The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1882-08-25
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AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

1t is slOveniy practlce 10 take a
reaper in harvest field without first
cutting around the field with a cradle.
It is done, however, more and more
every year, one reason being that few
farmers have cradles in good condi-
tion for using, and few men nova
days know how to-use them.
Foot and mouth disease prevails
extensively in England at the pres
ent time. The authorities at Edin-
burgh are moving to stop the trans
por,ation of stock from England to
Scotland, and to purchase and slaugh-
ter all the cows in the stables where
the disease has broken out. The
magistrates of Worcestershire have
declared that whole country an in
tected area.
Careful experiments have demon
strated that in order to get the full
value of hay, it must be cut when all
the juices are yet in the stem and
leaves, and not when they have as
cended to the seed head and solidi-
fed themselves, for when the ulti--
mate perpetuity of the species is pro-
vided for, what remains is but the
resultant debris.-Phil. J. Ebersole.
The Canadian Farmer says: "Cut-
worms can be cheated out of destroy
ing cabbage and other plants by sur
rounding each plant with all oak,
hickory or some other strong leaf, set
deep enough to prevent blowing
away. Another remedy, said to be
effectual, is to put sawdust about the
roots and saturate with gas tar water.
The sawdust will retain the scent of
the tar and drive away cut-worms
and other insects"
The following is the approved
cement for mending iron pots and
pans: Take two parts of sulphur,
and one part 10y weight) of fine
black lead; put the sulphur in an old
iron pau, holding it over the fire
until it begins to melt, then add the
lead; stir well until it is melted, then
pour out on an iron plate or smooth
stone. When cool, break into small
pieces. A sufficient quantity of this
compound being placed upon the
crack of the iron pot to be mended
can be so,dered by not iron in the
same way a tin-smith soldiers his
sheets. If there is small hole in
the pot, drive copper riyet in and
then solder it with this cement.
A Swiss process of removing the
bran of wheat without loss of nutri-
tive matter consists in soaking the
grain before grinding in solution of
caustic soda and water. This swells
and loosens the hull proper so that it
may be removed by the slightest
friction, leaving the gluten with the
body of the grain.
An old farmer of Iowa echoes the
experience of hundreds and thous-
ands of others all over the west who
have not to certain extent incorpo-
rated stock-ralsing with their farm
ing when he says: 'The great ma
jority of the farmers of this county
haze tried wheat farming as bust
ness, and for over twenty years they
never had a failure. For the past
four years wheat has failed, and
every farmer who stuck to it has lost
his land and everything else he had
made, while the men who made
business ofstock and dairy farming
are rich, and those who changed be-
fore it was too late are independent.
We have had chance here to com
pare the two systems, aud we find
that wheat farming impoverishes
the land, while stock farming en-
riches it. The wheat farmer is al
ways a borrower; the stock farmer
nearly always a lender. The wheat
farmer is dependent, while the stock
farmer is independent.