Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-09-10
Farm, Notes.

While at pasture the young sheep
should have access to salt. "A flock will
visit the sailing place twice a day reg
ularly. Salt is good tonic and pre-
vents indigestion, which produces de-
structive diarrhoea, all the worse when
the weather is warm.
Prof. Fl. e. Van Deman says that a
crop of clover or COW peas plowed un-
der every two or three years in the
orchard will stimulate growth sufti-
GENTLY, and as it would take twenty
loads of stable manure per acre to do
the same, the former Is the cheaper
Smut does not pass from stalk to
stalk in the cornfield. and there is no
danger of contamination in this way.
The infection takes place when the
corn is young, the terminating spores
entering the tenderes part-the root,
node and lowest joint-and after the
disease is once in the plant no applica-
ton will do the least good.
In regard to detasseling corn-that is,
to break down the tassels or remove
them, practice which has been advo-
Gated as enabling the farmer to secure
larger yields experiments show that
there is nothing gained by SO doing,
while the labor required is an item of
expense that is bestowed when the
farmer can be growing green fodder or
some other crop for cattle food.
The maggots which annoy sheep so
severely are Matched from eggs depos-
-ited in the nostrils by fly, and the
sheep use every effort possible to pre-
vent the fly from so doing. One remedy
is to put tar on the nOstrils. This may
be done by placing wood tar where the
sheep can get at it and throwing a
handful of salt on the tar, the sheep
getting the tar on the nostrils while
eating the salt.
Salt is an>important aid to Digestion
and especially so to all ruminant ami
mails. If cows are not salted frequently
they will eat more than is good for
them when they do get access to salt
In large quantities salt is laxative, ii
being an irritant to the bowels, which
are therefore purged to get rid of it
Failure to salt regularly will make the
cream more difficult to turn into butter
| thus repaying the farmer for his care
lessness by giving him a longer and
| harder job at churning.
1t has frequently been asserted tha1
| the brilliant cOlors of many flowers
serve to attract bees and butterflies tt
| them. Experiments recently reported
| to the Belgian Academy of Science
seem to show that the perfume rather
| than the color of the flower is the rea
attraction. Bright-colored blossoms
were covered with leaves and paper
pinned closely over them, yet the in
sects not only visited the hidden flow
ers, but endeavored to force their wa,
under the paper in order to reach tn
blossoms, which they could not see.
-Unproductive land is a tax on tn
farmer and reduces the receipts dc
rived from the whole farm because la
Dor must be bestowed upon it at tn
expense of some other portion. Ever
piece of land should be made to pre-
duce something, not by taking off
crop without adding an equivalen
therefor to the land, but by first bring
ing the land up with manure or ferd
izers and then making it pay for tha
which was expended upon it. The farI
should not have fertile field surround
ed by poor land, but the whole shoul
be made to produce to the highest caps
| city.