The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-09-14
AGRICULTURAL.
Devoted to the Interests Of Farmers
and Stockmen

even that The potatoes whose skim
can I've rubbed off by the hand show
by the fact that they are full of raw
juices that need time TO be developed
IN large part into layers of starch.
Much valuable manure may be
saved by carefully deodorizing and
composing the refuse and night soil.
A mixture OF five bushels OF dry dirt
aud one pound of carbolate of lime,
added TO the sink or closet as re-
quired, will convert the whole into
valuable manure, that can be handled
as easily as that made in the barn
yard.
Prof. Roberts, of Cornell University,
says: "a COW that makes six pounds
of butter week on cold water will
| make seven pounds il the water is
warmed" He further says that "cows
| will drink one-third more when the
water is warmed to 80 degrees than
they will at 32 degrees, and that the
milk will increase one-6fth without
| deterioration"
The conceit is often knocked out OF
| the dairyman who considers himself
/
| gins To weigh her milk and churn il
into butter. L. il very rare that the
| true inwardness Of COW can be as
certained, and her real dairy value
known, until these tests are applied.
Weigh the milk, and keep the record.
| Appearances are deceptive
Many kinds of pears grow in clus
4 - II. Al.
were reduced one-half or more, the
crop would be more valuable. IL
seems a pity to cut out The young
fruit just as it is formed, bat it will
pay. Nature does some OF this work,
but not enough. IL half the blossoms
drop without setting fruit, the orch ard
list will do well to cut of half of those
that remain.
Switzerland has 660000 mich cows,
all of native breed, and divided into
two sharply defined races, the brown
aud the spotted. The iolmer color
varies from deep fawn To mouse gray
the latter shade being held in most e.
teem. The brown race is short horned
aud considered as the original type,
1t corresponds to the remains found
on the sites of the Roman cities Of the
third century.
| Three or four good sprouts ere
enough for the best yield OF market.
able potatoes OF even the most prolific
varieties. Small yielders. like sume oi
the early sorts, may do better TO have
only one or two sprouts in place
putting the hills closer together. 10,
many sprouts mean a great number VI
very small pot ,toes and few tit foi
market. Ii will often pay to thin
them out If too numerous at first.
The phosphate rocks of South Caro-.
lima are SO rich in phosphate that il
dissolved by sulphuric acid they
should contain twenty-eight per cent
of phosphate of lime. Few of them
however, slow so high an average "a
this. The deficiency is due TO sdul-
teration partly with worthless sub
stances to increase bulk and weight
bus sometimes with nitrates to furnish
ammonia, which is quite as necessary
for crops as phosphate itself.
There is much injudicious watering
of plants Let it come as the slow
gentle rain, that never fails to benefit
. vegetation. The sprinkling- p,t doe,
not at all accomplish this, unless il
has so fiRe a nozzle that the water
comes out in mist or spray rather
than in streams. Drenching plants
often does harm. IL packs the soil
causing the surface to harden in crus
as il dries. Ii the wafer is cold frou
the we'll, as it often is, the injury ii
greater and the chance of benefit less
I As pasture for COWS no plant Yields
/ sweeter, richer herbage than whit,
, clover. Though its habit Of growtl
is very close to the ground, il yield,
more pasture than would be supposed
Ii not allowed to blossom long enough
for seed to form, the new her0ag,
/, springs up quickly after cropping
, Its roots are near the surface, and ar,
easily reached by light rains, bu
owing to their spreading habit tn,
roots are not injured by cattle tramp
ing over them, as are those OF rec
clover
That the plantain is nuisance i,
, certain, but it is scarcely unmiti
gated except in the sense that wher,
it has once gained possession it car
J never be entirel eradicatcd. Til,
! common plsntain has about two-third,
the feeding value of common hay
ranking higher than most other weed,
in this respect. Cattle will eat in pas
ture or in hay without being starved
to it, as they have to be with the daisy
The large, vigorous plantains, tha'
grow in rich ground, seem to be eater
more greedily by cows than the pun,
specimens dwarfed by poverty of soil
The best time for killing a weed i,
when the seed has just terminated. L
Is comparatively innocent then. i
has done no harm as yet, and if de
stroyed in its helpless infancy, all the
good it is capable of doing by fertiliz
ing the soil will be util; There i
no more dangerous heresy in farming
than the idea that it is better TO let Tho
weeds grow large, so as to have more
green manure to plow under. The
ex ra growth of annual weeds take,
from the surface soil where it is mos
needed, aud is less available in tn,
weed than it was in the soil before the
weed took it.
"A MIsslss1ppI woman fell into a mill
lam, and when she was rescued n ten
| ], rl,aI; So