The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-31
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Devoted ~ THE INTERESTS oF FARMERS
AND STuekMEN.

Ewes that nave wehneu theW lambs |
may be iattened very easily II given
two meals n day of grain with plenty
Of grass IN the pasture.
Radishes may be had at all periods.
Use plenty of manure and grow them
quickly, so as 60 have them crisp and
tender.
All the leguninous plants that have
been tried make good ensilage, but
they are SO highly nitrogenous as to
make too rich food 10 use alone in
any quantity.
Keep squashes and pumpkins
away from cantaleups and water
melons. In fact, it is best TO grow nn
pumpkins ON farm where melons
are raised, as the bees carry pollen
from one plant To another.
The hoe may now be used with adj
vantage both ON beets and carrots.
The spaces between the rows can be
cleaned with cultivltor, but the hoe
should I've used TO clean out grass and
weeds between the plants.
Young corn makes an excellent
green manurial crop for plowing I'm
der, but the seed is expensive. Sor
ghum may be used also, and the seed
for few acres will cost but little.
Sow il Lhickly and plow it under when
the plants are about two feet high.
II is not desirable to pasture cows
in woodlands. The grass grown un-
der the shade is less nutritious, and
the animals are apt to find many wild
plants, the havor of which spoils the
milk for any use. This is especially
true of woods where wild garlic
ahounds.
Many cases Of milk fever may be
traced TO the manner in which the
cows are fed before cslving. II the
cow il waiting 70 come IN, and has
been dried off, she will require but
very little grain. The best food is
grass, with light mess of moistened
Dran at night. II too fat the chances
are that sac will Nave milk fever.
In a majority of cases the loss of
young chicks and turkeys may be
traced 10 lice AT thia season, when
the weather is becoming very warm,
lice multiply rapidly, and few day :
| only are necessary % have the entire
| flock infested. Constant vigilance
should be exercised in order 10 pre-
vent lice from destroying the young
| poultry.
| This is the time when a close search
must be made for borers IN trees.
/ They can be more easily destroyed
now than later ON. II move the
| earth from the trees To the depth oi
six inches around the trunk, scare h
for the borer and fiji up with coal
ashes, AS the horer does not work ON
trees where wood ashes have been
freely used.
All grass crops make the best hay
if cut before the seed-heads form
When plant produces seed 1t has
performed its mission and stored
much OF its nutritious matter in the
seed. To secure the largest amount
of nutrition IN hay the grass should
be cut while the stalks and blade,
contain the elt m,nts that wouiC
be directed to the form alton of seed
Old strawberry fields soon becom,
overruu with weeds. This can only
be prevented 10y pulling the weeds ont
between the plants as soon az the crol
of berries is picked, at the same tim,
, working between the rows well with I
cultivator. ii ali the weeds ar,
pulled out as fast "a they appear, :,
a. TO prevent them from seeding
there will be but lew of them mex
season.
Look carefully after tue gratis Sc
the past spring, and give them timel,
| attention. Remove any shoots tina
start ON the stock. so that they ma,
, not rot the graft. \ horticultural au
thority tells us that Il graft should b,
{ treated as if it were young tree in
stead of in the ground. When Their
are several buds upon the graft ON,
will often get the start of the 9th, r
. and outgrow them Check this l.,
pinchiug the ends OF the shoots o
the exuberdnt grower.
= Prof. Roberts, of Cornell Uniyer
} sity, speaking on milk production
said the dairy farm must be fertile /
= we are to produce milk of the bes
( quality. People have an idea tina
; rough, poor pasture lands are fitted t,
2 produce good milk, hut this is a mis-
take. He believes there is NOR
( value obtained from the bran thar
2 there would he if the whole whea
2 should be fed to COWS. Good land vii
F produce good plants, and 1t Is econ
I omy TO feed them to poor animals
? What we want Is Il business COW, no
. one that will go off on a strike ever,
four or five or six months in the year
A farmer who uses fertilizers is pre-
sumed to know what he i about |
/ he applies them to an entire field it i
, because previous experience has satis
. fed him that they pay. This being
so, it is important that the fertilize
be evenly distributed so that the grea {
! est proportionate good may resul,
> Much depends ON the condition of tn,
fertilizer as to dryness and ineness
and something also on the kind O
8 drill used and its condition. Even i
force feed will not distribute evenly
, the fertilizer has been left in il to rus
and ruin it. At the best there will b,
: some imperfection in distribution
In long bout The larger amount o
fertilizer put on at each end has
, tendency TO pack, and will not run
, through so easily as if less were pu
in at time and more frequently. On
account should intentional breaks il
distribution be made for experiment
, There will probably be too man,
, places where the fertilizer was misseC
accidentally. The uneven dstribu
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