Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-09-21
FARM AND GARDEN,
Do Not Depend on the Stock to
Keep Down the Weeds.
TINE is MONEY TO THE FARMER,
Good Fowls for Laying-0regOn and
Washington Sheep Some
Short ROws-Etc.

A large dry-goods box made tight on
top answers as well as house for ban
tams.
Provide shade and plenty of fresh wa.
ter for fowls during the extremely hot
weather.
Collect eggs every day, for they soon
spoil if left in the nest during hot wealth.
er. Put them in cool place.
The best thing you can do to insure
success with your young stock is to fur
nish every head of it with a good sire.
This advice is not so much like putting
the cart before the horse as it may seem
at first.
In the care of our domestic animals
economy and humanity are synonymous
terms. Every brutal act, every harsh
word even and every lack OF proper care
will take something away from the profit
account.
Do not depend on the stock to keen
down the weeds. 1t is true that they
may do something toward it, especially
if you have sheep. But this is the time
of the year when weeds go to seed, and
80 do most damage, and you should keep
your eye on them.
Cattle-growing cannot be followed in
any haphazard way and be made profit
able. There must be definite purpose
in your plans, and breeding and feeding
must be such as will directly minister to
that end. Anything short of this is
pretty sure to bring disaster.
Time II money to the farmer if it is to
any man under the sun. Has it ever
occurred IN you that fast-walkinc team
would save you lots of it? In every op-
Grafton of the farm you would find them
of benefit, and when you go to town
with load of grain they would save you
SO much time that it would be equivalent
to better price for your wheat.
An economical method for handling
part of the corn crop at least is to crib
it with the husk on. Then run ear and
husk through a cutting machine, and
feed altogether. The corn must lie thor
oughly dried before it is cribbed. The
husk will be eaten better in this manner
than in any other, and supplies the bulk
that is always needed when much corn
is fed.
When dressing broilers see that the
skin is not torn. If this happens, sew
1T together neatly and press in place with
the fingers. Pick off all the little pin
feathers and drop the carcasses in ice
water in order to remove the animal
heat. Then hang in cool place to drain,
wipe dry with clean towel and pack in
a barrel or box with alternate layers of
ice, and be sure to ship them at once.
If you give any of the stock especial
care through the winter, it should GER
tainly be the breeding animals. We
know that good farmer will say that
he treats all his stock alike, doing the
very best he can for all. But perhaps
certain quarters are more comfortable
. than others. Then put the breeding
stock there, for on their comfort and
thrift depends much of the value of the
progeny.
. Sufficient variety is most important
ltem toward maintaining a good appe-
tlte and good health. A man or an ami.
mail Will tire OF any one food when COM
pelled to live on it exclusively for any
length of time. Never get the idea that
1t is expensive to feed varied ration.
Tor on the contrary it is the most eco
nomlcal thing that you can do. 1t will
bring about the most rapid gain at the
!, least expense.
GOOD FOWLS FOR LAYING,
noted writer on fowls saws. "For
laying hens select large, strong, healthy
birds of the Leghorn varieties. with
large, square bodies, without regard to
hne points, such as pure white, fiat ear
!obes, or very yellow legs, or combs with
Just hve points, or plumage that is per
1ectiy white In the white variety, or
wltnout white speck in the brown. 1t
Is not that these points are anv detri-
ment to the health and vigor of the
Dlrds, but that constitution has been
TOO often sacrificed to them, which often
results IN a strain Of enfeebled though
handsome fowls. The Leghorns are ac-
cllmated American breeds, which origi
mated from birds brought from the Med
lterranean, and they have been inn
proved In this country by circumstances
that have given them pre-eminent no.
sition for the farmer, when birds such
as are above recommended are selected,
other breeds or crosses from them are
much better than the Leghorns or any
OF the smaller breeds. Chickens that
are the result of Dorking cock and
and Brahma hens are large and mature
much earlier than the other. Moreover.
Ihey are hardy, fieshy, tender and fine
navored' Houdans in place of Dorkings
are also good to cross on Brahmas or to
Dreed with the aforementioned cross. as
they Keep up size and quality. Plymouth
Rocks are also a good table fowl, and are
good to cross with the above"
OREGON AND WASHINGTON SHEEP.
An Oregon correspondent writes:
sheep-raising on the ranges of Oregon
ana Washington is an industry of con-
siderable magnitude. There are. it is
SAD, 2,OoO,OOO sheep in Oregon alone.
ana Eastern Washington ranges are
heavy producers. In the latter portion
oi May each year great droves, reaching
soout loOO0O, are started from these two
states Tor Montana and Nebraska, the
largest and finest being shipped from the
former State to Chicago and others 90
ing TO Nebraska to be corn-fed II takes
hve months to make this Journey: but.
as the grass is generally abundant, the
stock arrives at its destination in good
condition. The fact that last season
p5actically all the wethers were driven
on the ranges accounts for higher prices
ana scarcity of mutton in the Northwest
TINS year. The loss last winter TO herds
was very light, nearly % per cent less
than usual, and sheep are all in good
condition. Sheep on these ranges are
saiu 10 be the finest raised in the world,
yearllngs averaging we'll with two-year-
Sids In other portions of the country.
Shearing is now in progress, the crop
being shipped East almost entirely,
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