WILLAMETTE FARMER : SALEM, OREGON, AUGUST 27 1886
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Mi AVER ASONi our ouiuoniuu ngcau.
Wk kxi-kct in a few yea ;o sco lingo
orchnrtlH of pencil and filrieot along
tho Bandy river bottom hintlfl of tho Wil
lamctlc. Any Hiltintion Hint i protected
from frost by, for instanco a largo fir
foroat, will grow tlicao frtiitH splendidly.
Mr. Hcndrix, who Uvea at Wheatland,
eight miles below Salom, lias such an
orchard and has supplied Snlom and
vicinity with libelous peaches for ficvoral
years, at a good price.
Tub nitinfiK across
progronaing rnptuiy
tho Willnmotlo is
It !h pleasant to
hear tho exceedingly cotnplimontary re
marks made everywhere regarding Sa-
lora'H enterprise, ete. Tlio traveling
public can ciosb tho Willamutto at Salem
by Salem's freo bridge on and after Uo
comber 1, 1881!. Salom ban nctually re
deemed heicelf and will now cominenco
an advance mo have long ox pec ted and
wnitcd for.
A cannery erct'tod at this point will
call for a largo amount of fruit and veg
etables, and to bo profitably engaged in
there nuibt be an unlimited quantity of
fruit nnd vegetable giown. .Speaking
of vegetables remindH us that thoro in
unlimited Inuil niiilalilo for tomato cul
tnro along our river bottoms. Wo know
if no liner landri than that known as
Itinto's and Drown's inluiitl. for that
purpoco.
making contributions of their own pro
duct!'. Fortunately, perhaps, tho car
starts cast with a notable company of
distinguished people who return this
way from tho Grand Army gathering
at San Francisco. It includes the
Governors of Ohio, Maino, and Wiscon
sin and many others hardly 1cm notable,
so they can examine tho enr as they roll
eastward. Whilo Prcttymun goes as
Superintendent of car and content.", our
old friend I). S. K. Uuiek, of Douglas
county, is manager and ehiof in com
mand, an appointment that is fortunate
for tho proper introduction of Oregon
intorosts wherever the car may go. Wo
havo not time or spaco to givo any des
cription of tho exhibit, and need only
say it is a fair showing of what Oregon
can produce. Various mottops decorato
tho exterior, attesting our genial clim
ate, immunity from storms, disoasc,
drouth nnd failure of crops and ad
vantaged of different sections. Much
roading matter is on board to bo dis
tributed and givo an idea concerning
our Pacific country and its gcnoral ad
vantages. Tho car will visit stato and
county fairs all through tho west and
mako a brief tour to Ohio, Pennsyl
vania and Now York, being gono about
threo months.
Sir. IJutck is general manager and
will introduce tho car and nil Or
cgon Interests to tho press and notahlo
porsons on their route; will navo mil
control of tho movements and manage
ments and represent tho iuterestH of
our section abroad. Mr. Prottyman will
havo chargo of tho ear and its contents
and see that ovcrythlni; is kept in good
shape for a proper exhibit.
agriculturists. Wo must mako stock
raising tako a loading part in farming
operations and to do this successfully
wo must know what grasses to sow and
when and how nnd where to sow them.
SPRIKH OK FALL BOWINQ OF 0RA31 SEED.
CANNING FRUIT.
Parties, it is said, talk of putting up a
cannery nt Salem for canning fruits and
vegetables. Such an onterpriso may
find matorinl to work on within reach of
this place, but tho present yonr tho fruit
crop is nearly n failure. Wliilo thcro
aro innumerable orchards, so-called, in
this vicinity, thcro arc fow mon who
actually cultivato and caro for their
fruit trees and havo choice fruit in any
markotablo quantity. Tho farmor who
has a fruit drier is independent of cir
cumstances and now-a-days we read of
canning outtilH to cost from ?M up
wards. So wo may look for canneries
to bo as common as fruit ilriorj in tho
near future.
Of courso thcro is a groat advantage
in an establishment proparcd to work to
advantago and to utilizo everything of
any value. If such an onterpriso starts
hero nnd docs not attempt too much it
should rcalizo modcrato success and
grow into magnitude. Wo havo not
yet tho orchards grown, but many treos
aro lately planted and will soon become
producers. Fruit growing is something
worth attending to and before many
years wo shall see, who live, that fruit
growing is popular and remunerative.
Wo expect to own a tmall canning
outfit soon and operate it to somo ex
tent in connection with fruit drying, as
somo varieties that can woll pay but
littlo profit when dried. No doubt
others will do tho name.
(Jen. 1.0UAN and party passed through
our Stato en routo from tho Grand Army
Kncampment at San Francisco, to tho
Kaat. Ho has leen loyally received and
says ho admires our Stato. Ho has
given our people a ehauco to hco what
kind of n person ho lookH like. Whether
ho will bo a candidate for 1'residont or
Vico I'rcHldcnt of theso United States
wo aro not prepared to ay, but premium
ho is not traveling through this territo
ry for his health alone.
Tin: harvest is about over for 188(5
and tho Jesuit ii fall wheat in this val
ley turns oil' a largo yield but spring
prnin is not a success. Wo have hoard
of somo rust and a general failure to
mature woll owing to tho severe drouth,
no rain having fallen since tho middle
of May, giving us n dry spell of fifteen
nocks. Wheat is coining into all the
warehouses on liveraud railroad mid
clouds of dust fill the air. Whether the
quantity of wheat harvested ill oxoecd
that of 18S5 wo cannot yet loarn, but
ruppoNO it will bo about tho muiio.
Whilo some farmers report a small
turn off tho common report stems to Ih
that the yield has exceeded expectations.
A number of instances aro reported
where the quantity threshed was twen-
t five to sixty per cent, moro than wan
(vpeoted. Kast of the mountains the
heat yield is lower than in 18S5 as a
usual thing. In tho Pulouso region tho
harvest is greater than south of Snako
river, and west of Umatilla tho drouth
has boon severely felt. It is doubtful if
tho export from tho Columbia river will
come within fifty to one hundred thou
rand tons of equalling tho wheat ex
ported in 188j. Later reports from
foreign markets show a better price and
a more aetixo demand for caigoos of
American wheat. There luu been an
advance of a fow cents but ty remains
to bo (con if thisadvaneo isa perman
ent faot or only a result of sharp speo
illation or is called by reliable f.iiluru
of production.
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OUE00NS EXHIBIT
Thursday last, August 10th, the Slate
Hoard of lmmigatiou despatched to tho
cast its second exhibit ear, the first was
font last fall. Tho Northern Pacific
K. H. Co. has furnished a largo sized
baggage car that is well filled with
Oregon products, and displayed with
great tasto by tho activo exertions of
Hra. and Mis Hos., and D. 1). Prctty
mun and his son. This ear is intended
to bo a fair showing of Oregon products
nnd not a collection of phenomenal
growths. Tho car sent last year was a
decided success hut tho present etl'ort
ur passes it. Tho collection was made
chiotly by 1), I). Prottyman and on and
many persons have lent valuable aid by
When in Portland lately wo had a
long and interesting talk with a gentle
man thcro who has becomo interested
largely in wild land in Washington coun
ty and was studying how to mako it avail
able. Ho had slashed three hundred
acresintending to burn it last Saturday
and had just received a thousand pounds
of white clover and orchard grass sood
that was to be sown on the slashing
when burned. Ho asked: What is tho
best time of tho year to sow grass seed?
Our reply was. Sow in tho early fall
so as to get tho benefit of the first rains
on your ashes left on tho slashing. If
t'-at should not como up well you will
havo to sow again in the spring.
To our judgment our friend has done
well to select white clover nnd orchard
gras. rrouaoiy no two grasses aro
moro valuable. Hut thcro aro other
good grasses and wo should wish to mix
in n littlo mosquito, or velvot grass, and
somo blue grass, on such a pasture as
wo spoak of. In tho past wo havo writ
ten much concerning grasses for wo have
always felt that no one matter connected
with our agriculture has as much im
portance to our producers as to decide
what is tho best grass to mako pastures.
Wo should like to havo certain questions
discussed fully in our column", as fol
lows .
1st Is this a good country for perma
nent pastures?
'Jd What aro our pasture grasses and
what nro their characteristics?
In tho nbovo brief interrogatories
thoro is room for any amount of argu
ment and fact. To answer them well
will confer a great favor on all our pro
ducers. "For hay wo havo timothy and clover,
but timothy forms n bulb at tho surface
and if pastured by sheep or swine tboy
cat this bulb olV close nnd kill tho plaut
whilo heavy stock trample tho life out of
it, so that timothy is not well adapted to
pasture. A littlo of it may bo put with
other grasses, however. Another fault
is that timothy drie up after it matures
and has no green blades until fall rains
come. It makes tho boat of hay and
when that is haid all is said.
Much may bo said of clover, but it
does not thrive generally and that ques
tion tested there is no doubt of its value
in many respects. Lincoln grass gives
a good crop then grows green all sum
hut for pasturing, but tho first sharp
frost cuts it down and it only comes
again Into in the spring. From tho lit
tlo wo know of it wo bolieve it very val
uable as an early hay eiop and for sum
mer pasture.
Orchard grass is one of tho best be
cause it will grow all summer and win
ter, too, makes fairly good hay and
takes in well on upland sal. All round
our orchard, on high red-hill land, orch
ard grass has taken possession and
stands very heavy, fully ilvo feet high,
among grubs ami on land mat nover
was plowed.
Whoover will give experience, of
grasses on various sous ami ion uieir
success with spring and fall sowiug
will assist in solving on of tho most
8UIFPINQ UREEN FRUIT.
How to ship ripo fruit to best advan
tago is n question of no small import
ance. Lust year wo conversed with
thoso who wore making such shipments
about tho feasibility of using flmibir
boxes and packing as has becomo gen
eral in ubo for shipping eggs, and actu
ally thought of trying such egg pack-
acos for packing largo plums. It seems
that this experiment has been tuccess
fully practiced at tho east and tho Cali
fornia Alta speaks of it as having solved
tho question. It requires no argument
to provo that fruit packed in bulk can
not as well ripen or keep as woll as if
packed Hoparatoly in small compait
monts and well ventilated. Tho new
packago is mado to perfectly isolato
everv noach or near or orange and to
provide, thorough vontilation. Fruit so
packed can bo left on tho treo until
thoroughly ripe and will keop ton or
fifteen daye, whereas, as now packed to
bo shipped any distance it must bo
pickod when somowhat immature, and
wrapped in paper and so deprived of
fresh air. Tho cost of Mich packages
cannot bo very groat if tho empty boxes
aro returned for ro-iue. Our country
is dostined to grow fruit oxtensively for
shipment to distant states and all that
relates to this subject is of peculiar in
terest to our fruit growers. If wo can
ship fruit as easily as wo can grow it
wo can build up a trade that will enrich
tho Pacific Northwest.
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THE OREO.ON PACIFIC.
Last Monday's Oregonian has tho fol
lowing concerning this road which is
so rapidly growing into popularity :
"Wo havo positive assurance, from
men who propose to furnish tho money
and who are amply aro amply to do it,
that tho Oregon Pacitio Kailroad will bo
pushed on to nn F.iutern connection as
soon as tho lino can bo built. Twenty
miles eastward from Albany will lo built
this fail, and in thomcantimoa routo on
to Hoiso City will bo selected and sur
surveyed. Already engineering parties
aro in tho field. It is proposed to cross
tho Cascade mountains through the pass
east of Albany, and penetrate the best
sections of middlo Oregon. In tho main
tho routo will bo direct, though thoro
may bo somo divergences to tako in tho
district best calculated to yield bus
iness. Wo havo thoso assurances from
Col. Hogg, John I. llhiirof Now Jersey,
and P. It. Pyno of Now York City. Mr.
Ulair is a well known investor Ho is
the richest man in New Jersey and many
times a millionaire. Mr. Pyno is tho
president of tho City Bank in New York
and besides his own great wealth is the
trustee and manager of tho Moses Taylor
estate."
Tho Oregon State Fair.
Tho annual Stato Fair of the State
Agricultural Society will bo hold next
month, commencing Monday, Septem
ber 1!), and lasting all week. Sinco tho
Stato has takeif hold of this onterpriso,
and given material aid to secure suc
cess, wo nro all interested In tho fair and
all sections should rival each other to
mako a good exhibit. Two or throo
years ago successful exhibits were mado
by several counties and they attracted
so much and such pleasant altontion
that wo hoped to sco many similar dis
plays at tho next fair and oven moro ef
fort mado to render thorn attractive, but
in 18Sf there was no county exhibit wo
remember, worthy of tho name.
Thoro should bo county societies all
through tho State and theso should pro-
vido satisfactory exhibits through all I
tho Stato for the Salom Fair, so that tho
Stato exhibit can compriso a fair showing
of all Oregon. If our neighbors across
the Columbia wish to tako part wo
should bo glad to wclcomo any showing
thoy might wish to mako. Whilo wo
have experienced a dry summer and
crops show its effects somowhat, still it
will bo possiblo to collect a lino showing
of Oregon products if any ono will tako
tho pains to do so. Our stock men re
spond moro cheerfully than othors, and
tho show of livo animals is generally a
crodit to our State. Whilo this is desira
bio it is equally desirablo to securo a
thoroughly good exposition of all farm
products and especially our lino fruits.
Cost or Raising Wheat In Custom Oregon
Various estimates of tho cost of rais
ing a bushel of wheat in tho Walla Walla
valley have been given us during tho
past two years. Tho estimates rnngo
from 25 to -10 conts a bunhel, deponding
greatly upon tho avorago yield. Where t
thoro has been a yiold of fifty bushels to!
tho acre, as was tho caso on tho big Ilia
lock farm four years ago, tho actual
cost, exclusive of interest on tho invest
incut, was, iib wo nro informed, 25 cents
a bushel. Others, whoso Holds average
thirty bushels, put tho cost at '15 conts,
while others whose acres only avcrago
twenty to twenty-fivo bushols each,
stato tho cost at a higher figure No ex
act account of tho cost of plowing, seed
ing, cultivation, harvesting nnd thresh
ing of tho eamo area for a scries of yoirs
has come under our observation, if such
an account has over lccn mado. Judg
ing by tho reports of thoso who hnvo
kept n pretty fair account of the cost of
raising wheat on different farms wo con
cluded that it amounts to ii5 cents when
tho yield averages thirty bushels por
acre, and moro per bushel as tho yield
decrcasos. This makes it evident that
(hero is no money in wheat for tho
grower nt present prices. Walla Walla
Puion.
Local Fair at Newberg
Wo aro in receipt of nu invitation to
al tend the locnl fair to bo held at Now
berg, Yamhill comity, Sopt. 23d to 25th,
For several years the farmers in that
part of that county havo mado a
neighborhood exhibit that has been
a great credit ns well as a means
of progress. If such fairs could
bo held in all parts of Oregon thoy
would do much to creatn honora
ble enterprise and emulation and add no
littlo to tho social advantages of our
State. Hut to mako such fairs a success
needs united and harmonious nctiou
and that cannot always bo found. Wo
hopo to bo there and give- the rcadors of
this journal somo idea of the Ncwborg
enterprise
Rapid Beitlni or tna Heart.
Whenever you find an uneasiness in
tho region of tho heart, a slight pain in
tho shoulder, arm, or under tho shoulder-blade,
or when you find younell
short of breath when exercising, or your
heart has periods of beating fast, you
have heart disease, and should tako Dr.
Flint's Heart Kemedy. At druggists.
$1.50. Descriptive treatise with each
important questions that interest our bottle; or address J. J, Mack fc Co., S, F.
A Ferrect Baking Powder.
Tho great success of tholloyal Making
Powder is duo to tho extreme caro exor
cised by its manufacturers to mako it
entirely pure, uniform in quality, and of
tho highest leavening power. All tho
scientific knowledge, cue and skill at
tained by a twenty years' practical ex
perience aro contributed toward this
end, and no pharmaceutical prepara
tion can be dispensed with a greater ac
curacy, prcoision and exactness. Kvery
articlo used is absolutely pure. A num
ber of chemists nro employed to test
tho strength of each ingredient, so that
its exact power and effect in combina
tion with its ccringredionts is definitely
known. Nothing is trusted to chance,
and no person is employed in tho pre
paration of tho matcuals used or tho
manufacture of tho iniwdor, who is not
an expert in his particular brunch of tho
business. Ah a consequence, tho Koyal
Making Powder is of tho highest grado
of excellence, always puro, wholesomo
and uniform in quality. Each box is
exactly like every other, and will retain
its powers nnd produce tho eamo and
tho highest leavoning effect in any cli
mato, at any time. Tho Government
Chemists, after having analyzed all tho
principal brands in tho market, in their
reports placed tho Itoyal llakiug Pow
der nt tho head of tho list for strength,
purity, and wholcsomencs?, and thou
sands of tests all over tho country havo
further demonstrated tho fact that its
qualities are, in ovory respect, unrivaled.
Do you wish a beautiful complexion?
Then uso Avoids Sarsnparilln. It cleanses
and purifies tho blood, and thereby re
moves blotches and pimples from tho
skin, making it smooth and clear, and
giving it a bright and healthy appearance.
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Parlor Organ Galaxy.
A cool and lirgo collection ol Iteeil Own Jltulo ie.
leetoii aml.mi uil l) W. I' gu dJt, 40 kooJ Marchca
(ItHoiM, Vluo lOculo', Scliottlaclio', tc, and IT
poiiufar aonja, coveting ll aliect tntulo alio page, Jet
old lor tlio ury low piled cl to cent.
llrmeiiilirr our aupcilor now Sunday School Son?
Ilyk, Moug or rimtiltr, (SJcti) and our High
School Horn; 1150k, huus tirtelluc, (60 eta.)
Oliver J) It son tl Co., llonton.
191 and 451 Washington ttrcct.
C II DITS0N 4. Co., 607 Droiday, N. Y
TAKEN UP,
BOUT THE M1DDLK OK JULY, ONE WHITE
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cut ol Sclera, about Ik rot ei
audi an animal Kill pica call ami
take tho animal a ay, 1,
Salem, Or,, Aug. 27, 18:0.
Hoar, rathtr lengthy and poor; at my pluce
H-tlera. about ft rallca Anyono tmfog loot
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Largest stock patent
1'ort's 100 State street.
medicines at
.1 Cupula' I'orlunnte Dlararriy.
Cpt. Coleman, chr. Wcymoutli, plying
betweeu Atlantic City anil K, Y., had been
troubled with a couah io that he wu unablo
to ttep, and wm induced to try Dr. King's
New Dtacoveiy for Comutnption. It not only
gave him intttnt relief, bat allayed the ex.
tremo orenc4 in hi breait. Ilia children
uere similarly atTVcted &nl a aingle dewo had
the aame happy affect. Dr. King's New Dis
covery ia now the atandard remedy tn the
Coleman liouaehold aud on board the ichooner.
Five Trial Bottlea of thia Standard Rrmrdy
at Tort A Son1 Drug Store. 4
Miles Shorter !
20 Hours Less Time I
A CCOMM0DATI0.NS U.VSUKPASSEIi KOU COM
J. ton and Kal'iy. Fare aud freight much leu
than ly any other route between all poiuti In the
Wlllamctttt alley and tun Fianclaco.
t.T Only Itoute Io that I'opulur Summer
Ueaorl
YAQUINA BAY!
Where (or mcdeiate eipenae you can enjoy
FI KU1IK IUTI1INO
, HKACH DltlVIM! AND WALKI.Vfl
K r'lblll.S'U IN UIVKK AND IIU00KS I
U DEtU' SEA r'lSlll.NO I
X3, Flnr Ilvtela and better accommcdUIona than
at any otrerSummer Kacrt on tho coaat ol Oregon.
Dally I'litirngcr Train except (uuluj-.
Lte Con till (cxctptSutdajt) at ST. M.
Leiw aiUioa, (except hunln.Jat 7:10 A. U.
O, & C. H. It trln (Weat bide) connect at Certain.
O.AC, It. K. traina(Eat tlJe) connect at Ccrvallla
with itagea from Albany at 1204 f II.
If.ltontul Trip Ticket nl L'rurlou nilet
Cooit uuttl ricptcwbcT OOtli.
"O ATI'-S between CurvallU and Ban Franclaco:
tarca-ltall and Cabin, til; Kail ami 8teerage, V.U
Frc'ght at rcdweil and n.o.'crate late.
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ton YiqiKi raox m ritxciaco;
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Wednesday SQfTueadar Sfl
The Company icttnestna right to change aalllng
day a.
T&l'or further Uformatloo apply to
CHAS C. HOGUE,
A. Q. P. andK. Agent.
800 ACRES.
13 GREENHOUSES.
TREESamPLANTS
W oflr for th Fill trftii a Ium kb.I Ad. uk nl
jjytr duikwc4 J-'UL'IT and Ornnineotiil
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