The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-07-29

manufactures fine quality of home
made cheese. Mr.. Nowlen showed us a
fine pair of Cheshire pigs obtained from
an English vessel in the Astoria port.
Seventy acres of tide land on A. b.
Sales place, reclaimed in 1884, show
wonderful change from lido grass and
brush to firm ground, with the larger
part of it now set with heavy growth
of tame grasses. This small place
easily supports 10 or 20 cows, and num-
| Der of other stock. Mr.. Sales is grading
up his dairy herd, using for male a
cross between pure-bred Durham and
| Jersey, showing marked improvement
Within three or four years.
| j. a. Rowan owns small but choice
dairy herd on the Astoria side of the
| pay. In 1t are some excellent mich
cows, one grade Jersey from John
| Docker's Cathlamet herd and another a
tine large grade Holstein from J. B.
knapp's Union Ridge herd, which gave
fully hve gallons q day each in June.
Another, from Carnahan's Clatsop herd,
now II months in milk, gives six quarts
DAILY. A three-Quarter grade Jersey 3
years old, from the Jersey herd of
Lindsey Bros, Union Ridge, and calv-
ing at q months old, gives two gallons
OF milk daily. Mr.. Rowan is striving
to secure a first-class dairy herd, and is
determined to have only the best ami
mails. Last fall he purchased from d.
ID. LooneyS Jersey herd, the bull Ros-
sired by Jersey 176, of G. B. Polhemus'
San Jose herd. Roscoe Conkling was
dropped August u, 1886, by Annie
Looney Sd, No. 364, from fine imported
4 cow belonging to the famous Millard
head, of Marin county, California. Mrs.
Rowan still takes pride in her. poultry,
but is not raising as many breeds as
formerly, believing that fewer kinds
will pay better. The Wyandottes, Buff
CochinS, and W. F. B. Spanish are her
favorites, the Wyandottes especially,
being excellent foragers, good, layers,
and good for the table.
At the mouth of the Walluski, j. G.
Nurnberg and A. Bartoldus, and on
! Capt. L. G. Haven and others have
,, tide land that has been reclaimed fol
several years, and proven many times
as profitable as when in wild marsh
grass.
Mr.. Dement'S farm. consisting of sew.
eral hundred acres of fine upland and
, tide land, is on the Lewis and Clarke
river, two or three miles above its
mouth. One of the first dikes built III
this settlement was made on this farm
IS acres being enclosed in one body
9 The closing of the tide sloughs and put.
,, ting in Sluiceways will enclose about
!, , 300 acres more of choice tide land.
: : This farm supports 125 head of cattle, OF
, (which 30 are dairy COWS, some of them
! being pure-bred Durham, one or more
from the herd of McEldowney & Haw
y thorne, HillSborO. There are some very
, fine animals among these pure-breds
!, and Mr.. Dement, intends showing them
at the next fat stock show in Portland
, J. w. Keith, under whose efficient man
, agement the place is made to prosper
we learn has just purchased a portion
of this fine farm.
w. j. ingalls,, whose farm adjoins the
place Just described, has fine body OF
, nearly 100 acres of tide land, most of il
,, , under cultivation in meadow and tame
: grasses.
A county road is being viewed out tc
extend down Lewis and Clarke rivel
+ from Mr.. ingalls, place to Mr.. Jeffers'
ing to connect with the Adair ferry, now
,, running from a point near the Site Of
! what was once known as Fort ClatSOp
= and thence across Young's bay to the
, Astoria side.
A. E. Turlay, j. Gibson, w. w. True
: P. B. Heckard, D. H. Heckard and G. r
, , Brewer have each small bodies of re
, claimed land, the value of which has in.
creaSed tenfold in value ON account Ot
the reclamation, enabling them to keel
more dairy and other stock, to conse.
, quent increase in profit.
G. +. Harder owns upward of 400 acres
at the head of tidewater on this river
about 100 acres being rich alluvial bot.
tom land, yielding immense crops OF
hay and grass, timothy and clover. OF
farm, several are grade Jerseys.
E. Libke, living on the farm just be-
low Mr.. Harder's, with bottom land
; equally rich, expects to cut 100 tons of
! timothy and clover hay from 30 acres OF
meadow.
ID. j. ingalls,, who occasionally gives
the results of his experience in the col
umns of The Pacific Farmer, owns a
small dairy, but one of the best paying
ones, for size, in the State. Mr.. ingalls,
says that during May and June he
marketed 56 two-pound rolls of butter
each week, the product of II or IS COWS,
two-being mere Strippers, not furnish
ing enough milk and butter for family
uSe-not counted. Mr.. ingalls, has in
vented cheap and novel churning ap-
| pal aus, Cut Vi hIlCl VIC
hope in the future to be able TO present
to our readers. Mr.. Ingalls, believes in
cross of Jerseys with other stock of
good milk strain, for butter and milk
production. He says one of his cows of
this grade gave during the month of
June 81 pounds of milk daily by actual
weight, while another, three-year-old,
gave AZ pounds daily. With this herd
is fOur-year-old pure-bred Jersey bull.
sired by the Jersey bull Mt. Hood, dam
a fine Jersey cow owned by Capt. Flavel.
A. Anderson and VIM. Harteli have
excellent dairieS of Is cows each. With
Anderson's herd is grade Holstein bull
from Mr.. Vests herd. With Mr.. Har-
tells herd is high grade Jersey bull.
This herd is being carefully graded up,
for the best possible results.
Neils Nelson, proprietor of a choice
bottom farm. has small but excellent
dairy. Here the potato blight is very
bad, and light crop will be the result.
The blight has as yet made its appear
ance in only few potato fields, in
nearly all of them the vines showing
bright and green. Potato plants. as far
as we have noticed, are much more
liable to be affected with blight in low,
damp ground than in higher and lighter
soils well drained naturally. Ground
where blight has once made its appear
ance should not be cultivated in pota-
toes again for several seasons. All DO
tato tops that have been blighted should
be carefully raked together when dry
and hurnQ0 en- a m iaccaO fha cpraoI ~