The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-09-07

per gallon to $1.S0, and now smooth
John Chinaman laughs and says he
is a belly smart man."
WEEKLY MARKET REVIEW.
Prices Paid for Staple Products at the
Metropolis.
Portland.-There las been a decided
improvement in business in the local
markets, beginning with the present
week, and wholesale dealers particu-
larly report increased orders. Grain
is but slightly changed, and bags are
quoted at the same reduced price.
WHEAT.
Good reports continue to come from
the grain fields of Oregon, Washington
and Idaho. The rain has not dam
aged the wheat or oats, as has general
ly been supposed. Quotations are
slaghtly advanced as follows: Walla
Walla, 6S12c @ 7Oc per GENITAL, and Val
ley, 75c q 77Hc per GENITAL.
Beerbohm's grain report says: Wheat
Steadily held. California, spot lots,
As 9hd; off coast, 23s Cd; nearly due,
23s Cd; promptly to be shipped, 24s;
Walla Walla, spot lots, As 61hd; off
coast, 21s Cd; present and following
months, 22s Cd: Australian, off coast,
23s; present and following months, to
U. K, 24s; cargoes off coast and on
passage. quiet.
LOCAL QUOTATIONS. ---..-.-.-
Flour Salem and Dayton, $2.25 per
barrel; Walla Walla $3.50.
Oats-Quo.e No. 1 white, feed oats,
at 30c on track, and good winter gray
from 25c to CSC.
Barley-Feed barley 7Oc @ 72hc per
Genital as the extreme. Brewing is
worth SOC @ 85c per Genital, according
to quality.
Hay-Iood, $40 q s11 per ton.
Butter-Oregon fancy creamery 221ac
q Csc per pound; fancy dairy zoe a
22Hc.
Onions-New California, red, 1c per
pound; yellow. 1Hc.
Potatoes-New Oregon are slow at
Csc @50c per sack. There are plenty
of California sweet potatoes, quoted
at 1Ac.
Poultry-Old chickens are quoted at
SO q $3.50 per dozen., and young at 81
@ s2.25, according to size.
Egg|Quotations advanced yester-
day from 1213c to 15c, and closed at the
latter price. The supply is limited,
and continued advance in price is
anticipated.
Vegetables-Lima beans, 4c per
pound: sweet potatoes, 1%c: Oregon
cabbage, 119c @ &c; string and wax
beahB, 1Ec a &c; corn, Sc q 1oc per
dozen.
Fresh fruit-There is a plentiful sup
ply of all kinds of fruit except grapes.
Snake river peaches, 40c q 60c; Con-
cord grapes, 75c per crate; Hood river
apples, $1.25.
wool-valley. TIC a &c. according to
quality; Umpqua, 7c q SC: Eastern Or
egon, &c a &c. g@
Hops-There is no settled market
price Dealers anticipate opening at
&c @ sc. Z
PURE WATER FOR HOGS.
Running upon clover, hogs drink
but little water. But when turned
into the stubble fields after harvest
to live on the grain left in the field
they require much water. Then 1t is
that hog cholera most frequently ap-
pears. This dry, concentrated food
and stagnant water are super-inducine
causes Of disease. 81 One Of our con-
tcmporaries. touching upon the i'm.
portance of pure water for hogs says
The mud puddle in the low spot will
not do, nor pumping when we feel like
it or think of it. The hog needs plenty
OF the best obtainable water, If we
want him to do well, and be healthy
animal. On the high rolling prairie
many are coming to the conclusion
after long thought and much expense
that a reservoir Of water on the high
est point Of the farm, SO situated be
cause pipes can carry 1t from there t
any lower place, is the only solution o.
the water problem. This means wei
so deep that it will not be affected BY
drouths, and further this means $500
or about that sum. The hog canno
thrive without plenty of water. Fou
water is the propagating medium O
| the lower forms Of animal life. Di
gestion caInot proceed naturally Whei
| the animal is thirsty. Every farme
who has lived dozen years in prai
| rie country has expended more none!
| for makeshift wells than would pay TO
| a permanent deep bored well JUS
| how much we have lost through i'm
pure water, and scant water, is be
-yond calculation. There were waite
] margins in by-gone days that tided u
J over bad management, but profits ar
| less now and margins are less from
| high priced lands, and we are unde
the necessity of providing the hoi
with prime necessities. All lands hav
had this water question to grappl
with. Happily for us. we have waite
in abunderce at reasonable depths
J and the wind will lift it for US. Whe
water is once secured from a dee
well there is infinitely more hope fo
hao ltf,v hogs than there il without II