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Notes and Instructions from Agricultural Colleges and Experiment Stations
of Oregon and Washington, Specially Suitable to Pacific Coast Conditions
TO ADO TO POULTRY PROFITS.
Interesting Experiment In Fattening
Fowl on Stubble Field.
Oregon Agricutural College, Cor
' vallia Believing that Oregon farm
ers can add materially to their poultry
profits by keeping the birds pastured
awhile on the.waste grain of the stub
ble fields, Prof. James Dryden, of the
Oregon Agricultural College, has in
augurated an interesting experiment
near Moro.
In a colony of ten white canvas
tents he has housed 500 white Ply
mouth Rocks, and will keep them
there six weeks, keeping accurate
, record of the weights and gains made.
Movable fences are used, and the tents
are on frame at the bottom, on run
ners, so that they can be moved readT
, ily as fast as the chickens clean up
the waste grain on one . part of the
field and need new foraging ground.
"The point is to determine how
much poultry flesh we can make from
the waste grain on a given area with
a given number of birds in any cer
tain space of time, at the least ex-
pense," said Prof. Dryden, discussing
the experiment "In going through
the Portland markets I was struck
with the poor quality of the chickens
sent in there by the farmers of the
state. They were so largely bone,
with very little meat on them. I be
lieve that they could be kept a little
longer, to good advantage financially,
if the farmers would put them out on
the stubble fields, where there are al
ways quantities of waste grain to be
picked up. - I am sure there could be
added a pound or two apiece to the
weight of each bird, in good, solid
flesh, bringing a much better price,
and that with almost no financial out
lay. We are feeding nothing but a
little animal food beef scrap from
the slaughter houses and this would
not be neceassary if there were grass
hoppers and other bugs in the fields."
PINK EGGS AND CHICKENS.
Agricultural College Feeds Dye to
Poultry at State Fair.
Salem. Or. An exhibit at the Fair
that is attracting great attention is
that of "sky-blue-pink" chickens, and
eggs with red yolks and pink whites
both perfectly sound and wholesome
shown by the poultry department of
the Oregon Agricultural College.
Dyes of coal-tar product, are fed the
birds one day, and the next day the
eggs and birds show a gay difference,
illustrating vividly the immediate
effect the quality of food has on the
eggs, the flesh, and even the feathers
and toe-nails of the fowls.
EXPERIMENT STATION NOTESJ
By R. W. Thatcher. Director Washington Ex
periment Station. Pullman.
Pork may be pickled by using for
each eighty pounds of meat, one pound
of salt, four pounds of sugar, one
quart of molasses, and three ounces of
saltpetre. The meat is well rubbed
with salt and left in a pickle barrel
for fifteen days, draining off the flmid
from time to time.
A second method is to use one bush
el of fine salt, two pounds of brown
sugar, and one pound of saltpetre,
which would be enough for eight hun
dred pounds of meat. The sugar im
proves the flavor of the meat, and the
saltpetre makes the pork firmer. Af
ter a.few days a little more of the salt
mixture may be applied, rubbing it
in if absorption is going slowly. All
cut ends of bone must be thoroughly
salted in, as decomposition is most
likely to occur in such places. This
method may be used where hams,
shoulders, and bacon sides are packed
together in the same barrel, the hams
being packed at the top of the barrel
to prevent them from becoming too
salty. Re-salting should take place
within ten days or two weeks 'accord
ing to the weather. After four to
six weeks the meat may be unpacked,
washed, and Bmoked, or the salt may
be left on the meat during the process
of smoking. Before hanging in the
smoke house the meat may be sprink
led with black pepper or a mixture of
black and red pepper. A molasses
barrel is better than a whiskey barrel,
but if a whiskey barrel is used, the
interior should be charred first. This
will remove the flavor of the whiskey.
Alfalfa makes an excellent pasture
for hogs, and we have never found any
injurious effects in pasturing our
brood sows on it Alfalfa will stand
pasturing after it has beome well es
tablished, but should not be pastured
until it is at least a year old. Some
grain should be fed to hogs that are on
alfalfa, barley or wheat usually, in
this Western country.
When it comes to feeding cows, on
account of the high protein content of
'alfalfa hay, it would not be well to
use oil meal and bran, unless these
fe eding stuffs can be secured cheaply
We ase rolled barley alone and would
feed about seven or eight pounds per
day per head. It must be remember
ed, however, that we cannot give spe
cific rules for the feeding of dairy
cows, for a ration that is satisfactory
for one might not be satisfactory for
another. The best thing to do would
be to make a trial of the ration sug
gested, and watch the effects on each
cow, varying it where necessary.
Young trees should not be permitted
to go into winter in a soft and suc
culent condition. Cracking of the
bark at the ground, in the spring, fre
quently happens where trees are not
properly hardened in the fall, or
where the ground is wet on the sur
face during the first freeze of the real
cold weather. About the only thing
that can be done is to bank them up
with earth, providing the bark has not
loosened entirely around the stem of
the tree, and permit them to heal in.
It is only occasionally that a tree dies
from these results, and usually it does
not happen after the second or third
winter of the orchard. Very fre
quently fruit trees are frozen so
solidly during the winter that they
split their bark, serious injury result
ing. In such cases, trim off the rag
ged edges of the bark, and paint the
wound over, permitting it to heal over
naturally during the summer. If this
splitting continues it will kill the tree.
The record cow for butter fat is the
Holstein, and although the Holsteins
as a rule give a large flow of milk, we
find that the percentage of fat is gen
erally low. This does not mean, how
ever, that the Holstein cow is the
most economical producer of milk and
fat. While in some cases we know
that they will produce more econom
ically than will ;the Jersey, we also
find many Jerseys that will produce
higher butter fat much more econom
ically than the Holsteins. The type
of cow that one should keep on the
farm will .depend on various condit
ions, and while the Holstein cow may
be the best in one case, the Jersey
will prove better in another.
In mild climates, where the winters
are not severe, the Jersey will do very
well. The Holstein is of course a
much larger cow and is able to with
stand severe winters.
By orchardists it is generally con
sidered to be a poor plan to run hogs
in an orchard, as they are likely to
injure the trees. However, if it is
decided to handle them in this way,
they should also be fed ground barley,
or wheat, or middlings, depending on
the market price. For producing
gains, barley is almost equal to wheat,
pound for pound, and produces a most
excellent quality of pork. For young
pigs, middlings will give somewhat
better results than the others. Where
grain is being used without pasture,
it will require about five hundred
pounds to produce one hundred pounds
of gain. Knowing the values, one can
estimate whether or not it will be
safe to raise hogs under given market
conditions. Pork can be produced
much more cheaply where pasture can
be used in conjunction with the grain.
The best method of preserving but
ter, and the method that is used al
most exclusively is by chilling it to a
freezing point or below and keeping
it until ready to use in that condition.
This is the way they store all storage
butter, but on the farm very good re
sults have been obtained by keeping
it in strong salt brine solution. The
butter is packed in stone jars and the
brine is poured over tke top and left
in as cool a place as possible until you
are ready to use it. You will find.
that great care must be taken in the se
lection of the cream and the care of
the butter in this kind of storage, but
if proper methods are used in hand
ling, the butter can be kept from four
to six months in good condition.
The amount of salt necessary in
butter depends largely upon the mar
ket requirements and varies from
three-fourths of an ounce to an ounce
and a half per pound of butter, one
ounce per pound being the average.
The . temperature at which cream
should be churned will vary accord
ing to the conditions from as low as
fifty degrees in the summer time to 65
degrees in the winter. We cannot set
a temperature at which you should
churn. The temperature will have
to be determined by experimenting
and should be such as will bring the
butter in small granules after about
thirty to forty minutes after starting
to churn.
We generally find that cows that
have had their calves running with
them as long as three weeks are very
hard to manage so as to get a maxi
mum amount of milk. If it is possi
ble it would be better to wean the calf
while it is only a few days old, and
then by careful manipulation of the
udder, there should be no trouble in
having the cow let down her milk.
Misapplied.
It is related that a clergyman living
in the suburbs set a tired-looking man
who had applied to him for work dig
ging potatoes. In an hour or so he
went out and found that the man had
uncovered about two quarts of the
tubers.
"Well," said the parson, "you don't
believe in overworking yourself, do
you?"
"Oh," replied the laborer, "I work
according to Scripture."
"Where in the Bible can you find
anything that justifies your taking
two hours to dig two quarts of pota
toes?" "Why, this: 'Let your moderation
be known to all men.' "
The minister thought this rather
witty and he took the man to dinner.
The moderate worker did not prove to
be a moderate eater; in fact he
cleared the table.
"You don't seem to eat according
to your text" remarked his host
watching the victuals disappear.
"No," replied the tired man, plying
his knife and fork faster than ever.
"I have another text for this: 'What
ever thy hand findeth to do, it with
all thy might 1' "
"Humph!" said the clergyman.
"My good man, you've got your two
texts misplaced."
Guard Your Ideals.
How true it is that without a vision
the people perish, says Orison Swett
Marden, in Success Magazine. Where
the pursuits are sordid, where the
highest aim is the all-absorbing am
bition to make money, everything that
is finest, cleanest and most beautiful
in life evaporates; the nature coars
ens. This is the threatening picture
of American character today.
The vast resources and great com
mercial prizes of this country are so
tempting, so fascinating, that by the
time they are ready for active life
our youth are so saturated with com
mercialism, so ambitious to coin every
bit of their ability, their education,
their influence, their friendships, al
most everything, into dollars, that all
else is neglected. They lose their
ideals, which are ttie true test of
character. .
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coated, easy to take as candy, regulate
and invigorate stomach, liver and bow
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His Lullaby.
"Good morning, Mr. Schneiderpop-
sKi r exclaimed the good lady of the
bouse as the new second-floor back
took his nlaee at thn breakfast tnhlat
"Goot mor-r-rning!" replied the
musician, Dowing gallantly
"I am so afraid you didn't pass a
comfortak-le night" pursued the host
ess, sympathetically. "Can we do
anything fer you?"
"Not koomfortable? Me!" ex
claimed the lornr-haired rmv "A eh
j a, I sleep like ze hummingbird 1 I
was on rite. Joost before I go to
bed I br-ractise mit main feedl "
"Oh was that it?" interposed the
nosiess, witn a look of glad relief.
"I'm so pleased. We thought you
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Bowled Over,
There is in a Western town a judge
who occasionally hits the flowing bowl
until it puts him down and out. One
morning, following an unusunally
swift encounter with the alcoholic foe,
he appeared in his office looking sad
and shaken up.
"How are you this morning, Sam?"
inquired a friend.
"Worse than I've ever been, " re
plied the judge, with a groan. "Im
in bad at home. When I left the
house a little while ago the children
were calling me Sam and my wife
was addressing me as Mister."
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History Didn't Repeat.
Senator Swanson, of Virginia, tells
a good story on himself about the first
political speech he ever made. He
says: "I jumped up and began:
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'Which ticket's he on?' yelled the
man with a red shirt. 'Herodotus
tells us,' I resumed with a gulp, 'of
a whole army that was put to night
by the braying of an ass.' The crowd
applauded and I felt fine. Then the
man's voioe rose above the din.
'Young feller,' he called, 'you needn't
be afraid for this crowd. It's been
tested.' " Buffalo Commercial.
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Ancient Needle FactoryT
The discovery of a prehistoric
needle factory at a prehistoric lako vil
lage near Glastonbury, England,
roused much interest recently. The
dwellings were placed on mounds of
clay raised above the level of the wa
ter. The framework of a primitive
loom was found under one mound, and
the number of broken bone needles
and bone splinters, discovered in an
other mound Ted the explorers to think
that K may have been the site of an
ancient needle factory.
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Guilty of Something.
Another lawyer's story arrives.
We are told that a man was charged
with picking a pocket the other day
and that when arraigned he pleaded
"guilty." The case went to the jury,
however, and the verdict was "not
guilty." And the court spake as fol
lows: "You don't leave this court without
a stain on your character. By your
own confession you are a thief. By
the verdict of the jury you are a liar."
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