in a single ear. Some men then held for a dollar Hiul a quuiter and held until hops fell to 15 cent". We then wrote something oncoming hop growing that was gen erally copied, (.bowing the sanations of the market and the inequality of the trade. It was shown that taking a range of lifty ,e.rs and the aveiage price of hops had been over !() cents per pound. This was a good price and paid well all who stuck by it The man who went in according to hi moans and never llinched if hop- weie down, or ht his head if they were down, alnay came out ahead, but there are too many who plant turner excitement ami cell under discouragement. Ther-o must lose and are disgusted with the trade. It is not easy to estimate the yield of Oregon, or of tho I nitod States, or of the woild, but some thiewd men are handling hops now that icdom loo by peculation. Tho pioducer becomes it speculator too often, and a losing ouo. Ho wants to make a big haul and is not f atistled with n safe thing. It is burd'y o3ibl' for hups to reach Last year a car with Oregon products dWpluycd within and without, visited the Kast and attended various fairs held in Iowa and elsewhere, with remarkable results. Kvorywhere tho nopapois noticed it very enthusiastically and it is seen in immigration that many -wrsons ci mo hero beonuse of it. Wo met a man Wednesday in rortland, who ci edits that display with his coming, and best of all ho is pleased with what he limit here now that ho has arrived. The State Hoard of Immigtatiou sends out circulars announcing the intention to repeat this enterprise and reqtieet all who can to contribute products to bo shown. They want grains, j,'rastcj, fruits, vegetabhv, woods and minerals, l. 1). I'rettyman is general collector but nil are asked to take an interes;. Vr llolt'S delivered at any railroad elation will be forwarded, if addressed to The State Hoard of Immigration, i'oiilaml." Having suuh palpable proof of tho good uccomplishod by tho other car our ieo pie should spare no ollbit to make tho second even superior to it In value. All contributions should come forward by August 1st. TO SAVE OAT HAY FROM RATS AND MICE. Last year wo tilled oui bam with oat hay and towards spiing found it was cut up and greatly injured by mice . the little veimiu infested it in multitudes They cut it up and tainted it o that hor-es would not eat it. This i the case so generally that no moio iuhm Ihj said ; the question is to ilnd a remedy. Mr. A. S. Kightlinger, of South Mtlein, has for thrco years made a MicecN-ful trial of peppermint, which i;rows very fieely on low land psptcially on the islands of tho Willamette, lie picks this peppermint plant and strews it on tho barn lloor under the buy mow, a slight sprinkling. He sprinkle moio when half a load is mowed aw ay, ami so on. This has proved successful mid has always saved his hay from rati or mice. Though simplo and easy it is not gener ally known, so wo givo it to tho public on his recommendation. Wo aro trying it on two and a half acres of oat hay wo aro putting up and next jenr wo can give our own experience. may by untiring and expensive labor reduce their numbers and ravages to a minimum for it season or two, but the breach is soon repaired. To tho birds then u-o aro to look for our salvation in our present dilemma, unless wo aro con tent to pay a prieo vastly greater than the coH of their encouragement and maintenance. And hero I want to quotou littlo from Horace Orccly's book " What I Know of Farming." A book which has been tho subject of much adverse comment, but which in my humblo opinion contains moro good sound common senso and practical in formation on tho subject of which it treats than any other book of its sio over bound in muslin. Cheap wits and would-be einartics find it easier to ridi cule nnd condemn than to comprehend have indulged themselves accordingly. Hegarding birds, Mr. Circeley says. 'Whenover clouds of birds shall habitu ally darken our fields in May and less notably throughout the summer, wo may reasonably hope to grow fair ciops of .'our favorite fruits from year to year and realize that we one them to tho con stant and zealous, though not quite di-intero-tcd, dibits of our friends, the hud." And again after giving some account of insect ravages in dillcrent sections he concludes with views so nearly my own that I quote nt i-omo length "Hut whatever might bavo been the l'hilistines arc upon us. Wo are doomed for at le.ct a geueiatiou to wage war against insects multiplied bo vond leason, by the neglect and short coming', of our piedeee-iors. For gen erations it ha been customary to kill without leinorso the birth and let cat erpillars, worms, gra-shoppers, etc., to multiply nud ravage unresisted. We nuiit pay foi past eirors by present loss and year of etra effort. nd precisely because the task is o arduous, wo ought to loo no timo in addressing our selves to it? execution. Tho first step to be taken n very simple. Let every farmer who realized the impoitanre of bcniliceneo of bird teach his own childnii and hireling-, that except the hawk, they aro to be spared, protected kindly treated, and when necessary fed. They are to be valued and cherished as the voluntary police of our fields nud gardens : constantly employed in light ing oir battles against ournithlens foes. He who traverses tho farm shooting and mangling its feathered sentinels, di min i dies its future product of grain nud nearly dedtioys that of fruit. Tho farmer might as well consent that any strolling rutliau should shoot his horses or eattlo as his birds. Hegiu nt homo to make this truth felt and it will bo easier to impress it on your neighbors. Wo must not merely agree to lot them live but we must cherrish and protect thci. ' Not only thi, but M tlrco'ey the nulpit should continue tho work thus begun. Then wc can summon tho law to our aid with some prospect of success. Only a few years since tho painted robin (turdtts novius) which is a regular winter visitor here, was point ed out to mo by otherwise educated lcople as a foicign bird lately imported from Japan. Tell mo whot a person reads and I can tell the scope of that persons mind and what is ti eir style of thought. As to legislati'in Mr. (irccley recom mends "to make it trespass, punishable with lino and imprisonment, to shoot on anothors land without his express per mis'ion and tho cowardly massacre of tho fanners humble allies would be checked at once. And when public sen timent had been pioporly enlightened, might in civilied countries, bo arrested altogether." This is all very well as far as it goes, and omc additional lee islation of this subject is certainly need ed. Hut how can a legislator legislate wisely on a matter without previous in formation T Ho might, as woll under take to legislato on navigation without knowing a sandbar from a saloon bar. Mr. J. A. Allen, bofore the Muttall Ornithological elubof Cambridge, Mass., in tho Knglish sparrow discussion, says on this subject: "What wo need is an enlightened public opinion that shall enforco by statutory cnactmonts the protection of our fruit and shade trees by already woll-known nvailablo means, making it a penal nlicnso for any ouo to neglect tho protection of any trees on his premises, subject to tho attacks of tho canker worm, etc. And l'rof. O. 11. Johnson, in his prizo essay read at the Oregon Slato Fair in I8S0, puts it thus ''Hut in tho absoncn of adequato laws wo can only uso our personal inilucuco toward their protec tion, hoping that in tho near future I when Intelligence shall havoccasod to I oe a crime, wo sunn nave a i.ogisiaiuro with ideas abovo dollars and cents, nnd nn independence of an ignorant con stituency enough to pass wholesome laws to protect tho fonthorcd friend from tho indiscriminate slaughter that is now so successfully prosecuted by solflsh persons." To he continued cheapest can afford to soli tho cheapest. Thnt'a what's tho matter with Tort fc Son, Druggist", No. 100 Htnto street. .1. A. Id. Wilson, treasurer of the Chcsnpoako it Dolawaro Canal company of l'hiladolphio, is a defaulter for &015,. 2(10, having issued fraudulent bonds to that amount somo thirty years ago. Ho is missing. hoietfa I VCXVVvs To Cure Hide-Bound. The tightness and harshness of tho skin which is known us "hido-bound" mo symptoms of feverishness nnd other disorder duo to indigestion, or to somo sudden shock to tho nervous system of the skin, as by a chill when perspiration is free and copious. This excretion from tl.o skin is then thrown back into the capillaries of the skin in which the blood circulates, and thoo becomo clog pod, lending to a suspension of tho supply of blood to the skin. Tim icm edy is to givo a libeial doso of laxative medicino to relievo tho system. A pint of raw linseed oil usually has this effect if not it may be repeated in two days. It ran mash and fresh grass are also use ful, with some tonics, us dram tlotcs of sulphate of iron and ginger imwdered. .y thorough sweating by menus of vio lent oxerciso while blanketed and vigor ous brushing nnd rubbing are beneficial. The fiat strap leaf turnip may lie sown early in ugu-t or Into in July. Timothy seed and clover also may bo safely sown with tho turnips in tho fol lowing manner Tho giound is well plowed and tlforoughly harrowed and made lino and mellow . the seed is then sowed evenly, and after it is sown one pound of the turnip seed pr acre is sown, and the whole are covered by means of a light brush harrow. Thero is little danger from dry weather when grass sml is sown in this mnnner. as iv is well protected by the covering of soil. Late in the fall the largest turnips aro pulled, yielding generally 100 or 500 bushels per acre, and tho stirring of tho soil by tho pulling helps tho grass and clover. The small turnips aro loft and serve as a protection during tho winter. an yUrrnet (fomj. lainft and all BWcl Troubles ay scared hy Par Jill clru.3$Uts sell it. SH0PPINGJ5Y MAIL! Muslrns easily pui'diiisud tit n distance of a thousand miles from a music store as at the hide of Hs counter. llio. A:Co ell -attrition to their HomUrful tcin of Knillnif innilc nJ muilo booli, hj mull, to anv part of Iht continent ' l'ckic il muilc U to the might ol I'our 'out-ill l'0 iridll) by mall. Dimox & Co. aroawarr that a lark'O ortiin ol tlioi i ho and read It en adtcrtlconint, Hit at ui!U Unce from mnilo itorrt All ho love iimilo w 111 find tlir ntntat audbttt luutlckoolii faithfully ditcrlbtd In lhlr ajirrllu.uf nt. UlU and catato.nta frtel; furn'ihtd, and all inqulrici cheerfully ant-trreil l.y tlnlrvorpa cf corTtipundlngrleiki t'nderttand that by tending the atrlall 1'rlre h Money Order, Keglilerrd Utter cr I'ottal Note, (or In tuiall ordcrt !' atage 6tanp,))ou rJii is. elm by Ite turn Unll, aiiy one at DIuos.V Co' thumandtot nii'ale bovVa or ten thounndt of plccca of mualc. I'j not neglect this convenient cf nillnc lour ho no lth the tut of Songt, of 1'lanu, Organ or an) kind et loitruinental plecet. Oliver DltHMiite Co., Jioston. I'M and m Waih'ngtun Street. A strip of country twenty miles long by two mile.-, wide around InVster.Dak., was pounded bnro of erops by a terriblo bail storm yesterday. Tho Xorweigian church nt Sew Grafton was blown to kindling wood. The damage to crops is estimated at .'KiOO.tKXt. Spanish Merino Bucks! llro.1 bvUr J II STUOWIIIUOCK ami tirui njr nn imported t ennont Itcdu'ereJ Uuck. and cut of hl premium flock of breeding rivet. Tr.U'ls ItlUHONAItLr. Addrt. .1IIL.0 KNOX, imWAUDS, ALAMKIIA CO., OAL. Portland General Hospital. turner herouil and ,tah si. HOME -FOR THE SICK. Turkish, Rusiau, Electric, and .Medicated Katli.s. TUt inttimtloii it romp etc In kU Hi iltiutiuu-ut tt U ceneulntly l&uttU, Andecr effort I made V. glie it Ui air, diet, imrlng aud ccuiforU of ahoioe sp.UI attention it pld to t-itatment uf Chronic and Canttltutional dlxanei by Electric Uitha ind Inanali turn of 0):criUa;now nvo-.-nlzeil i uiojt aucceaa till remt is tor Uliruuialltiu. .Nruralgln, Mula rial l.rnr. .tMiinlba, IIImiii hlll, and all lleaecf the Lurge, Uieraud hidneja. I'.lwt r uma are reacritd for utienu Of.lnn treatuiin' .thtr thin the liMrlul rhjiieliua and thcinii.. touke cojrat of Hectrlc or Turklth lUih.. l.syveu Uu The r.itW a e eleiftnti) Cttnl up. and aie apurrci ated hrnli a a nectlty nd a luuri. cpniall b lhuaturli'ri'i from Agar aid other Italarlal Dl ee. .,'hl'rjr'n,c.rdllly ai;i to it.t ami icipttt thit Iniiltmlui. TIIOS. WOOD, ni)3m. Manager l'ortland Itoapltal Co. $50 REWARD wU W raM tor aaj Cnla Taa .1 mm Im thai .a l.a aa4 ta aa aiMk Graia t 8m4 U ... t.v u .a-PalralMOSAUCU Grata as4 anmlw ut IU. 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