The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-11-27
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Anlerican.Rred Horses.

American-Rred Horses.
Fifteen million of horses are now
owned in America, and more than
1.000.t00 a year must be bred to keep
up the supply The largest portion of
these are usei for agricultural aad
heavy draft purE oSes. and such horses
bring from $17j to $3.50 each. 1t
would be impossible to breed them if
it were not for the mportation of Per-
cheron horses. Five hundred stall
lions are now annually imported from
France to the United States. The
immense wealth they are adding to
the nation will be better understood
when it is known that the first cross of
a Percheron stallion with native
mare doubles the selling value of the
colt when matured. Large numbers
of Percheron stall ons are exported
from the United States by Canadian
breeders to renew the old French
blood so highly prizei, and also to give
quality, style and acton to the large
English draft and Clydesdale stock
which has been bred there so long.
Seed Peas.
VIII seed peas three or four years
old grow as well as if only one year
old? asks correspondent. Yes. bet
ter. if Major Alvord's exper ments are
to be depended upon. Those expert
ments-which were made at the cele-
brated Houghton farm-seem to es-
tablish the fact that seed peas, two or
three years old produced better crops
than younger seed. If well kept peas
will retain their vitality for five or six
years. But we do not know why they
should be letter with age, and to be
candid. we doubt if ANYBODY else does
1t is true that during the me men
toned they are as good as if only
a year old, but we seriously doubt if
they are any better. Still Major AL
word is careful man, and he has
reached his conclusions only with care
full experiments. We have only our
own opinion to back US, and he seems
to have more than his.
Competitive Agriculture.
The requirements of agriculture are
constantly growing more and more i'm
perative in their demands for educated
and intelligent farmers. The competi-
tive tendency of the age makes this
necessity. The closer the competition
the better must be the system of farm
ing followed, and the admin STRAIT We
ability OF the farmer. Profits are very
small under the best system OF manage
ment. and where any mismanagement
is allowed no profits whatever can be
expected. Then the farmer should be
so trained that he will know how to
avoid mismanagement in ali his oper-
ations. Agriculture is a business-a
turing, banking, law or medicine, and
it should require, and does require, as
much special training as either of the
others. This spec al training must re-
ceive more attention in the future
than in the pa.t, and farmers must
have such education to he successful
as makes other business men success
full.
Use the brush on the Cows.
Live Stock MONTH";
But few farmers ever think it nee
essarv that cow should be brushed.
We have seen neighbors laugh and
ridicule what they call over-niceness
and fussiness, when the cows were
curried and brushed twice day, with
as much care as was given to the
horses. What! curry a COW? Never
heard tell of such thingn' But a
COW needs it even more than a horse,
and for several reasons. A COW, whose
milk is used for food, unless she has
perfectly clean skin cannot give clean
milk, and then butter will be bad. The
skin should be in perfectly healthful
condition and the blood pure, or the
milk will be impure and unhealthful,
and the butter or cheese will be ta;nt-
ed. Neither cleanliness nor healthful-
ness can be secured without regular
brushing of the SIX and the removal
of all the filth that will gather upon
ill-kept cows. This should be done be-
fore the cows are MIXED, both morn
ing and even NO. The morning clean
ing should be thorough one; a sim
pie brushing to remove dust and loose
hairs W ii be sufficient for the even ng.
1t will help very much for both hors 1s
and cows to have the stables so floored
that the animals can be kept from foul
ing themselves.
Winter Seeding.
Various times of the year have been
recommended for sowing grass seed
Many plow and seed down in August
and have good success unless Septem-
ber proves too hot which is often the
case. 1t has frequently happened that
when we have piece of corn ground.
all plowed and manured for wheat n
autumn, md have an emporium t. to