The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-04-02
Items OF Interest.

1000 cans offruit.
Plant some broom-corn when you
plant corn. There is some money in it.
A large acreage in the Walla
Walla country will be sumner-tallowed
this year.
Massachusetts, was the 6rst state in
The Union to order special survey of
jss forest resources.
Cattle hoofs at The present time are
/, worth $50 per ton. These hoofs are
now made into horn buttons.
The clip of wool for 1879 is the
largest eyer known in this country,
amounting to 332, $1,000 pounds.
Professor Gennert of Los Angeles
will haYe his sugar factory in full
2 operation by the time the first beets
Sre ready.
At recent potato show in England,
where nearly 1400 plates were shown,
q large number were OF American
varieties.
The chil,chbug, so Obstructive to the
wheat crop, and the bedbug both
belong to the same order, yet one has
wings and the other Is wingless.
Hens fed on clear, sound grain, and
kept on clear grass run, give much
finer. favored eggs than hens that eat
ali kinds OF filthy food.
Thomas jefferson said: "Let the
farmer for eveTmore be honored in his
calling, for they who labor in the earth
are tbe chosen people of God"
Keep good supply of old mortar,
or chrushed oyster shells, where your
fowls can help themselves and see that
the gravel box is kept full.
Agriculture, we are told, is to be
made an obligatory study in all ele-
mentary schools of France. This Is
recent action of the French Senate,
and was adopted by majority OF 254
votes.
Buckwheat is recommended as the
best remedy for the wire worm. Two
or three crops sowed in succession will
completely starve them out, as they
will not eat it TO any extent.
The best herds OF dairy cows in this
country yield from 600 to 800 pounds
OF cheese per cow. Few of these are
shoroughbreds, but are selected from
the best grades of the various breeds.
The Agricultural College OF Japan
has been in existence three years, and a
large number haYe been educated in it.
The Government recognizes its useful
mess and aids it in various ways.
Butter properly worked presents
grain which overworking distroys, CIV
ing it o ralvy appearance. The latter
having dull look, insteadJof bright,
sparkling appearance, wien the knife is
drawn throug it.
One Of the first, if not the first, agri-
cultural implements patented in tlis
country, nearly $50 years ago, was "for
an engine for tie more speedy cutting
of gTsss." The patentee was Joseph
Jenks, Sr., q scythe manufacturer.
Keep few chickens. Fresh eggs
are = household necessity. Keep
more chickens and make some money,
as there is sure IS per cent profit aud
often as high profit as 200 per cent on
investment, expenses and time.
Baron T.iebig says: "The only
method by which you can possibly ad-
svaaee and develop agriculture is by ex-
-PsETments that is the only plan, for
there is no branch of industry SO COM
.pletely built up by experiment as agri-
cnIEure''
Mixed husbandry is what we need.
The farmer who grows something Of
everything adapted to his locality will
sbs safer, and in the long run will save
more than be who devotes his energies
nnainly 70 one or two crors.
Pnrc seeds and pure breeds are in the
aine Of improvement. Mules and crosses
ere not. Never mix distinct species OF
races OF breeds with the hope of i'm
proyement. Never mix the il.feriol
IN the attempt to breed up.
A good test Of any variety of fores
fxsss Is found in the ripeniDg o
isssaeds (troit). Ifa tree does not per
Retils seeds in given locality it i
good evidence that It is not sufficiently
6ardysso be cultivated in such sections
BuOkWheat straw, which heretofore
haa been considered Of little value, hai
o late been utilized by some Of Tbs
eeiD iaFmers BY ohopping it fins
ara adding meal 10 II. "A snai
mnkikR TED 10 stock occasionally
rld In relisbRd 40 donDt-