Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-07-27
Condensed Information for
Thoughtful Farmers.
GOOD GRAFTING.wAx RECIPE
The Reason Why the Boys Leave
the Farm-Give the Corn the
Best Cultivation.

For chapped or scratched teats apply
cream or fresh butter.
Strict cleanliness is one of the reoui-
sites for successful dairying.
The colt should have a good, lot or
pasture to feed and exercise in.
Give the colt some nice, bright oats.
where it can get at them handy.
The amount of fat which a COW gives
is the test OF her value in the dairy.
The neatness of the package has much
to do with the selling price of butter.
1t is not necessarily true that skim
milk calves make pot-bellied ear suck
ers."
Do not skim-milk your calves too soon.
Let them have some new milk for at
least two weeks.
A COW abused will not do her best. To
make you money each COW should be al
| lowed to do her best.
Test the COWS in the dairy herd. Some
OF them are not paying for their keep,
and should be disposed of.
Anervous COW will "give down " milk
better if in a quiet place, securely fas-
tened and MIXED very gently.
Hedge for disappointments and the
unexpected, and then you will be better
prepared for them if they come.
The dairy COW will not give something
for nothing; you must feed her we'll to
get good returns in milk and butter.
Make your purchases for cash as much
as possible or pay with truck; avoid
" book accounts " or giving "your note"
If you cannot get in corn for fodder,
SOW millet. Ii neither is done, cut or
plow under the weeds before or while in
bloom.
Thousands of farmers who have no
sllo grow few or no roots, when few
acres would prove very profitable. Sow
turnips.
1t is said that the milk sugar contained
in 100 pounds of average milk would
bring more money on the market than
the butter it contains. AS yet there has
been no cheap method discovered of ex-
tracting it.
Among the garden crops peas, sweet
corn and tomatoes can be most success
fully grown with the least expenditure
of manure. This is worth remembering
by those whose crop of the latter prod
uct is short.
The commercial creamery is the out
growth of a demand for a better and
more uniform grade OF butter. Many of
the private dairies produce first-cass
butter, and have not suffered from the
establishment of creameries.
The time for sewing millet is Just COM
ing on III many sections. Sow broadcast
a bushel or bushel and quarter OF
seed to the acre. Cut early before the
seeds have formed, and with good wealth
er fine, valuable hay will be secured.
A dairyman very pertinently remarks
that there will be no special advantage
in securing better cows, using better feed
and securing better apparatus unless
skill in manufacture is brought up ac-
cordingly. Skill in managing must be
combined with all improvements if the
best results are secured.
Give the corn the best cultivation of
which you are capable. In many sec
tlons OF the country the season has been
so wet that farmers were unable to get
their corn in until very late, and unless
all conditions are unusually favorable it
will have hard work to mature before
frost. Consequently corn may be of
more value presently than it now is.
The reason why the boys leave the
farm is because the motto "slow but
sure has no attraction for them. They
see that money is made more rapidly in
other occupations, and do not sufficiently
consider the greater security of the in
vestment in the farm. This is fact of
which more account should be made in
our agricultural writings and teachings.
PURIFYING POULTRY YARDS.
When permanent poultry houses and
yards are erected and the fowls are kept
continuously therein the ground after a
time becomes so impure as to render it
dangerous to the health of the fowls.
The yards need publication. The Amer
lean Agrlculturist thinks the best plan is
TO have two yards for each flock of fowls
and keep one covered with a growth of
oats, rye, corn, clover or the like, shift
ing the fowls from one to the other when
necessary. Digging over the yards once
a fortnight will answer few years. Sow
ing. the yards with gypsum will help in
thelr purlhcatlon, as the gypsum absorbs
and holds the fowl odors. But where
digging and sowing with gypsum are en-
poyed once in every two or three wears
the top soil should be removed, using il
as a fertilizer, and new, fresh earth carted
In to take its place. Mr.. Rankin grows
a crop OF vegetables on his yards yearly,
and thus keeps the soil in suitable con-
dltlon for his immense flock of ducks
and chickens. Some plan OF publication
is necessary, and that is the best for any
particular poultry raiser which enables
him to do the work the most economic
ally and the most thoroughly.
GOOD GRAFTING WAX.
Prof. Budd of Iowa concludes that lin
seed oil, as at present manufactured,
contains chemicals injurious to vegeta-
ton, and that as an ingredient of graft
ing wax 1t is unsuitable. According to
correspondent of the Country Gentle
man much better wax is the following:
Melt one pound of resin over quiet fire
and one ounce of beef tallow, stirring it
well. Take it from the fire, and let it
cool a little; then stir a tablespoonful OF
spirits OF terpentine and after that seven
ounces OF alcohol. Then put the vessel
(any tin or iron vessel will answer to
make it in) over the fire, stirring con-
stantly until the compound begins to
poll. Then remove, and the wax is ready
Tor use. 1t is also excellent for curing
wounds on trees. II the compound be-
comes too thick, warm and add little
more alcohol.