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344 well-known farmers here, and any one who thinks the figures too large can find out by asking for themselves. We do not wish to boast, but we claim the 'belt' for "Walla Walla as a wheat-growing country."

"—The Plaindealer says that S. C. Moore, who resides on the South Umpqua, five miles south of Roseburg, this year cut a field of wheat, containing eighteen acres, which yielded forty-five bushels to the acre. The land and grain were both accurately measured. The waste caused by some of the wheat being down, was estimated at five bushels to the acre. The Plaindealer thinks this a good crop, taking into consideration the fact that the season has not been a very favorable one."

"—Mr. Bleachleg, who lives about ten miles below Eugene City, says the Journal, has harvested this season an average of over fifty bushels of wheat to the acre, and from four acres a yield of over sixty bushels to the acre."

"The Albany Register states that a field of one hundred and fifty acres in Linn County yielded 8,250 bushels of the finest quality of wheat, the average being fifty-five bushels per acre."

"A field of wheat of sixty acres, belonging to Mr. Blackley, of Lane County, averages fifty bushels to the acre. Four acres yielded sixty bushels to the acre."

"The eastern country is boasting of mammoth squashes. The Baker City Democrat speaks of one weighing seventy-three pounds. The Winnemucca Register has seen one weighing seventy-five pounds. And now comes the Owyhee Avalanche, 'raising' its contemporaries by declaring that one is on exhibition in its town which weighs one hundred and six pounds. As the Avalanche had the last say it would have been its own fault if it had not told the story of the largest pumpkin."

"—From the San Francisco Alta, of July 30th, we copy this:

"The branch of cherries from Mr. Luelling's nursery, now on