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WILLAMETTE ARMEB: SALEM, OREGON, JANUARY 4, 1884. 6 9 F r K jiWlt. Early Breeding- or Heifer. A correspondent writing to the Coun try Gentleman Bays : I believe the God of nature under elands this matter as well and even a lit tle better! If nature did not intend these animali to breed young, why wcro they so created? It is nil right to assist, defend and protect nnturo, but whoever undertakes to annul or override nature's laws makes a mistake. The safest rulo to adopt is to allow heifers to breed young, and then tako good care. Thoy will generally come out all right. Ono great sourco of nbortiop among heifers is allowing those in calf to run with thoso that aro not. Tho latter ride tho others when in heat, and thus injuro them. Hoifora that breed young gener ally make tho best cows at maturity. If littlo hcifor has a small bag when she calves it will increases with ago( and whon sho is at middlo ago she is al together bettor than ono that is kept back until sho is a cow boforo she breeds. Ono three years old boforo sho breeds may do well tho first reason, but never doc3 well again. Tho young heifer will begin small itnd do best at maturity. These, conclusions nro arrived at after moro than fifty years' practical experi ence. I havo known a hoifor to drop a healthy calf three days boforo riio wus twelve months old, and had no unusual troublo, and was woll and healthy as any cow. I am tho owner of a cow that droppod her first calf at soventcen months old, and was always Binall of her age. Hho will soon drop her twelfth calf. .She has always dono well and never nocded tho aid of a veterinary surgeon. Wool ax! Mutton. Tho sheep that combine the two pro ducts of wool and mutton aro the most profitable for Bhcep husbandry in the Houth. Tho merino shcop and thoir grades aro tho ljcst for theso purpo&cs. Tho incrcaso in tho consumption of mut ton is far greater than that of other kinds of meat. This will bo seen by re ferring to tho statistics of tho number of eheep slaughtered in tho largo citicH yearly. Tho incrcaso in number for a iow yenrs past is far greater than can bo accounted for by tho incrcaso of popula tion in such cities. Tako, for instance, tho city of Now York. Tho incroaso was from 1,228,5:10 shcop slaughtered in 1875, to 1,709,598 in 1880, an increase of 541,008, or H per cent, in fivo years. Tho incroaso in other citios has been about tho Bfimo. Tho avorago price of mutton has increased for several years, and, if Blioop do not increase with tho demand, it must go still higher. There is also a change in another respect in re lation to mutton, as woll as other incat animals. Medium sizod carcasses are now proforrcd to overgrown ones. Ono of tlio largest purchasers in tho Boston market told mo that ho would pay as much por pound for a lot of lambs ono year old, that would avorago 80 pounds, !iv wolght, as ho would for n lot aver aging 120 pounds, oach lot to bo equally woll fattened. A lot of merino limit, ono year old, will easily weigh 80 pounds, and matured wethers 100 pounds. Tho value of tho pelt is so much higher that tho morino and thoir grades are sold at .as high n piico, live weight, as any brood in all tho markets in this country. Industrial Koviovr. Bheorlnc Lambs. "Win, llrown of tho Ontario experi ment station in .'ujjlphj Canada, says, in an artielo contributed to tho Country Gentleman, that from experiments on foot at that station, most undoubted evidonocs aro gathered to show tho necessity not tho possibility but tho nocoBsity of clipping lambs onco and all othor shcop twice every season. Ho continues : Lot us, sketch what may oro long characterize our northern thee)-herding. Lambs come in March, and receive, with tho owes, all tho necessary care in housing, food and gcxxl management. Tlonty of suitable food and accommoda tion, four months on milk, with extra food in house and on pasture, will make a very liuiepomiuui iauu iy uio uiuuuo of July, when turning on tho Invt pm tures'proparoH for shearing about tho 1st of August, it uio nreeu is a medium woolod one, such as tho Shrops, which wo tako as mi example, wo will havo a close coat throe inolies in length, that wefcha throe undone-halt ikuiiuId, which under any market conditions, will fetch two cents per pound more, in any breed, because it is liuuui' wool, inoroisi. rapid re-clothing of the shorn lamb, which by tho middle of September ac quires a thicker mid warmer coat than it would havo had without clipping; tho animal him thriven letter through the worm weather, is heavier than tho aver ago of his kind with tho first wool on, anil every way bettor prepared to stand tho coming winter. Then tho proper class of wintering in liberal feeding, with unoonlluod housing, will produco an other rleooo ripe for harvesting by the middlrt of April. Early clippinic now is more important than at any other time of tho animal's life; tho vigorous growth of a vrell-dono shearling makes a heavy, rich rleooo oven as early us March 1. In the coldest, dry weather between Janu ary and April, the sweat-wot wool is evi dence of well-doing, and its removal a matter of both relief to the animal aud a moans of increasing tho weight of mutton, if for tho May market, and of adding to the vigor, sire aud health of breeding stock. Wool grow a rapidly on a well nuimgod Hock in curly i-priug tu in summer, so that by August 1st tho shearling is again in possession of a donsc pilo of 3J inch wool, that will clip 4 pounds. Ewes with lambs at foot mifrht nnofl in Anvtf hntiftint withonen doors, after spring clipping, but nothing more. It is tno loou mai supplies near, and tho damp weather that does harm, not the host and tho snow. Cattle Ralslnc. Ah ono by ono tho great cattle ranges of this region become tho abode of set tlers it is made apparent that a time is not far distant when thcro must bo in troduced a radical change from our pres ent method of raising beef. It will bo many n year, of course, boforo tho great grass-($vcrcd hills of this region shall havo been claimed by tho settler, but cattle aro not favorable to remaining on tho hills tho year round and in the sum mer soason especially they prefer tho low lands who,re they can find shade and plenty of water, Tho cattlo raiser of the future must therefore prepare for a chango from his present methods. Cattlo will have to be fed moro and kept more immediately undor tho supervision and care of tho owner. Tho business will bo robbed of pome of its "romance," perhaps as the jovial "cow-boy" will to some extent lose his occupation or at least will find his sphere more circum scribed. The annual "round up" will exist only in his recollection. Already this now order of things is being intro duced in Texas as will bo seen by tho following from tho News: Tho procosH of cattlo growing in Texas, says the Cincinnati Commercial, is un dergoing a quiet transformation. It is becoming the custom for cnttlo raisers to purchase thoir ranges and inclose them in barbed-wiro toners. Tho ranges may consist of from 10,000 to 100,000 acres. Thcro is an effort to improve tho stock also by tho introduction of blooded ani mals. Tho proprietors of tho ranges find it to their interest to produce better cattlo than tho wild Texas or Spanish steor. Tho beef is bettor nnd more of it, and it commends a higher prico. At tho rato the process of improving stock is going on, tho genuine Texas steer of puio blood, and abounding in vicious noss of temper, will, in a few years, be as scarce as buffalo.- -Yakima Signal. Blood Will Tell. Asido from all questions about '"fash ionable pedigrees," "line-bred animals," "alloys" ; niida from all questions about this or that shado of color, moro or less hair on tho legs, etc., thcro is a direct practical common-sense value in what is known as improved stock value for the "common farmer" us well as for his rich neighbor. No ono can go into a region in which nono of tho heavy draft-horse breeds havo been first introduced and find horses equally well suited for heavy draft as aro those of any ono of tho lead ing draft broods. Nowhoro among com mon cows can so many largo milkers be found as among Holstoins ; nor so many cows giving milk of great richnoss as among tho Jerseys or Guernseys. Hero ford, Polled Scot, or Shorthorn cattlo aro better for beof-making than aro any common or "native" cattlo of tho coun try. Tho same comparison can bo mado as to shcop and hogs. Tbero is very much in tho skill of tho feeders who lit animals of theso broods for show ; but thoso mon will toll you that thcro is as much or moro in tho animal. Tho most skillful feeder in tho world cannot fat tun a .lorsoy into tho marvollous form of a first-class beef animal, or make n Morino rival a Southdown in roundness and fulness of body. On the farm whero this is written there aro steers and hoif ors puro-bred, and also tlioo with only two or threo crosses of piuo-bred bulls, which havo been cheaply and simply reared, but which aro far and away bet ter than cattlo in the same pastures which havo less or no -improved blood." There aro colls which h.ivo not cost f 10 mm o than would have boon necessary for tho rearing of a "scrub" animal not worth ono-third as much. Tho average farmer does wisely when ho says ho cures very littlo whether the bull he buys has six or sixteen prowess whether theo bo fashionable or unfashionable. He may not lm foolish if ho claims that ho iloes not euro whether the pig or lamb ho buys bo rogWorod or not, but he is unwise mid clearly standing in his own light if he says ho does not care what tho breeding bo; if ho thinks one breed is as good as mint her, and "no hived at all" as good us any. Nor is it necessary that ho should pay largo prices. He causa n wealthy man chooses to pay ? 10,000 for u road-horse is no reason why a farmer should bo content to drive a slow, unsafe, dangerous bruto. lievuuso a "fanov brooder" pays thousands of dollars for u bull is no reason why a far mer muv not have a bull of tho same breed which he can get for one or two hundred dollars. There are thousands of farmers who, as yet, seem to 'care for nono of theso things." If, perchance, this piqior comes Into the hands of such a one, let us urge him to carefully and honestly study the display of stock at a Ureal fair, and, making till the allowance for high condition, honestly ask himself if it lie true that he has "jut as good stock at homo.1' Hreedeiti' Gazette. -F"ew-re s-i - - .l i For salt, Oaia or Trad. Au old fashioned (irover & Baker sewing machine, in good order tho works having boon recently sent to San Francisco and put in firnt-mto order. It is tho bet machine for general family work. Vroduoo will taken in ex change for it. Enquire at this office. Lost Some time last uinnior, n nice brocha shawl, which fell from a carriage while driving in tho vicinity of Salem. A handxime reward will bo aid, for tho return of said shawl or information of its being found. c tlairi. How an Iowa Dairyman Milks. Tho following from tho Dairy, contri buted by an Iowa dairyman, shows what absolute cleanliness means : "It is Baid thatit is as hard to bo cjean as it is to be good. Well, I think it is not hard to be good, even for a dairyman,if ho only docs as ho would bo done by, and just, as easy to bo clean. This is my method of doing it : At fivo o'clock I nm in the cow-stnblos. Tho feed prepared the night boforo is put into tho feed-boxes, which aro first, cleared of all remnants of former food; and, if sour, they are scoured out with warm wator and a broom. While Hin rnwKiirnoatinir thov aro thoroiltrhlv carded and bru-Oird, as well as any well-! kept horso is, and all over from head to j switch. Tho udder is sponged, if nee-j essary, and wiped with a clean towel, j nnrl nnf a rlnnrv rnir. The putters nrn ! and not a dungy rag. the gutters aroj UlCll Cieiiliuu tuit, uuu iuu muijo, u sum mon road broom bein used to finish af ter u broau scrapor, wmen uraws mo ma- nuro down to ttie trnp-tloors into tno cellar. Tho floor and the gutters are then littered woll with sawdust, when wo have no straw. For fifteen cows this takes an hour. Then I go to breakfast. At half-past six the cows are milked, and each milker hs overalls and an apron made of striped ticking, with which he can milk in his Sunday clothes and slip pers, if ho likes ; and any lady may go in with a silk dross on and not hurt it. As tho milk is drawn it is strained at once into the deep pails which stand on tho platform and aro kept covered ; the milk pails havo strainers, and a doublo strainer is kept in tho deep cans, so the milk goes through threo strainers. But this is not really necessary, as I would cheerfully drink a glass of milk direct from the cow as I milk it. But out of consideration for my customeis who buy my butter and milk I put the milk through three stiainers. As soon as tho deep pails nre full they nro closed and carriod to tho milkhouso and hand ed to tho person who sets tho milk in tho pool or tho creamery, or, if it is put into shallow pans, strains it onco more. Xow, thoro is nothing hard to do about this. It is so easy after having begun it and got into the way of it, that it would be html to stop it. And I don't see how it is eaier to bo cleaner than we aro in our daiiy." A Cure for Kicking Cows. Two corresponcents of tho Western Stock Journal givo their methods of curing kicking cows respectively as fol lows : A year or two sinco I got in trade a handsomo three-year-old heifer, ono of tho most vicious kickers I ovor saw. One of my men who milks tried various de vicos without effect, and finally took a common garden hoe, passed tho end in front of tho off hind leg (tho right leg be hind), nnd behind and above the gambrel joint of tho left hind leg of tho hoifer. Then pitting down on the right to milk, ho put tho handlo of tho. boo well up under his left arm, and began milking. Tho hoifer could not stir either hind leg, and after ono week sho could be milked safely without fettering, and proved to bo a valuable and gcntlo animal. Of coureo she was tied in tho stable liko the other cows, but on boing turned out to grass could bo milked any where without trouble, The annoynnco of having a full pail of milk kickod over by n vicious cow is, to say tho least, exasperating. Having had considerable experience with such ani mals, trying overy expedient I could think or hear of, I at last hit upon a de vice that proved effectual in the shapo of a milking stool so constructed as to shield tho pail from tho kick. Take a piece of plank two foot long and ten inches wido ;boro bolos and put two legs of suitable length at each end. Put a "div hliourd" (or perhaps it might bo moro properly called a "kickboard") at ono end, of height and with at top to correspond to tho pail, with two pieces uaile.l on each side back to tho scat board to strengthen and keep it in posi tion. This device will not keep a cow from kiekinc, but you will snvo your milk every time. Cloth Turning Butter White. Tho Dairy says : "Tho cause of print butter turning white by lying in nclotb, is said by an authority (T) to bo 'tho ef fect of tho acids used in bleaching cloth : also Unit it can bo avoided by tho use of tho thinnest make of muslin or cheese cloth.' This explanation will be very unsatisfactory to the dairyman who is troubled with his print butter. Acids aro not used in bleaching. Tho agent mado use of in bleaching is chlorine gas in combination with lime, nnd the thin nest muslin is bleached in the same way as thicker goods. It is also necessary to removo all traces of tho chlorine as soon as tho goods are bleached, to save the fibre from being destroyed by tho chlorine, which is remarkably corrosive in its effects. So that this'cxiuanation is nono at all. But white goods are, liko everything else, adulterated with pasto and white clay, torra-aiui, aim tno aisa line effect of the clay would causo but ter to'turn white, just as impure salt, having limo in it, ana consequently cnio ride of lime would also do it. If tho cloths are washed and thoroughly rinsed from soap, and the salt used is pure, thcro will be no change in the butter which comes in contact with them. Capital Affile. . ,.. ,, ,, , n .1 1 . An "Iowa Variiur talkam this hcqsi-j b!o wiy in Uu Dairy to the man who cow "holds up" her milk: "You get mad and pound her ribs with the three legged stool, and again her eye always looking sidewise at you changes and an expression of determination and obsti nacy, but yet perfect placidity too, fills that eloquent organ. It is no use. You give it up and let in the calf, and tho cow then turns and looks you full in tho face, with an air of triumph which is equal to a grin, if an eye can grin, and a cow's eye can. No, it is no use putting things on her back, or twisting her tail, or pounding, or coaxing her. When a cow 'is sot, she's sot,' and there's an end of it. If you have trained her so badly that sho has learned this trick, the best wav is to humor her, and let in tho calf. But I never failed yet to get the hotter of tho cow in such a case by muzzling tho calf, and letting it bunt and bunt while I milked? But the calf must bo tied, or it will gayly make a dive under tho cow and ovorset the milker and the pail too. The right way is to train the cow ; first, by never letting her know it is to suck when a calf, by removing her from tho $am xorQ s10 has sucked and then when Bj10 , a cow by never letting a calf suck a . :.i .,,... :.,,,. w A cow so trained never, in my ex- pcricncc, hold up her milk." uei orlei of the Plow. I shall never forget tho halcyon spring day that grandfather told mo to scour tho old plow and get ready to learn the mysteries of rhapsody. I took a brick and cleaned that old mold board with tho same eager delight and thor ough faithfulness that Ben Butler be stowed on the burnishing up of the Massachusetts almshouse What a thrill of ocstacy this frolicked within me as I slipped tho loop of tho single lino about my wrist, reached up to the handles and yauped "g'lang." Grandfather fol lowed in silence. I felt as glorious ns Private Dalzcll when he gets into the newspapers, and with unutterable feel ing I chirped, "Dear grandpa, you needn't never work any more. I'll run tho farm and you and grandma can spend tho money and " Wo were go ing down an incline, so when my pride quickly straightened the old plow shot out of the ground and jerked me clear over a'-straddlo of the beam. Tho horses stopped and grandpa kindly remarked : "Ye mustn't set down to rest so airly in the mornin', Lenny, if you're goin' to run tho farm." I felt as bad as tho Star Router who pleaded guilty to conspira cy, and bad to take it back, plead not guilty and bo discharged. Grandpa fondly sat down on a stump and watch ed mo pull and tug to drag tho old plow and two horses backward to plow up tho skip. After I pulled my arms out of socket, wrenched my back and was ready to start, grandpa wiped tho moisture from his eyes and cooed softly : "Ye kin save a good deal of time an' gruntin' by turnin' tho horses an' makin' them drag the plow roun' for skips like that un." I felt so grateful I wanted to let him go to the house for a jug of butter milk. We came to a little swell in the ground and the old plow started down deeper like an artesian well auger. "Bar down on th' handles," yelled Old Busi ness. Tho horses thought ho meant them, ond they just straightened out till their bellies kissed the ground; the plow started for China, struck a root, the plow clevis busted, tho horsos shot for ward and I rose over the plow at tho end of tho plow line, like Gillroy's kite. Grandpa picked mo up tenderly, dusted mo off with a sprout, then sont mo to the house for a clevis and a mattock to dig tho old plow out. I started next time with humiliation and an angry ancestor. Tho old plow seomod possessed. It tried as hard to ovado tho land as St. Louis wet grocers do tho Downing law. "Push th' handles from tho landl" shrieked my red hot instructor, as tho plow shot out again Tho horses know the misery wrapped up. in that shriek, and supposing it referred to them, started on a trot, with yours truly a-skipping and a-hopping, and n-pufung. and bellowing "whoo-o-o-oo," iiko a fog-horn. Tho plow found its affinity, an old stump, a crash followed, and 1 was thrown neatly out of the township. It busted tho old stump, and dear grandpa m rived jiut in timo to greet tho boes that swarmed out. it was awful, the way the liorvos plunged and kickod, nnd dear grandpa battling bees and trying to unhook tho traces. "I.em, Lem, you young rascal, coiuo hyarl" Hut I concluded to faint dead away first. He got the tenm looso and thoy took for tho house, kicking liko the whiskv element in tho Iown ltenublican party at the third resolution. Darling- aid grandfather started for .me just a clawing bees from his shirt and pants, jumping, rolling murder, and spitting white, with enough prodding insects around him to sting "tho rascals out." Much as I loved dear grandpa's society, I concluded not to wait. I came out of that faint and .started down tho homo strctch like a modern office-seeker. Grandpa was after me, slapping bis old hat lively, and whooping '"Holy Moses," etc., etc. For tho first half mile wo gained on tho horses, but as we neared the house our wind began to fail. Grandma and the, red-headed hired ran to meet us, and tho hired girl outra-i erandma. I dodged her but grandpa nm right into her anus When I cot stormed grandpa was hug ging tho hired girl, grandma was broom sticking tliem both; and the trio wore ecreaming and dodging, and squashing bees. Whon the round dance broke up dear grandpa was too ovcrcoino with exertion and boe-tinc8 to return to his profcesorshl in our agricultural col- loco out ill tlia held. Ho swit me in ttie new. no sent me oui I alone, full of amirvhension and tru-li i buttermilk. FascimUlllg 0,a ,,,lJWj Mem .17 run through a clothcs-wriiier as ihy ske!e- ton outlines come riiiling down the furrows of time. Thou wert ever a crea ture of impulso and idiosynciacy. Still, I followed thee, caroling tho symphony : "Gee, gee there 1 Haw, now! haw I Con sort your old sides, I'll maul tho hay out of you." Then grandpa would spring from his ambush in the fonco corner and fill mo full of animation and pain. Ah! as tho plowshare of time encroached on tho land of to-morrows, turning tho to days into yesterdays, as tho furrow falls back into the broken past, my spirit is tired and wearied with tho task of being, and longs to sink into the invisible nrms of rest. Fascinating old anatomy wreck er 1 Thou art superseded by the inven tion of the steam-plow, just ns I hnvo Ijeen by the superior tactics of modern politicians. Let us lie down in tho fur row together, old playmate, and let the noiseless share of Timo cover us over with the fallowing of the years.- Mis souri Republican. At a Bargain. A fine fur set, collar and muff, of the very handsomest of mink, entirely now, made in tho East; the owner will sell it for S18, and which could not be bought at a store for double the money. En quire at this office. R3Um2j 1G7 Third St., PORTLAND, OKEOON. JOHNB. GARRISON, Propr. All tlio Leading Sewing Machines OH, Needled, Attachments and Genu ine I'urU for sale. All kinds of Sowing Machines Kenalred and Warranted. GENERAL AGENT TOR chines- 1884 HARPER'S MAGAZINE, ILLUSTRATED. Harper's Magazine begins its sltv-elghth volume with the December number. 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