The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-07-12
To KEEP CREAM SWEET.


A novel plan practiced at Mr.. Vests
to keep cream sweet four or five days is
to fasten the vessel containing it on the
top of the water fifteen to twenty feet
down in well adjoining the dairy
buildings.
Mr. ODER, a newcomer to the Plains,
and from the lower Nehalem settle
ment, has purchased a part of the old
Calender donation claim. With fifteen
choice dairy cows he is making fine
start.
j. W. Gearhart has sold most of his
dairy stock, retaining, however ten
choice cows. He has just purchased
some red polled cattle of Mr.. Cogswell,
OF Chehalis, as mentioned IN The Pact
nc Farmer of June 81.
MIR. Eberman, '43 immigrant, yet
living in rugged health, also keeps a
small but paying dairy on the banks of
OHanna creek. Mr.. E., with one or two
| others, brought mill irons across the
plains in 1913, and afterward put up a
mill at the falls of creek two or three
miles below WestpOrt, now long dis
used.
MIR. c. Bradbury's dairy herd of fifteen
cows is headed by grade HolStein bull
OF stock from J. B. Knapp's herd. On
lnlS place are some of the best bottom
lands to be found anywhere, and will
prove wonderfully productive when
tully cleared and improved. A band of
twenty goats assist materially in clear
ing the land. Their services are so
valuable in this respect that Mr.. Brad
Dury wishes to buy as many more, and
any one having them to sell can address
MIR: B., at Seaside.
| MIR. Beerman, a pioneer of 81, and
holding donation claim on the Nekan-
ikum for thirty years, also keeps small
dairy.
POULTRY YARDS.
One of the finest, and, we think, the
largest poultry yard in Oregon, is To-
Gated near Seaside and owned by Mr.. S.
X. Stanley and wife. About six years
ago. MIR. Stanley began in the poultry
business with dozen or two chickens.
In two or three years the number had
increased to 1900. At present the fowls
in the yard number 2l0O, of which about
lOo are young chicks, with many more
to follow. To raise and care for so
many birds requires constant attention
to get the best results. The birds are
kept in three separate lots in so many
ranges of several acres each. In addi-
ton to grass on their ranges, which
they keep closely cropped, the fowls are
leu each morning one and One-half
sacks of middlings and one half sack of
chopped barley; and in the evening
they are fed one sack of whole wheat.
The morning feed is mixed and moist
ened with water before given to the
birds. At this time of the year they get
no vegetables, but plenty of clover and
other grasses in their ranges. When
the grass fails late in the fall and win
ter, vegetables are given them, consist
ing of a mixture of rutabagas and car
rotS, thirty bushels of which are cooked
together in large iron tank. This
vegetable mixture lasts about one week {;
with it is fed IN nearly equal proper
tions mixture of equal parts of chopped
barley and middlings. Middlings alone
make too fine feed, liable to cake in
the crop of the fowls, and should always
be fed with something rougher Cooked
chopped barley is excellent for the pur-
pose. The fowls are fed about bushel
and a half of cracklings every third
day, giving rather more in the winter
than in summer. At all seasons of the
year, except in winter, the incoming tide
on both sides of the poultry yards brings
in shrimps and abundance of water in