The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
SOIL FoR FRUIT.

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best soils for the different fruits A
light, dryish soil for the peach, a strong
loamy soil for the pear, nearly the same
ple-if on limestone, all the better-and
for the cherry soil similar to that of
the peach.
TO REDUCE BONES.
Mix them in q large kettle with wood
ashes, and to make the ashes caustic
add about a peck of fresh lime to each
barrel of bones. Saturate and cover
the ashes well with water, and then ap-
during the day for two consecutive days.
All the bones by this time, except the
veEy hardest parts, will be SO reduced
as to be easily pulverized, being in
pasty condition, suitable for placing in
layers in making the compost heap.
Another days boiling will reduce the re-
mainder of the hard bones.
TO RENDER A CEssPooL INoDoRoUs,
The contents of a cesspool may be
rendered comparatively inodorous by
frequent additions of plaster, or ground,
unburned gypsum, or diluted oil of Wit
riol, or solution of copperas. Probably
the easiest way of using the contents
for manure is to throw fine earth into
the vault until semi-hquid mass is
formed, and to scoop this out and cover
it with quantity of dry soil gathered
in readiness for it. The earth absorbs
all the liquid and all the gaseous mat
ter, and if kept covered from rain for
few days, it will be in excellent condi-
tion to spread over meadows or fallows
to prepare for fall crops.
CARE OF SHEEP.
SS FLOCK MaSf0r - of T,anoo onTn&v
Penn, writes the Germantown ZeIe-
graph as follows &c send you the fol-
lowing seasonable hints in regard to the
care of sheep: During the winter and
early spring sheep are often affec ted
with colds !; these, if neglected, fire.
quently become SO deeply seated as to
be incurable, and end in phthisic or
consumption. The best remedy for a
cold Is, first, place your sheep in a we'll
ventilated, dry stable, comfortably lit
tered, and, second, give it any slightly
purging medicine, with moderate al
lowance of hay, and bran mash, one
fifth of which should be oil-meal. Colds
and catarrh are net only epidemic, but
endemic be careful, therefore where
you winter your sheep, that there be no
predisposing cause in their locality !;
and when they are attacked, remove
them instantly from the flock. By fol-
lowing these precautions, and keeping
them well fed, sheltered, aired, watered,
and salted, one may bid defiance to dis
ease among his flock
STEEL PLows BEST.
A. B. Allen, of New York, says: 1"
would sooner pay double the price for
steel plows than accept as a gift the
| best set of cast-iron plows to be found
in the United States. Though ever so
hard chilled or smoothly polished, cast
iron will foul, more or less, on the
aboard, in every kind of soil from
a sandy or gravelly up to a heavy clay
loan. The dirt thus gathered on the
mold-board adds greatly to its draft tand
prevents good work.
Another objection to cast-iron is in
order to get equal strength the weight
must be considerably greater than with
steel, and this is hard drag all day,
and requires much stronger team. OF
this any one may quickly convince him
self without resort to thermometers or
any other means of testing the drafts.
He has only to hitch light team to a
steel plow, and stronger one to the
cast iron, and work them side by side.
In this way have found that pair of
fourteen-hand ponies would do about
the same work, and with as much ease
to themselves as pair of sixteen-hand
horses. The same observations about
material will also apply to cultivators.
In thus candidly advising my brother
farmers in regard to the superior merit
of steel plows, am speaking directly
against my own individual interest, for
have been manufacturer and dealer
in cast-iron plows for upward of thirty
years past.
FEEDING HORSFS
Mr.. Cairnes, a popular English vet
erinary surgeon, in paper read recent
ly, says that :" too much grain indis-
poaes horses for eating other provender,
and occasionally subjects them to seri-
Gus disease. Five bushels of good
sound oats weekly, along with a few
good Swedish turnips or other roots,
and plenty of hay or good straw, will
keep a pair of healthy farm horses in
good order through the winter, even
though they be pretty hard wrought.
it is folly and waste to give them more.
Something must be wrong if with this
allowance of food, they fall off in con
dition. Horses that are greedy eaters
or that swallow their grain whole
should have it bruised or ground. 4
little chaff Chopped hay) mixed with il
helps to make horses chew it, and well.
chewed food is of far more Importance
than many people think. Unless it be
well ground and mixed with saliva in
their mouths, it is but imperfectly di
gested in their stomachs, and without
perfect digestion there, its full benefi
is not obtained. A full drink of water
Immediately after being fed should
never be allowed to horses. When TIA.
water is drunk by them, the bulk of i
goes directly to their large intestines
and but little of it is retained in theil
stomachs. In passing through them
however, the water carries a consider
able quantity of their contents to where
it lodges in the intestines. IF, then
the contents of horses stomachs ar,
washed out of them before the,
are digested, they are in
manner lost, no nourishment being de
rived from them. Colics in horses fre
quently arise from this cause, and to i
the appearance of corn entire anon,
their dung is often due. Damp stray
or musty hay should never be given al
food for horses. The former Is apt t.
scour them, and the latter frequentl,
affects their wind. It is affirmed b,
some that if their hay or straw be cut
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