Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-08-04
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cliD exceeds 100000. There are 2E,
0O square miles of forests,and the an
pual gold yield exceeds 81 100000.
The cow that leaks milk may b.
helped by touching the end of tn,
leaky teat with collOdion each time
after milking. This dries quickly and
draws the orfTce tightly together.
Mr.. Marion Cunningham brough
the first load of wheat of the season
IN MAY & SenderS today. His entire
wheat crop averaged 20 bushels 10 the
acre. The average in former years
was % bushels. Harrisburg Review.
The fact that a scarity of horses is
beginning to brace up prices is notice
able when one compares receipts for
The week ending July 26, '96 and same
week '05. A difference of 74l, de-
crease of one-half.
There are $4,000 acres Of apple trees
in Missouri and more than 1900
acres Of peaches. The peach crop will
turn out about $4,000 bushels while at
least 10000 bushels of apples will be
the result from the orchards.
The largest sheep-owner In the
world is said to be s. McCaughey, Of
the COOnong station, at Jerilderie,
New south Wales. He has 5000, 900
acres OF land, and last season sheared
100000 sheep.
Ohio raises l00,0O0,O0 bushels of
corn, 100000 Of wheat, $1,000, 900 of
oats, 100000 Of patato, $4,000, 900
pounds Of tobacco and 5000, 900 tons of
hay. The vineyards produce 2,50O,0O
gallons Of wine and 10000, 600 pounds
Of grapes.
Under the supervision of Commits
slOner ShaDno, grasshoppers haye
been kept In check in a number OF
orchards In WascO county, Oregon,
lately BY feeding them on sweetened
bran mash to which Paris green had
been added.
The Tillamook Headlight is in
formed that one creamery In that
country has distributed over $4,000
among Its patrons in the past year,
and about sl5O,OOO has been paid to
IlllmOok for butter and cheese in the
last year.
There were exported during the year
ending June 30, 1895, 1883 worth Of
money and there were imported dur
lng The years ending June 80, 1891 to
ioe' The following amounts .of honey:
,si $40 gallons; 1892, 70,l03; 1893,
NNi''i 1894, l52643; 1895. 67,444.
The estimated yield Of hops in So
oSan uOua county, California, this year is
wv oales, Offers Of 3 cents per
pIlo nave been refused. In 1894 the
i,lu was 1854 bales, and In 1895 1850
"aie' owing TO the low price this
''ar ~, many hop growers did not culti-
nIe their yards.
IN many places In Minnesota and
'us Dakotas wild mustard has entirely |
~Aeu Tue farms. The past wet
s ,asOu mas entirely germinated all the |
sV'alsat s seed. Fields of grain seem |
o;i, ST,eu beneath oyertowering growths |
Snd auu railway tracks, wagon roads |
Wssd 'arnyardS are covered with the |
n,t ,|s,e Is more truth than poetry in |
,sp l' Sueep eat the weeds which other
s., sI'uiaS reject, gather them for them
s'' and enrich the land where
,,. s are Kept. Swine eat food which
/ aso S ,a. everything else rejects, aud
49, S 'eaVe behind them a rich legacy |
M. 'er'lllzer; and both convert ali |
vat 'n'o profitable products.
Wss,sp WUspects for a great apple crop in
ths elu sa new York have now reached |
an ovo' Vuuary stage, Reports from
'S. ~ over Monroe and Orleans copntiss
0~.s 'uaI the orchards, which bios
tUIt aoundantly, are now set full of |
an ths sowing rapidly, and so thick
n,tns, apples that not half can even
~s'-American Grocer.
agri.n,, s Young men in the different
'tsu''ural 't.,S colleges In the ysr,ons
unI,aS S'1ipialn that they are only
HOrk ana 'or doing in the dirty |
4 primsu,.aa t aolng the labor in the ex-
The kDoS,a work and that is wnere
We hone tSag OF agricultural ends. |
ever have 'nat nat no Oregon students viii |
Aeco.,, e TINS story 70 tell. ~"
Uuited :, 70 the Yearbook of the
sultu1, -. s.A'es YES Department OF AgrI- |
1870, for the wan a,,,s1,,o.