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THE ILLINOIS FAEMEE. 



Jan. 



Tee Obegon Farmer. — Away on the other 

 shore of our dominions, 



'■ Where rolls the Oregon," 



men have carved out new homes and erected new 

 altars. The Anglo-Saxon with his axe has hewed 

 down the forest, and now looks out upon the 

 broad Pacific, and asks if there is no more land 

 beyond. But he will stop there for awhi'e, for 

 his household gods are with him; the printing 

 press, like a great speaking trumpet, is ia his 

 handa, and he sends back greeting to his brother 

 of the east. The Oregon Fanner comes to us 

 semi-monthly laden wi.h valuable advice to our 

 cis-Rocky Mountain brethren, and from which 

 we gather some idea of the progress of the great 

 industrial army ia that interesting, but far off 

 country. 



We clip a few paragraphs : 



Laege Freight. — The sttamer Oregon took 

 out a cargo of seven thousand boxes rf apples. 

 Shipments like this will biing money into the 

 country. 



The apples s nt from this port on th-^ bark In- 

 dustry to San Fr-tncisco ha^^^e all passed into sec- 

 ond hands. The price realize 1 for choice winter 

 fruit was eight cei ts, but a large proportion of 

 the cargo were fall varieties, which, in conse- 

 quence of their perishable nature, had to be 

 forced upon the market at tlree, four and five 

 cents per pound 



S. S. Miller, of Linn county, planted one Blue 

 Neschanock potato about ihe 20Lh of May last, 

 which yielded 340 pounds of large, fine looking 

 potatoes. 



What docs it mean that so many great orchard-" 

 are to he sold by lottery in California? the fruit 

 orchaids failing there, or are there s^o many new 

 orchards (hat they hive become unprofitable? 

 Orchards valued at two, four, ten, twei ty, and 

 one hundred thousand dollars — iioing for two 

 dollars ? Who LiJs— who will invest ? 



Chickens, dres?ed, six bits a pair ! That pays 

 well, does it not ? A lot of 200 or 300 chickens 

 would buy a heap of sugar, coffee and tea — not 

 to mention otiier necessaries. 



Apples are selling at 50 cents a pound at AValla 

 Walla. A man can't afford to eat there more 

 than three pounds a day, especially as his labor 

 is only worth by the day a §1 50. 



California Fruit Market. — San Francisco, 

 iVW. 24, 1850.— El). Farmek: The bark Industry 

 arrived with 1,000 boxes fruit, 18th irist. Sales 

 ranged 5c. to Be; much of it in bad order, the 

 fault of the packer and not the ship. 



Steamer Jonathan arrived 22d, with 4,500 

 boxes, and discharged yesterday and to-day. All 

 sold at prices ranging from 5Jc. to 10c. — one in- 

 voice at ll-'iJG. Seven to eight cents is about the 

 average. 1 revious to the arrival the market was 

 very bare, more so than it has been since the 



season commenced. Some half a dozen buyers 

 from the interior were in town, so there was a 

 lively competition on the wharf. Most of the 

 fruit, as far as seen, was in good order, and of 

 a much better class that the two previous ship- 

 ments. I ohserve (hat farmers who pack and 

 ship their own fruit, sort and pack it in a much 

 superior nianner to those who are dealing in it ; 

 and those invoices generally command the high- 

 est prices. 



The bark Samuel Merritt arrived this after- 

 noon and will discharge on Monday. She brings 

 about 5,000 boxes. The fruit dealers predict a 

 decline in prices from to-day's rates. 



Exports of Oregon. — We export much — we 

 import more, and that makes us poor. 



California grown apples out of market. 



From this last we would suppose that the Cal- 

 ifornia apples do not keep will, and this may 

 account for the desire to sell out their orchards. 

 If this is true, the winter supplies must come 

 from Oregon. The Farmer is published at Port- 

 land at $3. 



jg^^.he trifling sums awarded as premiums 

 at most agricultural exhibitions are among.t the 

 least inducements to exhibitors ; themain-spring 

 is the honor achieved by successful competition. 

 But the honor is a very trifling one, if none but 

 (he few at the exhibition be aware of the fact. 

 It is but justice to ttie competitors that the 

 widest publicity should be given to the awards, 

 ani all agricultural societies should look upon 

 it as one of the essentia's to their success 



If it interests John Smith to re id in print 

 that he received the first prize for the best crop 

 of wheat, it interests the public to know that 

 that was Canada Club^or Black Sea, or what not, 

 and loth parties are served. 



Field Notes. — The first two numbers of thip 

 new agricultural journal are on our table. We 

 hove given them a thorough perusal, and with 

 pleasure we bear willing testimony to their value. 

 That the Field Notes wi;l take a high position ia 

 Western rural journalism is no more than we 

 should expect from the talent an industry of its 

 editor. If a quarter of a century's schooling 

 is of any value, we may well lock for it here. 

 Col. Harris, so well known throughout the West, 

 ■^vill now have an opportunity of enlarging hia 

 acquaintance. May his life be long and the 

 Field Notes attfin to a wide circulation, and al- 

 ways be at par when ofi"ered for circulation or on 



deposit. 



»mt—. ■ 



The Ci^cinnatus and Journal of the Ameri- 

 can PatejST Office. — The Cincinnatus and Sci- 

 entific Ariizan are now combined under the above 



