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About Willamette farmer. (Salem, Or.) 1869-1887 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 7, 1887)
-x?at a,"v -jti-n' WILLAMETTE FAKMEii: SALEM, OKEGON, JANUARY 8. Ibb7. M totK. Uow.to Select a Horse, It is imiiortntit f many to lt-rrn whnt Bimplo riilrs will guiilo u man, nol a thorough iioiwinun, in feclecting a horso for gonornl utility, hiicIi in otio iih an expert would bo inclluoil to think woll of nt iirt Bight. It is very much rosier for n thorough horeomnn to Hclcct tlio host formed horso in n bunch of twenty, nt first Might, thnn it in to tell tho novico how to do thii without tho bom-H hoforo him, tlmt coinimrisoiiH may bo carefully made. Tho general utility horso muit bo a very well made up animal in every particular, becauao without suitablo formation ho can not do bis work with dispatch. Tho gon crabimrposo horao mint bo a good business horso, and this involves tho hauling of a light wagon, with tho ownor in it, whonovor occasion requires. Tho timo of tho ownor may bo vnry valuable, and tho timo spent behind a slow-goer may bo sot down as a total loss. Of courso thoro aro qualifying circumstances calculated to modify this to a degree. Tlio moving of articles about a town or city, in tho regular way of daily busi ness, comes under tho sarno head, and celerity in doing this makes ono horso worth ono-fourth to ono-third moro than another, although in overy othor respect thoy may bo identically ulikc. This view is based upon tho Himplo proportion that timo is monoy, henco tho horso that is abl to mako tho host timo is tho most valuable whoro expedi tion cuts nn important figure. Doubtless ninny t)iink that thcro is a formation which, if clo.irly dolincatod, will onnblo them to soleot a horso in every wny right. Of tho capacity to niovo olf on tho road at a good business gait, a man can readily judge, and of tho wind and bottom ho can judgo after applying tho lost of a fair trial, and for any active socvico no horso should bo accepted without a somowhat thorough trial. Itogarding tho fonnntion, thoro aro so many essentials to bo takon into account that within tho limit of this tdiort article wo can hardly touch upon them, and will le.ivo them for a future timo. K. lutein Calv i. Wo liavo had vory satisfactory export enco in raising calvos while using; tho milk for cheosc-making. Tho courto pursued wni to givo tho calves milk for a wook or ton days, until thoy wore old enough to allow of a gradual ohango of food, whoa a littlo warm whoy was added to tho milk, and tho Htrougth of tho food kept up to a milk standard by adding a littlo llaxseod-mcal or oil-meal to tho mess. Ily degrees, ns tho animals could ixnr it, tho milk was reduced and the whey and oil-meal increased until tho milk was entirely withdrawn, always feeding tho mess warm ; injl as soon n they could bo taught to lick it thoy wore given ns much dry oat or corn meal its thoy could profltablo uso. This, with a good run on grass, kopt them healthy n'nd growing thriftly all sum mer, and trilling oxponso. As the whoy diminished thoy would depend more and moro on grass and grain until thoy who wciinod, without feeling any I'liaugc, and being already ncoustomed 1 1 being fed, they woro ready to accept hay and grain for their winter ration. There is no dlllloully in raising fairly good calvos on whoy as a pint of tho ration, but it will novor do to rely on it wholly, not even if it was reduced by ovnporatlng, because thoro is not. enough bono and llesh-formiug matter left in it after taking out tho curd for making uIiitso, to sustain growth and health. S imotliiug must bo fed with it to supply tUit defect. Tho stomachs of o-tlves aro not sulll ciently developed until after they nro iv year old to sustain thomsolvcs properly on course liny. They need somo more concentrated food, and. tlio best and cheapest for that purpose may bo ob tained by raising a patch of oats largo enough for tho purpose, and cutting thorn just us the gram la pissing from tho milk to tho doughy sh If care fully cured and saved, and fed to the calves without threshing, thoy answer tho purpose of both hay and grain, and will keop calvos growing and thriving all winter. This will also bo found a most valuable food for cows in tho spring, or, indeed, nt any other timo when foddering is nccossnry. Kx. Proper Treatment ot 8 wine. Thcro is probably no department of liiubmulry that 'brings to farmers, tho country over, a larger sharo of their in oomo and profits than whnt they recolvo froiuJ-nlsingswiiio, Whilosomo farm ers mako a specialty of certain depart ments, tho great mass of farmers have inoio or less hogs to disposo of every yonr, henco tho importance of under standing how theso may bo grown and fod to socuro the most profltiblo returns. With many tho idea is that, it docs not mako much difTorcnco how tho pigs aro treated, that in somo way or other they will get along, and if thoy aro given plenty of corn whon fall comes, that is all- thnt is necessary. It is on tho farms of audi n,on that tho greatest lossos oc cur yearly from disease Bocauso tho hog appears in many instances to bo ablo to Btand ill-treatment, filthy sur roundings, and caroless feeding, it does not by any means follow that a different courso would not bo found to pay tho farmer well for tho timo required to look aftor tho hogs as ho docs aftor his horsos and cattle. In tho matter of feeding, it takes loss food to put on a pound of livo weight on a pig than on cattle, and considering tho present range of prices, and tho timo required to turn off a crop of hogs thoro can bo no question as to which will pay tho farmar tho best profit Weaning Lambs. Weaning lambs is no trilling affair. Too much caro cannot bo given a lamb when tlio timo comos for it to sot up living for itself. This comes at tho season of tho yoar most trying to tho system. Unless special preparation is mado for providing a reset vo pasturo with oxtra fcod, tho process is a hazard ous ono and ofton disastrous. Tho young thing may novcr hovo iLon a mouthful of grain fcod in its lifo, par ticularly if it bo a lalo lamb; it has no idea of food othor than its mother's milk; tho supply of that has been lessened by dry wcathor and short fcod, until at tho very door of starvation suddonly it is separated from its mother, and tho nltcrnatlvo of cat or dio is forced upon it Tho propor way is i romovo tho owes from tho pasturo whoro tho lambs havo run all sumtnor, and in which they aro acquainted, for a couplo of wcoks, to allow tho grass to mako frosh growtl With nn old owo or two for comp .ny, put tho lnmbs In this, putting tho owo flock as far away as possiblo for three or four days. In a trough In which tho lambs havo bcou accustomed to find salt, now lot them find bran and oats at first; aftorward add a littlo corn. Uogin vory slowly, ns thcro is danger of ovorfecding at first. Onco let them loarn to cat without scouring, and tho futuro is easy. Somo put tho lambs right into tho bp.rn and givo closo at tention to fe ling and watering for a few day In tho West, whoro tho lamb flock amounts to hundrods, vory nico atten tion iB given on a soparato ranch that bus been hold in rcsorvo for their ospo- cial uso. Somo clean, hwcoI grain for woauing lambs on lsqttito indispensable. Tho croatost danger is scouring, and ono which flockmasters droad, not only as difllcult to euro, but ono so hard to keop from becoming epidomlo in (ho fleck. To Cure 0 tumbling Horses. Homo good horsos, says tho Pittsburg Stockman, aro addicted to stumbling whi'o walking or moving in a slow trot. A well-versed veterinarian states (hat thoro are two causes that would tond ' i produeo this faulty action : ono, a gen oral weakness in tho muscular system, such as would lo noticed in a tired horso; tho othor, a weakness of tho oxtorior musclosot tho leg, brought about by carrying too much wight on tho too. To effect iv cure, ho adds, lighten tho weight of otieh front shoo about four ounces; havo tho too of tho shoo mado of steel instead of iron, it will wear longer; havo it rounded off about tho same as it would bo when ono-third worn out, in order to prevent tripping; allow ono wcok's rost; havo tho legs showered for a few minutes at a timo with cold water through a hose, in order to creato a spray thou rub dry briskb from tho chest down to tho foot. Givo walking oxosoiso daily during this week (or about an hour twico a day. lion you commotico driving again, omit tho slow jog, cithor walk or scud him along nt a sharp trot for a milo or two, thou walk away, but do not speed for at least sev eral weeks. Dy this means tho habit of stumbling from either of tho abovo causes will bo pretty woll ovorcomo. Mol Excellent. T I All!.,. Pl.l.f nl PntiVo. Knnrvllle. 'eu'ti., writost "My family audi aro bone. aricsot your lllOU oxi-eucus iiiciiikiuc, ur. T fid log's Now DUcovery for coniumptiou; hav ; found it to bo all that you claim for it, .1.-. 4n ..,!! ,a It virtu fl friAn.ls trt Kt .i.l.- 4n ..,!! t. It virtu fl friAn.ls trt whom I havo recommended it, praito it at very opportunity," Dr. Kins' New Dis oovery for Consumption Is Guaranteed to euro Coughs, Coldi, llronchitu. Asthma, Croup and every aueotion ot mo tnroat, une. ana lungs. IVial Bottle Free at Port & Sou's Drug Store, Urgo SUo $1.00. 3 jjorttciilhiml, Depth ot Planting Potatoes. There aro a varioty of conditions that enter into tho elements of sucens in farming operations, somo of which aro 'variable Tho attnospbero is among tho most variable, and may, whon all othor conditions aio at their best, bo very un favorable. Thus, in planting potatoes, tho soil may bo of that charactor that a season of dry weather may romovo tho moisturo nocessary for plant sustenance, and yet in an oxtrcmo wet season, carry too much moisturo for healthy growth. Potatoes, as a rule, r quiro n comparatively dry soil ; but it is not unfrcquontly tho case, in nn oxtremoly dry season, that, with ordinary planting, tho crop will fail. Wo havo had moro uniform euccoss in planting to a good dopth, and if tho soil is Buch that a wet season would bo unfavorable, put hor. manuro undor tho seed. A caso comes to mind that occurred somo years aco. Wo had a pioco of ground that was dry, and at tho timo of planting, wo marKou mo rows uy using a horso plow and making a gcod furrow, so that when tho seed was covered, as it always was with tho samo plow, it was about four inches dcop in tho looso Boil. Tho potatoes camo up and grow finoly. Tho season proved to bo an oxtromoly dry ono, and tho neighbors who planted tho usual way, soon complained that tho potato crop was being ruined; ours continued to grow luxuriantly, and did so until timo of maturing, and at tho timo of digging, gavo ua a largo and excellent crop of vory fine potatoes, whilo tho universal complaint was vory small, or what was worso, no potatoos at all. Wo are satisfiod that with tho chances ns thoy occur, it is bolt ir to plant potatoes to a great depth. As beforo suggested, wo havo found that a littlo horso manuro, (and by tho way, wo can say that by trials and 'om parisons, wo havo found coarso horso manuro hotter for potatoos at all times than any other,) will takon crop through in groat shape with dcop planting, ovon in a wot season, or upon tnouVrntely moist ground. Wo nro nwnro that tho idea is n littlo off the common practice, hut wo can only say that beforo con demning tho practico, it would bo well to givo it n fair trial. Geiniaiitown Tel egraph. I tilt aonlux fi California. Tho California farmer iias a hard timo in pursuing his avocation. By a lato numbor of tho California Alta wo loarn that a largo mooting was held nt Sacra mento, and that tho subject undor dis cussion was "Fruit Posts and How to (lot Kid of Thorn." W. G. Klco, Stato Inspector of Fruit Pests, read an essay onthocodlin moth and another upon pcalo insect pests. Uoth wcro lengthy, ablo and instructive. Ho gavo many valuablo rccoipts for tho manufacture of solutions for spraying the treos, which will destroy tho j ts. Matthew Cooke, Messrs. Lolong, Hatch, Buck, Hancock, Williamson, Block and Wilcox also took part in tho discussion. Tho subject of proper laws to prevent tho spread of insect posts was next takon up and discirssed nearly two hours. All ngroed thuUotnotliiiig must bo dono. Tho mnn who bus bugs must take caro of thoni. Ho must not givo his bugs to his neighbor. The bugs wero his own, and ho mustdortroy them or keep thorn nt homo. It w tl.o benso of tho Convention thnt a law should bo drafted that would bo plain and onsily enforced, and which would check and stamp out this ovil, which is destroying nn intorqst thnt is turning tho eyes of tho civilized world vu d California. Nearly tho entire -seiublago took part in tho discussion Mntthow Cooko and othors lecom mended tho study of bugology in tho public schools, so that tho ri.itig gener ation would know a whlto scalo from a Juno bug, a codlin moth from a locust, nud bo ablo to know how to destroy them. On motion of Mr. Hatch, tho Chair apjwintcd Messrs. Cooke, Klco and Beid a comimtteo to draft a suitablo law for tho fruit-growers' protection and submit tho samo to tho noxt Legislature. Tbe Qerolo Kemedy. It must bo acknowledged that tho codlin moth is becomiug most painfully oppressive and unless something effect ivo is dono by the growers, soveral of our leading fruits will bo woU-nigU rendered valueless. Wo uotlco that somo pcoplo aro advocating tho 'heroic remedy," which consists in pioking and destroy ing all tho fruit as soon as it reached eizo enough to gather, and beforo tho worm has time to mature. It does not appear how all tho growers in any dis. trict, or in tho Stato, can bo induced, not only to sacrifice their crop, but also to foot tho heavy bills for picking it clean from tho trees. It is not possible, eo far, to got growers to agreo on any proposition relating to tho destruction of insects, and how thoy can bo mado to do this immenso work is boyond our powors of ponotrntion. Wo notico thnt somo writers are commending tho heroic trcatmont in destroying tho crop of apples and pears, as though that would bo sufllciont. This would not do.' If Micro aro no apples and poars, quinces will suit tho moth just as welt, and thoy will destroy poncho3 also. Wo bought a box of poaches last week which woro badly infested. Wo do not mean with tho larva) of tho poach moth, but with tho codlin moth larviu. This pest will tako ono fruit if another is not handy, and it is hard to tell what it will nol nc copt on a pinch. Wo consider tho horoio remedy quito impracticablo both on account of tho disposition of tho insect, and it scorns to us that timo oc cupied in talking in favor of it is wasted. Lot us doviso Bomothing moro practica ble. Pacific Rural Press. (S. F.) To mo, and no doubt to many of my roadors, thcro is a peculiar charm in growing choico plants from ecod. How eagerly wo watch for tho first appcar anco of tho tiny cotyledons, or seed leaves, and as cngorly obscrvo their growth from day to day until thoy still further oxcite our admiration by produc ing beautiful flowers. Two kinds that you can raiso this winter and havo them in bloom noxt sunimor aro geraniums and vorbenas. Got a shallow cigar box ; fill it with sandy, porous soil, bow tho soods thinly, then dust a littlo sand ovor tho seeds, just onough to cover them. 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