Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-04-04
FARM AND HOME NOTES.


California sugar beet crop tests is
that there is too large a percentage
of sugar in them--too large to be true.
La Grande Chronicles; Money is
forced beyond the reach of small
holders of stocks wanted by the com
bine and they are held UP and rob
bed at the pleasure ofthe comblners.
III this country like France had sixty
dollars Ia circulation per capita these
robberies would not occur, not
would they If we had even half that
amount out among the people.
Ducks never have cholera and are
practically free from diseases.
For chicken cholera, either as a
preventive or cure, we use one
tablespoonful of sal soda to four
quarts of thick milk and set where
the fowls can always have free ac
cess to IL.
For lice on little chicks, set the
coop In clean place and sprinkle
ashes In 1t. Rub salty grease on the
breast and under the wings of th-
hen when she Is put In the coop,
AS a preventive and cure Of
cholera and roup, give for each
dozen fowls teaspoonful Of sulpher
in bran or meal, once or twice week
Coal ashes thrown about the roosts
and dust bath will keep the fowls
free from lice; are also good to absorb
ammonia and keep the hen-house
pure and free from disease.
Keep plenty Of grain and fresh
water before your chickens, and
plenty Of loose earth for them to
wallow In and they will not trouble
your garden much.
A noted Kentucky Jersey breeder
writes this on the subject of con
trolling sex of calves: "I sometimes
am led 10 think that there may be,
after all, something In the idea adj
vanced by writers that the more Wig
orous sire stamped the opposite sex
upon his progeny. My place has
always been the resort for many visi.
tors, some of them coming to buy
cattle, others for curiosity and all
old breeders know how difficult 1t is
TO sell to beginner calf sired bya-
poor, ugly bull, and what bad inn
preston of the herd such bull
makes on the uninitiated visitor, let
the bulls dairy form and his breed
ing be ever so faultless. With this
knowledge of human nature ever
before me, i have always kept my
breeding bulls In show order, and
carrying more flesh than was con
slstent with perfect vigor; whereas
the bulls / have sold over the coun-
try, and that have been 80 largely
slres of heifer calves, were allowed
plenty Of range with rougher and
scantier feed, but never allowed to
grow fat.
VIM. II. J. Geer of Cove, Or,
thinks If orchar dists would not men,
tain breeding places for pests, there
would not be so many. He says: II
orchardiste will keep their orchards
clean, the dead limbs and decayed
blemishes removed from their trees,
j believe IN fow years the fruite
pests win be non est.
The Alliance in that strongly
Republican and thoroughly Agrl-
cultural state of Kansas Is not, rs
many of its enemies claim, going
backward. There has been steady
increase since the election, nearly
5000 members having been added
since that time, the organization
now numbering over 100000 MEM
bers.
The Dallas Chronicle: 1t costs
1900 tins year to print the state
laws. The common, ordinary,
everyday, tax-paying people get no
chance TO see those laws. They
knew nothing of their existance till
one of those laws Is violated and
they are hauled up for punishment,
But they pay the $40, 900 for printing
them. This Is one Of the fool things
that makes farmers allinces.
The one thing benefited by the
present seventeenth century style Of
doing business Is the state printing
office.