Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1868-09-12

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Wheat ! cultivated By nearly al
the fzrIaers: average Yield about -
bushels Pcr acre: yield of the county
this year, (lst) 5000 bushels, Of
which ~, 900 was winter wheat No
rust. no weevil. very little smut,
sound and healthy; average price 81
coin; cost 80 cents Ter bushel; net
profit 20 cents per bushel, 50 per
acre in coin. Hay, mostly herd
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clover 800 acres, two crops year;
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ton. Apples by far the most profit
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to 20 cents per bushels.
In Clarke county white winter
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sidered the most productive and
making the best flour. Slender
Straw Spring, Noe Island, and Hy-
brid, are also cultivated, the latter
being the best Spring variety. Win
ter wheat is sown in September and
October, and harvested i'll August !;
Spring wheat sown in March and
April though sometimes as early as
February, and harvested in Septem-
ber; but small proportion drilled, be-
ing generally sown broad cast, upon
ploughed ground, and narrowed III.
Seven months are given az the
limit during which cattle can subsist
exclusively upon pasture, at cost
Of So per head.
Apples, pears, plumbs, cherries;
gooosberries, raspberries, strawber-
ries, currants, and blackberrics, arc
we'll adapted to our soil, and climate.
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ed. OF apples, the Roxbary Rus
sett, the Rhode Island Greening,
Pairmain, Spitzenburg and Jersey
Sweeting, bear at the age of four
years from the grating, it set out at
one year old"
EASY TO BEAr.-The Cleveland;
Ohio, Leader, a Radical paper, warns
its party friends how easily they may
be beaten in the Presidential election,
as follows:
"Tho State of Ohio was carried
for the Republican party, last fall, by
less than three thousand majority
A change of one vote to tho Democ-,
racy from the Republicans in each
ward and township of the State
would wipe out that majority and
give the State to tho Democracy.
Let Ohio Republicans ponder this.
Let them consider that they are as
yet by no means out of the wilder
ness"
IfOhio is like any othor section of
tho United Statos, thero is not ward
or township in the State in which at
least change Of one vote to the De-
mocracy from the Republicans may
not be counted but the best in.
formed Democrats of Ohio confident
ly count or ; Democratic majority in
that State equal to the majority
against negro suffrage last fall, which
was hut little under 81, 900.
TELEsEArH LIxEs.-The British
House of Commons have by very
decided vote declared ir fsvor Of pur-
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