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WILLAMETTE PARMER: PORTLAND, OREGON. JUNE 15 188. jtotk. Horseshoeing. We have published much nlout horsc- Bhociui?i hut tho following from the Prniric Farmer is worthy of cnrcful rend ing : In removing the old shoo prior to the horso being newly shod, each nail ought to be drawn by the pincers inde pendently, and the shoe not torn off as is usually the case. The shoe being re moved, the smith satisfies himself as to the obliquity of the foot, which is readily done by allowing the horse to stand on a level floor and himself retiring a fow pace, so as to obtain a view of the angle formed by the front of the foot and the surface on which the foct stands. Tho angle should be about fifty degrees. If tho obliquity is greater, or if, in other wools, the angle bo less than fifty degrees a portion of the crut around the too only and on the ground surface should be re moved. Should the opliquity be corroct and there is a superabundance of crust, it should bo removed by rasping and judic ious paring from toe to heel. When too great an obliquity exists, it is owing to the heel having been pared or rasped more than tho toe. Few horses require any of the horn removed lieyonu what is done m fitting tho shoe ; the more horn there is below the sensitive parts the less mischief nails do. By leaving sullicient horn the nails arc far removed from tho sensitive lamime. It is not absolutely necessary for a nail to penetrate the sensitive lamina) to cause mischief; for if tlio nail ap proaches tho horn, which become dis placed, depresses upon the lamime and causes considerable pain on a membrano so highly sensitive. When tho fitting of tho shoo is completed it may be made sutliciently warm to make for itself a bed or seating so as to insure the foot and tho shoo having two planes as near as can bo obtained. This can bo done without de stroying the texturo of tho adjacent horn. The crust yhich is thus removed, and by the previous operation of fitting the shoo is generally found sufficient in working horses to reduce the foot to a healthy size. Tho outer wall should under no pretense be rasped, tho clinch should bo simply knocked down and not lot into the crust by making a line with tho rasp. Short-Horns. The growing in fine cattlo throughout tho West is a most encouraging sign. And while new breeds arc attracting at tention and ourbrecders and ranchmen are willing to give them all a full and fair trial, and pay .handsomely for fine ani mals, of whatever class, it is encouraging to know that the old and favorite breed Short-horns has lost nothing by compe tition with these newer importations. Tho Short-horns still have a firm hold upon the affections of the farmer in this country. And no period of their history did they ever stand higher than now. Their many excellent qualities make them a very desirable cattle. Xo animal lines and ribs better than they and puts on flesh faster. They are a pretty beast and most profitable both for farmers and feeder. We are speaking of good animals now, cattlo with individual merit as well as pedigree. Animals that have consti tution as well as good blood, and when fat, do not show too much daylight under them. The word "Short horn" is a very general term just now. The whole Dur ham family lay claim to being Short horns. It is the largest family of fine cattlo in America, by many times, and of course has many "black sheep" in it. Then again there a,ro many carelessly bred animals who claim to have sprung from good families, but like many of tho .human race who, once stood well, seem to have retrograded. Hence it is not sur prising that we get tho sale of so many comparatively cheap animals. Take the tops of the Short-horns and they sell as well as tho tops of any breed, and when you come to fancy animals, they have in the past out sold anything in tho way of bovines. Kansas Price Current. Idea on Live Stock. A writer says that to dosiroy lice on livo stock he has found nothing better than strong carbolic soap-suds. Tho soap usually sold under tho name is not strong enough for the purpose. It may be easily prepared and at any degree of strength that may bo required. Get a pound of carbolic acid crystals, which may bo had at any wholesalo druggists. I get them at a cost of sixty cents per pound. Take ten pounds of common bar soap, put in a pan with a little water and heat until dissolved. Take out tho cork from tho bottle containing the acid, and put it in hot water, which will cause tho acid to become fluid, add this to tho soap and stir well. Set away to cool and you will have a soap at small cost which will bo strong enough to kill any vermin which infest domestic animals, and which will euro barn itch and any cutaneous diseases to which they are liable. It is good to cleanse and heal sores, and a wash of it will bo found good where animals aro hide-bound and the skin out of con dition ; it will 1)0 found good to wash tho inside of poultry houses to render them sweet, nnd kill and prevent vermin. It is a cheap, safe and sure remedy, and should find a place in all well regulated premie. Ex. fit Papers. As a rule tho pig is reared for tho nig is reared for money that is in him. Wo may talk about cheap meats for the millions as a necessity justifying tho rearing of swine, and persuade ourselves that the man is excusable who at this day places beforo his fellow men, as an article of diet, tliat which in olden limes was rejected by an I honored people as unfit for human food. Little difference, however, does it make to the man thus excused, whether we think of him as a philanthropist or one engaged in leading mankind astray, so long as he has a fair profit on the pigs ho rears, or on the pork products he can place on the market. If there were no money for him in the breeding and rearing of hogs he would not engage in the business. Wo find, however, that fo every farmer and cottager in tho land there is a profit in pig raising, and so long as such is tho case, wo may expect to seo this among the leading industries in civilized America. The rapidly growing interest in swino breeding in tho United States is shown by tho late census returns. According to these there were on farms, in June, 1880, 47,083,951 hogs, the rate of increase since WiV being UU per cent., while tho rate of increase in population during the same time was only 30 per cent. The census returns show also that nearly two-thirds of tho hogs in tho United States in 1880 were in the five States of Iowa, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio. With facts and figures such as these at hand it is not surprising that the live stock and agricul tural papers, particularly those of tho West, should devote more attention than formerly to swine husbandry, and that public records of breeding stock should bo established and sustained ; nor, on the other hand, that all parties interested in swine breeding should more eagerly avail themselves of every means calculated to aid in tho successful prosecution of this work. Phil. Thrifton in the Breeders' Gazette. A Free Martin. I have a well-bred Durham cow dropped twin calves November 5, 1882, one heifer and one bull, tho heifer being strongest. When dropped the bull calf was weak for a time. I am told none of them arc good for breeding purposes. Both are good strong, healthy calves, now doing well. They arc from a high-bred bull of a good family. Tho bull calf I would like to keep, as ho has the appear ance of making a good animal. David Steel. In such cases tho heifer is what is termed a "Free Martin," and although outwardly in appearance all right, yet they aro generally hermaphrodites, and consequently do not breed. There arc exceptions, however, but in such cases tho heifer has more of the feminine np pcarancc. Tho "Free Martin" is usually large, masculine, nnd when sho bellows has tho coarse voice of the bull. Tho cases of fertility aro rare of n twin heifer with a bull eal ; but the bull is all right, and can bo kept for breeding purposes with perfect confidence. This peculiarity of infertility of tho female twin with the bull is only applicable to tho bovine race. In all other animals, and in the human race, there has never been discovered tho least inclination to this fault. "Freo Martins" aro generally large, strong nnd given to taking on flesh, and make good beeves. The sterility in such cases is a freak of nature in tho bovine animal, which is almost uniform in its characteristics, as not more than ono in a thousand is any more fertile than a femalo mule. There is no recorded caso of tho bull in such cases being impotent. -Iowa State Kegister. Right Living. It is preposterous to suppose that wo can livo as our sensual impulses may dic tate, outrage all common sense, violate all of tho laws of our being, and then escape tho penalty. Wo cannot live like swine and rise to Iho position of angels. Dis ease is no accident, but has causes as cer tainly as have bruises, sprains, broken bones and tho like. Derangements, dis ease, pain, suffering and premature death aro tho direct outcome tho results of tho violations of tho laws of the body, or tho laws of God, in general, visitecj upon us as penal inflictions. There is no acci dent or uncertainty in the matter of secur ing health by obedience to tho laws and conditions of health. There is no more uncertainty in securing it than there is in obtaining an education, in learning a trade, or in succeeding in any branch of business. Seeking health is a legitimate business, and is far more promising and certain than tho mercantile, since there is no danger from competition, and very few obstacles in tho way, savo our own 85nsual weaknesses. As a ccnernl prin ciple, tho climato is far moro favorable than our own habits. We can obey and succeed, or disobey and suffer. In this wo aro free to act, and arc tho architects of our physical fortunes, ns much as in business. Dr. J. H. Ilanaford. Profitable Axe of Ebeep. Thcro aro few nnimaN kept on a farm, that when they aro in their prime, pay as well as sheep, and there are few if any others upon which old age has so dam aging an effect. As tho sheep is much shorter lived than any other of our do mestic animals, it is not strango that many of our fanners attempt to keep them too long. At ten years of ago the horso is just in his prime, nnd tho cow is as good as ever, with tho prospect of re maining so several years. But the sheep at ten years is very old, that being about the natural limit to its life. After reach ing this ago changes of weather or any little carelessness in handling is quite liable to injure them, while with the younger animal it would not bo noticed. Old sheep are much more liable to attacks from disease, and when onco dii-cased are much harder to manage. Sliecj) should Iks disposed of when they aro t-ix years old, as after that ago they cea.so to lw profitable. Ex. Tho United States has in round num lers 33,000,000 cattle, 10.500,000 horse, 36,000,000 Bhcep anjl 48,000,000 hogs; beinc first in cattlo and hogs, wxond in horses, fourth in sheep. iQoHicnlhiral HORTICULTURAL NOTES. Ripe tomatoes will remove ink or other stains from the hands. Kerosene will soften leather hardened by water and ren der it as pliable as new. To heal cut fingers with' rapidity, wnis them in n cloth saturated with alum water ; it will sting sharply for a little while, but the pain will subside quickly and for good. The same remedy will euro chafing, but is too severe to be used on children. To keep tinware nico and bright scour it every two or three week's with fine sifted coal ashes. To clean willow furniture use salt and water, and npply with a horse brush nnd dry thoroughly. Mnchine grease may be removed from wrap goods by dipping tho fabric in cold rain water nnd soda. Some seeds will retain their germinat ing properties for many years. There are others again will loso their vitality very speedily. Wheat and peas have been her metically scaled in the tombs of mum mies of Egypt, for not less than four thousand years, have been grown and produced their kind. But it is always safest to commit to the ground the most recent seed, if well matured and properly gathered nnd preserved. A New York farmer has found by ex perience that Hubbard squashes fed to hogs fatten more rapidly than corn. He fed Hubbards raised on one acre and the corn raised on one acre to two bunches of hogs. Those fed , on the Hubbards weighed heavier than the same number fed on corn. It might be worth while to raise squashes for fattening purposes. A regular rotation of crops should be ndopted and systematically adhered to, and so arranged that every year a portion of tho farm that has laid fallow, or upon which clover has been turned under, mav be brought into cultivation. This is im portant, as in no other wny can the soil bo kept in good tilth so cheaply. A novel method of dealing with the codling moth, the parent of the apple worm, has very recently been practised to good advantage. Thcro are two broods of worms in ono season, often three. The first brood is hatched from eggs which aro laid in the blow end of the upple soon after tho flower drops. The young apples nt this tinio stand erect on their stems, and if Paris green nnd water be syringed on to them it will fill up the blow end and kill off tho whole of the first brood of worms as soon as they hatch and begin to eat. Later tho npplo turns down and all the poisonous matter is washed away beforo it ripens. 1 ho second brood can not, of course, be treated in this way. The easiest way to increase roses is by layering. When tho flowering season is o- er a branch may be cut through in a sloping direction, and the cut portion laid and pegged down and covered with soil, or it may bo pressed down into n pot, nnd when it is rooted tho layer is severed from the original plant. In this wuy one plant may furnish half a dozen plants in one season, and so on for a few years, when tho third year the original dozen may be increased more than a hundred times. The Farmer's Magazine thus says re garding sunflowers : The sunflower yields more seed than corn. A bushel of seed will yield a gnllonof oil, nnd tho residium is equivalent to that of linseed. The flowers make n good dyo and furnish bees with material for wax and honey. The stalks make excellent fuel and furnish a fine fiber for working with silk. The leaves are a good adulterant for Havana fillers and are eaten by btock. As food for the table the seeds can bo ground into flour and made into palatable, nutritious bread. It is a practice with some farmers to whitewash the trunks and larger limbs of their young npplo trees overy spring, to remove moss nnd destroy moths and other insects. Tho practice, however, is not a good one. Tho bark of a tree performs functions similar to the skin of a ierson. It exhales and inhales such gasses nnd substances as nro necessary to its healthy condition. The lime c!oms the pores and becomes nn airtight canting. A strong wnfeh of tobacco, lye and soap-suds will bo as effective upon moss and insects as lime, and will open tho pores of tho bark, give it a smooth, glossy surface, and will do no harm. Betting Large ana Small Trees. A resident of ono of our largo villages, who had come into possession of a fine lot which he wished to plant, but who had little cxperienco in tree culture, called on a neighboring nurseryman to make pur chases. Ho wanted nothing but large trees two inches in diameter if ho could find them, nnd ten feet high. Ho cared much less for tho kind than for tho size anything which was gigantic, early or late, fruit or ornamental, was eagerly taken. Tho nurseryman gave his opinion frankly that trees of moderate size would le better, but tho purchaser quickly re plied, "I want big trees now I may not live fo' tho small ones to grow up." Ho carried offa largo load of monsters. In a few years he camo again to make addi tional purchases. Tho nurseryman at onco remarked, "I supjioso you want all tho Iargot trees you can get 1 think I can supply you." ".o, nor exclaimed tho purchaser, "I've had enough of big trees! No moro for mo! Those I got of you have searrcly grown any since, and the smaller ones have overtaken them, and they are ever so much handsomer and more thrifty; give mo small, vigorous trw." This incident tells tho whole story, and should bo remembered by every incrpjrienced planter. Many yearn ago, Sir Henry Stewart inado a plantation of large trees in tho moist climate of Scot land, but they inailo little growth and had a sickly apjearance. It was then that London, with his long nnd extensive ex perience ns n landscape gardener, offered to make a public tost with any one who would try large trees, ho himself planting stnall and thrifty ones with full roots, in rich, deeply trenched nnd well cultivated ground, with the confident assurance that in a given number of years ho would show trees not larger but immeasurably finer in appearance. Tho practical hint to be derived from these facts at present, by those who made purchases of large trees last fall, w ether already planted or heeled-in for next spring, is to give them the extra care which they require, by spreading all the roots which they have, equally on differ ent sides when they aro set, tilling in nil tho interstices among them with fine earth compactly trodden or beaten ; bracing tho trees firmly agrinst the wind by staking ; and beforo tho buds swell in spring cutting back all the annual shoots to lighten tho heads. Taking up a wide circle of uninjured roots is vitally impor tant, but this may have lieen omitted. Mellow culture through the summer is absolutely essential. With all this care trees may in a year or two recover from tho check thoy have met with in reiioval. But small trees, with the abundant roots which arc easily taken up with them, will need no staking, nnd with subsequent care and the thorough cultivation of the soil, they will spring up nnd grew with scnrcelyn single season's check in growth. Small trees cost less, aro more easily dug, havo better roots, aro more casilv trans planted, arc not whipped out by the wind and are more easily trained into the de sired form. Tne Exciting Property of Oats. Experiments have been recently made by M. Sanson, with a view to settling the question whether oats have or have not tho excitant property that has been at tributed to them. The nervous and mus cular excitability of horses was carefully odserved with the aid of graduated elec trical apparatus, beforo and after they had catena given quantity of oats or received little of a certain principle which M. San son succeeded in isolating from oats. The chief results of tho inquiry aro as follows : tho pericarp of the fruit of oats contains a substance soluble in alcohol and capable of exciting tho motor colls of tho nervous system, This subt-tanco is not, as somo have thought, vaniline, or tho odorous principle of vanilla, nor at all like it. It is a nitrogonized matter, which seems to belong to tho group of nlknloids ; is very uncrystalliznblo, finely granular and brown in mass. Tho author rails it nveninc. All vnrieties of cultivnted oats seem to elaborate it, but they do so in very different degrees. The elaborate substance is tho same in all varieties. Tho differences in quantity depend not only on tho variety of the plant, but also on tho places of cultivation. Oats of tho white variety havo much less than thoo of the dark, but for somo of tho former, in Sweden, tho ditlerencc is small ; whilo for others, in Russia, it is considerable. Under 0.!) per cent, of tho excitablo prin ciples of air-dried oats, tho doso is insuffi cient to certainly affbet the excitability of horses, but above this proportion tho ex citant action is certain. Whilo some light-colored oats certainly have consider able excitant power, somo dark oats have little. Determination of tho amount of the principle present is tho only bat-is of appreciation, though, as already stated, white oats are likely to be less exciting than dark. Crushing or grinding the grain considerably weakens tho oxcitant property, probably by altering tho sul stancc to which it is due; the excitant action is more prompt, but much less strong and endurable. Tho action, which is immediate nnd moro intense with the isolated principle, does not appear till some minutes after tho eating of tho oats ; in both cases it increases to a certain point, then diminishes and disappears. The total duration of tho oll'ect is slated to Ih! an hour per kilogramme of oats digested. C. N. POTTER, NURSERYMAN, SALEM, OK. Fruit, Shade and Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery, Vines Etc. roJIas an especially fine lot of'&i PLUM and PRUNE TREES, OF TUB VERY BEST VARIETY. A.IdreasO. N. I'OTTKH, Novl2tt Salem, Oregon. USE ROSE PILLS. TANGENT NURSERY. II. W. Settlcmirc, Proprietor. MUrtrd lUj.-a ear .Vurstrjiiian. ALL SORTS OP t-Ml'ir, OKSAMKftTAL and JilUDt: Trees, Vines and Shrubbery. farKend to Tangent, Ortifon, for prlai Urt mJ det criptlve ctaloue. declttf mmsim DciCff:'(aicCiut KEJO NWAE roRrlllfia.r! tlkm In all cdtHc&dU. and to cu. totwrentlutrearwlthnutordertliirlt. 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