The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-03-05
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We never advocated hedge planting,
except it be upon the roadside; all else
Is wild and useless In a land as varied IN
the ownership of real estate as ours in
America. Again, were there any per-
manency attached to property as belong
ing to years or time, the cost of keeping
the hedges, the harbor they give for
vermin, the amount of land they occupy,
the screen they make for thieves, are more
than the balance of cost and availability
In the use of movable wooden slat fences,
or wooden posts with wire intermediate,
light, and readily removed. They can
be stored away under a shed during
winter, and at moments thought can
be brought and used cheaply to protect
any little part and parcel of the grounds.
Prairie Farneer.
CHURSEG MILK, OR CREAM.
Upon this point of churning the en-
tire milk in preference to skimming and
churning the cream, it strikes us that the
results of the most carefully conducted
experiments all go to show its economy
as compared with churning the cream
alone ON farms where there are kept only
a small number of COWS, and that those
VINO have tried it and given it up have
failed to observe the proper temperature.
Let it never be forgotten that the ther-
the dairy. Without it all is guesswork.
A difference of not over two degrees Will
affect the yield of butter to the extent of
four to five per cent, which, in a large
dairy, or in a small dairy, through the
season, Will amount to very large item,
especially with butter at fifty to sixty
cents pound, as it Is and has been for
long time in our markets.-MGsS1cKu
sets Ploat9Itg11zTa.
WATER AS A PLANr-NoURIsHER.
An experiment of considerable impor-
tance in botany has recently been con-
Quoted in England. Some plants of the
watermelon, after their first termination
from the seed, have been sustained wholly
on water, in which their roots were i'm
mersed, and have In this condition pro
duced fruit of the finest quality. Very
few plants can obtain sufficient nourish-
ment from water alone to enable them to
carry on the complete process of blossom
ing and fruiting. The hyacinth, which
Is made to flower in water, has been first
brought to maturity by growth of several
years in the soil, and has stored in its
bulb sufficient food for the maintenance
of its foliage and flowers for an entire
season. The water in which it apparently
thrlyes seems to act only as a solvent of
this food, for it fails to furnish the ma
its bulb for q succeeding years subsist-
ence. Hence, after the plant has once
blosson6ed In water it is either thrown
away /6r set in the ground or allowed
seveVA years to recover its spent forces.
In the case of the watermelon cited above
thfre was, however, no previous prepara-
ton of food, and its entire nourishment
throughout vegetation was derived from
the water.
FARMERS RAILROAD.
The farmers of Salinas Valley, Cali
fornia, were at the mercy of the railroad
corporations of that State, and with an
enterprise that does them much credit,
they went to work and laid down an iron
pathway to the sea, which makes them
independent for all time of monopoly in
any form whatever. The port of MOE
terey was only twenty miles distant,
where ships can come and load as easily
and far more cheaply than at San Fran
cisco. = Their valley was connected with
San Francisco by long lines of railroad
belonging to Stanford q Co., but the
Changers did not forget that heaven had
blessed them with seaport near by, and
they subscribed the stock of a narrow
track railroad and built the road them
selves, and say they can almost save to
themselves the price of the road the pres
ent year by cheapening transportation by
the old railroad line, even If they do not
choose to use their own road. This road,
with good narrow track, with all neces-
sary turnouts and rolling stock, and with
two large warehouses, cost the people OF
Salinas Valley &13, 900 per mile, and as
they save freight on ], ,500, 600 bushels of
wheat at the rate of 15 cents bushel,
they viii make profit for themselves.