The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-05-25

lesson they are in condition TO do well
and make money. 1t is aggravating
TO see tree die in the effort to bear
and perfect the fruit that crowds its
own burdened branches. The orchard
lss has many lessons to learn, and sue.
cess in his occupation depends very
greatly ON his learning them well, and
practieing them to perfection.
A new dairy fraud has made its ap-
pearance in England under the name
OF "chee serind.'
No farmer cap afford to let his cows
run down in the spring of the year
This they are likely to do when COM
ing into milk, if not given extra care
and feed.
The Dutch are taking Holland at
the rate of eight acres a day. During
the last two centuries il is estimated,
OO0O00,O00 acres of land have been
reclaimed from the sea.
India is beginning to compete with
China in the cultivation and exporta-
ton OF tea. The merchants of China
are becoming alarmed and are seeking
some means of improving China tea.
Get piece OF land ready and grow
a crop Of corn-fodder. Plant the seed
thickly in the rows, use plenty of ma
nuTe, cultivate often and harvest il
when the ears are in the milky stage.
Meadows that have ceased tn give
good crops may be renewed cheaply
] by turning the sod soon after cutting,
then harrow thoroughly at intervals of
fortnight, and before autumn rains
reseed with timothy and such other
varieties OF grass as may be suited to
soil and situation.
The bright spring days will cause
the young pigs t. grow rapidly. Turn
/ them ON grass as soon as they are ten
weeks old, but gradually at first, or
they may have the scours. 1t will
cost but very little to raise a few pigs
if they be given the privilege of a
small grass plot and fed twice day.
Shropshires are quite similar in type
and general character to the South
/ down, but have darker faces and legs,
are somewhat larger, and clip more
wool OF a superior quality. They
have neat heads, with rather short,
muscular nocks, long, level, broad
backs and round bodies well st upon
short legs.
A Massachusetts, man says that
though he could not cure bis horse
seventeen years old-of heayes by
feeding him marsh hay, the disease
was so subdued by its use that the ami
NAL did not cough. and showed no
signs of heaves. When feeding on
upland hay was recommended, the
horse began To cough again.
Bees should be furnished with water
if good supply be not close at hand
In early spring water may be set out
TO them, to which may be added a
little. salt. Take salt-barrel that has
just been emptied, soak it in water
and set it out near the apiary, and the
bees will show how they appreciate
such a tonic.
In ord,r to destroy the grub in the
crown OF the peach troes, remove the
soil as low down as the grubs are al
work scrape off the gum that ha:
accumulated pour hot suds around
the stronger the better; repeat the
process again in June. Scatter one
half to pint of slaked lime to an or
binary sized tree. Fill the trench
thus made around the tree with fresl
earth.
Unless brewers grains are fresh
they are an unhealthy food; they viii
very soon cause the cows digestive or
gans to become diseased. and ipiurt
the quality of the milk. 1t is for thii
cause that city authorities often for
bid the use of brewers grains in tn,
production of milk. But when brew
ers' grains are fed fresh, and mike,
with fodder, they make healthy fooC
COWS.
English hay is much finer than tina
produced in the United States. Th
prevailing practice is to grow nothing
but timothy and clover. The Enghsl
hay is much finer and greener thar
that produced in the Uni ed States. a
it is cut at an early stage of growth
There are 3l,000,0O0 acres devoted t
grass in the British Isles, and tn
average crop is three fold more thai
is obtained here, and is double that c