The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-08-10
AGRICULTURAL.
DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF FARMERs
AND SrocKMEN.
TO Km Lice and rlcks on sheer.

To XIII Lice and Ticks on sheep.
The following from the Indiana
Farmer is a most excellent method,
and worthy the attention of every
man who owns sheep. whether they
have lice. ticks or any other vermin or
not. 1t is praciced by Mr.. Boutwell,,
the largest sheep-grower in Missouri:
Take one quart of sulphur to every
gallon of salt, mix thoroughly, and
put the mixture into a trough. Let
your sheep have access TO it. Set
your trough in the pasture where
your sheep are most accustomed to
lying down, or in under shade tree,
and keep the mixture dry by making
shed out of boards. Use the mix
ture until you are confident the lice
or ticks are all killed. Any one tiat
has never used it will be surprised at
the results.
Five hundred thousand orange trees
have been set out in California and
their cultivation is extending.
The whole value of fences in the
United States may be set down at
50 000, 100000, and it costs 100000,
900 annually to keep them in repair.
By far the best potato for late spring
use is the Blue Imperial. 1t does not
sprout readily, but remains compara-
lively solid until early-planted new
potatoes are ready for use.
Now is the season when butter
taints very quickly, and none more
quickly than the choicest article. 1t
is a time for special care in manufac-
ture, and for the earliest practicable
consumption.
The wool product of California has
averaged nearly 40,000,0 900 pounds per
year since 1880, bringing 10 the State
| $6,000,00 year. This is about one
seventh of the entire wool product OF
the country.
Penuts are becoming a popular and
| profitable crop in Georgia. The pea
nut plant makes forage and rich and
| nutritious hay, and f25 bushels to a
single acre will raise and fatten many
pounds of bacon.
So long as the milk is warmer than
the surrounding atmosphere it is
| throwing off vapor and is thereby pur-
| ified. 1t will not then absorb odors
but the germs of fungi and other mi
croscopic life may fall into it and do il
injury.
0dors in the stable indicate the ali
therein is impure. Use of absorbents
is very import mt in summer. Once 8
week the stable should be sprinkled
with solution made of one pound o
copperas in two gallons of soft water
A chnrn should be scalded with
boiling water, made alkaline with
washing soda. Every uticle of mill
and cream should be removed. Aftel
being well washed the churn should
be rinsed again by using boiling
water.
IL the fruit is likely to be at al
crowded, the removal of third o.
even of half of il will often result il
much larger and finer crop than j
all had been allowed to remain, anC
the pecuniary returns will be CORES
pondingly better.
1t is generally acknowledged tha
winter diirying pays best, and 70
this reason farmers should give NOR,
attention to this part of the business
To attempt this next winter suitabl,
! feed must be raised this summer, ant
good warm stabling provided.
/ Corn and potatoes may often b
; top-dressed 10 advantage after plant
: ing, providing fine manure is used
? The cultivation of these crops durin;
: the season will mix the manure Will
the soil much more perfectly than i
could be if plowed under.
, The sour currants are sure to b
plagued with the currant worm Lool
out for them. A little hellebor
t busted on the leaves is an efficien
, protection. The worm never gets
I second taste Of this insect destroyer
i Apply it early in the morning, Will
dew is on the leaves of the bushes.
1t is not desirable to pasture COW
! in woodlands, especially in earl,
: spring. The grass grown under tn
!, shade OF less nutritious, and the AMI
, mails are apt to find many wild plants
: the favor of which spoils the milk 70
any use. This is especially true il
woods where wild garlic abounds.
Sprouts of suckers IN apple OF
| chards should be promptly removed
J, They frequently start in great mum
! bers where the pruning has beei
severe, and they should be pinched OF
/ as soon as they appear. Remove,
i when in leaf, suckers or sprouts @
/ this character are less liable to hav
successors.
One advantage In keeping the sol
loose is that when a shower comes, III
J, matter how hard, the wIter does no
: run off, but goes down into the sol
whereas, if the surface OF the soil b
hard, some of the water will run OF
/. during heavy shower. Hence, cuI
j, tivation not only protects the plant
! during dry season, but enables tn
. soil to absorb larger proportion Q
] water when rain falls.
When grass has stood to long an,
is overripe before cutting, it looks s.
dry that it seems to need but littl
curing before putting into the barn
yet late-cut hay is as frequently dam
t aged in the NOW by not being well
. cured as il that which is cut before j
! has bloomed out. 1t is most fire
/, quent!y smoky" To prevent this
: should be cut when there IS no dew o
. in upon it, aud put into heaps, il
;. which it should stand twenty-fou
t hours or longer, that the JUICE whicl
2 is in the stalk may sweat out. Thel
. give it an hour or so Of sun and ail
V and it will be found to be more thol