The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1879-02-07

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United States.
Last year Kansas raised the heavl-
est hogs of any State in the Uuion.
The hogs Of this country are double
the value Of the sheep and half the
value of the cattle.
Clear boiling water will remove tea
stains. Pour the water through the
stain and thus prevent it spreading
over the fabric.
A teaspoonful of turpentine, boiled
with your white clothes, will greatly
add to the whitening process,
Boiling starch is much improved by
the addition of sperm, or salt, or
both or little gum arabic, dissolved.
L. F. Allen reports the period of
CESSATION in fifty COWS for a single
year as follows: Shortest period, 26S
days; mean,s 2S4 days, and longest
period 291 days.
The average net weight Of the hogs
slaughtered In the United States is
226 pounds, and of the lard in each
F. hog between SS and 50 pounds.
Great Britain and her colonies still
continue TO take most of our surplus
grain. Daring the past year about
So per cent. In some years 1t has
reached % per cent. of our wheat
rrod,,cta aNnorfnfl
Rice culture has greatly increased
in Louisiana since the war; and in
some localities it is deemed more
profitable than sugar production.
Wheat-growing in Great Britain is
slowly decreasing in area; the aver
age yield has been increased TO II
bushels in. the past generation, 5
bushels within 100 years, and Is now
estimated at % bushels.
a restless and wild expression Of
the eye of an animal indicates a pre-
doninence Of nervous action and an
unquiet disposition that is not COM
patible with good feeding quality.
A soft, firm, velvety skin is nearly
always found on good COW, and a
thick, hard hide on poor one. A
soft, firm skin denotes rich milk,
while soft, velvety skin indicates
quantity of milk
The flight of wild geese is curious.
They generally move in two lines,
forming an acute angle in advance,
thus presenting q wedge TO the re-
sistanA of the air; or, much less fFe-
quently, in single files. 4 senior
gander leads the flying squadron, and
as he becomes fatigued from clearing
a passage through the air, another
takes his place, while he falls to the
rear, where the opposition of the air
Is weakest.
Small bones in animals are an indi-
cation of good feeding, quality, early
maturity and superior, fine-grained
flesh; while coarse, large bones, with
prominent joints and angular projec-
tious Of the skeleton, indicate poor
feeding quality, late maturity, and
coarse flesh, in connection with
large proportion of offaI and cheap
pieces in the carcass, when reaching
its final destination at the slaughter
hause.
A continuous use of merine bucks
builds up, upon stock of inferior
ewes, stock of fine and denseIy-
Wooled animals, with marvellous rap
idity. A Mexican eve, shearing one
pound Of inferior wool, ic bred to a
pure Merino buck, will produce a
lamb, which when a year old will
shear at least three pounds OF much
finer wool; and the produce of this
lamb, If 3 eve and bred 10 the Meri-
no, will go up TO and Al or pounds
Of still finer wool.
When harness loses its lustre and
turns brown, which almost any leath-
er viii do after long exposure 10 the
air, the harness should he given a
coat Of grain black. Before using
this grain black, the grain surface
should be well washed with potash
water until all the grease Is killed,
and after the application of the grain
black, oil and tallow should be ap-
piled to the surface. This viii not
Ouly fasten the color, but make the
leather flexible. Harness which isl
grained can he cleaned with kero-
seie or spirits of turpentine.
Tine nervous condition has much
to do with the secretions Of all ami.
mails. The cow while in an excited
state, will not give as much milk,
nor that of the same composition, as
when In state Of perfect content
ment and rest. If the excitement is
long continued the sbrfnkaoe in
amount will be permanent. In Just
what manner the structure of milk is
effected Is not easily determined, but
the effect is doubtless much like that
produced by sickly, feverish state.
No naturally nervous COW should be
tolerated in herd, and all mixers
who have not learned TO control their
excitable propensities should be dis
missed from the yard.
Every intelligent person should
now how to ascertain the state of
the pulse in health; then by compar-
ing it with what it is when ailing,
he may have some idea of the urgen-
cy OF his case. Parents should know
the healthy pulse of. each child-as
now and then a person is born with |
peculiarly slew or fast pulse, and the
very case in hand may be of that Pc