The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-05-14
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Mr.. Dalryinp.e, the great wheat
grower, has faith In the crop In Da-
kota. He viii SOW 25 900 acres this
spring. lie will also break five or
six thousand acres Of prairie.
over 70, 900 carloads Of i've and
dressed poultry are carried into New
York city yearly, and %, 900, 900
dozen Of eggs 80 10 the same market.
According 10 the best estimates. tlte
United States produces . coo. 900, 900
dozen Of eggs.
One Of the occupations Of young
men who are filling up western Texas
IS 10 breed geese. Ono Of them has
5000 geese, whose feathers are pluck.
cd every two months. Each bird
VIII average pound and half a
year, worth fifty cents per pound.
Few realize the necessity or ma
nurlDg orchards. When once plant.
ed, the trees are 10 remain on the
same soil thirty or forty years nj
least. They in 81 few years exhaust
the food In the soil they are most
fond of. end Then they will ceasf 10
be productive and thrifty unless
properly fed.
Green crops fJr manuting should
not be plowctl deeper than fourinches:
II they are turred under more than
this they will not receive enough Of
solar heat and atmospheric air 10 in
sure rapid decay, and when covered
too deep their full beneficial effect
cannot be realized till tho next plow-
Ing, when they are brought nearer
the surface
y correspondent of Ftcks JonkIlg
says that one spo3nfui Of coarse. pow
dcred sallpcire 10 pail Of water will
destroy potato I,ngs, squash bugs, and
other insects. For roses IL is unSur.
passed. For maggots that work at
the roots Of squash vines, poar about
pint Of the liquid upon the root Of
each vine rs soon rs the pests indi-
caie themselves.
Potash dissolved in water, or Iye
from wood ashes, is the best wash
for trunks and large limbs cf fruit
trees. Whitewash should rot be
used, as II closes up-fhe pores of the
bark, which should be kept open in
6rder 10 insure healthy tree. Pot
ash or lyc answers every purpose
which whitewash would, with Fone
of it, objections.
4 compound r,r the production Of
a ilrst-class flrater Oae-thhd fact
or experiment, one-fIlirl science, and
one-ihiFd conman sense, thoroughly
blended, and when applied TO be 50
rubbed Ia tia. the compound shalt
form q component part of the indi-
vidual. Great care, however, must
be exercised that the compound be in
no case exposed TO The fungi of hob
by, or the character of the whole will
be destroyed.
4 ton OF wheat when carefully
burned leaves 1924 pounds of ash.
while ton Of straw will leave co. f3
pounds, and tJn of chaff 1907
pounds To know this Is OF Interest
10 the wheat grower, rs it teaches
the importance OF returning The straw
to the soil, and great care ought to
be taken OF the chslE, for one pound
as a fertilizer Is rs much "a three
pounds of straw, containing six times
as much mineral manure as the grain
itself
4 Western fruit grower SAYS that
he cut Off limb an inch in diameter
from an apple tree in each month of
the year. Al the end of five years.
when they were all healed over, they
xere opened and those found to have
decayed the least were those cut in
February aud March, or just before
the swelling Of the bads, while th,,~..
cut in June ar July, or during Tue
growing season, had decayed the
most by this 1t would appear that
the old way OF pruning in early
spring, before the sap begins 30 flow,
was the best.