Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-11-10
NOTES.

never Sned It's own WOOL.
BE sure that in your herd each and
every COW supports herself,
If you are going to SOW vetches now
is the time; the sooner the better
Ventilate your orchard soil thor
oughly, by giving it thorough drain
age.
A dark and dingy stable is too often
the cause of sickness to your stock
In the piney woods of Georgia a
sheep only costs 10 cents year to
raise.
Dispose of your old sheep early, es-
pecially when their teeth become i'm
paired.
The full value of the wheat bran
is nearly all returned to the soil in
manure.
Lime, kerosene and carbolic acid are
the three saving graces of the poultry
breeder.
Gull out all undesirable birds this
month. 1t does not pay to carry such
into the winter.
Sour fruit is best kept away from
poultry; also tomatoes are said to dis
courage egg laying.
The number Of horses butchered for
food in Paris has increased from 10,-
600 in 1873 TO 10000 in 1895.
II is cheaper to conserve the animal
heat with boards than to make good
its rapid loss with more feed.
Churning at too high temperature,
or too long, will produce greasy butter
in which the grain is injured.
1t will require seven pounds of
skinned milk to equal one pound of
lean beef for flesh forming qualities.
The county fair of Whitman county,
Washington, paid this year 144 pre-
miums on fruit amounting to over
800.
The number of milch COWS in Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho, has in
creased whereas they have decreased
in every other state
The growth of the dairy industry
in California is shown by the fact
that COWS in that state increased o.
900 in the last six years.
Experiment little with small
plat of flax for fibre. These long wet
winter days would be fine time to
work it up.
Put your poultry flock on cash
basis, as soon as possible. Dispose of
all surplus cockrils and off hens. Stop
the leak in the feed bin.
One rule in pruning should be to
thin out every year all the old ex-
hausted wood, all weak, young shoots
and all that cannot reach full light.
The farmers, of Tillamook, have or
ganized branch of the Oregon State
Dairy Association, to be known as the
TillamoOk Branch of the State Asso-
cation.
Sixteen good cows to one poor one.
The reverse, sixteen poor COWS to one
good one, is what too often makes the
dairy farmer ready to listen to the
humbug politician.
The larger the summer and fall
growth Of strawberry plants the
larger the crop Of fruit. To secure
this through cultivation and liberal
manuring will be found necessary.
About 10,90O,0OO cattle are now to
be found in the Argentine Republic.
They are all descendants of eight
COWS and one bull, which were taken
to Brazil in the middle of the six
teenth century
A commercial jell factory should be
located somewhere in the Willamette
valley, whereby some Of the cheap
compounds, sold as fruit jell. which
are shipped in from the East, could be
displaced.
Have some choice poultry to turn
off just after Thanksgiving. The
market is not so liable to be glutted.
Get your layers in shape, as eggs are
getting scarcer and you will be ready
to reap the high price.
The largest sheep owner in the
world is saId to be S. McCaughey, Of
the Coonong Station, at Jeri derie,
New South Wales. He has 100000
acres of land and last season he shore
100000 sheep.
The Oregon State Poultry Associa-
tion has decided t. hold its next an
nual exhibition the first week of jan
uary, commencing January 4,IS95, and
continuing five days. w. w. Brown
ing, of Ogden, Utah, has been en-
gagged as judge.
The effort made by the Oregon As
ISOLATION of Nurserymen to make the
prices of trees Uniform seems to haye
failed, owing to the lack of support