Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1896-1899, 1896-06-22


dairy business Of Denmark is wonder
ful, due entirely TO cooperation.
Il. f. Allen, Of Crook county, last
week sold Charles Butler, of Seattle,
WASH, 45O0 ewes and 2-year-old
wethers. He received Sl.25 for the
ewes aud Sl.5O for the wheters.
The Prineville Review learns from
reliable authority that there will be
250.O00 yearling ewes bought in East
ern Oregon this summer, and driven
East, to be used for breeding purposes.
New Jersey and Delaware peach
growers say that II one-fourth OF the
peaches now ON the trees ripen the
result will be one of the largest crops
Of peaches ever seen on the peninsula.
Germany has 100000 of cattle,
13,000,000 of sheep and 12,00O,000 of
hogs, but her many millions of people
are increasing faster in numbers,
while the production of live stock is
practically at standstill.
A Scotch paper notes that ga Short
Horn COW belonging to Capt. Buffers,
of,Summerbank, Dalbeattie, dropped
three bull calves on Thursday, all
living. Last year the same COW had
two heifer calves" ]"
The New Hampshire board of agri-
culture has, since January !, applied
the tuberculin test to several hundred
cattle, and 1876 were pronounced
affected. Every animal was killed
and all but one found diseased.
The banana possesses all the ingred-
iednts necessary to sustain human
life, and like our own innocent rye
and corn, 1t can be so treated that
fermented liquor of highly intoxicat-
ing nature can be made from 1t.
Like the pears in our own climate,
the banana ripens best of the tree,
and, as "a consequence, the banana
eater of the states can enjoy the full
flavor and quality of the banana as
well as the dweller in the tropics from
whence they come.
The Elgin creamery Co. Is buying
up all the creamerles 1t can lay its
hands on in Iowa, and before many
months, the dairymen of the banner
dairy state in the Union, will realize
that they are in the control Of a
heartless syndicate.
Although apple trees never bloomed
fuller than they did inthis community
this year, the continued rains that
came at that time was to much for
the pollen and consequently we will
have short apple crop this season.
-Newberg Graphic.
Receipts of horses at the Chicago
market during last month were H.
222, as compared with 1866 during
April. Arrivals for the first five
months this year amount To a total Of
63,327, against 63,755 for the cor
responding period in 1895.
The California Fruit Grower says
all indications point to the possibility
Of the State Horticultural Society
having outllved its usefulness. Inter
est having so Jagged as to be unable
to have a quorum when meetings
were called and we'll advertised.
There is no very great pain TO cat
tie in dehorning. Many people have
great fear about cutting of full grown
horns. Burning with caustics is far
more cruel than cutting them from
the calf with the new appliances,
which cost but trifle and disfgure
the animal far less.
We are in receipt OF bulletin No. H.,
from the Bureau of Animal Industry,
Department of Agriculture, being the
first public document issued by Henry
e. Alvord, chief of the dairy division
IL Is a pamphlet OF SO pages, giving
the principal statistics relating TO the
dairy industry OF the country.
Why did not our lawmakers en-
OiECiy lOIUiQ OiC AhdhihS VI HAASN
cheese, that monstrosity which has
has robbed our country Of one of Its
most profitable industries. Canada
has taken the bull by the horns and
entirely prohibits its make and have
gobbled nearly our entire export trade
in this line.
Mrs. Anna Clemmer, dairy and food
commissioner of Colorado, is about
, the first woman in history, we believe
to hold such aposition. She not only
maintains a pleasant home, but looks
after a herd of Jersey cattle and
makes, IL is said, 1000 pounds OF butter
month. She has hay ranch OF l0C
acres and raises a large number OF
chickens every year.
The Pacific coast is not the wors
potato market In the world and they
are selling at a good figure in Oregon
now. In Michigan they are selling