Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-11-28
FARM NOTES.

In ia'iening fowls the aciuel quap.
cty of food supplied only goes a little
way In the production of flesh IA com.
partd with the conditions under which
the birds are kept.
An acre Of the Jerusalem artichok, =,
will supply more feed for swine than
any other one article aud can be gath
cred by the animal. 1t is 10th health
Iul and conductive of rapid growth.
Broom corn millett seed is having a
large run as a fattening ration for hogs.
1t yields abundantly from twenty e..
seveuty-five bushels per acre. Being
almost equal to corn when ground.
The flax growers of Minnesota and
the Dakotas will SOW very small
acreage in 1895 on account of the
Russian thistle. The Oregon farmer
should take advantage Of this fact, and
SOW flax.
Alfalfa has proven to be one Of the
most valuable adiuncts to hog raising
1t is conductive to the health of the
animal and is suitable to the full de-
velopment of both muscle and bone
q ID should be on every farm for thai
purpose if nothing more.
1t is not because there is no market
for dried fruit that makes 1t sell slowly,
1t is because most people are not edu-
'ated In the proper preparation and
Use of dried fruit. The unattractive
style in which great deal of it is put
upon the market has great deal to do
with it.
Analyses of the Russian thistle, mad
at the Minnesota Agricultural station
show that it draws very heavily upon
the soil,especially as TO potash and
lime. The plants contain too much
matter of an alkaline nature to permit
Of its steady use as fodder. Young
shoats confined to the thistle make an
excellent growth and eat them readily
and In the thistle stricken districts will
be made good use of.
Not over fifty per cent of duck eggs
will ha'ch and the reason has been
dven by Mr.. Rankin, Of Massachus-
Its, an uthority on duck culture, who
attributes the lack Of fertility to the
great change wFan in the natural
habits of the duck by the forcing
method of rearing. The duck natur-
ally, or as ordinarily kept on the farm,
rarely lay before spring lime. Ducks
reared in the approved modern style,
hatched in May, will begin to lay
about the holidays, and continue lay
ing all winter and thus weaken their
vitality. But why is not the constitu-
ion weakened also in respect to max
ing rapid and great growth of frame?
The branyard fowl has undergone the
same revolution of habit and 1 have
found their eggs as fertile in winter as
as at any other time. Is it not this
lack of fertility attributable to the fact
that the natural habit of the duck is
not completely revolutionized by do
mestication? BY nature the duck is
homogeneous; that is, the drake mates
only with one duck and 1t is probable
that In large fiocks there are brakes
That will mate each only with one
duck, while other brakes wi care for
lwo or more each, and thus the fertili'
lzation proves unequal and irregular.
Ducks at their best do not show the
development Of the polygamous habit
to the same extent as barnyard bwls.
The best authorities recommend IN
breeding only five or six ducks TO one
drake, while with one vigorous cock In
company with twenty hens the eggs
will all he fertile,
SOME HORSE sEEsE.
Heayes Is one Of the most common
diseases the horse IL subject 10. IL is
Analogous 10 asthma IN the human,and
some Of you, no doubt, know that the
treatment OF asthma is one Of the bug
bears or the medical profession. The
reason heayes is counted aD incufable
disease is that In very near oil cases
the structure Of the lung tissue II a.
tered, aud the air cells are more or less
permanently dilated aud ruplufed' by
proper feeding aud certain treatment
| il not very bad, an animal eau be 'en-
dered comparatively useful, bat eannoI
often be permanently benefited
The bot docs not IN The least cause
h0rae any paln aud the common belle
| Is that the b0l Is luxurious, bat IBIS u
not true. There are few horses that 90
not have bots IN considerable numbeIs
| have seen almost quart Of them ~
laTgs horses stomach, ana be had
never shown any W effects from lls'n
rhe female bot Ny deposits lsr sss
upon ths halr u lhe horse about lh
breast and foflfgs lp several dpy
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