Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-08
AGRICULTURAL.
The Traffic in Oleomargarine
Continues to Grow.
SOME AGRICULTURAL NOTES.
A Permanent Pasture an Essential
Toward Successful Stock.
Growing-Etc.

Tin milk pals are the best.
Milk the cows with dry hands.
Arrange for plenty Of pure water.
Never change mixers when it can be
avoided.
Bran will balance fodder better than
cornmeal as a milk ration.
There is close relation between pure
water and fine, bookkeeping dairy prod
ucts.
When selecting a dairy COW look out
for hearty eater. She must eat if she
milks well.
Wedding out the poorest is the cheap
est way OF improving the record of
dairy herd.
The flesh which indicates fair thrift
also shows good feeding capacity, without
which no COW is worth much.
Commence this spring to improve YOUR
stock by selling off the common breeds
and buying few thoroughbreds.
Keep the lambs in clean quarters, and
give them clean food from clean troughs.
Then they will keep healthy and thrive,
but otherwise not.
The sheep should not be sent to mar
ket unless sufficiently fat. They do
not bring paying prices, and help to
depress the price OF other peoples
sheep.
Grass roots derive their nourishment
close to the surface. For that reason a
top dressing Of good manure upon the
timothy tied will be quickly productive
OF good results.
Cater to the taste of your customers.
II they want sweet-cream butter. fur
nish it put up in the most perfect and
attractive manner, and it should be sold
and used at once.
We cannot do much toward controlling
the prices OF agricultural products. Con-
sequently we should use every effort to
economize production, as thereby we
may add to the profit.
: Barley straw is stock feed that is not
sufficiently known and valued in the
East, although used extensively in Cali
/; fornia. 1t is an excellent dependence
for the winter feeding of sheep.
Make up your mind this year that YOUR
corn fodder is valuable crop, and that
you will take as good care of it as of the
grain. In this way you can make corn
growing pay better than it has in the
, past.
A soil well prepared prior to planting,
sound seed, clean and level culture
, these are the things that bring good DO
tato crops. Where all these are observed
, and the bugs kept of-there is not
often serious failure
The ewes should now have some sue
culent food regularly. If you have nei-
ther roots nor good ensilage, bran will
be the best substitute. Hay and grain
alone are apt to produce costiveness,
which is especially to be avoided.
3 The expenses attending upon market
, ing iarm products often seriously dimin-
lsh the profits. Good roads and good
r teams would help to remedy this, and
, often farmers could work together to adj
vantage in hauling and shipping their
crops.
Farmers everywhere just now are anx-
; lous to grow more hogs. We all know
what the result of this will be. A few
; wise men are giving instead renewed eff
iorts toward producing good sheep and
; cattle. They are working in the right
: direction.
Keep we'll in mind the fact that by in
creaslng the yield per acre YOU lessen
the cost OF production. You do not have
TO double the crop to double the profit.
1 as is the case where you double the
!, amount OF the land in order to accom-
J., plish the same result.
A permanent pasture is an essential
, toward successful stock-growing. This
, cannot be secured by anv haphazard
) method, but is the result only of definite
care and foresight. A rough field COW
, cred with weeds and thistles does not
constitute good pasture.
1t is waste OF time and money to fer
, tllize heavily or to cultivate thoroughly
land whose first and greatest need is
drainage. Apply your time and money
to remedy that, and it will bring the
, Dest return. The intensive cultivation
may then follow to advantage.
The traffic in oleomargarine continues
to grow in spite of all legal efforts to cur.
tall 1t. Ii dairymen would make all their
butter so that it was superior to the best
, oleo, the latter would soon he drivan
from the market. So much poor butter
increases the demand for the substitute.
, SERIOUS EVIL.
There is a serious and growing evil in
, TINS country, says John Gould in Prac-
teal Farmer, that is charged to the dairy
men, and yet is as distinct from dairvinc
and TO be blamed as little upon them as
the butterine business-and that is the
making OF filled cheese. A filed cheese
is nothing more or less than a cheese
made with pure skim milk. and in place
OF the natural butter fats substituting
Tor them some kind of neutral oil and
pears the same relation to prime cheese
as butterlne does to pure COW butter as
outterine is one-fourth good butter and
three-fourths animal fats. The effect is
the same In either case, for both are
thrust upon the market as genuine. and
the profits OF the sale depends largely
upon now perfect this deception can be
carried out. While the dsirymen are M
IN arms about fraud butter, little is said
about filled cheese-somethinp in its
way not whit behind the other in its
damaging effects upon the sale of good
aalry produce. There is work Of re-
lorm lor the farmers to take up in regard
70 this, and while one may plead for bet
ter COWS, cheaper feed and finer produce,
50 long as dairymen will sell milk to
these hlled-cheese concerns or ioin in
what they call better return in money
Tor their milk the time will soon come
when disaster will overtake this whole
nlied business, and then by the hard
logic OF events the reaction must be met
and the path of honesty taken.
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