The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-07-04
ArrIcultural Notea.

The Canadian Government has offered
$40, 900 for ten years, on certain condi-
tions, 10 the first sugar factory.
Ashes moistened with kerosene oil is
recommended for keeping striped bugs
from cucumber, melon and squash vines
A gentleman wishes TO know how far
north the paw paw tree will grow and
ripen its fruit. Who can give tho desired
informationP
At the present time heavy emigration
from tho eastern counties OF Minnesota
and neighboring States are moving 10
the Pacific Coast.
The yield of maple sugar in Vermont
is only about half what II Is in average
years. The season was "short ut both
ends" The quality, however, is excel
lent.
One Of the South Carolina emigrants
TO Liberia has returned. He says nearly |
one-half of those who went out are dead, |
and the rest are anxious TO got back.
Mr.. Robert Salmin, of Lincoln town
ship, Indiana, has n Cotswold eve that |
recently dropped three fine lambs.
A hand-sieve, such as plaster0rs use
for screening sand, Is recommended for
sowing blue grass seed. The sieve il
held in one hand and the seed rubbed
NAAohkA WIN tAAp 0hAA1As
However mnch poultry-fanciers differ
about the merits OF the different breeds
of fowls, all admit that the Dorkins have
the most meat on their breasts, and are
| the best mothers.
An honest Hibernian, in recommend
/ ing q COW, said she would give milk year
after year without having calves. f'Be-
cause," said he, lit runs in the brade;
for she came from COW that never had
calf"
Brazil sells about three-fourths OF her
coffee crop, or, in 1877, 800, 900 bags,
TO the United States, for which we pay
chiefly in gold, the gold balance paid in
1877 for Brazilian products amounting
to s45, ,0O0, 900.
Peafowl are worth the trouble Of keep
ing on farms for their beauty alone.
They may, however, be made the source
Of profit. II has become quito fashiona-
BILE of late 10 keep peacocks in parks. and
large prices are paid for them.
A farmers wife in New York uses her
summer kitchen for O winter green
house. A coal fire in the house kitchen
supplies all the heat necessary for the
plants when the door between the two
apartments is allowed 10 remain open.
An agricultural exchange says: I'm
Holland, where sand is more plentiful
and cheaper than hay, il is used for bed
ding cows" From this il would appear
that hay is more plentiful and cheaper
than sand in most II not all other coun-
tries.
Christian Jarvis, of oswego, lent Isaac
Pierce horse. The horse was taken
suddenly sick and died while in Mr..
Pierce's possession. Mr.. Jarvis brought
: suit against Mr.. Pierce to recover dam
ages, which resulted in a verdict Of no
cause for action.
/ A practice prevails in some Of the New
: England States Of giving TO q COW "a
} drink the first mess of milk drawn from
. her after calving. Injurious effects are
3 reported as the .esult of this, but many
farmers contend that this is proper diet
for cows that have just dropped calf
A Vermonter contributes to The Neit
; England Farmer the result of some ex.
periments made by him in tapping maple
trees. He hnda that sap Is sweetcr IN the
early than in the latter part of the sea.
! son. Sap drawn from near the surface
of the tree, whore the wood is white
> makes ight-colored sugar. but tina,
drawn from near the center, where the
9 wood is deep-colored, makes q brown
sugar. Inc nlgner the point from which
Z the sap is taken the larger the amount oi
sugar contained in il.
/ A bushel OF Brazil seed potatoes viii
:, not make as many plants as q bushel o.
4 some other variety, hence il is not {
profitable one 10 plant for the sale O
plants; but the plants are so mucl
!, stronger and so sure to live, when prop
2 erly set out, and so productive, that th'
plants grown from bushel Of seed vii
produce as large q crop as the plant.
p grown from n bushel Of Nansemond, 3,
/ that for the grower of potatoes, whethe
!, TO sell or to use, it is more profitable
than any other variety.
s In this market green asparagus is pre-
s ferred TO white. In most European coun
:, tries. however, only the white or bleach
: ed is salable. When asparagus is oh
;, tanned by setting the plants several inche
d below the surface of the ground and cut
d ting them as soon as the tops make thei
appearance and before they have beei
. colored by the action of the sun. Ou
: method of cultivating this plant was i'm
= ported from Europe where white aspar
agus is in demand. In growing greei
asparagus the roots should not be GOV
:, cred deeply.