Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-12
PARM NOTES.

oil NlcaT OF WaKeneld ls q common mis-
! take in calling that popular pear. II
} is Vicar of WINFIELD.
The "Alice" is a ne grape originated
by w. o. Gum, OF Ulster county, n
Y. IL Is one Of the heaviest bearers yet
introduced.
The California State Poultry Fair
will be opened on January 3rd aud con
tlnue for six days. Oregon should
have a state poultry show.
Apple pomace fed to cows is not only
good as milk giving ration, but they
are very fond oft and it acts as an al -
petizer. Feed 1t before fermentation
has started.
Philip Kelley & Co., of Seattle
shipped % cars Of prunes all grown in
Clark county, Wn. This amounts to
2,l7O,OOO pounds in the green state and
representing $4,000.
A great many farmers Ia Eastern
Oregon are feeding their W heat to sheep
and in that way expect to realize neat
profit on their wheat. Dsposing of one
article to realize well from the other.
Farmers of Oregon should cultivate
taste for foe mutton and use more of
1t on their tables. By 80 doing live
better and advance the sheep industry
m sterially, both in price and quality.
The reduced yield and high price Of
corn Is greater stimulant to the wheat
market than any other fact affecting II.
II ilf Of the wheat crop added to the
corn supply would scarcely equal II
average consumption of corn. But for
the fact that other feeding substitutes
are available the effect would be much
more pronounced.
An exchange truly says: Why In
the world don't some one plant out
large orchard Of our large, meaty cher
es. There Is nothing that a man
coul,' put out at this day and age, that
would pay as well. Dried cherries are |
always worth from 35 TO 40 cents per |
pound, and the supply is so limited
that most of the dried cherries used in
this country come from Germany,
while the demand is always good.
1t has been concluslyely proven that
pigs when weighing in the neighbor-
hood Of fifty pounds are the most
profitable size and that the num-
Der Of pounds Of feed required to make
a pound of gain increases with the in
crease in size Of the pigs This is the
result Of very carefully conducted ex-
with over 300 hogs at all sea-
sons of the year and must come close
10 the facts.
The Portland Llnseed Oil Works are
making the farmers Of the valley
proposition to furnish fiaxseed to the
armers who wish TO raise flax, aud
'ffer TO contract the crop for 81. rs per
lundred weight, delivered at their fac
ory all sewed up In new sacks, well
cleaned and prime seed. If the farm.
'rs wish TO enter into fax culture, they
lad better do so, on their own account,
md not be tied up In this way. This IL
over than the lowest price Of fax for
he last ten years. IL Is not likely that :
'eople will be caught by such chat.
Ne understand the contract is an Iron r
lad one, and the farmers are under y
very disadvantage. Flax IL ~ so per
'usbel In Chicago.
Though Emerson suggested that
very weed is plant whose use Is not q
et understood, the number Of plants y
hat have been brought Into service by
IAN ls very small. Edison y. Bastln, d
nds authority for the statement that
lD2 species have been AZ some time .,
lltlyated as food, aud that the total II
nown 10 be used ~ food IL 1900. But =.
ANY Of these are Of little value aud ,,
smiths Dictionary 0f Eoonomie y
lants" gives only bl6 species as those
lpoftant for any purpose. gJr med :
Inc some 5000 plants have been em. I"
Dyed, of which the Ualtsd states ID
lapensatoTy snpmerates 1900, while "a
lly 2ii are given Ia the Pharmaoo'
lela The plants not yet Investigated s'
ler great possibilities, which however A,
~ only DO developed by long aud ca,
nslge g0gerDmspi experiment The "a
'med speolss may DO taken AZ about
B 900 aud possibly as many more TO- "a
Aln ~ be discovered, while many h
eoles aIs capable " great variation
rough cultivation, Tbs appls had 49,
sided Rbonl 1000 different varieties ~
~ fsw years ago, yel some other -
oeles " lhe genius may be quite as !
pAbls NJ useig dsyel0pment tbs
iislsni yarliies " wheat aTe bsllsgsd
some ~ haYe oIiglnRled lD 90 un, I
ll'ofiAnl folaae grace and Wild
lni sllll gIoslnK 0n EpElish Rga
eneh elasls haYe given W. lhs shlie
a lsn pahhHgf, paulin0woT aud peT