Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-07-08
FARM NEWS.

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England is imported.
Don't try to breed up from scrub
hut get good blood aud improve that.
II has taken four years to stamp out
pleuro-pneumonia in Australia.
Rape is one of the finest green foods
for pigs, There is more fattening
qualities in rape than in clover.
The number of beet sugar factories
in Sweden has increased from four in
1890 to eighteen at the present time.
Corn. sorghum and cow peas make
on, of the best combinations for green
TO lder, to tide over the dry season.
Don't forget that all the rape seed
us,i in this country is imported.
TIL IRE is no reason why it cannot be
successfully grown in Oregon.
Never allow the development of a
pig to lag from start to finish. Here
in lies one of the principle points In
making months old 200 pound hog.
4 Michigan fruit grower finds that
II fruit trees are pruned in September
the limbs and twlgs left develop much
stronger fruit-buds for the next sea-
n,than trees unpruned or not pruHed
till winter or spring.
There are 10000 farmers in Mime
sofa that YatroniZe creameries. The
creameres turned out $1,000 pounds
of butter in 1896, valued at s., 400, 900.
The farm dairy butter amounted to
S2,OO0,0O0 more.
There is no good reason why hemp
culture could not be made a profitable
crop in Oregon. 1t requires plant
with machinery to fit the hemp for
use in hempen products. Hemp will
grow from five to twenty feet tall, in
our bottom lands.
At San Bernardo, CAL, there is a
new insect pest, beetle, Serla
hmbriata, which is causing destruc-
tion by eating the foliage of the
orchards. They are in such numbers
that the fruit growers fear great
losses from their ravages.
In 9j out of 80 counties in Iowa
there are cheese factories or cream.
cries. There are 2S2 run on the Co
operative plan and 1872 owned by
stock companies. There are 43S
proprietary and 80 of which the organ
ization was not known. There are
$4,000 creamery patrons in the state
How many are there in Oregon?
The Oregon State Agricultural col
lege has arranged to hold Farmers
Institute at the Chautauqua assem-
Oily at Gladstone park this year from
TO ii O'Clock a. III. daily during the
continuance OF the assembly. A fine
program has been arranged. Many
prominent agriculturists will take
part.
Prof Shaw Of the Oregon station an-
nounces that he desires samples of ripe
prunes from different sections OF the
state Tor the purpose of analysis. Send
only ripe fruit. Prof. Shaw also de-
Slres, for a special purpose, samples OF
Snlphured and unsulphured silver
prunes.
The agricultural bulletin issued by
the department for June shows that
There is an increase of 900 acres il
winter wheat over that OF last year
Ihe average condition is 900. In othel
countries the crop is large except il
ureat Britain, Spain and Italy, where
u Is comparatively short.
only one grower in ten is cultiyat
ing his hop yard on the Sound. Lie
are appearing in large numbers, anC
unless the yards are sprayed immedia
Vely there will be no crop. The buyer
seem TO be dead and no one cares to of
ier any price. 1t is estimated that no
over oOO bales will be harvested ives
Oh the mountains.
II Is reported from San Antonio
leAas, that "a large business in tn
eAportlngof American hogs to Mexic
as oeen established during the las
e" months. For several weeks ther
nave passed through here from four .
SA solid trainloads of hogs, bound +
Polh'S In Mexico from Kansas City
Ine first class OF horseshoers eve
s,auuated in America received dl
R'o'nas recently at the University O
euhsylVania. There were % mem
s 80 OF whom 2l passed the require
n'nation. The term is thre