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About Oregon union. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 10, 1897)
AGRICULTURAL NEWS THINGS PERTAINING TO FARM AND HOME. THE Several Good Remedies Given to Pre vent Smnt in Wheat How to Con quer an Angry Ball Ammonia Cure for Lump; Jaw. To Prevent Front In Wheat. The very best grain that can be had should be seeded. If the farm grain is not up to the standard, do not use It. Grain grown on strong limestone land has more vitality and will produce more to the acre. To prevent smut, the grain should be pickled before drilling. The best preventive of smut is sul phate of copper or blue vitriol. Take one pound of the sulphate and dissolve It in eight gallons of water.- After the vitriol is dissolved spread the grain to be treated , upon the barn floor and sprinkle it well; then turn it with a long-handled shovel so that every grain is coated. The grain niay then be dust ed with dry air-slacked lime, and then drilled at once. Weak chamber lye is also equally effective; it should be fer mented first. While it may not be ad visable to take the trouble to coat every bushel of grain drilled, yet it will pay, and pay handsomely. The grain grown especially for seed should al ways be so treated. By so doing a bet ter quality of grain can be had, and that will have more vitality. The seed growers always coat their grain before drilling. The American. Curing- an Ug-ly Bnll. Frequently a bull, In a fit of temper, kills or cripples his keeper. This 4s more particularly true of dairj breeds. Now, I do not believe the. bull Is as much to blame as his owner: He has been kept in close confinement most of hia lifp with vprv little exercise or sun light, and no pleasant company. His blood is in bad order as a consequence, and he is difficult to control. The beef bull is more phlegmatic and less liable to get unruly. .1 think that if the treach erous bull "had been allowed the" range of a small paddock and the company of a couple of sedate old cows, and, perhaps, made do an hour's work each day, running a feed chopper or a churn, so as to wear out muscular tissue and maintain health and his procreative power In full vigor, his- blood .. would have been kept pure and his temper sweet. Agriculturist. Cure for Lumpy Jnw. As to the ammonia cure for lumpy jaw, we have only the assurance of a Mr. Wm. Metcalf, Grey County, Ontario, Whcr Trites the Fanners' Advocate as follows: I have used It for years, and cured every case, no matter how bad. Just rub a little on lump, or lumps, as sometimes there are several. They will disappear gradually In a short time. Sometimes, if very bad, I foment with pretty warm water, but not hot enough to scald. The ammonia has then -more chance to penetrate, but I seldom do anything but tub a little on with my fingers; out of a ten-cent fcottle I keep in the stable for the purpose. .Waiteof Sweet Corn Stalks. Usually onXeaeh stalk there, are two or more ears, one fully ready for use as erepn com. me nrnpr email snu imma ture. To save this last the stalk Is left uncut.-: But in most ca&es the second, and always the third ear is too small to be profitably marketed. Whenever there Is only tine ear oh a stalk It should at once be-cut and fed to the cow or horse. It is worth more then than It ever will be again. We are not sure that this is not true, even when there are one or more nubbins left on the stalk, TOT fed to mllcbcows. Ordi nary fodder corn is very poor feed It needs to be supplemented, as this sweet corn . fodder does, with a greater amount of nutrition, which is worth as much in increased milk yield as it is in a few nubbins of corn. Sweet corn fod der is more wasted than any,pther. It is wasted In trying to save nubbins'of corn worth more for feeding than they are for anything eIse.-OuItivator. ' ' A Good Stable Floor. We may not be able to lay a cement floor, we may not be able to buy lum ber, but, in most cases, we have some clay on the farm, and, if so, there is no excuse for not having a very fair stable flcof. Dig out the top soil, and fill in at least six Inches of clay which has been worked thoroughly with wat er, and about one-sixth coal ashes, or fine gravel, and straw chopped to about h&i ad inch in length, so as to form a tough, adhesive mass. The preliminary mixing can be done with a hoe, but the working proper should be done by tramping thoroughly, either by man or horse. Drive In little pegs to show the slope desired, and then ram it firmly with a large wooden rammer. Smooth it off, using a straight edge from peg to peg, and allow time to dry properly be fore using. Such a floor will stand a good deal of wear, and can be kept rea sonably clean.Grange Homes. Farminc a Good Business. Fifty-five years ago I was busily en gaged on a farm;' It seemed to me a hard life, and as soon as I was 21 years old I sought an easier one, but I cannot say that I found it. After working at different kinds of business for fourteen years (seven and one-half years being spent in Illinois and Missouri) I came back to my native place broken in health and fully persuaded that farm lng was not the hardest business one could choose. After my second experi ence of thirty-five years I still have the same opinion. Farming as a reliable way of getting a living ha not changed materially in fifty-five years, but the. way to- run a farm has changed. The trouble about farming is that you cannot induce the middle-aged man tpmake the changes that the times require,: and the young man who lives on the home farm must. and will, do as his father used to do. The one easy thing to learn now Is the eight or ten-hour system for a day. The science of farming has changed as much as that of manufacturing. The hand spinning wheel has been set aside, and so, to a large extent, must the hand hoe and-.the l and scythe, the hand rake and the one-horse plow. The old four-pound lump of butter must be well made Into eight half-pound prints milk must be put Into glass cans; all kinds of fruit must look Just so and the cows must be groomed to look as tidy as a gentleman's horse, and so on to the end of farm work. If n farmer will be up In fashion and up with the time he lives in, farming is as good business now as it was fifty years ago. A farm er might as well be out of the world as to be fifty years behind the times. New England Farmer. Ftack Makinsr. As a rule there are few good stack makers in the United States, as the abundant building material makes it easy to put up barns capable of holding all the grain and hay. But wherever grain growing increases largely, the grain in the straw, being only left in that condition for a few weeks, does not absolutely need barn room. A well built stack answers every purpose, and, except labor used In making it, costs nothing. The only necessary rule Is to always keep the middle of the stack full and to tramp it down well. If the sides are not trampled at all It will be better. The stack will settle with the grain in the best possible shape. The Live Forever Pest. The following plan has proved effect ive in getting rid of live forever in at least one case: Fence off a small por tion at a time and turn in hogs, which are very fond of the weed and will de vour it greedily, rooting up the ground to get the little tubers. By permitting the hogs to. till this soil thoroughly they will eradicate live forever, root and branch, In a more thorough and Inexpensive manner than can be done in any other way. At least this is what a Connecticut farmer writes to the New England Homestead. Another farmer wrote as follows: "Turn hogs on the land in early spring, and they will clean up the roots completely, or salt If placed upon each plant will kill." He Plows Ieo. Mr. T. M. Brown, who resides in El bert County, Georgia, on the line of the Southern Railway, is a successful farm er. Mr. Brown bought his farm about five years ago, and he aims to get big returns by deep plowing and the use of commercial fertilizers and farm-yard manure. Beginning on poor and worn out land four years ago, that scarcely paid the cost of tillage, he has brought it up to that high state of fertility that enabled him to get last yea forty-one bales of cotton on fifty acres and 5,000 bushels of corn on twenty-five acres, together with oats, peas and other pro vision crops in abundance. Southern States. V . . Killlne Weeds with Match- Small patches of Canada thistle anu quacl grass can be often best destroy ed by using a mulch of almost any thing that will be so compact that the new shoots that come to the surface cannot work their way through it. Care should be taken to suppress quickly aH shoots of the obnoxious growth that will appear outside the mulched area. So soon as the roots find they cannot grow through they will increase their growth on every side so as to avoid the mulch. If only a few or barely one or two spouts reach the surface they -will keep life in the underground roots, and the work must ail be donj over again next year. ' - Farm Ttfotea. ' While at pasture the,, young sheet should hav access to salt. A flock will visit the suiting place twice a day reg ularly. Salt is a good" tonic and pre-, vents indigestion, which produces de structive diarrhoea, all the worse-when-the weather is warm. - Prof. H.'- 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 suffi ciently 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 germinating spores entering the tenderes'- part the root, node and lowest joint and after the disease is once in the plant no applica tion will do the least good. " In regard to detasseling corn that Is, to break down the tassels or remove them, a practice which has been advo cated 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 matjgots which annoy sheep so severely ar hatched from eggs depos- -Ited in the nostrils by a 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 ani mals. 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, it being an Irritant" to tpa 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. It has frequently been asserted that the brilliant colors of many flowers serve to attract bees and butterflies to 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 real attraction. Bright-colored blossoms were covered with leaves and papers pinned closely over them, yet the in sects not only visited the hidden flow ers, but endeavored to force their way under the paper in order to reach the blossoms, which they could not see. Unproductive land is a tax on th farmer and reduces the receipts de rived from the whole farm because la bor must be bestowed upon it at the expense of some other portion. Every piece of land should be made to pro duce something, not by taking off a crop without adding an equivalent therefor to the land, but by first bring ing the land up with manure or fertil izers and then making It pay. for thai which was expended upon It. The farm should not have a fertile field surround ed by poor land, but the whole should be made to produce to the highest capa- I city, 1 71 The title of Mrs. Cragie's new novel is "The School for Saints." The American Monthly Review of Re views Is the new title of the periodical edited by Albert Shaw. In course of time it will doubtless come to be known more briefly as the .American Monthly. John Kendrick Bangs is now vice president of the Yonkers Board of Ed ucation and to the duties of this office he devotes a large part of the time left from his writing and from golf, in which he is an enthusiast. The most northern paper in the world Is printed at Godthaab, in Greenland, and is called Laesestof. It is a mission ary sheet, made for the Eskimos, and has been the means of teaching many of them to read the Danish language. The third and last volume of the new London edition of Burns works has now been completed by W. E. Henley and his collaborator, Mf. Henderson. Included in It will be an essay on the genius of the poet by Mr. Henley. A new element has been Introduced Into the problem of the origin of our cats by the discovery In Brazil of a. tortoiseshell wildcat, of which the late Prof. Cope had the only known muse um specimen. This animal will be de scribed from Prof. Cope's specimen in Appleton's Popular Science Monthly, by William H. Ballou. Four O'Clock has a new fund of light, short stories, after the graceful model of those of its editor, Charles Fletcher Scott. The art work, from the poster on the cover to the last pasted-ln tail piece is remarkably good. Gibson never made a more graceful and effec tive picture than the one by McCutch eon entitled "And Then Broke Down." The magazine shows many signs of prosperity, and if Its founders do not maker the foolish mistake of changing Its character in imitation of something else, they have every chance of holding permanently the wide patronage due to the noyelty of their enterprise. Jim the Penman. A few months ago-a' Chicago man who has written a play called upon a New York manager at a Chicago hotel and sent up his card. The theatrical man received him very graciously; and the Chicagoan said he had a play which he would like to have the Goth ami te consider. - ' . "Sit right down and read it to me now," said the manager. This was done, and at the conclusion' of the hearing the New Yorker said that he could not see enough in the play to warrant him in producing it." The Chicago man expressed his thanks for the courtesy of a hearing, and added that he was somewhat sur prised to find a New York manager so easily accessible. . "Well," said the Gothamite, "I make It a point always to dip into every play which comes along, sufficiently to learn its possibilities at least. I had an ex perience once which taught me a les son. I was In London one summer on bnsiness,-and as I was about ready to return a theatrical broker handed me the manuscript of a play and asked me to place it for him if possible in Amer ica. He said I might have the Ameri can rights for $500 and he would give me 10 per cent commission for placing It. ". - "I threw the manuscript into a trunk, and when I reached New York banded It to a well-known manager and asked him to look into it. He soon reported that the piece was 'absolutely worth less.' Of course I gave the matter no. further thought. I took the manuscript back across the water next summer and surrendered it. "But a year or two later the author of that play produced it jln Xondon and made a hit. The' very New York man ager who had indorsed it as 'absolutely worthless' secured the A merican rights by cable, and for many years, paid thou sands of dollars for the right to present 'Jim, the Penftan' in this country a play which was offered to me outright for $500 and which I never even read. Since then I've been reading plays." Chicago Time-Herald For Your Stomach's Sake. Persons who do not know any better, ose saleratus, pearlash, baking pow ders, soap suds, alum, and heaven knows what else, to "raise" their bread and sweeten their sour dough. Here are a few facts about it from an ex change: "Wood is burned to ashes; the ashes are leached; lye is the result. Lye is evaporated by boiling, black salts is the residuum. The salts are purified by fire and yield potash. The potash Is then, by a certain process, changed to pearl ash. Pearlash is put in sacks over a distillery mash tub, where . fermenta- tion evolves carbonic acid gas; the pearlash absorbs It, becomes solid, and Is whiter, heavier and drier than the pearlash was, and it is now saleratus! How much salts of lye and carbonic acid gas a human stomach can bear and be healthy is a question for a saleratus eater. Potash will eat the hands. Some say saleratus will not harm the stom ach. Such a statement looks like a lye. Saleratus and other alkalies will neu tralize acids, and if exactly the right proportions are used the residuum may lie inert nnd nerhnns cnmnaratlvelv ! harmless. But often the right propor tions are not used and alkali Is left to eat the coats of the stomach. But if j the right proportions are used there is ' still left In the "system a quantity of hard, unyielding, insoluble matter, which is likely to clog the machinery, stiffen the joints and derange the whole system. Better keep the stuff outside, and eat good sweet 'unleavened bread.' " Careless. "Yes," said the editor of the picture paper, "he Is a very good artist. I have only one fault to find with him." "What is that?" "His style Is getting monotonous. He drew two portraits of the same woman, and he made them both look alike." Washington Star. Why "We Are Tired. The fatigue felt after exertion is now usually attributed to the presence, in the muscles and blood, of the chemical products that result from action. Biggest Gun Casting. A 16-inch gun casting was made at the Bethlehem Iron Works on August 12. It is intended for the tube of a 16 inch gun now being built for the gov ernment, and is 19 feet 6 inches long, pctagonal in shape and 74 inches in diameter. More than 100 tons of metal were used in the casting, the first and ;the largest of its kind ever made in this .country. DO WE MEED BIO MUSCLES? By no means. Persons of herculean build fre quently possess a minimum of genuine vigor, exhibit less endurance than verv small people. Real vigor means the ability to digest and sleep well, and to perform a reasonable amount of daily physical and mental labor without un natural fatigue. It Is because a course of Hos tetter's Stomach Bitters enables the enfeebled dyspeotic to resume the alloted activity of every "day life, as well as to participate without discomfort In its enjoyments, that it is such a pre-eminently useful medicine. Vaccination has just been introduced into Afghanistan by the advice of Miss Hamilton an English physician, who is in attendance upon the Ameer." There Is more Catarrh in this section of the 3ountry than all other diseases put together, ind until the last few years was supposed to be incurable. For a great many years do. 'tors pro aounced it a local disease, and prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure by local treatment, pronounced it Incurable. 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"I hate to refer to the matter at all," remarked the colonel, who fought through the late war at the head of a .Michigan regiment, "because it only makes me renew my contempt for my self, but I've had chances in the North west to put myself In the millionaire list that nobody but a confirmed yap would think of neglecting. After the war I was a 'land-looker,' as they are called, and I knew the whole country from Detroit clean through to the far corner of Minnesota, and right where there are big buildings and beautiful city squares to-day I could have bought land at any price I might name. One man wanted me to buy, in Duluth, a few lots at $50 apiece, and I laughed at him. They are worth $5 a square foot to-day and upwards. I picked up one piece of land at Agate Harbor for a hundred dollars and sold it tor a thousand; that Is worth $50,000 now, and I wouldn't give a man $250 for a tract that is worth as many thousand this very minute. "But those are small potatoes ai'd few in a hill to the biggest piece of lost opportunityism I was ever guilty of." and the colonel sighed prof ouucllj . "You know that famous Mesaba iron mine country, up there, on Lake Su perior, where they are taking out thou sands of tons every year of the richest ore on earth, and any quantity of men are enjoying princely incomes from their royalties? Well, before anybody ever heard of the Mesaba iron ore f was up there running a line north from the Cloquet river, and one day I began to have all sorts of trouble with uiy compass. 1 "Ordinarily It was a very tractable and reliable instrument, but here for some reason it acted strangely, or rath er refused to act at all, and I could hardly get any sense out of It. I kept going ahead, however, and for ten miles my trouble continued. Then it was over, and I never was quite so glad of anything as when that (om pass began to work again, and I did not have to lay my course by sun. "I knew before I finished what the matter was, but what did that iron under the ground that swerved my needle out of its course moan to me? Nothing. . That's all. I was a T.Iain, every-day chump. What I was alter was timber, and the timber all along there was not of sufficient Quality to justify my giving the land a second thought, and I didn't. Thin!;. of it, men and brethren," sighed the colonel again, "there I was walking over and standing on millions and millions of dollars, and I could nave had all of it I wanted for the mere having sense enough to take it up, and I didn't have the sense." Washington Star. Evolution of the Color Sense. It has often been said that "nations are developed like individuals, passing through the same successive stages ot Infancy, youth, maturity and old age. This theory receives support from what is historically known respecting the evolution of the color sense in the infant. According to recent observa tions, the process is as 'follows: At first it has only the perception of light, but soon learns .the difference between black and white, then begins to notice objects and apprehend their move ments. At about six .months the sensa tions of red and green take their rise in the central portions of the retina, and are perfected at the end of the second year. During the third year the child becomes acquainted with yellow; dur ing the fourth, with orange, blue, aud finally with violet; the chromatic sense is thus fully unfolded at the age of five or six".. Within another, year he forms the habit of distinguishing the above named colors In his talk. The Annamltes, we are told," are able to discern (aside from black and white) only red, green and yellow; "hence the Intellectual growth of this people, so far as vision is concerned, may be com pared to that of a 2-year-old child. 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