The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-03-05
THE FIELD And FARM.

THE FIELD And FARM
Practical Pointers on Proper
Care of Farm.
THE PROFITS IN EGG FARMING
Details in DairyinR by an Experienced
| Dairywoman = Planting and
Rearing Of Trees.
| The best profits IN egg farming is In
building up and maintaining fancy
egg trade. Retail customers will pay
few cents more on the dozen for fresh
eggs than they will pay for the article
at the grocers. Eggs coming direct
from the farmer used to be guarantee
OF freshness, but not all farmers have
been able to keep up this reputation.
/ On the average farm hens are allowed
to roam about as they please, and it is
not uncommon for farmers to every
now and then come across hidden
nests. There may be dozen eggs in
one OF those nests, and how is the
farmer to know if a dozen hens laid
those eggs that day, or if one hen laid
them between twelve and twenty. four
days? It is more likely to be the lat
ter case, which certainly must give a
number of stale, if not rotten, eggs in
the lot. As the farmer dumps these
eggs right in with the lot he gathered
! that day from the nests, somebody will
get cheated. And one bad egg in g
dozen will not condemn the entire lot,
but the farmers reputation for honesty
is at stakes So be absolutely sure your
eggs are fresh. and then be ready to
guarantee them. Send clean eggs to
the customers, says the American
Poultry Advocate. Dirty eggs make
customers hesitate. Assert them out
to sizes. A dozen small eggs will not
look as Objectionable as dozen of all
sizes. Keep the hens from the manure
piles, and do not feed any food that
might taint the flavor Of the egg, for
it is fact that an egg can be tainted
as readily as milk, by what is given
the hen or COW in their food. Pure
grain, fresh water, pure meat. and
fresh green food. will help wonder
fully in this direction.
Details of DafryinR.
One Of our most successful dairy
women writes that she does not allow
! noise in the stables at milking time. A
blow with the milking stool may not
only lessen the quantity but effect the
, quality of the milk. The milking
should be done regularly and quietly.
carried to the milkroom. strained and
cooled quickly. The good dairymen
who are posted as to the value of food
products know full well that clover is
one of the most valuable crops raised
on the farm. The most successful
swine breeders make clover pasture
and clover hay en- important ration for
their stock, and 30 do the mcst sue
cessful dairymen. Every dairy farm
should have enough hogs to utilize the
skim milk and buttermilk. Some
farmers succeed better in financial
way with hogs, and as the Irishman
says ho oAo S0n'A0AAoA ou0e 1ooOo
the mortgage OF. But hog and COW
should always go together. Dairying
in all it's details must be done at the
proper time; other work must be done
secondary to this. After the cream
! is gathered and properly ripened 1t
should be ohurned at once, the churn
must receive close attention and be
stopped when the butter has formed
/ into Rranules the size OF small wheat
kernels. Too much salt and cessive
working injure the product. So. after
all, it is looking after these small
things that makes the successful butter
and cheese maker.
Planting aud Reariag Trees.
There are two kinds of trees that the
farmer must take into consideration
when he wishes to plant trees, viz.
forest and nut trees. These two classes
of trees are about as far removed from
one another as arg two things can be.
If the farmer wants to grow forest trees