The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-02-01
AGRICULTURAL.
A PLAN FOR THE RECLAMATION OF
PEAR AND PEACH TREES.
The Eject of Too Much Pepper in the
Fowls Food-BisuiphIde of Car
bon as an Antiseptic-A
Model Barn-yard.

erately cold day, y It'll n driving rain
storm, causes more illness 10 stock
than severe cold on dry, clear day
The fiower-bed for the next year
may be made very rich by scattering
the sweepings of the poultry-house
over it. Soapsuds may also be well
utilized by throwing them ON the
flower beds.
Ii the bulbs OF certain flowers start
to sprout while in the cellar i, indi-
Gates that they are kept too warm.
They should keep cool enough to re-
main in = dormant condition until
spring Sproutlng Injuries them.
The object of the farmer in feeding
animals through the winter should be
for profit. Feeding stock to gain
profit from is nice point, and re-
qnires study aud attention 1t is not
enough 10 feed sufficient quantity,
hut the feel must be of such a nature
as is best for accomplishing the OBJ
ject of feeding.
Bisulphide of carbon is one of the
best and che ,pest antiseptics and iu-
sscticides. Already more than 5000
0OO pounds OF it are used annually to
check the ravages of phyloxera, the
>courge of European vineyards. BIZ
sulphlde of cIrbon has an extremely
offensive odor, and is highly infian-
mable and explosive
Feeding pepper often to fowls as
regular appetizer is a bad practice
Although very little will do no harm,
yet the continued use of the condi-
ment is liable TO cause liver complaint
Warm feed tends 10 have the same
stimulating effect without possessing
the injurious qualities OF the cayenne
The only way to make roosts is TO
make them on a movable frame, that
may be taken out of doors, there to
be scalded with boiling water in which
is little cru ie carbulie acid. Make
the roosts all on a level and not more
than two feet high. thereby prevent
ing much quarreling and the humble
foot.
The kind of feeding that keeps lot
OF pigs or stockers from three to six
months without grain is total loss
OF grain; also, loss of time in the
maturing of the animals. That is
saiftless feeding that carries lot OF
hogs through winter on one class OF
feed. The need OF variety brings them
to the boneyard when grass is almost
in sight.
A farmer with considerable exper-
ience who has sliced clover for two
years, says il it should be left to wilt
oa the ground for two hours after cut
ting, aud esch days filling OF the silo
Re lowed to heat before the fresh
cover is added, and the sides, not the
center, kept thoroughly tramped, the
clover will come out moist and green,
and the cattle will relish it as
thoroughly as summer pasture.
To make pullets trot along toward
maturity with wonderful accelerated
pace, give them every morning
warm feed of bran and shorts and
ground oats mixed up with milk, or
meat stock in which is little salt A
noon give a feed of meat, and at nigh
all the wheat they will eat and little
left to scratch for the next day. In adj
dition to this provide green food,
crushed bones and pure water, and
give esch day one heavy feed of brok-
en- dishes; they will be eaten with
avidity.
Freezing of the food and water will
be one of the difficulties this winter
as usual. The troughs become ice
hound and the soft food freezes rap
idly when the weather Is severe. Iu
such cases it is best TO water the ock
At intervals rather than to keep water
in the troughs. If you have no az
rangement for warming water, try the
plan of u Western farmer, who heats
stones and drops one in the trough
when the water is pumped in. 1t is
netter, however, to warm the water,
using a boiler or steam-pipe, and if
there is a large number of animals il
will pay to do SO.
A person who has some old pear
trees that have about run out, asks
advice of Popular Gardening and re-
ceives the following: Try the plan Of
digging a shallow trench, cay one foot
deep, six to eight feet away from the
body of the tree, and throwing into
his liberal supply of soda, leaf mold,
ashes, lime and manure and covering
with earth, and then cut away all dead
limbs and give the body and limbs
good coat of whitewash. We have
seen old peach trees renewed beyond
belief by this process.
In some cases a large barnyard
might we'll be divided into twos or
more smaller ones for different classe,
of live stock. A fruitful source of loss
is the keeping of weak animals with
vigorous ones; young with old;
horses with cattle, sheep and hogs.
By letting one set of animals out OF
stables or pens at one time and another,
it may be possible to get along with
single yard, yet the best plan, when
much stock is kept, is to have several
yards.
Why more mon do not make the
dairy pay is because they refuse to be-
lieve that there is any study or ipves.
tigation needed in regard to the care,
treatment and management of the
dairy. If they chance on a success
they call it luck, and if they fail they
never investigate the matter to see
wherein they fail, so as to steer clear
of repetition.
Potatoes are drug in the market
at Colfax, Wis, owing to the elor-
nous crop raised in that section. The
best price that can be realized is ten
cents bushel.
AS about four times as many BUSH
els of sweet potatoes can be raised TN