The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-20
AGRloUL LTuRAL.
Devoted to the Interests of Farmers
and Stockmen
TO Burn Caterpillar Nests.

probably multiply Tor next year. Prof.
Riley, of the department of agricul
ture, says: Take piece of soft brick
known as salmon brick, and trim it to
an egg shape; then take two flexible
wires, cross them over the brick, wrap
them around il, and twist the ends to-
gether. Then attach il by the wires
to 6 long stick, and soak the brick in
coal oil light it with a match and
you are armed for the work. Asbestos
| may be used 10 advantage, and littl,
thorough work early enough III the
season will obviate the necessity OF
more expensive remedies at later
time. The soaking in the oil may be
repeated as often as required to main
tain the II me.
Peach trees that have been annu
ally and heavily banked with wood
ashes TO keep ont the borers have been
more free from yellows than those not
so protected.
| Farmers institutes have become an
institution in Wisconsin. Eighty-two
were held last year in forty-tive
counties, and 279 practical topics We're
discussed. More than 100 lecturers
and speci tlists impaired instruction,
and the State appropriated $4,000 70
help the farmers cause along.
Severely cutting back the dead wood
on the peach trees will start them in
to new life. II the tree be dead at the
top, and the wood near the trunk
green, the new buds will soon give a
new top. BY keeping all the injured
old wood cut away the tree will do
service much longer than is usually
the case with peach trees.
Both meadows and pastures re
4 quire some looking after in the spring.
If there be bare or weedy places throw
on little seed. III the pasture had
been seeded last spring and the
"catch" was not good it would be a
g cd plan to again go over the whole,
giving seed as would seem to be
needed.
The Blenheim pippin, is one of the
finest apples III the world. Ii is good
rot FOR one locality alone, but it's con
stilutiunal vigor enables it to fruit
|, successfully In every diverse climates
! and soils. The apples are perfect il
form, colorIng and size, and Of fine
flavor.
After COW has dropped her calf
/, her system il always more or less few
erish and the milk corr, spondingly
, unhealthful. Il is strongly laxative
and therefore exactly fitted 10 the re
quirements of the young calf, fu
which nature designed it. Bat it i
g not safe to feed it to older stock, sx
D cept with great caution. 1t will cause
g abortion in cows heavy with pigs
! though these are the ones tn Il mex
( perienced farmers might think frs
of favoring with it.
THAT farm scene you seem to b.
sneering At, sir" said the iudignan
!, artist, is valued at $500 IL is gener
. ally considered a fine painting. ALLOW
me to ask you il you are familiar witt
works OF art?" "Not very familiar,
replied the agriculturist. who wa
n looking through the studio with hi
3 wife, "but | know something about tn
o works of nature, young man, an,
2 when you make COW that gets ul
from the ground by putting out he
i forefeet first, you are doing something
l that nature never did.
Old straw stacks, eaten fourth or
third of the way under, are not infre
quent sights in barnyards at this sea
u SON of the year. Later on when tn
!, stock is taking refuge from a storm
under the ledges of these traps,
: strong wind will topple them over, an
sometimes enough stock will be kile
Ii or crippled To knock the profits out {
farming for whole year. Aside fror
u the danger of injury to stock, ther
II are goo reasons why these unsightl
q Ohle, Is should be torn down Tn
I straw which composes them will nc
Is be fit for feed next winter. The bes
thing that can be done with it is {
.e turn it into manure as non as poss
ii BILE. This can best and most cffac
e ually be done by tearing them dowI
Il and scattering the straw thickly owe
4 the ground.
N In relation to the value of salt i
le the dairy the correspondent OF an e,
change says: A Wisconsin dairyma
= lately told me he milked seventee
. cows the past sc son, and early in tn
- summer ran ont of salt, and havin
70 re ID in an agricultural paper that COW
=. do just as we'll without salt he ne,
r. lected TO get another barrel. TIL
. drouth came, the milk-f Nv dropped I
about 2o0 pounds of milk day, whic
gave no profit, nor did it increase a
ter the pastures were freshened
- rains. He bought carload of mil
- stuff and began feeding, but still r
y ceived only 900 pounds OF milk da
u and several of the COWS would hold u
~ their milk once or twice week. The
9 he began to salt regularly every da
and the increase was steady until O
ec the same feed they were producin
at $50 pounds of milk day, and il
- stead of beingkept at a loss, yieldt
ne a fair profit
ur
n A lady living in Rappahannoc
H. County, Va, had twelve stands of bee
, e which were very valuable until di
m tillerX WAS started in the neioh horhoos