Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1895-09-11
Farm and Home.

Farm and Home.
Have you clover enough coming on
Now prepare that fall garden.
order your winters reading.
Prepare shelter for all your stock.
How can you make state fair atten
dance profitable?
See that there IL food and water
where young poultry can get IL.
The grain that Is sown in September
and October makes more feed and
yields bigger crop.
Ask your road supervisor to 60 over
the roads and fill the holes that will
hold water or fix them 80 they will not
hold IL.
The experience Of practical farmers
IL wanted for these columna. Most Of
the matter copied from writers foi
eastern farm journals is Of no value 10
the man who is trying to make farm
pay here.
One of the best places for the poultry
house Is the orchard. The fowls ART
away from the garden and have
range where they can secure plenty OF
green food, bugs, worms aud Other
insects, In destroying which they ben
eft the trees and fruit. The site toI
the house should be chosen with
view 10 insurlng good drainage, as 1t is
most essential that poultry have dry
quarters in which they may roost OF
take refuge when 1t storms. On
farm IL is no easy matter to give the
fowl a good range and at the same time
TO keep them away from the garden,
the hog pen aud the stables. In many
cases the orchard Is the only good place
for the poultry house. The fowls do
better there, with the variety Of food
they secure, than II they were kept in
more restricted quarters.
Depression Relieved by Live Stock.
Among agricultural speeches recently
recorded, few can compare ln value to
the speech Of the Marquis Of Huntly,at
the luncheon Of the Tarland Agricul-
tural Show, says Mark LaneExpress. He
stated that he had been perusing with
great attention. all the testimony given
by practical farmers before the Royal
Commission, aud he found that they
one and all agreed In the same conclu-
sion, that, deplorable as had been the
downfall In prices, and the enormous
losses occasloned thereby, matters
would have been much worse II farmers
had not fallen back on the resources
which live stock, breeding. dalrying,
aud grazing untolded to them. Those
who grasped these enterprises with
most ardour had been able to grapple |
most successfully with the difficulties
OF the times, while those who proceeded
In the old courses, taking no heed Of
the new departures 80 urgently requi-
site, had become involved In ruin and
been compelled speedily to abandon
their holdings.
The Marquis of Huutly pointed
prominently to the evidence of Mr..
Bowen.Jones, who admitted that, had
he not been breeder of Hereford cat
tie and Shropshire sheep, he must have
gone TO the wall long since. We believe
that Mr.. Bowen-Jones not only stS ted
this much, but that there were large
numbers OF farm occuplers In the coun-
ties Of Shropshire and Herefordshlre
who were exactly In similar position.
Their pure-bred cattle aud sheep had
proved their sheet anchor. Few of
them had escaped wholly from loss
under the trying circumstances OF the
past fifteen years, but they had kept
clear OF the quicksands aud shoals
which had shipwrecked so many
Others. Mr.. John Treadwell In his
evidence before the Royal Commission
by no means attempted TO disguise the
TACT that as times go 1t is a most DIM