The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1888-03-16
AGRlCuL LTuRAL-.
Devoted 10 the Interests Of Farmers
and stockmen
yaine of straw,

Tune mas CptllN Nneu ever AiidAt stiAhAsA
bale his straw as soon as threshing Is
over, and what he cannot use ship TO
Portland and sell for seventy five cents |
per ewt. or whatever il will bring. He |
should have his own feed mill, or there
should be one owned in every neigh.
bothood, and farmers should thus CO
operate to be able to grind their own
meal"
Now, every man should have tank
or boiler for steaming stock feed. The
cut straw should be put in the boiler
and meal or chop mixed With It, and
when steamed or cooked it should be
fed to stock. This feed will keep cat
tie gaining and make them fat enough
for beef.
Any farmer can have cattle worth
raising and fattening, aud should uti.
lize his straw for that purpose. Ills
oats, wheat, barley or corn can be
ground into meal or chop, and by
mixing with straw and cooking aud
steaming you can make beef or feed
milk cows 10 advantage. When our
farmers get this far ahead there will
be no complaint made by the grange
that agriculture does not pay four
per cent. interest on the investment.
OF course il does not pay whore men
use no Judgment or are too lazy to
work, but here in the Pacific North
west, the best country TO farm that is
known, any good farmer should earn
his living and clear ten per cent. per
annum upon the value of the farm
and tools and the stock on the place
or on all the capital he has invested.
The farmer who burns his straw
sins against knowledge and deserves
no sympathy Last summer, stand
ing on hill in sight of the state capi
tol, the writer saw columns OF smoke
by day and fire by nigh, going up
towards heaven to bear witness against
Oregon farmers. IL is criminal and
inexcusable The time is come when
all this waste should stop, and straw
become a means of income. To farm
properly men should make all things
around them that can be utilized a
source of income.
A man with forty acre farm well
titled can raise grain, roots, fruits aud
vegetables; can fatten sheep, pork and
/ beef and sell wool can sell live stock
and poultry; make butter ami sell
eggs and honey, and put TO shame
the showing of many farmers, so
called, who now pretend to cultivate
whole section of land-Rr Rrtldnd Ore
goaipa.
This is generally month of abund-
ant rain on the Pacific Coast. See
that the poultry yards are well drained
and that all depressions where muddy,
filthy water may collect are filled up.
As a rule short-legged fowls will
fatten more rapidly than those swell
up ON their pins" This Is important
TO the broiler raiser, as his object is To
get nice plump chick as soon as
possible.
A good supply of dry earth and fine
gravel will be found great conven-
ience during the winter months The
gravel supply should not be neglected
until the creeks arc running full of
water, and it Is impossible 10 get it.
A damp roosting place is an abomi
nation and yet fowls prefer wet
Ioost free from lice to dry one COW
cred with vermin, which sap their
blood and strength. This will explain
why some peoples chickens prefer to
roost In trees.
If eggs are the maia desideratum in
keeping fowls, avoid short-.eggt q fowls
OF any breed. They rarely lay well
the second year on account of laying
on too much fat, while fowl with
good length of leg will ordinarily lay
well until three years of age.
Almost the entire crop of hemp
grown in the United States is raised in
Kentucky The total is ABOUT H.
600, 600 pounds. But the annual pro
duet OF the manufacturers OF cordage
in the United States is ten tim, As
& eat, or 10000 600 pounds.
The best roots for horses in winter
/ is the carrot. Give two or three messes
a week, though when they are plenty
feed some every day with oats or other
grain, the ration of which may be pro-
portionately diminished.
When scalding hogs, if the water be
too hot the hair viii not come off as
| readily as If the temperature be lower
/ Boiling wafer discolors the skin. A
temperature of I009 is warm enough
for a young hog, but there are some
hogs that require as high as 1S0S. A
slab or smooth surface permits of the
work being done in cleaner manner
than when a rough bench or table il
used.
Some years ago benevolent-minde
people denounced the dehorning o
cattle as cruel practice, only worthy
of barbarians. Lately the stock jour
mails of the country have asserted The
contrary, and cite proof that the op
Grafton of cutting off the horns of 1
mich cow is not a painful or any way
dangerous act, as the flow of milk doe
not lessen and the relish for food doe
not weaken. These assertions ar,
borne out by the actual experienc,
narrated in the Seattle st-Intelligen
: ceT, where ii asserts that at the Puy
allup creamery they have cut off tn,
horns from sixty-eight head of stool
within two weeks, many of them being
milch COWS. The operation is simpl,
to cut off the horns as close to tn,
head as possible. The result has beer
that more than twice the number o
cattle can be put in the same inclos
ure and the vicious ones have no wa,
to impose on the quiet ones. That j
the chief reason for so doing, and tina
is enough of itself to justify dehorning
1t would seem that cattle withou
horns were to be the rule hereafter.
/ William Ulysses Scott, a seventeen
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