The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-07-06
AGRlCuL LTURAL-.
Devoted TO the Interests Of Farmers
and Stcckmen.

a COW ls mili. GU can't give |
poor hay and poor silage and justly
expect her 10 produce good milk and
butter.
All low and wet places should be
drained A few rods of drain tile will
prevent slush and mud around the
house.
In no way can farmer with less
trouble enrich poor field with scanty
herbage than by feeding sheep on II,
So affirms an English sheep farmer
II solution of London purple is
used for spraying orchard trees, you
may know il has been applied too
strong If yellow blotches appear on
the leaves later, the whole tree turns
yellow and assumes an autumnal ap
pearance.
The winds in the spring shake the
| young trees and thereby damage them
| to certain extent, but this can be
partially avoided by cutting back the
young trees as much as possible be-
fore putting them in. The peach
tree will thrive better il cut back and
also become more "stocky."
Watermelon hills may be prepared.
Lay off the rows ten feet apart each
way, and at each intersection dig a
hole two feet deep. At the bottom
place few chips, than manure
Next make hill three feet square,
and work plenty of manure into the
soil.
Plant beet. carrot and parsnip seed
early, so as not only to get abe ,d of
the grass but to give plenty of time
for growth. The most important mat
ter with such crops is To have a per
lectly fine, rich, clean seed-hed, and to
use plenty of seed. The seed is slow
in terminating, and often fail TO sprout
at all.
A dairy expert suggests that the
proper way to dry off a COW rs tho end
of her milking season approaches il
not 10 gradually cease milking her
but TO keep ON milking the COW just
as you had heen, but stop her food
not starve her down, but give her the
kind Of food that makes more flesh
than milk and give her only little oI
, it, just enough to keep her in good
condition.
T. NJ. Winslow, OF the Ayrshire
Breeders Association, being a=keC
what is the average yield of Ayrshir
cows, writes that he has collected
about 1000 records for year yield
aud he fluids that for cows and heiierl
the general Is 6,525 pounds of mill
: for the year, and of manure cow
, 1000, for selection of 10 cows h,
obtained an average Of 1920 pounds
, and all OF this average he believes wa
81 lnH -, ~
common TO all careful dairymen an,
and may be considered an average o
Ayreshire a. a breed at this time.
Sprouts which start from the limb
I of apple trees after saving off shoul,
2 be pulled Off during he months G
!, July aud August, a. tnen the wound
heal over more quickly than at an,
other time Il the year, while II the
!, are left "a until the following sprin
and zen taken of more new sprout
will put out TO take their place. Til
same with trimming trees, June bein
the best time for the work and Marc
/ the worst, as then the wounds blee
4 freely and the bark below become
thereby more or less disfgured an
e subject 10 rot.
c That there il such disease OF th
e peach tree as yellows is urfortunatel
l. too well attested. Still, much ths
q passes for yellows II due to othe
e causes-poverty of soil and winte
II killing of the previous years growtl
In any kind of tree the whitening q
tying out of branches will in time a
J feet is vitsli y. The apple is grea
:, deal harder and stronger tree tina
Asl.. k,,f Al. a
:. limb il, il rot speedily rem we'd, 500
:, followed by others until the tree die
4 In many cases other causes OF peac
: trees dying are ascribed to yellows
= not infr, quently the cause will /
found near the root in an attack frol
the borer.
In two days lawns may often I
l. greatly improved, by giving a dense
Df growth of grass, and by enriching th
is soil with top-drassing. For enrichin
y use fine compost or pulverized ol
y, manure, and if the soil is known TO |
y of such character As to be strongl
e benefited by superphosphate or 9th,
& special fertilizer, mix them with I'll
II manure. First, and early in sprin
is loosen the soil with steel rake {
a. sharp, fine harrow then spread evenl
the top-dressing, and rake it tho
Q oughly: then SOW grass seed heavil
4 and lightly rake it in. A roller passe
q over it will press the earth and seed
X contact and promote free growth. Th
,e treatment is well adapted to lawI
" which have become thin of grass, an
n the narrowing or raking should be G
~ ten enough repeated to give the su
- face fac pulverizltion.
n 1t is stated that Mr. j. C. Jones, u
s. noted buffalo breeder, of Kansas, ]
to Gently made sale of live stock whiC
n. is out of the usual run of such tran
fers. He sold to Mr.. Austin Corbi
of New York, whose country res
,, dence is near Babylon, L. l., six hea
= of buffaloes-three bulls and thr,
heifers. These are part of Mr.. Jone
: herd of tame buffdloes and were ca
II Lured by him as calves in the India
Nation and Texas. They are destint
m for Mr.. Corbin's farm on Long I>lan
!" where number OF native America
:. wild animals are to be gathered
that gentleman. The price paid f
- these butfaloes has not transpired, bl
that the figure was high may be i
~ ferred from the fact that on more tbs
!, one occasion Mr.. Jones has receive
$500 head for members of his her
-Fogg-The worst break ever mao
=, was a: wedding a short time ap
90 Whe:E congratulated the couple l WI
rather embarrassed and | wished the