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352 Francisco, and from twenty-five to forty-five cents in Portland, there is money in the dairy business.

Fowls, which generally do not do well in California, are healthy and prolific in Oregon. Eggs always command a high price in San Francisco, and are by no means so cheap as they should be in Portland, simply because farmers neglect to raise hens.

The cultivation of flax is an industry only, of late resorted to in Oregon, though the culture of this plant is highly profitable; and it is, besides, indigenous to the soil in many parts of this State and Washington Territory. We notice, however, the receipt of twenty thousand bushels of flax-seed at the oil-mills in Albany, this year, and the Pioneer Oil-mill of Salem must have received as much more.

Owing to the drought in California, wheat has sold in Oregon at from $1.00 to $1.45 per bushel the present year (1871); oats, at eighty cents per bushel; and hay, twenty dollars per ton. Wool brings from thirty-five to thirty-six cents per pound. The spring clip amounted to over two million pounds.

The Oregon City Woolen Mills, this year, shipped to Boston fifty thousand pounds of their surplus wool, and expected to ship one hundred thousand pounds more.

The San Francisco Bulletin, in a review of things seen at the Mechanics' Institute Fair in that city, gives a very favorable notice of Oregon City woolen goods, and adds: "The production of this company consists chiefly of tweeds, flannels, cassimeres, blankets, and yarn. They manufacture mainly for the Oregon market, which gives little demand for the finer styles of woolen goods. In cassimeres, they claim superiority to any institution on the coast. Their stock of cassimeres