The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-10-12
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AND STocKMES.


A half-bred eve, bred to a shrop-
shire ram is reported from England
dropping six well matured lambs al
one birth. Another PRODUCED four
lambs and two others triplets.
Sheep eat so many different kinds
Of plants which horses and cattle re-
fuse that the addition of sheep, by
keeping down those plants which
other stock refuse, really increases the
product OF the pasture.
The vessels carrying frozen NUT
tons from Australia are said to be tax
ing out their refrigerators to abandon
the business, while the South Ameri-
can trade is preparing for an increase
in the same line
Southdown rams are the best for
crossing on small native breeds in or
der to produce excellent mutton. The
ewes from such cross should be mated
with Oxford or Shropshire rams ii
larger size be desired.
The Indiana Farmer is authority for
The statement that the Shropshires
have grown more rapidly in popular
favor than almost any other mutton
breed of sheep, especially in the cen
tral WeSfara Stains
An English farmer, writing of feed
ing ensilage to his flock of five hun
dred sheep, saps that they did better
on 1t than on any other food, and last
year of his $50 lambs not one died,
and his ewes did better than usual.
The way TO build up the sheep In
dustry is TO weed out the hocks, 60 for
greater capacity for mutton, and in
creases in the individual, and put a
small flock on every farm, where they
will pay their way, even if wool isn't
worth a cent pound.
The points to be observed in,putling
up wool are, not 10 fold the fleece toe
tightly as to destroy its elasticity
not TO try to sell twine for wool. and
70 exclude all tags, leg wool and all
foreign matter from the interior OF
the the fleece.
The business of raising lambs for
early spring marketing is yearly as
suming greater proportions IN New
York and New England. To meet
with the greatest success il is found
important to select ewes for dams that
are large milkers, and to so feed them
as 10 keep liberal flow of milk long
continued.
There is always an uncertainty Ie-
garding the temperature for churn-
ing. While from % to 65 deg. is
usually accepted as the proper tenn
perature, the milk from some cows
produces cream that requires as high
| as 81 deg. to form butter. On e ch
dairy farm practical handling of the
milk only can determine how best to
churn for first-class butter.
! To get the cream quickly from milk
as soon as it Is drawn from the COW
+ reduce its temperature to about A.
/ deg. and keep it there, and in four OF
/ five hours all the cream viii rise. The
/ cream will be perfectly sweet, and the
skim milk will be OF very superior
quality. II the cream is to be made
INTO butter, it should be kept at q
/ temperature of about 90 deg, and
/ churned at a temperature of from 81
/ to 60 degrees.
The idea that any me hod of feed.
/ ing turnips to cows, either Just before
or just after milking, will save tbs
next mess from being favored, is q
popular mistake. Heating the nilk
viii cause the flavor of the turnip te
evaporate so that it will not affect the
butter made from it. But there art
objections to this. The butter from
milk thus treated will be soft, and the
milk, ii used as food, will have con.
stipating effect which it did not be
fore possess.
If hens are confined in somewhat
narrow limits there is a great advan
tage in having two runs to be used al
ernately through the season. Ii pos
rible these should be arranged so tha
a one-horse plow can be introduced
and the ground be plowed or dragged
over every time change in quarter
is made. A few sowings of oats
dragged in will keep the fowls bus.
scratching for the grain, and what es
capes them and grows will be wortl
even more for green food.
The competition among marke
gardeners is now so great that earl,
vegetables for outdoor planting are of
tered by them cheaper than mos
farmers can grow the few they ma,
require. Send an inquiry to any lead
ing market gardener, and The write
will be surprised to learn how cheepl
tomato, cabbage, lettuce and othe
plants are furnished to those orderipi
by the quantity. 1t is often bette
and cheaper for farmers to buy thes
than to try to grow them, with tn
poor facilities that most can CON
mand.
There are passions within you
soul that have never been unclaimed
Look out if they once slip their cables
-TdlDadge.