The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1869-02-06
AGRICULTURAL.
FACTS AND FIGURES.

England, sixteen in Holland
\ fathom, six feet is derived from the
hight of a full grown man.
A hand, in horse measure, is four
inches
An Irish mile is 2240 yards; Scotch
mile Is 1854; German, 1906; an Amer
lean, 1900; Turkish, 1926
An acre is 10 square chains, or 66O
by 66 feet.
A square mile, 1850 yards each way,
contains 640 acres
The human body consists of 240 bones,
kinds of articulatiens or jennings, 100
cartilages or ligaments, 400 muscles or
tendons, and 100 nerves, besides blood
arteries, veins, etc.
HOW TO JUDGE POULTRY.
A young turkey has smooth leg and
soft bill and the eyes bright, and the
feet moist. OLD turkeys have scaly, stiff
feet. Young fowls have tender skin,
smooth legs, and the breast-bone yields
readily to the pressure of the finger. The
best are those that have yellow legs.
The feet and legs of the old fowls look
as if they had seen hard service in the
wcrld
Young ducks feel tender under the
wings, and the web is transparent. The
best are thick and hard on the breast.
Young geese have yellow bills, aud the
feet are yellow and supple; the skin may
be easily broken by the head Of pin;
the breast is plump and the fat white.
An old goose is unfit for the human
stomach.
SENSIBLE
The lNaiae Farmer, in speaking of the
potato mania and speculation, says ssif
part of the care and attention bestowed
upon new and much lauded varieties were
given to old and good but neglected sorts
we think farmers would be quite as
well off as they are now to pay enormous
sums for articles that are in few years
sure to be superseded and overlooked.
Potatoes planted below three feet do
not vegetate; at one foot they grow thick
est, and at two feet they are retarded
two or three months
AGE FOR HELPERS To COME IN
A correspondent inquired Of the
P2oughn,an as to the proper age for heif
ers to bring their first calf-the object
being for dairy purposes. The editor
replies by saying, "we believe in bring
ing heifers in at two years old, for the
reason that at that age the organs of Sc
cretion, like all parts of the body, are in
more plant condition than they will be
at later period, and they are conse-
quently more rerdily influenced. The
secretion of milk is we'll calculated to
develope them and to enlarge them to
their utmost capacity. If the animal is
to become large mixer when she ar
rives at maturity, she must have abund-
ant room to lay away large supplies of milk,
and the capacity for holding these sup
plies must be created while her system
is plant, elastic and Influenced. So far
as our observation has gone, and the ex-
perience of the best dairymen will coin
eide, heifer coming in at two years old
if properly fed, carefully MIXED, forced
up, if you please, to her utmost capacity of
production, and made to hold out almost
until the new milk springs for secoad
calf, will invariably make better milker
than one coming in at three years DID,"
SALT NOT GOOD FOR COWS.
Ell. W. Herbet, of West Rummey,
writes to the Rural american that 81
keep eighteen cows, and have always
salted them about once in ten days, or
kept sufficient quantity in the yard for
their use, and [ have noticed for the last
two years that every time I salted them
there was invariably decrease in milk
for few days following, and if the salt
was kept by them they would not give
their usual mess until the Esupply was
taken from them, which would very soon
increase their milk nearly ten per cent"
Mr. Herbert's experience is not in accor-
dance with the generally accepted idea
that salt IS good for cows, as well as all
other kinds Of stock While we do not
question the reliability of the statement,
we think an investigation would reveal
some other cause operating in connec-
tion with the salt, for the decrease of
milk. Our columns are omen tn anv nno