The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-28
Minor TONES.

Minor Topics.
Plenty of grass should be given
fowls IN confinement, in order 10 keep
them in good healthy condition.
The sheep business, comprising both
the wool and mutton produce, is one
of the greatest industries in the United
States.
1t is claimed that if milk is brought
just to the boiling point, then poured
Immediately into cans and sealed air
tight, it will keep for an indefinite
period.
In hot weather all the unconsumed
food should be frequently swept away
from the chicken coops, as it soon
sours and acts like poison if taken into
the crop.
Potash on grape vines has been tried
with great success, especially on light
soils. 1t IS said to promote the thrift
of the vines and largely increase the
yield of the crop.
is better for the dairy when newly
threshed, and therefore they thresh
each day enough fodder for the next
days consumption.
At the annual sheep shearing in
Vermont the heaviest rams fleece was
twenty-eight pounds thirteen ounces,
and the heaviest ewes fleece twenty
one pounds eight ounces.
1t is said that the originator of the
Corcord grape has raised over 10000
seedlings in the past So years without
finding his ideal grape, and only p
had desirable qualities.
A mistake is frequently made in
over-feeding after lambing and then
reducing the supply, whereas the
lambs need more milk as they grow
larger, and this should be provided
for.
Plants watered with water few de-
grees warmer than the temperature of
the atmosphere will make q far more
vigorous growth, all other conditions
being equal, than those to which cold
water is applied.
Some fruitgrowers claim that alter
nate rows of pine and fruit trees pre-
vent the moth and other destructive
insects from injuring the fruit. The
strong odor of the pine is obnoxious to
great many kinds of insects.
Spreading the manure or fertilizer
over the ground broadcast is much
better than placing it in hills or rows,
as the roots of plants spread out in
every direction, and thereby utilize
the manure to greater advantage.
Early lambs are the most profitable
A cross of the Cotswold and South
down lately produced lamb that
dressed twenty -four pounds at two
months old. which sold for twenty-five
cents pounds, total sum of 1928.
Lime and salt, mixed with soft
food, is one of the cholera remedies
for poultry, but the method generally
adopted as the most efficacious is to
give each sick fowl heaping tea
spoonful of hyposulphite of soda in
enough water to slightly .moisten it.
Plantain, dandelion and other weeds
in a lawn my be destroyed by placing
little sulphuric acid with stick in
the crown of each plant. The acid
should be carried in an open-mouthed
bottle with long handle, so that fin
gers and clothes are protected.
The killing of sheep by dogs is usually
done during the night. To guard
against dogs the sheep should be in
duced to come up every evening to be
fed inside of high inclosure made of
the center for protection to the sheep
against storms.
A gentleman at Germantown, Pa,
who was greatly annoyed by the flock
ing of sparrows in large numbers to an
ivy which covers one side of his house,
got rid of them by sitting half pound
of red pepper down through the vine.
The birds at once left in disgust and
have not returned.
Cleanliness is absolutely indispen-
sable in the dairy. Wash in tepld
water every dish, implement or uten-
! sill that comes in contact with milk or
its products, then scald in boiling wa
ter or steam, rinse in cold water and ex-
pose to the air-and sunshine if posi-
bie-until wanted for use.
All kinds of grain may be fed to
fowls with benefit, as variety seems to
be an advantage. A single kind of
| grain. with the necessary animal and
vegetable accompaniment, will secure
profit, especially if that grain be
wheat, less SO if it be corn, put va
| riety of seed is still more profitable.