The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-10-26
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DEvorED 70 THE Is4fRssrs or FARMERS
AND STocKMES.

DEVOTED 70 THE IS45Rssrs or FARMERS
AND SroeKMEN
I In the old worm fences the top rail
was most apt 10 be heavy one, with
/ The smaller rails at The bottom, so a.
/ 70 make close barrier against pigs
and ether small stock. This made the
/ fence top heavy. aud IL toppled over.
Nowadays the top rail is more apt TO
be barbed wire than al ything else.
IL New York State the grape crop
gives promise of being unusually
large. Every year the vineyards are
receiving better attention from the
growers, and what has for yeirs been
known as the Hudson River Peach
District is fast giving way to the cul-
/ tivation of grapes. Growers say there
IS much more money in them, and
they require, as whole, less attention
Wherever commercial fertilizers are
sown with the drill, the bulk of clover
and grass seed will be found i'm the
fows with the grain. 1t wouls be bet
ter for both if they were a little sep
arated. Some farmers drag down the
drill marks before growing grass seed.
and claim to get better results
Others, who do not, find their timothy
standing in rows the subsequent
spring, showing as plainly as the bone 3
on half starved horse.
In sowing grass for pasture, the best
results are reached by sowing a mix
ture-ior instance, of red top, timothy.
Kentucky bluegrass, meadow fescue,
and meadow oat grass-iJearing in
mind that mixture of several sorts is
more likely to afford herbsge through
the whole summer, and 10 be more
permanent. In seeding for meadows,
though, 1t Is better 10 SOW only one
kind of seed, as the different kinds
will very seldom be ready 10 harvest
at the same time.
II is surprising what growth grape
vines will make over an evergreen, IL
given a chance TO run. With only
moderately rich soil the vine will en-
tirely cover the tree, killing it after a
few years. It's teGdrils cling to the
slender stems of the evergreen foliage.
and will not relax their held. The
higher the vine runs the finer the
grapes and the harder they are To get.
Il is not good way TO give grape
vines their will over any kind of tree 5.
A low, neat trellis will cost but little,
and be every way more satisfactory.
Mr. j. p. Lswes, whose opinion
everybody respects, says he does not
think the quality of cows milk is
affected by the quantity of water she
drinks. In otber words, you cannot
dilute her milk by making or letting
her drink water. He, however, is OF
the opinion that thin and sloppy feeds
may have the effect OF reducing the
quality of the milk. Doctor Voeleker
Is of the same opinion in regard to
the water supply, snd he agrees with
Mr. Lawes in regard to the effect OF
poor. sloppy food ON the quality OF the
lood.
1t has been said that farm with
Out boy would soon come to grief
but what place would not come to
grief without him? Who is it that
"doCs the chores" and the bothersome
eTrands? And what boy ever amounts
to much who is not taught to do
chores well and in time, and to do
errands in an exact way? 1t is busi-
ness every time, and fathers should re-
member that th, ir methods are noted
and copied by the boys, and if the
hatchet, spade or rake is left to rust
under the tree in the yard, he thinks
that, If father does it, it must be all
right.
The tendency among the best farm-
ers is toward an early harvesting OF
the hay crop. The old idea that
grass when dried Is too light and in
nutritious is disproved by the gains OF
milk in COWS and of beef in other cat
tie when pastured upon it. The early
cut hay does dry away in weight con-
siderably, but what weight remains is
uutriment. In grass that has been
left to ripen and dry up the nutrimen,
IS too mach' like cord.wood. What
was nutrition has turned to fiber, and
in the animal serves mainly the pur-
pose that cord wood does in the stove
Ito maintain warmth.
A mule and two horses were OBJ
served locking over rail fence into a
tempting clover field near Baltimore
the other day. In minute the mule
had made up his mind and placing
his nose under the top rail he lifted il
out. He then tried to jump over, but
got stuck with his lore feet IN the
clyver patch and his hind feet on the
other side. Then one of the horses
very deliberately hacked up and let
J ting lily his heels, planted them square
: on the mule, landing him clean over
, into the clover patch. The TWO horse,
followed in the gap thus made, aud al
I three went to browsing, apparently
we'll satisfied.