The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1892-12-15
wos1n,uercx, x1xx. December IS. 1902.
FROM OREGON
EUGENE, Or, Nov. 20, 1892.

EUGENE, Or, Nov. 20. 1892.
ED1ron nADvANcE:-After a lengthy
interval Of silence will once more en-
deAvor to give you few j"ttiugs pick
ed up In the highways and byways Of
life in this portion of the far west
Faint murmurings and echoes occa- !
sionxlly reach US of winters rule and
reign in your section of Uncle Sans
plantation aid With the experience of
numerous battles with old Boreas still
fresh in our minds the full import of
the faintest echo, strikes respondent
chord Of memory and We shiver
winter r~igns here also, only its reign
Is OF . different character, being much
more moist. and less lively, weeping
"rxiny tears" PERHAPS on account of
his inability to get this part of the
country into the frosty grip of his ca
pacious nav, hence it occasionally, l
say occasionally, because the term in
dicates u division, an intervening OF
something different, for it does occa-
sionally stop and the sun looks down
with warm smile to see if all tie in
habitants have get learned to swim.
then goes back shuts the door, pulls
out the plug, and down comes the
x.ter In itsstcnd5.easy lazy way atd:
the hills aud fields respond with grow
Ing grass and grain aud one hardly
realizes that it is winter.
The present year in regard to crop
yields, is what is called poor one. All
grain, however, that WAS seeded early
in the fall previous aud thoroughly put
In yielded we'll, wheat gong as high
as IS and so bushels to the acre, but
these we're exceptional yields. the ma
jority teing from Is to 35, in one case
Il 6eld of 18 acres OF wheat yielded ai,
average of 62}. bushelds to the acre,
but this was piece that the owner
had taken extra pains with, the land
having been summer fallowed. but late
sown spring and volunteer crops were
poor. the RpDle and plum crop are
much shorter than last year, yet there
were apple orchards that had an
sbundxpee Of fine fruit in, but a. a
rule they were young or we'll kept or
chards, y pretty thorough invrstiga-
tton for two years has proven the as
sertion made heretofore, that the in
dustrious, go-aheadative farmer here
has no failures Of any kind to refer
back to In y residence of from 20 to 40
years, it is not the farmer who drives
bis work In rain or shine, during the
rainy season, who leads in crop yields.
but the Que who "takts time by the
forelock, ," aud puts his grain in before
the rains begin. A couple years ago
tho "winter farmers" were asked why
1t wouldn't be better to plow thei,
land when it VAS dry, and SOW tneil
fall grain in the dust, MS it were, and
they replied, that it couldn't be done
because the ground was too hard from
winter blowing, one or two however,
tried it rs IN experiment, on small
portion of their farms and the result
VAS yield Of from to Is bushels pei
aero oyer oil former winter plowings
moreover, they found that the lana
was very easy to plow dry the mex
time, 30 easy that no extra team WA
needed, and this year quite y. lsrg'
per centaee Of grain went into th
ground before drop Of rain had fal
len. and it now looks very aoe, ant
far in advance of the rest and it is SAT
to predict that next year will sbo,
some phenomenal yields and whe
this idea. takes possession Of 80 pc
eeat. Of the farmers here. this vale
will show forth as no other agricultul
n section of the United States hal
One great drawback here Is the dull
ness Of times during the winte
months, this is said to be the case ger
orally on the Pacific coast. but am !,
olined to think that it is worse in th
valley than any other part Of the coas
the affairs Of this country are run by
0Ul1u IUJk VI u0VO
own way. and tho stirring part OF II
farmers are fi1hting it with . viz
and judging from the last June ele
tions they cannot Withstand the dete
mined efforts Of the farmers mut
longer and will without doubt bres
and run the next time the batterinl
ram Of the hay feeds Is brought to be-
against them.
The lumber and wood interests
this county are moro extensive tn,
many would suppose. Million
Of fset Of logs are cut duri,
tho winter months and .nost
20 tho numerous saw mills along {
two rivers aud in this and ;adjoini'