The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-11-23
AGRICULTURAL.
DEVOTED 70 THE INTERESTS or FARMERS
AND SToCKMEN.


the farm. The difference in the labor
required to load an unload low wag
on, as compared with higher one, il
very great. Broad tires are also better
than those that are narrow.
Farmers in tho section of New South
Wales that are suffering from drougb;
find consolation in the fact that the
dry spell has cut wide swath through
the rabbit army. In some localities
there are scarcely any OF these pests
left.
Rattlesnakes have been unusually
numerous in Georgia tins year, and
their increase is attributed by news
papers OF the State to the enforce
ment of the stock law, which pro-
hibits the hog, the rattler's greatest
enemy, from roaming at large.
The general farmer, with tive hun
dred acres of land, should keep fifty
sheep for utiIity's sake alone. Such
men can afford to estimate the value
of sheep from the standpoint of meat,
ferrlity and the general advantage OF
the farm, regardless of the market
price of wool.
II costs nothing to be gentle with
the cows, and it pays big interest.
The cultivation of the habit Of gentle
ness when among the COWS is big
money in the pocket Of the owner II
we shall stop TO think we shall won
der VIII N we consider the rough way
in which heifers are often handled
that there are no more kicking COWS
then there are.
Michigan Agricultural College ex-
periments with wheat show that salt
lessened the yield OF wheat, $50
pounds being sown 10 the acre. Prof.
johnson inclines to think that one
and quarter bushels of seed gives
the best yield. The old Clawson
seems to retain, in good degree, those
quslities which have made il popular
for longer term of years than most
other varieties.
When a man is too fat the doctor
recommends him to eat lemons and
partake OF acids TO reduce his assh.
All these things the farmer knows.
But strangely enough be forgets them
al when he stands in the presence of
the sour swill barrel No woman
would think of feeding human baby
on sour milk, but her husband will
drive ahead and feed the calves and
pigs ON sour milk, and even look you
full in the face and tell you that the
calves will thrive best on sour milk.
Every young person knows that
nuts, after they have dried somewhat,
arc sweeter than when first gathered.
Eat the drying process goes on until
they, especially chestnuts, become too
hard to be eatable. These and other
nuts can be kept from becoming too
dry by mixing them with sand II
mixed with an equal bulk of sand, ia
box or barrel, and kept In a cool
| place, the nuts may be preserved in
an eatable condition until spring.
It is important to find how much OF
any fodder is digested, as we'll as to
know how much can be grown on an
acre, or eaten by certain amount OF
stock, for ON the amount digested de
pends the result in milk or beef. in
using rough fodder we must add some
concentrated food to make up for its
poverty in certain elements. Bran,
| linseed meal and cotton-seed meal src
| best to make the rations complete.
Brewers grains are cheap milk-pro-
ducing food, but at SO ton are not
equal to cotton seed at $50 ton.
That labor on the farm enables the
farmer not only to be repaid for such
expense, but also returns a profit can
be easily shown by a comparison of
crops that demand much labor in
their production and those that cali
/ for but little. A crop of celery, for
instance, is one that keeps the grower
busy, and with extra help, from the
time the seed is planted until it is
finally banked up for bleaching, and
as compared with corn it gives much
larger profit, though requiring more
labor. The work is concentrated ON a
small area, and the shovel spade and
hoe must be used TO a great extent.
| The crop, therefore, pays a profit on
labor as well as on the materials OF
which it is composed. While it is
proper to economize by using labor
saving implements, yet where the
cost of labor is one that increases the
profits it is unwise to omit it.
We should preserve with great care
every tree, large and small, beside our
country roads, which are found grow
ing in the right place for shade trees
TO stand. Let those trees be birch,
beech, maple, ash, elm, pine, spruce
hemlock, or any other kind. Any
tree is better than the naked fence
and road. Thousands of good trees
by the sides of our roads are sacrificed
TO the ak every year, which, if saved
and neatly trimmed and cared for
wonld make beautiful trees in a few
years and cast a refreshing shadow.
by taking little pains one will bC
surprised to find how many trees can
be found in almost any town by look
ing along the distance of 81 single mile
and how many may be saved in a
town in single year without being at
the labor of transplanting. Just make
IA careful selection of those to be saved
among the multitude of small trees
which are constantly springing up by
the roadside. While from twenty tc
thirty feet apart are proper distances
in this work, that rule can not be