The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1890-06-20
FARM NOTES.


ture.
Every animal must speak for itself.
and only its pedigree can speak for It's
offspring.
The coming farmer viii trust less to
his eyes and more to foot-rtiles aud
pouhd-weights.
The value OF pedigree is not in its
vouching for ancestry. but in its vouch-
Ing for offspring.
Rust and rot do more for the implc-
ment maker in winter than wear and
tear do in summer.
The Bohemian oats swindle has gone
East 10 grow up with the country. It's
play ed out in the West.
The secrets OF large yields always
and everywhere are rich soil. good
seed, and thorough tillage.
The farmer who makes his own pork
and beef puts another bond on health
and pays himself for so doing.
White clover Is said to be disappear
ing in some of the Eastern States, but
II Is more than holding its own in the
West.
Hoard estimates the annual consump-
tion of butter in this country to be l.
600, ,O00. OO0 pounds-2. 739 726 pounds
per day.
The Hessian fly is said to have been
introduced into England in the straw
In packing cases. It's a stand of
against the English sparrow
In making men out of boys and wo-
men out of girls. consider that the
character ofthe material has something
to do with how TO cut to the best adj
vantage.
A good crop of both corn and weeds
cannot be grown on the same ground
at the same time, any more than two
railway trains can pass each other on
the same track.
Running dairy without a ther-
mometer is rs inconyenient as running
a household without timepiece. The
good workman must have good imple-
ments to produce the best results.
Professor Wolf. of Germany. has
demonstrated bv careful experiments
that clover obtains its nitrogen from
the atmosphere: and that, ia fact all
plants and the soil obtain their nitro
gen from that inexhaustible source of
supply.
Professor Wiley regards sorghum
seed as second in food value to wheat
aud superior 10 corn aud oats. IL Is
being ground into flour for breakfast
pancakes. in which form it beats buck
wheat out of sight.
A Western New York hortieulturist
produced "A vigorous growth OF Dela-
ware grape vines and a large amount
of superior fruit by grating the Della
ware on Concord roots. The grafting
was done on one year old roots.
A healthy food for growing pigs may
be made of boiled potatoes. with corn
meal and bran added. in proportion oi
tive pounds meal and ten pounds bran
TO a bIsiiel of potatoes. The latter
should be boiled II consistency of tai:
paste.
The estimated cost of hauling 100
bushels of grain in a wa ION over ortlin
AIRY country roads IS 90 cents a mile.
This fact illustrates the necessity and
money value OF good roads. The diff
ference in cost OF hauling is immensely
in favor of the good road.
1t is not advisable 10 spread coars,
stable manure, full of bedding. OF
mowing-land in winter or any othel
time OF year. Such manure as that i
: suitable only for plow-land. Top-tlress
ing for meadows should always be il
iine, well-rotted condition. and b,
spread evenly-not left in heaps
J The Northwest says that any com
munity which raises good draft horse.
will be found prosperous and progres
sive. When a half dozen or ten goot
teams are put upon the market and
bring into the neighborhood from 3d.
600 TO - 600. il helps everybody - Il
and drives the wolf from many door
ID. w Kurtz. in the Colorado Farm
er, computes that there is q loss o
500. 600 600 per annum in the United
States, caused by the horns of cattle
in the death aud damage of cattle
horses. sheep. and swine, and the los:
of food IL takes to feed the horned il
excess of what ii takes to feed the
hornless animals. Besides this. there
is an average of 200 human beings pei
annum killed directly by maddenet
horned animals.
There is possibility that careless
readers seeing so much in the paper
, about abandoned farms Just now, vii
think that some sudden depression o.
disaster has oyertaken agriculture
, This is not so. The abandonment of thes,
farms has been going on, in some cases
; for half century. The general break
, ing out of so much newspaper tall
3 does not imply that the causes are re
I cent. Agriculture of 1SS9-90 is no
!, necessarily under a cloud because O
|. farms that were abandoned anywher
!. from ten to fifty years ago.-N &
4 Farmer
Z Professor Ladd, of the New York Rx
pertinent Station. says: ''One half o
the money now expended for CONNER
cial fertilizers is wasted. from prope
lack of knowledge as to their use ant
the needs of ones soil. With the ton
of nitrogen everywhere about us. con
stituting four-fifths of all the air.
! seems there should be no need of puI
chasing this most expensive of all tn
: fertilizing constituents required i
plant growth, and l believe the tim
will come when by a proper system Q
+, crop rotation and cultivation we sha
: be able to draw our needed nitroge
, from natures bountiful supply
a The low price of beef and dairy pre-
$ ducts is causing more attention TO b
paid to sheep, which in consequence
are growing scarcer. There is auothe
: reason in the great amount of labor
:. herd of COWS make. whether their mil
n be sold direct. or made into butter o
I cheese. The old English rule was tina
a the keep of eight sheep equaled that c
= one COW. Sheep are. however. NOR
!. delicate feeders, and will not thrive o
r coarse stalks as we'll as cows viii
h They are also close feeders in summer
r and on old pastures live where a her
|. of cows would starve. On the Othe
q hand. sheep in winter will not eat til
S butts of cornstalks as closely as wi