The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18

I Carrots and rutabagas require a
light, rich soil.
Dry earth is an excellent absorbent
of manures.
Late planted squash vines usually
| succeed the best
Granaries should be thoroughly
cleaned out at least once year.
A liberal dressing of wood ashes is
said to be beneficial to cherry trees.
Keep the tires on your wagon tight
and the axels and harness we'll oiled.
Do not forget that if high feeding
causes hog cholera, starvation will not
prevent it.
The largest turkeys are the most
profitable. It costs but little more to
fatten them.
Hogs on pastures should have some
grain each day, so as to ripen the
growth as fast as made.
Fix the roosts so the hens won't
have to roost in draft. 1t gives
them a cold that ends in Group.
Those who grow millet, sorghum or
broom corn will find the seed the best
kind of food for small chicks.
A cross of the Dorking and Brahma
will produce a fine market bird OF
large size with yellow skin and fat.
The fruit trees will need some atten-
ton during the summer to keep the
caterpillar, etc., from damaging them.
Farmers should make their own
fertilizers as far as possible, and then
they will know just what they are
using.
The weight of testimony and expe-
rience now seems to be against pinch
ing back melon, tomato and squash
vines.
One of the best coatings for tree
wounds is gum sbellac in alcohol. 1t
etfectually excludes air, and the wound
quickly heals over.
The effect of short manure upon
light soils, and of long manure upon
heavy soils, are to improve greatly
the physical character of each.
Sheep are the only animals that
will not eat beans whole. Ground
and mixed with ground corn or oats,
they are valuable for cattle, horses
and pigs.
An Iowa agricultural society recent
ly decided. after considerable discus
sion, ''that the best time to prune
nursery and orchard trees is when
the leaf is from one-half to two-th1rds
grown.
Professor Sanborn, of the Missouri
Agricultural College, says that cob
meal-fed cattle digest their food much
better than the meal-fed ANIMALS, and
that the corn ears make fifty cents
bnshel by the gain in weight of flesh.
1t is said that there Is no better in
dex to the health of cattle and horses
than the condition of the hair. Indi-
gestion and all other diseases that
farm stock is heir to, even in short
time, is plainly indicated by rough,
harsh coat of the animal.
Dead limbs on fruit or other trees
should be promptly removed. The
cutting should be below any diseased
part, or it will spread the Infection.
The saw used should not be applied to
healthy trees unless first washed with
carbolic acid and water.
Equal parts of oats and corn, and
one-twentieth part of linseed cake,
ground with them. makes a good feed
for horses. 1t will give a fine, sleek.
good coat, and will make horse at
the same time very healthy. 1t will
also keep horses from contracting
colds and diseases.
In planting an orchard the young
trees should be slightly inclined to-
ward the direction of the prevailing
winds. All the old orchards lean as
the trees were bent while young, and
most of these old orchards were set
when there was more forest and winds
were much less violent than now