The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-08-11
AGRIcrLTURAL ITEMS
The potato bug has made its appear
ance in England.

a goSd d, -Ot ~ necessity foi
horses either driven or worked much al
this seaGon. Horses protected from
flies will do better with half the gain
than those constantly worried.
The estimated hop yield Of Puyallur
Valley, Washington Territory, for tbis
season, is 100000 pounds. Some ol
the hop growers have bargsined their
crops at twenty cents per pound.
II Is claimed now that the weather in
all parts Of the country reProdnces itseIl
in cycles Of about seven years. 1874
was very dry Summer, and 1875 gen.
orally wet in all parts Ct the country.
A PolleI Angus steer was sold At
the Union Stock Yards in Chicago, a
few days since, weighing 1890 pounds
and dressing 1919 pounds of beef, or
sixty-four per cent, 100 pounds Of Lide
and l25 pounds Of tsllow.
It Is claimed that Kansas il harvest
ing the largest wheat crop in it's his
tory, the average yield being 2o.e9
bushels per acre, sn.l the total product
80. 2G3.7ll bushels. C,rn is thriving,
bat backward.
All the nutritive value Of the corn
crop must be stored during the grow.
ing seassn, rarely lasting more than one
hundred days. If corn is early stunt
cd, either by weeds or cold weather, II
never fully recoVers.
Itshows great wAstefulnes, in Aneri.
can, and especially Western, farmer,
that the great bulk Of fax grown in
this country is harvested for it's seed
only. The 6bre thus wasted is prob.
ably worth $4,000. 900 per annum.
A successful chicken raiser says that
he always feeds his hens among hil
currants, and the leaves are consequent
ly always free from werms, and othe,
bushes not thus treated near by were
entirely stripped Of their foliage.
For a numb,r of years a German
paper maker has been utilizing the
waste water from his engines, corduct-
ing it By bitches to and upon the
meadows adjoining his mill. He as
serts that his ProGts from his gras.
crops have been trebled.
Sixteen fat bulls, worth ss5 pei
head, were shipped from Cincinnati Il
Jersey City without an attendant, and
consequently received no care on tn.
voyage. Three were found dead whsr
the car was opened, and three more ex
pired when released.
A use has at last been found for th,
Canada thistle. A shepherd in Soutl
Australia declares that they furnisl
moro and better fool for sheep durin
a protrActed drought than any plan
that grows The flower buds are cate
by lambs in preference to any kiad {
grass.
1t is said that in Switzerland, whel
on the mountains the season of growt
. is short but the sunshine of SUNNI,
q quite intense, maize il grown for fodd'
and for green ears, and even ripe one
by starting the seeds under glass, ar
? transplanting about the 9oth of Jul
to fiel1 rows.
4 One important advantage Of ensila
! ing is that most of the work can
timed so as to come when labor can
best spared. The leading forage plan
are ready for the silo in the Fall, viii
bay must be cut at a time when eve
days work is very important in Il
corn OF potato neio.
7 The pig is not naturally dirty a
imal, but is often made so by unclean
;, surroundings. With a good bed al
plenty Of room pigs viii keep the
selves clean and thrive better. Th
especially object to dirt in their fe'
10 ing troughs, which ahould always
d Gle med out after every meal.
Pigs that are shut in pens duri
= the Summer shsuld have some gre
T" focd. Weeds of any kind are GO
but pig-weed is bSst, and sweet &C
SO cat up with the green ears is b
~ of all. The sweet in the corn stalks
- very fattening, and better for growi
pigs in Summer than corn, grain
meal. B
8. The basket willow is valuable or
.. yet but little cultivated. 1t thri
rs, we'll on low land too wet for cult
he tion, but is all the better if kept
b. from weeds. The usual price is
Id per ton, and the labor of gathering
on not mueh more than FIVE tons of b
n while the yield per acre is fully 1
times as great.
10 1t is we'll to remember while Gle
to ing hoed crops of weeds that
a thoroughnsss with which this is d.
", affects at least three crops. Tt '
ny usually pay on either corn or petat'
d. to clean the field Of thistlss, by the
creased yield of that years crop. II