The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-20
AN ovRR-cUrE PoP.

He is poprlist farmer, and lives near
Salem. He is not one of those practical
matter-of-fact farmers. who attribute the
result of their own carelessnes or miss
judgement, or the iil-favor of nature, to
the proper cause, but is rather one oi
those professionally honest, adown-trod-
den farmers whose every i'll is caused by
corrupt legislation and the jews of Lom-
bard street.
! He was visited by sewing machine
agent few months ago who explained to
him and his wife the merits of his article.
The farmer decided not to buy and the
agent left the house. Then brilliant
thought took possession of the old boys
brain. He had note for 1880 on a
neighbor who wasn't worth S cents. He
would trade that note for machine for
which the agent asked $500. Pale with
excitement he hurried to the door and
called back the agent.
WELL" he said to him, my wife is
dreadful anxious to get that thare ma
chine and haint got no money, but I've
got note for SIS on a neighbor that'll
be due in about three months, and I'll
trade even just to please the old woman"
"Is the man goodf" Asked the agent.
'You bet Good as gold" replied the;
pop. IL
"Of course said the agent, ~ don't
know the man, and don't like to.taIe it
without Investigation. However, if you
will give me your old machine and the
note will let you take the new ma
chine" The farmer gleefully agreed.
Now" said the agent, just sign your
name on the back of the note. to show
that got it all square, and the bargain
is finished" The cute farmer signed
and the agent departed with note and the
old machine. The farmer spent the fol-
lowing day in telling his neighbors how
he had worked the agent.
Saturday he received notice from a
Salem bank, that a note for SIS had gone
to protest, and requesting him to take it
up. He did so. His righteous anger
against corporations and the money pow
er is stronger than ever.
CORVALLIS MARKET REPORT.
Corrected weekly by Corvallis COM
mission Company.
Poultry-Hens per dozen, LIS to f.. rs;
young reosters, full grown, per dozen,
$I.25 to $500; broilers, per dozen, $I.5oi
to $2.oo; ducks, per dozen, $7.oo to $50;
turkeys, live, 7 to 10 cents, according to
condition; dressed, 9 to II cents; geese,
perdozen, $500.
Egg-Per dozen, 10 cts.
Butter, 40 to SO cents per roll.
Bran, $1,000.
Shorts, $I4. so. -
Flour, f. 70 per barrel.
Potatoes-Per bushel, rs to 80 cts.
Oats-Choice white, per bushel, rs to
II cts; gray, 23 to rs cts.
Wheat-Per bushel, 72 cts.
Cascara Bark-$I.25 to$I.so
Hops-New crop, I7c.
Cheat seed, IHc per lb.
:, Hogs, dressed. IS to $3.50, owing to size.
Sides IN to Sc.
Lard, IN to Scents.
Geese 10 cents.
The recent advance in wheat brought
-four again up to the 81 mark per sack,
with fair indications to remain so for a
time.
So far there has been no material
change in the poultry market for rThanks-
giving. A great deal of dressed poultry
is generally put in the market with the
expectation of realizing larger prices for
Thanksgiving, thereby overstocking the
market.
The recent stormy weather, blocking
transportation in different ways, will have
more to do with advancing the market
than the approaching holiday,