The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-10-09
sects are plenty. They are No. 1 lazy
ers, hardy and easy to raise.

bull out of half bred COW, which is
three-fourths. Low grades are the
opposite, or all gradations below hall
breeds
In the counties in Northern Illinois
che wages of farm laborers the present
season average 81 with board, 81. 25
without boards $3.50 per month with
board and $27.75 without board.
Wages are lower in the central anC
southern portions of the state.
The culture of hemp has been re-
vived in Central Illinois the present
season. The fiber is to be sold to the
manufacturers of twine for self-bind-
ers. 1t is thought that the demand
for hemp for this purpose will cause
this crop to be extensively raised in
the future
The Gardeners Monthly says that
those who have set ont trees the past
spring should take the first chance of
| dry spell to- loosen the soil deeply
about them with, a fork, and imme.
diately after beat it down hard again
with the heel or with some tool suit
able for the purpose
The sweet potato is one of the most
valuable crops grown. In addition to
| % iets oh GfhC boDlC IL DuuhCS
excellent food for stock. Hogs fatten
very quickly on cooked sweet potatoes,
which are a cheap article of food, con-
sidering that three hundred bushels
| per acre is not an unusual Weld.
The tropical gooseberry, which is
cultivated IN, Florida, grows on a
handsome tree from ten to fifteen feet
in height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple and the
shape a ffattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is orna-
mental.
1t may not generally be known that
the English walnut is the most profit
able of all the nut bearing trees
When in full bearing they will yield
about 800 pounds of nuts TO the tree.
If only twenty-seven trees are planted
on an acre, says a Los Angeles Or
chardist, the income would be S549
per acre, or from twenty acres, $10,-
300 per year.
| Complaints are becoming more and
more rife of the ravages of the army
worms and chinch bugs IN various
sections of the West and in California
Seeding to wheat year after year is
sure not only to impover1sh the soil
disastrously, but also favors the null
tipiication of insect pests whenever
favorable seasons occur for their
breeding.
The increasing preference of manu-
| facturers the past season for unwash-
ed woods to be washed has been more
noticeable of late, in that many lots
of washed woods held at what have
been considered relative prices are
still unsold on all markets, while un-
washed, of the same grades, are all
sold. 1t is better for all concerned
that wool be shorn unwashed.
Millet, hungarian and orchard grass
are poor Substitutes for a good mead
ow of clover or timothy, although they
can serve on occasion to supplement
the loss of these more valuable pro-
ducts. The search for new varieties
of plants to take the places of the un-
desirable old is commendable, but the
forage plant that can take che place of
clover and timothy for hay is yet
tanglfng the soil of some undiscover-
ed country.
Cabbages and caullflowers will do
better upon old ground, which is rich
and mellow from previous cultivation.
The manure should be old and we'll
rotted, as green manure will not
make a solid heat, although it may
make rank growth of leaves. Many
of our good gardeners are using arti-
ticial manure for these crops, apply
ing no stable or barnyard manure,
excepting such as may have been Put
| in for previous or earlier crop.
Of the use of cotton-seed meal for
dairy cows an En- glish writer says
"My COWS get from three to fou1
pounds of cotton cake every day. The
quantity and quality of the cream Is
so sensibly increased by its use that if
by chance the COWS are without it for
two days it is at once noticed. In
summer the cake Is especially Yalua-
BILE, making the butter firm. Oat-
milk, but cotton-seed cake gives
cream"
"Speakin' of productive soil," said
the man from Dakota, 1.-THE half has
not been told. A few weeks ago my
wife said why John, I b'lieve
you've took to CROWN agin.'
measured myself. an l hope Gabriel
Il miss me at the final roundup, if
| uduu Z grown SIX 1uCuCS III Two weeks.
1 couldn't account for it for some
time, till at last tumbled to the fact
that thar war holes in my boots, an
the internal soil got in thar an done
its work"
A bushel of clover contains between
fifteen and sixteen millions of seeds.
A peck to the acre would give eighty.
seven seeds TO the square foot. One
quart to the acre would be ten seeds,
and from this it is easy to determine
how many seeds would stand on each
square foot of land with given num-
ber of quarts to the acre, supposing
every seed to be perfect and grow.
But about twenty per cent, on the av-
erage, is imperfect, and frequently
twenty-five per cent of the remainder
fails for want of suitable place fol
termination.
A Fable.
A swallow flew down and plucked a