The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-04
Industrial Rreyitfes.

appends to the report of one of his in
teresting experiments the following
comment: ''This farm, during the hard
season just passed, paid its manager,
and paid every other bill, and gave a
balance of 1880, although without
the equipment for successful manage
ment- But schools of instruction, to
serve their purpose, should not be ex-
pected to be sources of profit in agri
culture more than elsewhere. The re-
ceipts of the farm are necessary for
experimentation and illustration, with
out which the work is comparatively
useless"
There are at present in Mexico 81
cotton-mills, with 249, $50 spinners and
9,758 looms; there are 10 wollen-mills,
with 1864 spinners and 369 looms. In
the state of ,Puebla there are 21 mills,
with $4,000 spinners. Steam-power is
used in s mills, water-power in 35
mills, and water and steam in 81 mills.
There are employed 12,72S operators,
of whom over one-third are women
and children. The production of prints
of these mills amounts to about $4,000
pieces, but the entire industry is so
clumsily managed that American and
European makes are being successful
ly marketed.
Orchard grass IS a robust grower
and very tenacious of life. 1t masses
its roots so as to resist the encroach-
ment of other grasses, covering much
of the ground with its large pendent
leaves, that spring out near the base
of the plant, to shade, nourish, and ell
rich the soil not occupied by the plant
itself. This, perhaps, accounts large
ly for its ability to endure excessive
drought. 1t will produce two large
crops of good hay on rich soil, and
submit to more abuse than any other
forage plant, except bluegrass, which
is of little value in very dry season.
An English officer who has seen
service in Egypt states that the food of
the Arabian horse consists of six
pounds of barley, which is given at
sunset. This custom seems to agree
with the animal, and it enables his
owner to carry in a bag food enough
sixty pounds a ten days journey
across the desert. The stomach of the
horse is small. and for this reason it is
the custom in agricultural countries to
give him three meals day. But in
Arabia they make virtue OF necessity.
Fast is broken but once in twenty-four
hours.
The number of fowls kept in France
is said to be 43,S5S, 7SO; the average
product of chickens reared is estimated
at three to each ben, and the average
product of eggs per hen one hundred
per annum. The estimation in which
a French woman holds her pullets may
be realized by the name she gives
them, which is poulette, and means
not only pullet, but darling. Thus
giving her heart to her work, she sue
ceeds in it and makes it profitable.
This is lesson for our poultry-keep-
.ers.
Kerosene is becoming known as a
valuable insecticide. Prof. A. J. Cook
uses this mixture: One pint of kero-
sene, one quart of soap, one gallon of
water. The soap and water are heated
to boiling, when the kerosene is added,
and all well stirred. This prevents at
tacks of borers in fruit trees, kills all
lice on plants, and has been found eff
fective against many insect pests.
With whale-oil soap in the mixture, it
has destroyed the cabbage maggot.
The Cheshire Dairy Farmers associ-
alton England) is considering pro-
posal to acquire a pasture farm OF
two hundred acres, on which to i'm
part special instruction to the sons and
daughters of farmers. The secretary
of the association, who introduced the
scheme, believed 1t could be made ab-
solutely self-supporting, and the pro-
posal was very cordially received by
the members.
Mr.. w. S. Loomis, of Holyoke,
Mass, recently made a seven days
test of his Jersey COW Louise of Lawn
field, 1451, A. j. c. G. She gave an
average of eighteen and one-half
quarts of milk per day, and made four
teen pounds eleven and one-half
ounces of butter from the milk of the
seven davs. Mr.. Loomis thinks the
COW can make at least sixteen pounds
under more favorable circum stances.
An eastern paper says: We hear OF
great losses of bees this winter. The
assessors, at least, can find few that
are strong enough to tax. What busi-
ness have assessors to tax bees, any
how? The only bee in the hive, If
there are ten thousand in it, that Is
old enough to tax, is the queen, and
nobody knows whether she is alive or
not.
Over a hole from which an apple
tree was dug, and which was after
ward filled with rich earth from the
roadside, parsnip was grown last
season that reached fully thirty inches
below the surface and was otherwise
large in proportion. For carrots and
parsnlps the soil can scarcely be made
too deep, provided it is fertile all the
way down.
The attempt to interest English
farmers in the production of caraway
seed was not successful, and almost
the entire amount used in the country
is brought from the continent OF
Europe.
There is salt lake IN Hidalgo coun-
ty, Texas, which is one nile in length,
five miles in circumference, and from
three to four feet deep. Its bed con-
slsts of crystals of pure salt.
1t is the opinion Of cattlemen on the
western slope that two-thousand stout
saddle horses more than are now used