The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1875-01-22

The Liverpool butchers are anxious to
encourage the trade, and it is contem-
plated to run steamer to Galway,
which would be saving of time on the
voyage.
SHEEP IN GERMANY.
In the Practical Magazine of Au-
gust, DR.. F. Springmuhl gives some
statistics on the production of wool in
Germany. from which we learn that
there are 29, 900, 600 sheep in that eoun-
try, 14,OOO,O 600 of which are merinos.
1000, coo of English and other foreign
breeds, and 5000, 900 of native sheep.
Port of the wool is exported to other
countries, and the remainder manufac-
tured, principally in Silesia, Saxony and
Brandenburg.
DULL MowING-KNIvES
increase the draft of the machine more
| than is imagined. At trial of reapers
by the American Institute, at Pough-
keepsie, it was found by careful dyna-
mometer test that the draft of each
machine was nearly one-third greater
when the knives were dull, and in this
| test the knives were only moderately
dull, having been used to NOW only one
| acre. It is important therefore to keep
the knives sharp. Any one can prove
the truth of this statement by himself
trying a sharp and then dull scythe.
He will declare that there is even more
than one-third difference.
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| FINE AND COARSE Hay.
| Producers are sometimes puzzled to
know why city buyers generally ask for
coarse, well-matured hay in preference
to the more tender, and, in reality,
more nutritious kinds. The Live Stock
Journal thus enlightens them: "City
men feed hay for a different purpose
than the farmer. The farmer feeds it
for it's nutriment and as a principal
food, while the city man regards grain
as the cheapest food, and only gives
sufficient hay to make bulk in the
stomach, and for the purpose of health.
Coarse, welLmatured timothy serves
this purpose better than the early cut
and fine grasses. They do not desire
such hay as will tempt the horses to eat
too much of it. Straw would answer
this purpose, if cut and mixed with the
grain, about as. well. But farmers
should be content with this practice ot
the city customer, for it enables them
to sell their poorest hay for the best
price, and to retain the best quality fol
home consumption.
PRoDIGIoUs.
An English gardener writes that from
one pound of seed potatoes of the kini
known as the Vermont Beauty, ht
raised 234 pounds, all sound, fair sizet
potatoes, averaging IA ounces each
w. Brown & Son, of Derby, says tb'
Vermont Beauty is an exception t.
American potatoes, as they feel conf
dent better cooking potato was neve
grown, being beautifully white, per
, fectly dry and mealy. One OF tn
; tubers which they grew the past seasol
, weighed three pounds two ounces, ant
! two and half pounds of see'
. yielded 1913 pounds of crop.
THE CHESTER WHITES.
A. Hyde, in the New York Times, dis
cussing white hogs, says: Discard
!. ing the black breeds altogether, W
commenced on the Chester Whites, a
there is no mistake that some of thi
breed, if il can be called a breed, ar
. . fine animals. They are hardy an
large, feed well, and furnish a larg
amount of pork for the food consumed
> They cannot, however, be- called thol
oughbreds. The pigs are not certai
. to inherit the good form and othe
:. qualities of the boar and SOW, an
~ there is great want of uniformity
u the same litter. Some are good an
Z others not worth raising. They al
. also too long in coming to maturit.
y We want pig-pork. not old hog porl
70 A pig that is ready for the shambles ,
nine months is more palatable an
u more economical than one that we mu
8 wait upon for twice this length .
- time"
re THIsTLEs.
le What if the Canada thistle, scorne'
c. hacked at, hoed up, plowed dow
.. poisoned, despitefully belabored by
million tongues and pens, should, aft.
g. all, prove to be, as it were, veritab
y angel in disguise, and rise in judgmel
q. to prick in vital parts the army of ol
u tuse husbandmen who failed to reco
le nize its merits Yet it may be. It
7e possible there is more in it and of
10 than is dreamed of in our agricultur
u philosophy. Only little while ago '
4 had the report that farmer in Ne
= Zealand had discovered that, no crop
N better to prepare the surface for gra
u than one of thistles that they will K
9, the ferns, clean the soil. and in thr,
a. years die out themselves, leaving Il
land in the best condition. And now
'g farmer in Canada claims that hea,
1g crop of thistles turned under is
90 point of fact more galuable than clov
r. to prepare the ground for wheat
no Y. Tribune.
ne DECoMPosIToN OF EGGS.
rs According to Mr.. William Thompso