Willamette farmer., June 24, 1887, Page 4, Image 4

WILLAMJBTTK VAKMBiH: SALKM, OREGON, JUNE 24, '7
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eepecUble. at the following table of rettet
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CHICAGO rt'wRi7.Tw
CIXl'INATTI edvfrllw r on call at 17S Vine tlrect,
and Kt citlmalei. Our agent are IAH l.H 80.H.
FISHER : SAN FRANCISCO
Will (U0te lavorable ratee 2( Merchant! Exchange.
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IVtwipaper Advertising Jlureau (10 HniUCB
HTHKKT), WIIKIIIi AD ajBaCJUl If A III
VKimSIMO CONTHAOn Ml Iff I UKIV.
tuny Ijo made for it in IllnlW I Wlllli
J'Illt nABCB"nnn,"ln'lldrlphU
IWeAVKKAiONtOurauthorUoa agent.
The WKATHEit has turned off warm,
nnd it 1b quito liko summer. Trospccts
rtro good nil over tho Htnto for immenso
yields. Wheat still boars n good price,
nnd with wool at 2fi cents per pound, is
bound to make tho country prosperous.
Wb kkhket to announce that our Mr.
S. A. Clnrko has been quito'sick tho past
week, nnd as a conscqucnco wo do not
liavo our usunl amount of editorial mat
ter, etc. Ho will probably bo nl his post
of duty again the coming week. In tho
menntimo wo ask tho indulgonco of our
renders.
Tiik UnAKflK l'ic.vic is in progrcBSitt
.loflereon iih wo go to pnm AVo shall
havo n full report in our noxt issue
Tho proHpccts aro that it will bo well
attended by (irangors and others from
nil part of tho country. From n small
beginning this Grange picnic, Instituted
nomo years hko, has grown into an im
portant ovent, and is now looked forward
lo with much interest.
ltKUEMiir.u that Kalom will havo n
magnificent celebration of tho Fourth
of July. Thoro will bo throo brass
bands in tho parado, to say nothing of
tho flro compnnloe, militin companies
nnd other organizations that have prom
ised to lako part in tho pnrmlo. ..Salem
can nnd will colebruto in n tromondous
way. Ho fiuro to come nnd cross on our
now froo bridgo over tho Willamotto.
Onk of tho fittest subjects for Jnw
making that can como up in any Legis
lature is tho ndultorntion of food pro
ducts. This is an ovil that effects ovory
class of peoplo, except those whoso
means aro such iih to enable tliom to
purchaso only those of tho highest price
nnd best quality. As a rulo tho poorer
tho people tho greater tho iiuMHitiou in
this regard to which thoy wore subject
ed. This adulteration hcoiiih to prevail
in ovory kind of food product in which
it is possible to make adulteration with
out innnediatoaud certain detection. It
is done, of course, in answer to a demand
for cheap goods, but it i a swindle, bo
t'liuso It is tho Mibstitution of a cheaper,
bogus article for tho genuine and charg
ing more than tho bogus article is worth,
lty mixing chiccory with collee, eolVeo
can bo mado cheiier, but the price paid
for tho chiccory mixed with coll'eo is
higher than if it went bought under its
proper nit mo. So with every other
fraudulent food product. And what is
it worso feature than anything olno, is
tho fact that many of tho adulterations
nro not only cheats and frauds, but nro
hurtful to health. It scorns that tho
only way to socuro certain freedom from
fraud in the matter of spices, is to buy
them whole and prepare them at home.
It is unsafe to buy even rousted coll'eo,
and very much so to buy it already
ground. Tho Department of Agricult
ure lias been having some analysts of
food products made, and tho number of
adulterations found aro alarming. It is
probable that bogus butter is less harm
ful than many other logus articles cold
in every stow. Then ought to bo in
every State- a food commissioner to
lock after and protect tho people from
thc-o frauds.
IAQRICULTURE "rROTEOTED,"
lion. William H. Hatch, who repre
sents tho peoplo of tho First Miouii
District in Congress, mado a Hoeh I e
foro tho National Agricultural and Dairy
Association of New York. The r-pcech
was well received by tho dolegates in
attendance, and it could bo read with
interest by tho gnt body of agricul
turists of this country.
Tho tolegmphio report of tho vpcooh
km very meager Indeed, but enough of
it whs scut out to whet the appetite of
t'io farmer for more of it. It ought to
bo printed in full by the Association nnd
sent out bromlcnst over the land, so thoso
who read it with interest could profit by
it as woll.
Following is an extract from the ad
circus : " No ono can deny that the busi
ness of this great Republic has pros
pered, and that it is in a flourishing
condition, but tho fanners are no richer
to-dny than thoy wero twenty years ago.
Thoy don't own as much land as they
did. Where lias all tho wealth gono?
Have you got it? It is piled in tho fivo
nnd soven story mansions of Now York,
and othor cltios hko it. I can rcmem-
bcr whon farmers loaned nine-tenths of
tho money in tho wholo country. Is it
so now? No. "Whero is it? It is in tho
cofibrs of tho money lendors. You owo
more monoy to-day than you did twonty
years ago, and you think yon havo been
growing richer with tho country. Mens
urcd by tho labor of tho farmer, you
havo got to labor hardor to-dny to pay
your debts, tho burden is heavier, than
twenty years ago. A system has existed
for tho last ton years that has built up
colloBsal fortunes and widened tho breach
between the broad-winners nnd tho mil
lionaircs. Tho agricultural class should
bo tho governing class of this country.
You aro tho great cotiBcrvntivo class.
You havo been taxed long enough un
necessarily by tho Government. Look
at tho surplus in tho treasury. What
is it? It is tho blood monoy of tho farm
era. Tho Government is exacting too
much of thorn. Is it not bettor to lcavo
this monoy in tho hands of tho pcopla
instead of placing it in tho hands of tho
Government for distribution!"
THE REBEL PXAOS.
J.nst week tuo wholo country was
roused by tho report Mint tho War Do
partition! had mado it proposition to
return all the captured rebel flags to tho
Southern States by which thoy worn
owned during tho rebellion, and that
Mr. Clovolaud had indorsod tho order.
This report wont through tho wholo nn
lion, mid moro especially tho States
loyal, nnd whoso troops had captured
thoso flags and had committed thorn to
tho charge of tho War Dopartmont, caus
ing tho most intonso excitement. It
was first heard at tho mooting of tho
Grand Army veterans, whero tho Grand
Commander, Gen. Fairchild, being pres
ent, denounced tho ordor in words of
terriblo force. All parties of loynl north
ern men and soldiers, including ninny
distinguished democrats, were indignant,
and tho very first, day nftor tho news wbh
promulgated, tho Governors of sovend
States filed their protests and oven took
legal stops to claim tho Hags belonging
to their own troops. Tho general feel
ing was so pronouiicod nnd unmistaka
ble that 3Ir. Cleveland lost no tlmo in
rescinding tho ordor, and declining that
ho had no intention or wish to dishonor
or slight tho loyal sontimont of tho na
tion. It is claimed by tho Grand army men
that all poBsiblo measures of kindness
and conciliation havo been adopted
towards thoso lately in rebellion, and wo
only retnin theso battle flags as a mo
uieuto of tho torribln past. No ven
geance or punishment has been enforced
against thoso who caused tho war or
prosecuted it so persistently; tho States
that were in rebellion no longer oxist,
and tho Confederacy is extinct; tho
presont South docs not .imloro tho acta
of thoso States, or acquit their obliga
tions, or oven honor their memory, so
that Micro is no existing political power
to receive them as their right or care
for them as their own. Tho truo custo
dian of tho reliel archives and relics is
tho nation which survives by tho valor
of its sous, and ihei-o relics of that dread
ful epoch should bo treasured for tho
lcoson they tell of how tho Union was
preserved and must bo maintained, nnd
not for any desire to glory over the sec
tion that thoy then represented. With
their loss nothing would remain visible
of this past to give omphanis to tho
words of history.
At tho present tlmo there is much in
terest K'ing, taken In the celebration .of
tho glorious Fourth of July, and no doubt
many t ill go to 1'ortland to celebrate.
To all such wo can give no better advice
than to say to them " Do sura to call
on Frank G. Abel, tho best photographer
in Portland. Ho will show you his mag
nificent collection of photographs and
views. He stiro to tet for a picture.
Demoralisation and disaster overtook
tho groat wheat clique in Chicago, on
Juno 14th. Juno option dropped from
U2Jcts72)ets, tho most sensational col
lapse over mvoii in that market since its
history. Tho 1(5,000,000 bushels of
grain collected there and held by a
mysterious combination, will now bo
sold "under Uio hammer." A Urge I
number of grvut firms have failed.
horticultural
When to Harvest Hay.
Excellent judgment, with sufficient
intelligence nnd knowlodgoof the quali
ties entering into the hay product and
tho properties necessary to bo preserved
in a first-class nrticlo, is what cvory
farmer should possess, whether his crop
is to bo sold or used on tho farm. To
mako tho sweeping assertion that nil hay
should bo cut early without regard to
its final ubo would indicnto lamentable
ignoranco.
For cows in milk, sheep with young
lambs, fattening sheep, horses that havo
been turned out in tho yard to winter,
and for oxon and creatures intended
for slaughter, early cut hay will fill tho
bill for tho bulky part of tho ration.
For horses Mint aro subjoct to long and
fast driving, and thoso that must en
duro tho strain of moving heavy loods,
should havo tho best of timothy hay cut
when in full bloom. At this stago nl
growth, tho laxativo princlplo so deslr
ublo in the production of milk, growth
and flesh, becomes modified somowhat
by tho approach of Mutt stago of growth
when tho formation of woody tibor com
moncos. It should bo tho aim and ambition of
every farm or to mako his land so rich
that it will produce thrco tons of good
cloan cured English hay to tho aero for
tho first crop, then ho may bo euro of n
rowon crop of ono 1J to two tons to tho
aero if tho season is favorable. If your
farm is in ns good condition as this, bo
gin your haying ordinarily by Juno 1st,
cutting tho orchard grass first, then fol
low immediately with tho rest of tho
crop, ctipccinlly if you hnvo much to cut.
If tho weather is all right nnd you hnvo
amplo machinery, tho cutting ought
mostly to bo dono whon tho natural
molsturo of tho night has disappeared,
because a littlo delay in early morning
will facilitato curing lator in tho day.
If there is not dangor of too heavy dow
nnd tho hay is heavy enough so but lit
tlo of tho grass, comparatively, will bo
exposed to tho dow, I liko very much
tho idea of mowing from !1 1 M. till
evening. If tho ground Is hot and tho
ntmosphcro clear, tho hay will mako
very much through tho night, nnd tho
time of curing will bo very much hnston
cd. Hoavy dow will turn tho product
lightly dark, but I never havo boon
nblo to obscrvo nny deterioration in
quality.
A man of intelligence will put hay In
tho barn whon it is ready, and this it
matter difficult to iudicitto to others.
Tnko n class of bright young boys into
tho field ovory dny for n few days in
haying, and with raro exceptions every
ono can bo taught to distinguish what
tho term "properly ctjred," means, but
It is an entirely different matter to in
dicate it on papor. Grasp it wisp of
hay, and so long as it has tho property
of n wot rag whon twisted in tho hands
it is not fit to storo, but when that prop
erty bogins to chango to that of n brittlo,
light and dry feeling, roll all tho hay at
once and put it into tho bnrn in tho
shortest possiblo time. Over-drying
ruins hay. Novcr let it roach that stago
whero it becomcH dusty. Novor atoro
liny that has tho natural moisturo of tho
night or of rains ndhering to tho stir
faco of tho spears. Do not hnvo nny
excuse to salt liny, for tho reason that
you compol tho animals to cat salt whon
they don't ncod It.
Hay properly cocked will sit-tain very
slight injury by remaining out through
a storm. Tho cooks should bo mado
high, and small at tho base, pressing tho
hay down firmly nnd cvonly, and trim
neatly. With tho side of tho foot knock
tho hay around tho baso well under so
that tho water will shed directly on to
tho ground. Should Micro bo sign of
rain whon tho hay has been out over
ono night, double tho cooks, rako tho
scatterings and trim noatly. If one will
carefully study weather signs for a lit
tlo time ho will find that ho will soon
bo able to calculate with very much pre
cision in haying time. It is nil old, but
not always a wise admonition, to "make
liny while tho sun shinos," but tho liny
might as woll bo standing as cut some
times, even when the sun is shining his
brightest, becauso tho air seems to bo bo
full of moisturo that no drying can take
place, nnd a variation of temperature
sufficient to produce condensation would
result in it heavy rainfall.
When hay does not dry uiul tho sun
is shining, it Is best to prepare for rain.
Ono of tho surest signs of ram in tho
morning is tho presence of two layers of
clouds, tho remotest being heavy nnd
nearly motionless, I should not have
nny excuse- to cut grass whon tho sky
appears thus. Tho hay crop is of very
great imortauee, easily and cheaply
grown, and should bo tho means of put
ting moro money into tho pockets of
out farmers, llsocins to mo a farmer
fhould itiiso n ton of uico cured hay fod
der corn for every tou of nicely cured
timothy hay. Then if ho has just stock
enough to consume tho hay, sell it, every
ton oi it, and use tho corn instead, and
by intelligent manipulation in ucur
ing it, get its good results as from the
hay and iH,rhapseven better. A. A.
Southwick.
Marr, Middleton t Hunter, live stock
commission men, of Denver, Col., havo
assigned; assets, $l(i,f:iO: liabilities,
$9600; unsecured, $9625. Tho princi
pal creditors am stated to bo tho Nation
al Hank and J. W. Solomon, of Denver,
nnd Eastman .V Leggctt, of Palmyra,
Missouri.
Itenew your nulwription.
Shropshire Sheep 1
Imported and Bred by G.
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will address ns above.
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