The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-16

by sudden and unwise food changes.
as from spare indoor feed to flush
pasturage, or from a light grain feed
to full ration Of oil cake, etc. Tt
berculos;s often mapifests itself in
severe garget. defging all remedial eff
fort. These, together with the predis-
position which exists in all deep m TX
ers, may be said to comprise the in
trinsic causes of garget.
The symptoms of SIMPLE garget are
so fam:l ar that little need be said of
them, There is every gradation from
the case with no general symptom, the
slightly increased temperature of the
udder, together with a hardly percep-
tible hardening of it.. as the only man
Hesitation of the disease, to the case
with well marked general and local
symptoms, such as high fever. gener-
al rgors. quickening pulse and respi-
ration, loss of appetite, cessation Of
rumination, together with extremely
hot and painful udder, with milk flow
stopped or continuing only as much
changed, thin yellowish fluid, or as a
half solid and blood-tinged mass.-Dr.
F. E. Rice, Hartford, Ct.
How Much Grass Seed Per Acre.
Pref. Beal says some practical far
mars SOW five times as much seed as
others; he doesn't know which is
right. Prof. j. w. Sanborn recon-
mends six quarts to six bushels; the
poorer the farming and the more dis
honest the seed dealer, the more seed
will be required. On rich sol in
fine tilth, with seed known to be of
good quality, he would use SIX cts. of
timothy and six pounds of clover per
acre; on course, poor soil, with seed
thought to le impure or damaged. an
unlimited quantity of seed VII be re
quired; for general purposes, 12 OTIS.
of timothy and 10 lbs. of clover per
acre are desirable. Ex-Commiss;oner
Le Due figures out that 6 lbs of TIM
othy and 5 lbs of clover will furnish
the proper number of spears of grass.
Ma or Alvord: If a mixture IS de-
sred for hay, tall meadow oat grass
and clover are the best for maturing
with the orchard grass. If for pastur-
age, use one bushel each to the acre of
orchard grass and Kentucky Blue, to
which SIX or eight quarts Of medium
red clover may we'll be added. Sow
half bushel per acre of timothy in
August, with no other seed. A late
crop can be obta ned from mixing red
top and Kentucky bluegrass, bushel
of each, and if the land is somewhat
!: ght and moist. alsike clover (say four
quarts) NAV be added. But als:ke
wares so with locality that It seems
necessary for every farmer to be GU ded
b. trial of it. Of all the clovers, the
med.u .um red is the most satisfactory.
but on account of its early blossom no
and drying, would not use it with
any of the grasses except orchard and
tall meadow oats. Clover, like t mo-
thy, is most profitable unmixed, and
may be sown on fall OF spring gra n,
% or 30 lbs to the acre. Then cut on
ly one year and turn under for corn or
some grain crop. We succeed well in
sowing clover with oats. but prefer to
cut of the oats and cure as hay, while
early in the milk.
Phil M. Shniger, Illinois: Nine lbs
each of clover and timothy. Prof.
William Brown, Ontario: 15 lbs of
grass seed and s lbs clover. Other
Contributors to the Rural New Yorker
express equally varying views. The
fact is, every farmer must use his own
pract cal Judgment in this matter,
based on h s experience with his own
soil and his knowledge of its capacity,
and of the variety of seed sown.
Thorough rreparat on OF the secd-bed
is a most important matter.
Stacking Corn FODDER.
Fl arm and F.reside.
long rid!culed the idea of stacking
rn-fodder. believ nc that the advant-
age ga neu would fal to compensate
the extra labor involved. l had been
in the habit of cutt ng into 12x12
shocks, on the ground IN a sharp. con-
ical pile, and stack one or two others
around it, securing the tops W tn twine
or stalks. When properly put up, 1
found tie fodder kept well. except the
outside la, er of stalks, VIII ch would.
of course be bleached Of course there
came a storm occas onally, which tore
open many of the shocks and filed
the tops with snow; and l have found
70 part Of my farming work more DIS
agreeable than wading through mud
and slush, ankle deep, to get shock
OF fodder thus torn about, with the re-
suit of having the wet snow soak my
hands and arms and crawl down nv
neck. LAYING the foundations for rer-
manent catarrh: OF even worse after
the thaw had been followed by hard
freeze, to have the stalks to tear loose
from the frozen ground in the face of
a bit ng blast. spending time and la
Dor enough upon one shock to have
handled three or four in good condi-
ton. All this l bore with equaninity
for years. as well as the still greater
vexation of occasionally being com
PEELED. during long continued '.soft
SPELL" to go upon my growing wheat
with team and wagon and witness the
ruin wrought by hoofs and wheels.
Fortunately, few years ago. was
compelled to remove the crop from
certain field before winter set in. l
had it bound with twine-and found
the expense much lighter than | eX-
pected-and then set two men to haul
ing it off and stacking it. The fodder
was laid in two courses. with the tops
inward, and the middle kept high
enough, with bundles laid lengthwise,
to give sufficient pitch to turn the wa
ter. The stack or rack, was built in
sections, each about twelve feet long.
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