Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-12-06
FARM NOTES.

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hogs aud can really be called the hoy.
opolis of Oregon.
Who says that Oregon cannot raise
her own hams and bacon? One
butcher in Roseburg paid out 81 900 for
hogs in October.
Green bones cut fine enough for fowls
70 eat them are great help, less, how
ever in saving feed than 10 their indis.
putably powerful effect of stimulating
egg production.
The men who visited the first horse
show in New York ten years back are
amazed at the wonderful i'm mprovement.
len years bring about radical changes
in the Improvement of horses.
Blooded stock, such as poultry and
swine are to be made side issues at the
the orchard of the Benton county fruit
company. A better side issue to fruit
farming cannot be adopted.
The statement as to the town of Oak
land, Oregon, receiving revenue
from poultry and eggs alone, amount
ing to 100000 annually, must be a
mistake, however it is going the round 8
The Oklahoma Experiment Station
has found that old tin cans, filled with
sweetened water are useful bug traps
in a garden, Hundreds of May
beetles, grasshoppers and crickets were
caught in this way.
Experiments in New Jersey show
that nitrate of soda as a fertilizer for
tomatoes results in more solid tomato.
with fewer seeds than when potash or
phosphoric acid is used, or when no
manure is applied. If too much nitrate
of soda is used, however, the tendency
is to delay the maturity of the crop.
Stock cattle are in good demand in
the northwest and thousands are being
shipped to the ranges in British Colum-
bia. Many sheep are being shipped 10
Omaha from Eastern Oregon at fair
profit which is an indication that the
Oregon farmer should not confine him.
self to wool breeds but devote them
selves more especially to mutton.
The farmers of Walla Walla valley,
Washington, are clammering for state
law giving them wheat inspector.
This is one of the biggest humbugs the
wheat raisers of eastern states have
ever enjoyed. In many cases they
have been known to stand in with the
buyers and fleece the shipper out of
grades on his shipment.
Eastern Oregon will SOW large acre
age to flax the coming season. Many
farmers have contracted their crop for
next year at prices above 81 per bushel.
The demand for fax has been constant
for several years and there seems to be
no room for doubling that fax is pay
ing crop at the above figure, especially
where contracted ahead. The only
chance the farmer is running will be
in getting large enough yield
The prune crop of Oregon aud Wash.
ington this yea: aggregate about sixty
car loads of dried prunes and this
amonnt in the green state represents
about six and one-quarter million
pounds. With the increased acreage
of the two states and a good yield there
ought so be nearly double this amount
of frnit marketed. Oregon fruit sells at
sight in eastern market and is con-
ceeded to be the best on the Pacific
coast.
The farmer who takes the pains 10
pick one box of choice apples and rubs
them up and neatly packs them In
clean box well lined, and Of even color,
without worms or scabs and full meas
ure realizes az much az the man who
brings to town scabby lot Of mixed
up runts, topped of with few nice
ones, can get for two bushels. He
also saves The cost of one box, the haul
ing, Increase In customers, relief from
all embarrassment aud the poor box for
his hogs. This rule 10 good In market
Ing all his products.