The Douglas independent. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 187?-1885, 1882-08-05
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Give your fowls soft feed in the morn
ing and the whole grain at night, except
O little wheat or cracked corn placed in
the scratching place to give them exer-
else.
The most important study of culti-
vator of the soil is to plan for such crops
as will always be in demand and always
pay; crops that will be in demand year
after year.
A spoonful of paris green in a pail of
water is recommended for killing canker
worms. It should not be sprinkled over
plants of which the leaves are eaten
such as lettuce, etc.
Prof. Atwater states that the best ration
for a COW in full flow of milk is 100 parts
of corn meal by weight,) 80 parts bran
and 50 parts decorticated (huskless) cot
ton seed meal.
Red raspberries should be set two feet
apart in rows, and when kept well worked
the first year they will fill up and form a
continuous hedge of plants good for ten
years or more.
Gather no seed from the forest tree
that is not clean and straight and rapid
grower. Scrub trees beget their like.
The law of hereditary holds good in
trees as well as in the lower animals and
| men.
Ensilage is nothing new, as far as pre-
servation is concerned. 1t is simply
| keeping green food through the winter
/ by exclusion of the air. It is on the
same principle as canning, only on q
large scale.
Watch the strawberries carefully that
DO weeds get the start of you; when
black raspberry canes get from twenty
inches to two feet high, nip off the ter
minial bud, so that they will branch and
grow more stocky.
The best farmer is the one who thinks
as we'll as he works, who knows what he
intends to do day or at least night, in
advance; who believes thought has as
much to do with successful farming as
plenty of muscle, if not more.
The premature growth of colts by
high feeding and severe training, has
the tendency to degenerate the breed,
by entailing the overworked debility OF
their issue, which may become heredi
tary, and be transmitted to future gen
eratloEs.
|
ventilated, is better place to keep milk
in summer than half the so-called cellars
in the country. To obtain the most
cream and the best results milk should
stand 36 hours without skimming.
Watch the currants, and at first indica
tions of worms eating the leaves, dus
them with hellebore, or sprinkle witt
tar water, or even strong soapsuds. Th'
great secret in destroying the curran
worm is close watching, SO as to attacl
them before they have made much head
way.
Bones, when fed to fowls, induce then
to lay liberal quantity of fine favored
eggs, as we'll as maintain healthfulness
and vigor. They are far better and NOR,
natural, as well as cheaper, for these pur
poses than the .egg foods" and Other
preparations so largely used and 40 fre
quently misused.
An English mechanic has invented {
horseshoe composed of three thicknesse
of cowhide compressed into steel molG
and subjected to chemical preparation
It will last longer than the comm on shoe
weighs only one fourth as much, doe
not split the hoofs, requires no calks ant
is very elastic.
Keeping bees in the old fashioned bo,
hive is entirely out of date. The trouble
with it is that the internal economy o
the colony cannot be regulated, bit tn
bees mustsbe left to do yretty much a
they please. It is fact often preached
but seldom practiced, that bees neet
management and care the same as horses
cattle or poultry, or any other kind o
farm stock.