Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887, April 01, 1887, Page 5, Image 5

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    WILLAMETTE FARMEK: SALJbJM, OREGON, APRIL 1, 1887
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Telegraphic Hews
Tho yacht raco between tho Coronet
and Dauntless lias ondod in a victory
for tho former. Tho Coronet arrived
on Sunday last and tho Dauntlces
reached Queensland on March 28th at
0:45 just sixteen days making tho
trip.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. 8. W.,
snyB : Lon Myers, of Now York, nnd W.
N. Georgo, of England, ran tho 1,000
yards raco horo on Saturday. Myers
won by six yardB in two minutes and
nineteen seconds.
GoldcnBon, tho mnrdercr of Mnmio
Kelly, at San Francisco, 1ms been found
guilty. Scntcnco will bo passed April
A Now York dispatch of Mnrch 28th)
oays: "A no war ciomi iuickuiis in
Gormany."
Senator Wnrncr Miller hasi departed
from Wellington for tho Pacific Coast,
nnd rumor says ho will sound tho presi
dential chanecs of John Sherman.
B. F. Burch has been appointed re
ceiver at tho Oregon City land office.
A spy for tho raparinnt claimants was
recently found nt tho head gates of a
water ditch, nenr Fresno, nnd ho was
ducked thrco times. Tho gates are
opened and tho farmers nro using tho
water.
Soattlo has mado an appeal to the
Northern Faoiflo to holp tho town.
Tho city of Los Angeles, California,
protosts against the reports of smallpox
in that city and says that tho facts nro
much oxaggoratcd.
It is feared wo will have troublo over
tho Alaskan boundary.
State and Territorial Nowi.
Thcro is not a vacant dwolling houso
in Fcntlloton, nnd sovcral npplicnnta nro
waiting for tho first ono vncatcd.
Tho directors of tho Wasco connty
fair association nro improving tho
gronnda and making preparations to
commenco the erection of tho pavillion.
Eugono City Guard : Thoro nro over
2,600 in tho city treasury, nnd tho
town has bcn run during tho past year
on a two mill rax. This is certainly a
good record for our city officers.
Tho roads in tho Cccur d'Alono coun
try aro now rendered impassable by rea
son of tho molted snow and high water.
Hundreds aro waiting to got in, but
will not bo nblo to do so for n week or
two.
From tho best information, says a
Modford pnpor, wo can obtain, tho fruit
has not boon injured so far by tho frost.
Wo havo had Bovoral protty heavy frosts
but not cold enough to frcczo tho
frnit.
Sovcral days sinco n Iwind of noventy
bix fluo horses pnsnod through Med ford
bound for tho California nnirkct. Thoy
wcro bought in tho Umpqua valloy. A
fow of them will bo sold to tho railroad
company.
Tho census of tho Umatilla reserva
tion Indians is completed and foots up
over a thousand of all sorts entitlod to
land Tho commissioners think tho
avorago amount to each will bo about
eighty acres. The Indians havo been
considering their choico of tho innerva
tion, and say they mean to havo tho
best of iu
Walla Walla has $1,853.67 in tho
treasury. Good carpenters aro in de
mand. Coos Bay News : Tho weather of Into
lids been delightful, and with tho excep
tion of light fi-on of mornings, bears
all tho npiiearnuco o( summon Tho
swallows havo arricd, humming birds aro
flitting about ; pheasants aro dramming,
and tho jaw of tho Coos river fish liar
waggctli Iiko tho cutter bono of a
goose.
Ah a rule, throughout Baker county,
says an exchange, tho loss of sheep dur
ing tnopnsi winter lias uccn exceedingly
light, and tho bauds, with hardly an ex
ception, look well nnd givo promiso of
yiolding a very largo crop of wool.
Lambing will soon commence, and
everything is favorable for good results.
Two cars of hops, consisting of 152
bales, wore shipped to Milwnukeo last
week from Kittitas. This shipment
clears Yakima of hops.
Stockmen in tho vicinity of Wagner,
Grant county, do not find tho losses as
heavy as expected. Loss on cattle will
be about 5 per cent., on sheep, 15 per
cent.
Arlington Times : Twenty por cent
of sheep, 10 per cent, of cattle, and 5
per cent, of horses perished in the recent
hard winter in the southern end of the
county.
Enjoy tile.
Wbt a truly beautiful world we live in I
Nature give ui grandeur of mountain, glens
and oceaai, and thouaanda of meana of enjoy
roent. We can deaire no better when In per
fect health; but how often do the majority
of people feel like giving it up dUheartened,
diicouragea ana worn out witn diaeaae, when
there ia no occaaion for thia feeling, a every
eufferer can eaaily obtain eatiifactory proof
that Qbekk's Auocst Floweb, will make
them free from diaeaae, aa wben born. Dva
pepaiaand Liver Complaint are the direct
cauaea oi aeveniyave per cent, or men mau
dies aa Billioutneai, Inriigeation, 8ick Uead
ache, CoatlTeneai, Nervoui Proatration. Diz
zinei ot the Head, Palpitation of the Heart,
and ither diatreaaing symptoms. Three
doaea ot Awcst Flower will prove it
wondtrlUi cilcct. Sample bottles, 10 centa.
Try it. 1
Blue Vmuou Cheapeet at Port Drug
Co., 100 State street.
lnrHyHnraL
The Rrenter tfco vorioty of crops, the
more the opportunities aro afforded for
profit
Keep tho windows of tho potato collar
open at night and closed in tho day
time, unless tho days bo cool and dry.
Sunflowers havo been raised for cen
turies in Russia and Tartary for fuel.
They nro now being cultivated in Da
kota for that purpose. Thoy mnko a
good hot fire.
Tt tho seed is good, tho cutting of
potatoes to pieces with two oyes will
produce good results. In dutting, al
ways endeavor to leave as much of tho
tuber to tho eyes as possible, as it sorves
ns plant food in tho early stages of
growth.
Manuring land by plowing undor
somo kind of grcon crop, such as millot,
buckwheat, pats or peas, should bo tho
object of every farmer. Clover is also
excellent, and lime should bo freely
used at tho tamo time.
All food cooked for stock is moro
easily assimilated than when raw. It is
only n question of cost in cooking.
Boots cooked and thickened' with
ground grnin mnko an excellent moss for
all kinds of stock.
A mixture of cqunl parts of red pop
per and Scotch snuff thrown into rat
holes will causo tho vermin to leavo.
Rats soon becomo suspicious of poison,
and tho mixturo easily frightens them.
Potting Hyacinths.
As tho eonson for potting Hyacinths,
etc., is near nt hand, nnd never having
seen tho method I practico in print
although others may practico it, I dcom
it of somo importanco in tho way of
cleanliness and convonloncot bunco
this communication, that nthore, if
thoy choose, may avail thomselvos of it
in preference to burying thoir pots after
planting. I first select such sized pots
as aro snitablo for tho different kinds of
bulbs nnd plant them in tho usunl way,
treating Hyacinths, Tulips, Crocuses,
Narcissus, etc., nil nliko. I thon tnko
Cots smaller than tho pots in which tho
ulbH aro planted, fill them with oarth
and invert them over tho bulb, pressing
them down slightly; thus I Bccuro tho
necessary darkness whilo tho roots aro
ponctrating tho soil, tho weight of tho
pot and contents preventing tho bulb
from rising, as is sometimes tho case.
I then set thorn in tho collar, or on
tho floor of tho grcenhouso, or other
convenient place, givo attention to
watoring, and upon inspection, which is
easily done, select such as aro tho far
thcrcit advanced, romoving tho upper
pots, placing thoso selected in tho light,
pursuing tho usual courso ; tho llomana
especially soon go into bloom.
Eirly Gabbaxes.
Tho following is tho rulo for raising
early cabbages, as given to tho Ameri
can Cultivator, by W. D. Philbrick. It
is for early cabbagos as grown for tho
Boston mnrkot, and will bo found to bo
very interesting reading:
Those who want thoir cabbages oarly
gonerally plant scod about tho 10th to
to tho lfith of February, in a mild hot
bed, and transplant to another bod
when thoy havo four loaves, planting
them 200 to each sash. Tho plants
should bo airod froely, so as to givo thorn
stocky growth,nnd whonovor tho wcathor
is fine will do hotter if tho glass is en
tirely removed for tho day. About
April 10 to 12 tho glass can bo taken off
to uso on cucumbers, covering tho cab
bage plants at night with shuttors in
caso cf frost.
About April 20 it is usual to plant
out the early cabbages in tho flold if it
can bo mnuo ready, but tho propnrntion
of tho land requires that it should bo
dry enough to work mellow. If tho land
was heavily manured in fall it is usual
to givo in spring a dressing of night
soil or nitrate ol Boda in addition. If
no manuro was put on in fall n dressing
of twenty cords per aero sproad and
plowed in togcthor with half a ton of
somo good fertilizer or eight loads of
night soil per aero will do no harm ; for
it Is an old and true saying that tho Inst
load of manuro on the early cabbago
field makes the profit. It takes more
than donblo the manure to grow early
cabbages that is required for lata ones,
which Is explained by tho chemists by
tho fact that nitrification in tho soil
goes on rapidly in the summer, but
siowiy in spring.
The land for early cabbages should
bo well drained and mellow, and if dry
enough to suffer by drought, it should
be provided Vith a supply of water ; for
tuero nro lew crops tnat antler moro
quickly from drought. Tho land is pro
pared by plowing twice and rolling, then
throwing into drills thrco feet apart, on
which tho cabbago plants 'are set by
band two feet apart after a marker, or
about 7000 plants por acre.
In most places except Arlington, the
early cabbage is subject to tho attacks
ot tbe maggot. Tins is the larva of a
small ily, resembling tho house fly,
which begins to deposit its ectra on tho
cabbage stumps early in May. The eggs
are very small ana wmto, ana are closo
to the surface of the ground, If one
goe over the field and rubs oft these
eggs threo or four times between May 1
and May 16, ho will not usually hnvd
much troublo from iho maggot, other
wise they frequently ruin tho crop alto
gether, or in part.
Early cabbages should bo hoed or cul
tivated ovory ton days, or after ovory
rain, to koop the land around thorn mel
low until tho loaves spread so as to stop
this. Thoy will ncod ono or two hoo
ings nfter tho cultivator stops. Thcro is
no crop that responds so quickly to
thorough tilth and heavy manuring as
cabbages. About Juno 20 tho first
heads orpin to gcthnrdonough for mar
ket, and from this to tho middlo of July
the cnbbngo field usually loads the mar
kot'wagon pretty hcnvily.
Tho best very early cabbago is tho
Wakefield ; it is small, however, nnd i
quickly followed by tho much lnrgor
Henderson, nnd by Ixiw's Pecrloss,
which is nearly tho samo thing, though
poriiaps a triflo bettor. About tho mid
dlo of July tho larger Fottlor's drumhead
comes in nnd supplies tho market till
winter.
Early cnbbngcs wcro wcro formorly
far moro profitublo than now, tho writor
well romembcring seeing them sold in
1807 for $18 por hundred. Now thoy
seldom bring over sovon cents, and aro
often as low ns four or fivo cents each.
Usually n good crop of cabbago will
yield $300 to $500 per aero, but a poor
crop will not pay for tho oxponsivo ma
nuring required. Tho cost of raising
thorn, including plants, cannot bo
placed much below $200 por aero,
charging'thom with two-thirds tho valuo
of tho manuro, which is perhaps hardly
enough, for thoy aro hungry feeders
ana leavo tno land rntner poor, oven
nfter very honvy manuring.
Carey Btock Bale.
Tho stock snlo advertised by Mr. R.
W. Cnroy, nt Oak Lawn Farm, noar
Maclcay, camo off as advertised. Thcro
wcro but fow in attendanco, but such
Block as was sold brought far bettor
prices thnn was expected. Tho Hales
mado wcro as follows: Mr. Doug Lov
ens, of Galosburg, Douglas county, Or.,
bought tho Abordcoii bull, "Constable
ol llillliurst, " for $770, and n!no a three
fourtl bred Abordcoii bull calf for $50;
nbo tho thoroughbred Jorsoy bull,
"V uM of Oak Lawn." nr co 105. Mr,
T. D. Allen bought a Shropshire ram for
in'. Another party bought a lmli-brccu
Abordocn bull calf. This snlo demon
stratcs to stockmen tho valuo of having
tuorouchbrcd nnunals. It will bo seen
that whon it is dosircd to dlsposo of them
that n good markot is open, and fair
prices can bo rcaiizou.
Ilnrklen'a Arnlra Haltr.
The Beit Salve in tho world for Cute.
Bruiies, Sorri, Ulcers, Salt liheum, Kover
sorei, rotter, Uhappcd liamli, OhlllilaiDi,
Corai, and'all Skin Kruptioni, and positively
cures I'llei, or no pay required. It Is guaran
teed to give porfect aatliiaction, or money re
funded. Price 16 cents per box.
For sale by Port k Son.
LUTE SAVAGE,
175 Commer.lal EL, Balem, Orrtron.
Books & Stationery Articles
Arllit Material, Mualtnl Inttrumenta.
School Hooks, Music Rooks,
Da) lug Card, Calllotr Cardt, and anemlliM
atletyot pecktt cutleiy.
T EBUEKS. JOUHNALA nu.l CASH UOOIIH
i of all ilndaandprlcee. Laid itylciof pamrbi
Ink, rem, Pencil, etc.
Photograph A burnt, Autcrph Album, all ot the
lateet iijIm. Alwayi a lull waortm.nt ol Lovcll'i
Library ami Dime Novell.
tr Any I'erlodlral Funlnbed n Short
Nellee at ateaular I'rlrr.
E. S, LAMPORT,
Manufacturer of anl Dealer In
Harness, Saddlery, Whips
and Robes.
luring bought out theHtnck
ami Oood will ol
J. IhJorduntfcSon
I hope that their cuitomtr. will
eUod to me the nine liberal
petrnniire that IherdM to them
I will tell only the lltBTiUIUy
and, atytea ol
Full Line or
Clove en Hand.
Driving
Team. Naur and Carriage
Harne and Saddlery,
TO. Ol my own wake and at a
price that cannot be beat by any
firm In the State. Call and eea.
Three aooda bavins been bought at a low
prlre I am prepared l Rive bargain.
EDWARD LAMPORT,
At tlit "Old Bland," WT Commercial e'reet
H n ri
MUSIC BOOKS
roit
For Male and Mixed Quartette
For Quartette Choirs,
And Social Sloga.
POR MALE VOICES I
Aanphlen (6 looka) It; Arlen (6 book.) l; War
mania (5 Moki) tl-lO; Apallo it: Bay I. ton
Uebt'al Jrctlau tl.tOI t'raW rart Hoaga COcta;
Eaneraam ttuarlela and t'homaca. (10 cu; Main
alee Glee Kaak Hi Mradleaahn-ranr I'art
Manga Wcta; Haager.tt tl.38; liawe Marred
tnarteu i.76; Male lalee Choir Weta; and
American Male CbolrWcta.
Bs, The contain a groat variety of the beet ol
Wal Voire Muale.
FOR MIXED VOICES I
Baumbach'a QuarteUa.l 1.76: ami hU Sew Collection
11.75; lluck'e MoUt Collection, tt; and hi. brcond
Motet Collection, ft; Emcianu'e Concert Helectlou,
II! Iowi Heponae. and biiUncc. WJ eta; Thorn.1
Hatred QwrUU 11,76; Kiunaoni Hacred Quartet.
1 76; thcpardiChor h Collection, II; Htrachauer
Charcb inuilc, II; Church OSerior, II 8: Die
Icr Sac-ed B.l.elloi... i to Hurting irood book,
wldtly uaed. bend lor description.
tar M.l'ed lor retail price.
Oliver Dlttion Si Co,, Boston
Or: C II. PItKDA C., M7 Broadway, K. Y.
STAVER & WALKER,
DEALERS IN '
Farm, Dairy, and Mill
Machinery.
WAGONS, BUGGIES & CARRIAGES.
Kinder Twine, Belting,
Supplies of
208, 210, 212, and 214 Front Street, Portland, Oregon.
BRANCH HOUSES t
Wnlln Wulln. W. T.; LaGrandc, Or.; and Moscow, I. T.
AGENTS AT ALL POINTS IN NORTHWEST
VnaMBnSroMflHE3aw2S3nBh.tfi
.1. 1. Ciiho Agitator.
Hum lighter, threihr latter. I let liable to get out
el order and laYtagraln belter In tn any other Thtf.liir,
Acmo Harrow, Iod Smasiisr,
Cruiher and I-eveler, weigh much lta than any other
rulrerlilttff Harrow, il! lor about one-lhlrd Iom, aud
withal doe the moat thorough work ot any.
Stiidebnkcr Wiirohh.
TliltnWe Bkfln, Htcel Bkeln, Tubular Axle W'on
and evtrythlnif on wheel.
r i r.. OnlVv. c.nc and Walklnir I'low. liar
orwi ana uuuiTaion.
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CnrUT8nrinK WnKonn, nnd Vcli!cloa of nil kinilti nt pneos to wilt ovorybody. It
will pay nil rntcntlinB purclm-cr to cnll nnd oxninino our Btock nmlobtnlitprlccB.
H nAUHv A LrKBrtiLmrv AI id
la TftW-,
Rom fed Cutter, guaranteed' teet In the World
DEDERICK HAY PRESS :
Over tliroe-fonrths of nil tbe liny baled in tho Hniud ritrttcri nnd Cnnmla ia
bnlod by tlicoo prcflooa.
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famc hobo
For tbo convenience of onr patrons wo liu-vo catnbliithod Untiioli Houbob nnd
agencies ut nil points of importanco througliout Oregon, WnflliinRton nnd Idnbo,
wlicro we curry n Btock of our varioua inacliines and voliiclea, nnd uIbo repnira
for same.
Wo onrncBtly nuk that yon call upon our nearest local agent, oxamino our good
nnd obtain our terms and prices buforo purchasing olsowhero anything you limy
need in tho line of Machinery, Vehicles or Supplier
If wo havo no local agent near you, pleuwi writo us what you wish in purclinso
and wo will send full information and pricon by return mail, or have ..no of our
traveling salesmen call upon you.
Should there ever nrico any diesatisfaction in your dealings with . ursolves or
Agent, plcaso writo us all tho focU and wo will boo that ample justict '- done yon.
All our goods have boon especially built for this trado'of tl I rt material
,.. .1.. .,.i, i., ..! mmia tltislv flni.liril nnd imltilril. and L'Uiiiutiii nd enunl or
superior to all others of their claw manufactured in tho United twit h.
Wu shall hopo, by furnishing you the best goods, by lair pr cc. uuornl terras,
and courtH)U8 and honorablo treatment, to secure your ontiro j..trui...gt.
STAVER & WALKKR.
206 to 214 Front Street, Portland, Oregon:
Oils, nnd Machine
nil Kinds.
Buggies nnd.Cnrrlagcs.
End Rprlng, 8ld rprlng, Ilremter iprltig, Tlmken
fprlng llugglet and all kind ol Carrlaje and Vehicle.
J. 1. Cuo Portable, Btraw burning, Traction and Bkld
Engine. Moat 1'owerlul In the world.
lloosicr
Pore Fred Drill! and Seeder, with Truaa Axle and
WldeTiiee.
Stndnbaker.
Kour Spring, Platlorm, half Platform, Tin Spring
I1U b.UrWM..VH.I
41m Vnrlliu-nat nt Iturrrriml. flnrrlliePS.
Bissell Chilled Plows
Warranted better built and
better working thnn any other
Chill PlOW lIUUlC.
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Bob Sleighs
Hpt'cinlh built for our
Trade mid llrht class In
every reftnect
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