The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-06-08


The chief thing that most farmers
need 10 make more money is TO get
out OF the old ruts. The extra care
aud labor which market gardening
implies are too many an objection.
If the farmer begins gradually and
moderately in market gardening he
will probably make success of
that also, besides being q better farmer
in every respect.
Whenever grain is largely grown,
most farmers have more straw than
they can psofitably use. Why not,
then, save barn room by cutting the
grain high and leaving a long stubble?
The straw, as a manure. is certainly
more eyenly distributed than it could
be by any other means. Stubble is al
50 no insignificant protection toyoung
clover in winter. II holds the snow
over il, when without the stubble the
field would be wind-swept, and the
ground much more deeply frozen.
The contact OF the clover leaves with
snow il winter keeps the plant from
| injury, no matter how cold the
weather may be. The stubs of straw
are by spring time mostly hattened to
the ground, where they ret under the
growing clover in spring. BY the
! time the clover is cut the straw will
be thoroughly rotted, so as to give
little trouble in haying if the clover be
as strong and rank as il should be-
Most farmers have noticed that hay
rapidly wastes when handled two OF
three times in winter. If they are
obliged TO buy load toward spring, il
does not go so far as that pitched di
rectly from their own bays or stacks
into the feed managers or boxes. There
is doubtless considerable waste of the
finer portions of the hay, which are
broken off and fall on the ground dur.
ing repeated handling. But the newly
mown hay is not packed closely, and
cannot be it is so dry. 1t looks TO be
more than it is. If the farmer in
spring is obliged to buy hay he should
usually feed more grain to make it GO
farther. The one advantage of hay
ON most faIms is that it is on the
| premises, and it costs more to market
it than it does grain. The latter IN
most places furnishes the cheaper nut
riment, and when both have to be
/ bAiC iCi vi gain
is an argument in its favor as against
hay or coarser feed.
| Crushed corn or ground meal j:
more economical to feed 10 cattle thar
corn in the ear, for they cannot wei
masticate the latter, and more or less
passes whole through the intestine:
undigested. Horses and mules witt
sound, smooth teeth can grindit pretty
well still it is not so fully digested a,
fine meal. But this last should not
be fed alone; it ought always to bt
mixed with bran or shorts, at the rate
of one-fourth to three-fourths, accord
ing TO circumstances. If for working
or store animals, one-fourth of Indiar
meal would be good proportion, bu
if fatting cattle, one-half to three
fourths might be best. Ii half TO
whole pint of linseed or cotton-seed
meal were added TO every four quarts
of the above meal ration, it would bt
so much the better, as this lubricateI
the intestines, assists digestion and i
also quite nutritious. There is very
little work for mill to grind it Will
the grain, and we doubt whether th,
extra expense of doing this is paid
It's chief value is to tighten up or sep
arate the finer particles of the meal, o
in thinning or diluting it.