The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-08-25
AGRICULTURAL r1Ems

A sound, healthy growth Of half
hardy trses and plants Is tie best pre- /
ventive Of Water killing. This Is beat
secured by good, early cultivation and |
avoiding stimulating mauures late 10
the grs~Iag Season.
OF the 100000 acres Of so.ealled |
green crops in the United KingIcro. |
100000 are Swedish and common
turnip, nearly 100. 600 are mangsI wur-
zel, 10000 are carrot and ,443,434 are
potatoes
CareleasDess 10 the use Of P4fis gree
is having its usual resuIts. Henry Nye
Of Rensselaer, county, n. Y, said Paris
green would not hurt anybody, and
swallowed seme. lie Is not expected
TO live.
Milk when lrawn from the CIV il
lightly alkaline, coda Icing the element
which holls the caseine or eurd in solu.
tisn. As oxygen is admitted to the
milk this alkaii is hentralized, AMI the
milk Sours snd readily eunilss.
In weaving lambs turn them Into the
enclosure with their mothers after
twelve bours' separation, aud setip
after twenty four hours. This ia some.
trouble, but ewes thus 1nekled will
never be injured by swollen udders.
The month Of August i. the b.st
tine to kill bushes in fields, by cutting
down and gruLbing cot the roots as far
as possible. Growth has been mostly
completed for the season, and the roots
have lealt vitality TO send up new
shoots.
Reports from Austria say that de-
luging rains have occurred in Bobe-
mis-, and the destruction Of property
Azd crops is incaIeulabIe. The bodies
Of forty-seveh persons dro~ned have
been recovered. A large part Of the
harvest In Bohemia Is destroyed.
Now is ths time, if It ass not at
tended TO last spring, to provide a
strawberry patch for next seasons bear
ing. Plants set out COW and veil cared
for will yield an abundance nf fruit
next June. There is too little Of this
easily-grown fruit on most farmers
tables.
The prospect that the Erie Canal will
soon bs MADE free water way is caus-
ing some commotion in Canada, as the
St. Lawrence route will be placed at a
disadvantage. IL the Erie Canal is
made free tolls must be taken Off the
Welland and St. Lawrence canals as
we'll.
The cry of drought begins to come
from various quarters. Should drought
really come, it will everywhere be more
severe for the excessive rainfall the
early part Of the season, which has
beat down and hardened the ground so
that light showers, should they occur,
will do little good.
Congress has done something practi-
cal for farmers in providing for sesur-
Ing and publishing reports of foreign
crop prospects. II this work is faith
fully attended to it will be very imper-
tant to American farmers. The crop
Of breadstuffs in Europe is of quite as
much Importance in fixing prices as
eur own.
The London .Nsics estimates the de
6c;ency in food products in Europe the
coming year at 100000 bushels o
grain. The weather in England an,
Iceland has been very cod and wet
IL is now too late To look for more thar
: two-thirds harvest, while thre
months ago the prospect was unusuall
favorable.
, Mr.. William Saunders, of the Agri
cultural Department at Washington
t gets down to the marrow Of the que:
|, tion of tree-plantinS in the followin
J. paragraph /: Whether it is more prof
e able to plant trees for the sake Of the
s timber than it is to plant cereals an
= other crops for their food value may
s left for farmers to decide but to plai
Il 100 acres in trees with the view of i
It creasing the rainfall on the adjoinir
d 100 acres of arabic lands seems to us
: very weak proposition"
), In some recently published exper
IT ments it was found that while gre
!. benefit resulted to the succeeding crt
'e from burning stubble there was little
d no effect from much larger sapplic
{. ton Of good wood ashes. This resu
E is spoken Of as q mystery. 1t is qui
"a evident that the potash in the ash
either case was not needed by the Gro
Very probably the lighter applicatit
,e of potash distributed through the Sc
ID helped to make other plant food ava
n able, while the larger amount did nc
E. It has been found by experiment tn
g small dressings of salt are general
g Immediately helpful, while in larg
p quantities it promotes fertility on
Ie after one or two years have elapsed.
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