Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1894-09-07

Oregoaian.

egon that we can do 8 great many
things hitherto considered difficult
or impossible, and do them, more
over, with ease and profit. From
the days Of the oldest settler till
now such expressions have been
heard among us, towit: "Oregon
is not Q butter country" hogs
cannot be raised with profitin Or
egon;" ''good pork cannot be made
out Of wheat Oregon is poor
country for peaches, corn and
melons," ETC., etc. We can't do
this and we can't do that, has been
the constant cry; and yet no real
attempt to do things has been made.
But now we are going to make
the attempt, since, as Patrick
Henry phrased it, "we have no
election There is no virtue like
necessity. We have begun already
to do things that we have delighted
these many years to believe impos-
sible. We are making our butter,
and find we can make just as good
butter as that of any state and at
as low q price. We are finding out
that if we want to raise corn there
are plenty of places whereit can be
grown. Proper effort, forced by
necessity, proves that we can raise
hogs as well as anybody elsewhere,
and can make pork, bacon, hams
and lard quite as good as any. We
are learning that our fruit on the
whole is unexcelled in variety and
quality; that there are no better
peaches than ours, though we used
to say that we could not grow
peaches, that our pears. prunes
and other fruits are unequaled, and
that it is perfectly absurd for US to
import into our state single pack
age of fruit canned, jellied, pre-
served or dried. We have been en-
deavoring to persuade ourselves all
these years that because of the
long rainy season Oregon was not
q good country for poultry, and so
we have allowed dealers to import
eggs by trainloads, and evenAchick-
ems and turkeys, from states where
the people do not allow love Of
ease to fill them quite SO full of
obstacles; but We are now making
the discovery that proper attention
to the poultry yard will produce
Just as good results in Oregon as
anywhere else.
Thus, the necessity of getting at
work is disproving many things on
the one hand and proving many
more on the other, Since we
havn't money to buy these things
from abroad, and many more, we
start the question whether after
all we cannot as well produce them
ourselves. And just as fast as we
Law hold we learn that the old and
time worn prejudices against our
country as o bad producer of the
articles required for consumption
has really been four ded upon q
disinclinationin ourselves to proper
exertion in the necessary directions.
From the earliest times in Oregon
we had a habit Of going without
milk and butter rather than take
the trouble to get them. The old
pioneer had his herds of cattle. but
seldom a drop of milk in the house.
He hadn't time, it was too much
bother, and milk and butter we're
unnecessary, anyway Something
of this has lasted down to the pres
ent time. But during many years
past there has been large importa-
ton Of dairy products to supply a
demand in our growing towns, and
row, when our people are forced
by new conditions TO find some
thing they can do in the way Of
production, and money cannot be
had to supply this continual drain
from the state, it is discovered that
there is an opening in the dairy
business, and the result is that
never before was our market so
nearly supplied with home products
as now.
With every industry suited to
our conditions, this plan will be
gsesued, till we have established
variety Of production in our states
cf The Northwest. This is to be
the basis Of real prosperity, and it
is only through hard times that
we shall reach it. We must do it
not only in food products, but
gradually with MANY other things.
Iron smelling is shut down for the
present, but we shall yet smelt
iron, as Ohio, Pennsylvania and
Alabama do. We have the mater
ials for tanning leather, and the
hides to be tanned, and it is against
reason that this industry should
be forever neglected. For manu-
facfrre Of vehicles and agricultural