The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-12-21
THE AGRICULTURALIST
Newsy Notes Concerning the Farm asd
OF Especial Interest to the Pa
cino Coast Husbandman.

/ the holes made by borers In trees, th,
borers will be destroyed.
, The water trough needs a thorougl
scrubbing and scalding occasionaily
or 1t will soon be coated with slime.
1t is better TO feed COW every ounc,
OF food she has the ability 10 take care
OF than to try TO gain profit by saving
feed.
: Too much grain is more detrimental
TO breeding stock than not enough
The food should be bulky, with q
small allowance of grain.
No animal is so hardy as 10 REQUIRE
no attention. The more an animal Il
exposed the less it will produce, either
OF pork, wool, mutton, beef or milk.
Major Alvord condemns dehorninp
in toto. He says in the Boston Cult.
yator that it is cruel, and argues that
1t does not render cattle less pugna-
cious.
| The Iowa Agricultural college, il is
said, has been crossing Southdown
ewes with Shropshire bucks for four
years. AS result the average OF all
neeces has increased from 458 TO 8. .29
pounds. and the percentage OF lambs
from n per cent. in 1880 to I3I per
cent. in 1888.
Horses can, OF course, stand more
exposure in cold weather than men.
but the same kind of exposure In Al
produces colds, rheumatism, ETC., in
men, will be liable to effect horses in
the same way. IL is, therefore, an
parent that warm stables, good blank.
cts and protection from severe weather
are necessary.
Professor Henry gives the following
as good ration for dairy COW where
corn fodder constitutes the main por-
tion OF the coarse fodder: Corn stalks.
cut, 10 90 16 pounds clover hay, 8
pounds; bran, @ pounds corn meal,
pounds. This can be fed twice or
three times day, as the feeder prefers.
The drains should be put down be-
fore the ground freezes. A single Tile
drain will sometimes carry off the sur
plus water from a large field, but
enough drain should be used TO rem
er the field dry in early spring and
be in proper condition for plowing.
The use OF the drain will add hun
dreds OF dollars to an early crop.
A Western dairynian has hit upon
very simple plan of warming water
for his stock TO drink in winter. He
puts an iron plate, say 1S inches square.
ON the bottom of his water tank. cut
ting away the wood, of course. where
the iron was. Under the plate he uses
an OIL stove. He says 10 cents worth
OF OIL day would warm the water for
6O cows up 10 20 degrees or more.
Ia developing cows for butter The
feeder should be sure that he does NOT
oyerfeed, but as he finds they eat with
a good appetite he may add little
moro to each feed, and so continue
gradually TO increase the feed as they
will bear it. This power OF digestion
will increase, and he may gradually
increase the milking capacity OF his
cows and their production of butter.
Phe skill of that feeder has much to
do with the result.
The editor OF the Mark Lane Ex-
press advises farmers To cut off po-
tato blossoms as they appear. The ball |
or true seed of the potato, which re-
suits from the blossom, are net only |
unnecessary to The formation of the |
tuber below, but are preiudicial |
strain on the plant. He says al
have tried il again and again on a |
large scale-three rows left and three |
rows cut-ind the results have more
than satisfied me-"
There are several States which pro-
duce q surplus of corn. OF these Illi- /
nois and Iowa are equals, the product
OF each being estimated at 2T0,000,-
OOO bushels; Missouri ranks as third,
with 2IO,OOOOOO bushels; and of the
other four, Kansas has made gaia OF /
Il 100000 bushels, as compared with
the crop OF 1887 Indiana has gained
CD ,OOO,O0 bushels; Nebraska, 4,000,-
600, and Ohio 41,O00,000. The total
increase for the yea. is believed to be
not far from 560,000000 bushels, or
more than twice the entire product of
Illinois and Iowa together. The COM
parison affords aid to the imagination
in forming conception of the surplus
available for expectation, either di
rectly or in the form of meat and
other provisions; but only when the
mind dwells upon the magnitude of
the entire product of more than 2,000,-
100000 bushels is it possible to realize
The Significance of the name to which
corn is now entitled as king of cereals.
Now is the time to get rid of the
poorer animals. L. will not pay to
winter them, as better animals will
give larger returns for shelter, care
ind feed. 1t is not economy to keep
! poor animal through any season
,ut it is most extravagant to keep il I
through the winter. 1t is the hight OF
oily in stock raising to sell the best
Ind keep the worst. True, the best =.
'ring the largest prices; but if you sell
he best and keep the worst, soon
Your best will be no better than your !,
worst is now, and your worst will be /,
uch that the more you have the '
poorer you will be. You, by this plan,
make your animals poorer; :
md as the stock raiser makes his ami :
nails poor he makes himself poorer /,
I he keeps up the process, bankruptcy /,
8 as sure as fate. The opposite policy
s the winning policy. Sell the poor
st and retain the best. And sell |.
nough of the poorer animals that
'ou may buy a few better than the
'est you now have. This is making ;
our animals constantly better and
'ourself richer. Soon your worst will
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