The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1871-11-18
AGRICULTURAL.

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farmers and others - want To
caution you. against killing caows.
[ know very well this lis up hill
business, but you must let the crows
live (my crows, at least for the
whole year, Early and late they
are busy doing us good. They
carry wagon loads of worms off
from our farms. Without them
and the other birds we could not
live. They do SO much for us we
can we'll afford to twine our corn
fields, L mean before the corn is
up,) when | will warrant they will
not touch your corn. At least, my
crows don't pull my corn.
My hired men are all crazy tu
shoot my crows. "Why," said one,
| could have killed five at one
shot, where they had come to do
me another favor. You can raise
a late calf on purpose to have one
to pay crow tax with. / most
always dor a foot-rot sheep will
answer. No, my double-barreI
shot gun is loaded for bigger game.
that goes around when it is blacker
than crows. My crows are so tame
they will come in the filrrow to
pick up grubs, beetles, moles and
worms, and crowd up SO near that
| can talk with them and I haye
promised them many times that i
would write to the RauM Neqo.
Yorker and see if we could not
compromise matters In favor of the
crows.
Just keep an account with a crow
one year, (as have and you will
see. Give crow credit for hum
dred measures ofgrasshoppers and
SO on through the whole list Of des-
truction; give him credit for pure
country air; give him credit for
being the first to remind you of
spring. Yes, you may even give
him credit for pulling few hills Of
corn to keep his noble self alive so
that he can do you a world of good
in after times. And now what are
you going to charge him with?
Nothing, except he is glntton.-
AUSTIN b. CULVER, Westfeld,
n. Y.
lake CARE OF THE STRAW
lfa farmer happens to be without
stl aw for one winter, he fully real
ICES the value Of it in his business.
A good straw stack makes a cheer
ful barnyard in winter. You will
rarely see poor stock where there
is large stack of bright straw. 1t
makes a dry and sheltered yard ),
soft, dry beds i'll the stall, and is
worth a great deal to work in with
other fodder. Bright straw and
some grain will take farm horses
that have little work to do, through
the cold months in health and good
flesh. The same feed will suffice
for store sheep. The straw stack
affords cattle good luncheon, but
mich COWS, fatting stock, and those
that are young, require hay and
other richer food. But the straw
is of SO much value that it is worth
while to make the stack in the best
manner, SO rs to keep its contents
bright and dry. The top should be
finished with little fine hay, or
grass cut for the purpose. BY rak-
ing and trimming after the machine
has gone, and topping out properly.
the straw will come out in the win.
ter as bright as when threshed.
4Ansericuls R,ArdZ Home.
Ducks AS EGG Producers
MORE PROFITABLE THAN HENs.-
An experimental fowl fancier re.
GENTLY tested the comparative fecun
dity of ducks and hens, with the
following result:
Three hens and three ducKs wer,
selected, all hatched in February
and nourished with suitable food
In the following autumn the duck
laid 225 eggs, while the hens lai(
none. In the next February tn,
laying season began again for tn,
ducks, and continued uninterrupted
" till August. They showed II,
inclination to set, but became yer,
thin, although they afterward fat
tened up somewhat. The tota
number Of eggs laid by the hen
amounted to 257, or sc eggs each
and 1872, or 13 each, for the ducks
Although the eggs of the duck
were rather smaller than those q
the hens, yet they proved decided
ly superior in nutlitive material.
SO that the superiority in produc,
iveness appears to be decidedly wit
the ducks.
To KEEP MILK SwEEr.-Th
Southern E1zg.,,ze,. cows tho+ -.