The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1889-01-11
THE AGRIOULTURALIsT
Newsy Notes Concerning the Farm = d
OF Especial Il terest TO tie Pa
cinc Coast Husbandman.


ter where the cows are turned out 10
pasture. Clean, pure water is indis
pensable 10 the milch COW.
Never wait for rain when you hays
a crop under cultivation. Keep righ
ON cultivaling and you will be sur
prised TO find how your crop will with
stand the drought.
Many farmers in western New York
gave up the wool business as unprol
table long ago, but still keep sheep,
and say that keeping the mutton
breeds is one OF the best paying
branches OF farming.
Tramping upon the hay in barn
often causes horses to refuse il. To
pass from the barn-yard into the barn
and walk over the hay leaves odors
which are quickly recognized by the
animals when such hay is fed TO them
Chopped clever-hay scllded is a
cheap and excellent food for hogs, and
they will thrive on il while growing,
with but little grain. Bulky food is
necessary for the distention Of the
stomach, and there is nothing SO nu
tricious for that purpose az the scalded
clover.
The price of onions is lower this
year than for some time past. This is
due to large increase OF area planted
throughout the east, and to an un-
usually large crop; the insects and
diseases that usually attack the onion
having been far less prevalent this
year than usual.
After winter grain is sown there il
yet time TO remedy defects OF soil aud
exposure. If there is knoll in the
field it is probably the poorest part OF
the lot, and one or more loads of ma
nure distributed over il will have a
wonderful effect, not alone upon the
grain crop, but ON the grass seeding
Good cider vinegar is always sala-
BILE, and it pays to convert the surplus
apples into cider for the purpose OF
making vinegar. The artificial vine
gar cannot be used for choice pickles
and other purposes for which coed
cider vinegar only is adapted, and does
not, therefore, largely compete with it.
Don't try to crowd so hens into
poultry house suitable for only %, as
eggs. proportionately unless they have
perfect accommodations. As ruls
small fiocks give a larger profit from
the same outlay than when numbers
are kept that cannot be properly pro
yided for.
Parsnips, satisfy and horserAdish
can remain in the rows where grown,
as freezing does not injure them. III
they are covered with litter, however,
il will prevent sudden thawing around
them in the spring. IL is too much
warmth that does injury in winter
to such crops, rather than cold.
few warm days in winter may be more
detrimental than beneficial.
The first signs OF disease in flock
should prompt the herdsmen % at
once remove all animals not affected
TO a new, clean location. 1t is better
to kill an animal that is suspected of
having a contagious disease than TO
attempt cure. Delay is dangerous.
Precaution IN the beginning is better
shan any work that can be done in at
tempting to effect cure after the die
ease secures a hold.
Most farmers who give no particu-
lar attention to horses usually drive
with loose rein. This Is well enough
with the cold family horse" in whom
you have pe.fect confidence. 1t is
never safe, however, with young and
spirited horse. Never drive such an
animal with SO loose a rein that you
cannot instantly command the. situa-
| ton whatever bapDens
Pork made from a considerable por-
ton of apple diet is peculiarly sweet
in flavor. Hogs will fatten more rap
idly on sweet apples than sour, if ap-
Piles are principally depended upon !;
but if grain is fed with apples the
sour will do even better than the
sweet, as the acid " i'll assist in the di-
gestion of the grain. 1t would be bet
ter to feed corn for few weeks before
killing, to harden the pork.
| In California turkeys are raised in
hocks numbering several thousand.
They are placed in charge of a herder,
who drives them as he would flock
of sheep. They range over miles of
territory in day, and live almost en-
tirely by foraging. When the grain
is cut and harvested the turkeys are
turned into the immense wheat and
barley fields and the birds do the
cleaning and become fat and ready
for market at very little cost.
One article of food cannot supply
all the necessary sustenance, because
it may lack some of the essential ele-
ments and is sure to have some in in
sufficient quantity. A normal appe-
tite, that sure guide to the wants of
nature, Graves variety of foods. 1t
is not necessary to make the ration
costly; little thought will provide a
variety Ia the ration and without
greater cost. As to regularity in feed
ing, it has been amply demonstrated
that animals do not thrive so well
when fed irregularly as when they get
their food at certain seasons.
A practical dairyman gives the fol-
lowing reasons why he was more sue
cessful with his COWS than his neigh.
bors were: "I'll tell you," said he, cit
all depends where a man looks when
he feeds his cows. My neighbors all
look at the feed; consequently, they
easily learn to scramp the cow all they