The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-17

way to the stalls of livery stables. 1t
consists of metal roller bracket that
is put up over the manger and roll
of hard rock salt is cast in shape to
| fit il. These salt rolls are where
horses can lick them whenever they
| feel inclined, and livery stable men
who have been using them say they
completely answer the purpose in
| tended, and do it very economically.
| Loose salt wastes a great deal in or
dinary feeding, but this hard roll
never gives way or disappears until il
has been used by the stock.
All grains should be cut while yet
the kernel is so soft as to be easily
broken by the finger nail, as If allowed
TO stand longer there is a loss from
shelling out of the grain in handling,
and the grain is not as plump or as
heavy as when cut earlier.
1t is mark of careless housekeep-
ing to have pork spoil in the barrel
As long as the pork is kept under
sweet brine it is safe. II there are
impurities in the brine, as blood, they
will rise to the surface and can be
skinned off when the brine is heated,
as it always should be at the begia,
ming OF hot weather.
The idea that salt is specially health
full to asparagus is now denied. But
potash is an important constituent of
this plant, and much of the lighter
soil devoted to its growth is deficient
in this mineral. Ashes or some of
the German potash salts are indicated
as manures for asparagus rather than
salt.
There is little nutritive value il the
first potatoes that come to market.
| This tuber at its best is mainly starch,
bnt the unripe potato has not even
that. The potatoes whose skin can be
rubbed off by the hand show by that
fact that they are full OF raw juices
that need time 10 be developed in
large part into layers of starch.
The choice quality of most OF the
European potatoes has given them an
excellent reputation in this country,
especially the variety called the Mag
mum, and the wide outlet and eager
demand have made them salable at
profitable prices the entire season, ex-
cept once or twice when the market
staggered under enormous receipts.
The tomato Is commonly grown in
gardens on soils made much too rich.
The vine attains remarkable vigor, but
the fruit ripens slowly If only mod
erately fertile soil were used for grow
ing tomatoes the crop would ripen
earlier and be less subject To the rot,
though this disease is apt to take the
first ripening fruit of some kinds OF
tomatoes on any soil.
There is only profit realized from
: the orchard when there is full yield
OF fine marketable fruit. The markets
are over-stocked with common fruit
while there is large class of dealer,
: whose customers want fine fruit and
who are willing to pay good prices foI
1t. The apple grower must attempt &c
meet this demand for fine fruit If he
would make his orchards pay.
2 In New York State the grape cror
gives promise of being unusually large
: Every year the vineyards are receiv
2 ing better attention from the growers
: aud VIII 1T has for years been known a,
4 the Hudson River peach district, i,
( fast giving away to the cultivation o
!, grapes. Growers say there is muci
/ more money in them, and they re
Quire, as a whole, less attention.
I Peter Henderson states that a patel
!, of alfalfa about twenty-five feet b,
1 one hundred, or only about one-six
!. teenth part of an acre, used as soil
I ing crop, near st. Augustine, Fla, fur
4 nished feed through the summel
( months for a COW; and that twice that
: amount, or about one-eighth of al
: acre, would be ample to supply COW
/, with food during the entire season.
4 Ii is stated that since the sunfiowel
has been cultivated on certain ssamps
I OF the Potomac malaria fever has de
creased. At the mouth OF the cheldt
= in Holland, it is stated that similar re
suits have obtained. The sunfowel
emits large volumes of water in the
, form of vapor, and its arom odor
! as well as the oxygen it exh les, may
, have to do with the sanitary influence
, in question.
81 The warmer the milk when set, the
more complete will be the separation
of the cream from the milk at any
given lower temperature and tht
more rapidly the temperature falls
the more rapidly will be the separation
of the cream from the milk Cream
rises best when the temperature is fall
ing very slowly when the tempera
ture is stationary, and little or not al
all when the temperature is rising.
In termination, heat and moisture
are the powers which awaken the
germ to action, and no plant food il
needed at this stage of the plants
life, except what the seed in itself con
tains but a. soon as the plant begins
to send out its little rootlets it must
have food in abundance, of suitable
kind and in suitable shape for It's as
similation, or it will starve, the same
as an animal would if deprived o.
food.
q The folly of pasturing the meadows
soon becomes apparent when we com
! pare the difference in yield with those
+ that have not been pastured. The
, grass on the pastured meadows gets &
late start, and the dry weather catches
: it before it has made near its growth
! The soil is packed and robbed of it,
q rightful and natural mulcbing anC
+ fertilizer; and consequently tn,
: meadow is impoverished and the gras,
only makes half crop.
A fisherman, while on Plymouth
y beach one day, captured a large gray