The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-09
FARM NOTES.

Attenu tne IhrmefH' meeting Wneil
you can, and don't be afraid to talk and
ask questions.
When the snow melis on the roofs
and In the yards see that 1t does not
soak the litter In the sheep pens. Wet
feet are fatal.
The "cow peap was tested for fod.
der crop at tho Vermont experiment
station, last year, aud the result was
not encouraging.
If you are going TO try any new va.
rletles Of beans, this year, look out for
weevils In them. Use no seeds that
may be infested With destructive In.
sects.
It costs Just so much to put pound
OF meat on an animal, and II ls lost dur.
ing the winter, from low feeding or ex-
posture, 1t is just that much extracted
from the owners pocket.
Sentiment is costly when II causes a
farmer TO waste forty dollars of proven.
der i'm keeping poor, broken-down
old horse through winter, when twenty
dollars would be big price for him in
spring.
The Farmer, of st. Paul, MIMI, nd-
vises farmers to run their corn through
a threshlng machine instead of husk-
Ing. II will shell the corn and soften
the fodder. Good idea.
The artificial production Of chickens
IL a great industry I'm Franklin county,
Pennsylvania. Over seven hundred
incuhators are I'm operation and the
production Il from 10000, 600 to l2,OOO,-
600 chickens annually.
Every farmer should bear In mind
the fact that supt i6rity of crops de-
pends In great degree on the good
quality of seeds, and he should, there
fore, try to get the very best, even II
the cost be considerably greater.
ID. IL. Thing says he has visited silos
In Maine, Vermont, Maryland a1d
New Jersey, and has never met the
first man but was pleased with them.
He believes the stock could be largely
increased and consequently the farm
would improve.
Professor Whitcher says that a ton
Of ordinary manure contains only
about 20 per cent Of fertilizing material,
the remaining so per cent being water.
Ii that il correct, dry manure would be
all fertilizlng material, which would
place II ahead OF superphosphate.
A farmer at South Charlotte, Me-.
thinks ssupcrphosphate Is best for beans,
but for oats he has best success with
fish pomaee, half ton per acre The
pomace sells at the factories for IS TO
Sl2 per tou, anc some farmers think II
better to buy that than superphosphate.
Boys were not calculated for slaves,
aud no one knows Il better than they
do. The trouble that many farmers
have with their SONS Is attributable I'm
many cases to the way the boys are
treated. All work and no play not
only makes Jack a dull boy, but gener-
ally mean boy, as well.
There is a strong rivalry between the
Oxfords and Shropshires for superior
ity as mutton breeds. They are very
large i'm size, frequently weighing $50
pounds each, with marbled flesh of
good quality. As first cruss for the
native sheep the Southwown Is claimed
to be the best breed.
At a grange meeting in Mt Vernon,
Me-, Captain Carson said he believed
that corn, even of colossal height, could
he put in whole and cut out with hay
knife, i'm sections, with less trouble and
expense than would attend cutting.
He spoke Of several farmers who had
stored their fodder In this way with
the best results.
Trees must have a good soil to grow
in as a rule, Certain varieties of trees
seem well adopted to grow i'm the poor
est soil many others-will occasionally
become established In a poor soil and
do well but for success in ornamental
tree planting good soil is necessary,
and IL should never be less than a foot
deep.
There are no secrets in sheep raising
1t has to be done by feeding. The
sheep have to eat something, and that
something has to be sweet feed, grass
gain, vegetables, fruit, or anything
that is wholesome and unfailing
Weeds, brush and briers will keeI
sheep alive, but don't ask sheep to grow
mutton or wool on such pastures.
The strawberry plants will begin tc
grow as soon as the frost shall be out oi
the ground, and now is an excellent
time to fertilize them. a mixture o
wood ashes and superphosphate is 8
special fertilizer for Strawberries. Hen
manure in n fine condition may also bt
used, and should be scattered over the
plants in time to be washed down 10y
the rains.
Peter Henderson has made the state.
ment that, in his experience, with
thousands of frozen plants he has tried
all manner of experiments and found
no better method than to get them out
of the freezing atmosphere to some
place warm enough to be just above
the point of freezing, or, if there are
too many to do that, get up the fire a:
rapidly as possible, and raise the tenn
perature.
The Dairy.
Assistant Commissioner Talcott, o
Ohio, in n report made last month de