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About Corvallis gazette. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1907)
DAIRY FARMING. h Furnishes a Harvest That Lasts All the Year. Dairy farming, which has been hap pll designated "the harvest that lasts a'.l Uie year," enters into the field of manufacturing more than any other farming pursuit, since the dairy farm er furnishes both the raw material and finished product. It enters both Into lire stock raising and general far::.:;," and for the greatest success demands that those who follow It shall bare a thorough as well as practical knowledge of the breeding and rais in? of animals, no less than the plant ing, cultivating and harvesting of farm Crops. An Important Advantage. Whole nations, a3 Denmark and Hol land, and whole states, as New York find Wisconsin, have been made pros perous by attention to dairy farming and the production of butter, cheese and milk of high quality, says Inland Farmer. Many farmers have become wealthy in land and money "by the pur suit of dairying. Whole communities have been built up and enriched by the gentle dairy cow and the man be hind her. Dairy farming also has this Important advantage that it restores fertility to the land, while other sys tems of cropping take fertility from It as each load of grain or grass is haul ed away to be sold. Some Hardships. There are, of course, hardships con nected with dairy farming and the handling of cows, and often the ship ping of the milk or cream and the profitable marketing of the same are attended with difficulty, but were this not the case it woull be different from most other pursuits of !ife and would attract many from thens. THE MUSKMELON. How to Circumvent the Chief Enemy of the Gi ower. In raising muskmelous I fit my soil the same as for soru, marking oC the J Bame, and plant my melon seed in every Other check, thus leaving the hills in Squares. After ground is fitted I plant THE MONTREAL MUSKMELON. Squash seed just to one side of where melons are to be planted uud do not plant the latter until squashes are well up. The idea In planting squashes is ob vious. The chief pest of the melon raiser is the little striped bug better known as the cucumber bug. As the squash plant is more hardy than the young melon plant I use it as a trap for the bugs, as they seem to like it fully as well as the melon. On it they seem to thrive and breed. By the time the melons are up the bugs have per formed their work and disappeared. My rule is to plant corn first, and then make the major part of the garden, Including the melou planting, says a Michigan farmer in American Agricul turist. I sometimes use the hotbed for Starting my melon plants, planting seed In inverted sods cut In squares about 8 by 8 inches, and when plants are grown to the proper size, say two or three rough leaves each, I lift them carefully, placing the sod on trays, and set them, sod and all, in the per manent bill. I want at least eight good plants to each hill, as some are sure to die. As they grow the weaker ones are taken out until but three or four are left, which Is an abundance. After plants are well on their way the quashes are removed. The Montreal muskmelon satisfies. First, it is a model of beauty, being almost spherical in form; second, its deep, dense netting gives protection in transit; third, its size runs usually very even, averaging in diameter from five to six inches, thus making two even standard grades; fourth, the quality Is good; fifth, It is productive to a fault when conditions are right, which means good soil, good culture and agreeable weather. I have never raised more than one-fourth acre of the Montreal at a time, and that season I picked 2,S32 melons, nearly all marketable specimens, from this patch. This is the best I ever did. The hills were planted 5 by &A feet, thus giving me 354 hills, which aver aged eight nice melons each. Black Rot In Tomatoes. Black rot is often very troublesome In our early tomatoes. A Georgia farmer says his early tomatoes brought $ 8 a bushel last season, but most of his first crop was unmarketable on account of black rot spots. We have not yet learned how to con quer this disease. Possibly we may cbeok it somewhat by frequent spray ing with bordeaux mixture, but our main reliance must be found in allow ing free circulation of air around the plant by supporting the Tines In such way as to hold the fruit up from the groand. Last season our tomatoes were free from rot or nearly so. T. G. In Farm and Fireside. Horseradish In the Garden. Horseradish should be grown in the garden, where you can get nice large, smooth roots, and not in the back yard or chip yard, where yon will secure nothing but slender, sprangly ones. KEEPING HOGS CLEAN. Kerosene Emulsion Said to Be Excel lent For This Purpose. Those who object to kerosene In its fuil strength as a disinfectant and de stroyer of parasites should try it in the diluted form, says a writer in National Stockman and Farmer. Kerosene can not be diluted by simply adding wa ter, but it must be first broken np by some agent, and then it will be held in suspension by the water. When this is done it is called an emulsion. This can be cheaply and easily made In this way: Take one-fourth pound of soft soap and dissolve It thoroughly on the stove in a quart of water. Pour this into a closed five gallon coal oil can and add two quarts of kerosene. Close the can and shake it vigorously for about a minute. When this is done fill up the can with rain water. The mixture will have a. milky ap pearance, and it will be found that the oil is distributed throughout the solu tion. It is ready for use and is milder than the pure kerosene. It is excellent for keeping the pigs clean and will cure mange if taken in time. It has been found that a solution of kerosene as low as 10 per cent will instantly kill hog lice when they are plunged into it. The emulsion costs but little and you cannot put too much on the pig to injure him in any way. This mix ture will freeze, and the can should be kept in a heated room in severe weather. When to Wean Pigs. The proper time to wean little pigs is from six to eight weeks of age. The pig is then at an age when it digests solid foods and will grow just as well as if it were still nursing its dam, says a writer in Farm Life. The constant drain on the sow's system has been quite severe; consequently she should have all the time to recuperate be fore she has to nourish another litter. Furthermore, a good brood sow should raise two litters a year, and If the pigs suck longer than six or eight weeks this would be impossible. ' If the sow is a heavy milker the pigs should be weaned gradually, otherwise there is danger of injury to the sow's udder, but, as a rule, this does not give any trouble. Little pigs always do better when not more than six or eight in a single pen. Separate the smaller ones and give them every possible chance to grow. Give them a dry sleeping place, a roomy pen, a spacious yard in which to take exercise and spray frequently with an antiseptic and insecticide solu tion and keep them free from lice. And if similar care is given until the pig is six or seven months old it will weigh from 225 to 275, or just the prop er weight to market. Salt For Live Stock. The horse prefers salt where he can get at it at will rather than have it forced upon him in his feed at irregu lar intervals. Some make a mistake in putting salt in the horse's trough each time they feed him. The best way to provide salt for the horse and other stock as well is to place a small box for that purpose near the feed trough. THE FEEDER. Every one who owns a flock of sheep should make provision for clo ver hay, oat and pea hay, for variety. Bean vines are also relished. Give the breeding ewes wheat bran. It will make the lambs strong. Salt For the Hogs. When I salt my hogs, which I do three times a week while they are eat ing, I throw salt broadcast on their back, says an Ohio breeder. The result of this is that they get the salt with their food, which seems to be the prop er way to have it, and what salt re mains on the hog forms a brine that destroys the lice. By this means of salting I get a better result from the fattening of the hog and at the same time rid it of lice, which is one of the worst pests of the hog lot Crushed Oats For Colts. Crushed oats are all right for colts, but it does not pay to feed them to ma tured horses with good teeth. Never keep a large supply on hand. After being crushed the oats soon lose their freshness and palatablllty. Carrots For Live Stock. Carrots are good for all farm ani mals, and, while their chemical analy sis may not show very much nutritive value, they are somewhat in the same line as are leached ashes when used for fertilizer, having in them a value that a chemist does not find. Of one thing I am sure, says a breeder, after feeding carrots several years to horses and cattle they have a very much greater value than most men would suppose. Besides their nutritive value, they are a very wholesome tonic for live stock, much more so, I think, than any of the prepared stock foods. Grind the Feed. You often find that whole grain pass es through stock in aq unmasticated condition. Fields enriched with such fertiliser have shown a fan stand of grain. The Michigan experiment sta tion carried on a test to demonstrate the value of this grain. The experi ment was made under the most favor able circumstances and showed three things first, the cattle fed corn, oats and bran wasted the largest percent age, while those fed oats alone wasted the least; second, the composition of the grain was practically unchanged by its passage through the digestive tract, showing that the animal gets no benefit from It; third, the germinating power of the grain was affected consid erably. Only 4.3 per cent of the corn and 10.6 per cent of the oats germinat ed after the treatment. " SUCCESS "IN" DATR?iR6L " A Pennsylvania Dairyman's Profitable Method of Marketing Milk. A progressive Pennsylvania dairy man recently told' in the National Stockman and Farmer how he disposed of his milk at a good profit as follows: Arrangements were made to place tte merits of our milk before the peo ple in a nice descriptive circular. A mailing card for a request to have our man deliver a sample bottle was put into each circular, and these circulars were put into every house in town. The circulars covered the following points: First This milk is produced from a tested herd absolutely free from tu berculosis. Second. A certificate from a local veterinarian, who tested the herd; also a statement from him in regard to the sanitary conditions of the barn, etc. Third. An explanation showing the importance of clean milk from healthy cows to babies and invalids. Fourth. Instructions to consumers how to take care of milk after it was delivered to them and explaining the danger of allowing milk to become con taminated. A letter inclosing the circular was also sent to each one of the physicians in the town. .. Results of the Plan. Although we . did not have a single customer before we started, when we were ready to deliver we had orders for 150 quarts daily, and at the end of thirty days we had sale for all we had at that time, 200 quarts daily. We have received for our milk 5 cent3 per quart, delivered at the station. This milk was retailed at 8 cents a quart, 2 cents higher than the average price for milk. In a town where ordinary milk sells for 8 cents, 10 cents can easily be pro cured for milk of this quality. In oth er words, in order to market milk at a profit the farmer must first arrange for the protection of milk cleaner and better than the average and, second, to carry on an advertising campaign to educate people to appreciate good milk and to believe in his particular product. A proper advertising campaign like the above can be carried out anywhere for a sum not to exceed $50. From a Dairyman's Notebook. Try carding and brushing these days and note whether the cows enjoy it. Note whether the grain is relished better if a pinch of salt is added. Salt on inferior hay will make it far more palatable. This is the time when "grub in back" begins to appear. Squeeze 'em out. If roughage is getting short or of very poor quality and grain is fed, feed more liberally of cornmeal than would otherwise be done. It sometimes occurs a cow's feet are in poor condition. Where toes are ab normally long or the sole jagged the hoof should be trimmed by some one who knows how. The horn button of every bull calf ought to be treated with a stick of caustic potash. Keep off the horns from the bull. In selling milk, butter or cream re member the nearer you get to the con sumer the more there Is in it for you. American Cultivator. Dairy T&lk of Today. Tuberculosis Is now recognized as an infectious disease caused and spread by a microbe or bacillus, and Dr. Sal- j mon presents the various methods of eradicating it from djniry herds. The important features of all methods are the complete separation of all affected animals from the healthy ones, the thorough disinfection of barns which have been occupied by tuberculous animals and the establishment of bet ter sanitary conditions. Coloring Butter and Cheese. Questions about the coloring of but ter and cheese under the pure food law are frequent so let us state once more that use of color in these products is permitted by law and that the presence of coloring matter is not required to be stated on the package, says the Na tional Stockman and Farmer. The law which specifically permits the coloring of butter is twenty years old and that which permits coloring of cheese ten years old. They were not repealed by the new law and are consequently still in force. Weighing Milk. In a discussion at the late Vermont dairy meeting a dairyman asked if farmers did not overestimate the work of weighing milk. He found it nothing to do and scarcely any expense. Pro fessor Hills explained the weighing at the university and said experiments had proved that by weighing three days a month and adding a cipher the actual monthly result could be obtain ed in 96 per cent of the cases. Milk Kept Seven Weeks. A new process for keeping milk a long time is announced by German scientists. The milk is first treated with peroxide of hydrogen, which kills the germs, but Imparts a peculiar taste to the milk- Then to each quart of milk is added a few drops of the ferment ob tained from beef liver, from which the beef has been expressed. This sub stance, it is claimed, destroys the un pleasant taste given to the milk by the peroxide of hydrogen. At first thought this new plan does not seem to be adopted on a large scale, and the dis coverers admit that it Increases the cost of the milk 4 or 5 cents per quart so that It would not be practical to use except where fresh milk could not be obtained regularly. Ifc is claimed that the milk so treated was successfully kept for seven weeks. WHY HILL SUCCEEDED. James J. Hill entered the rail road business in 1881 as general manager of the St. Paul and Pacific railroad, and a clew to the reasons of his success may be found in the following from an article in Every body's Magazine: "He was baggageman, conductor, engineer, track walker, fireman, pas senger agent, freight agent, traffic manager and everything else on the road at different times," one of the men who was with him as assistant at this time told me.- "He looked after every detail until those who watched him were appalled. Not a box of rubber bands was bought that he didn't O. K. the order and supervise payment. He not only learned how the work was being done, but devised methods of doing it differently, doing it better, more "economically, more expediently. Sys tem followed in his wake, system in every department. Bailroading as he found it was an involved, cum bersome, chaotic affair. He made it a science." Midair Photography. Cameras on the wing are flying through Germany. A projectile to take photographs and claimed to have been successful at heights of half a mile is the idea of Herr Ma rie, "a German photographer. A camera having the form of the usual kind of conical shell is thrown into the air by means of a kind of trap. At a predetermined iangle as the camera turns to make its descent and is pointed slightly downward the . shutter is automatically re leased, and a picture is taken of a broad epanse of country. In still air the flight and spot at which the aerial camera will fall can be calcu lated with much precision. Precau tions are taken to avoid damage by concussion, and the results are ex pected to be of great possible value in military operations. Chicago Tribune. The Greatest Inventors. Professor Alexander Graham Bell of telephone fame the other day was in Washington, where as he strolled along Pennsylvania avenue his snow white hair and beard, rud dy face and easy carriage attracted much attention. A newspaper cor respondent long known to the pro fessor joined him and in the course of their chat asked Mr. Bell's opin ion of newspaper men. "You know, professor," said the correspondent, "but for us you great inventors would not be so widely known." "That's very true," coincided Pro fessor Bell, who added dryly, "And do you know I sometimes think you newspaper men are the greatest in ventors in the world." Proper Lightning Protectors. In an address to the Eoyal Engi neers at Chatham, England, Alfred Hands said that too much impor tance is attached to the form and composition of lightning conductors and not enough to the fact that the efficiency depends almost entirely on the way the apparatus is attach ed and little on what it is made of. Lightning conductors in the hands of experts, he said, may be likened to drugs in the hands of doctors they must be suited to the particu lar case. As to the relative value of iron and copper for conductors, there is but a trifling difference ex cept that for conductors expected to last long iron is too perishable. Florida Shark Story. A tarpon pursued by a shark near Garden key, in one of its tremen dous leaps fell across a skiff con taining two fishermen, who were so busily engaged with a net that they did not notice its approach. The skiff broke in two, the fishermen be came entangled in the net, and the shark took a huge bite out of the side of one of them, Belton Larkin, cutting his body nearly in two. It is thought the shark mistook Larkin's body for the tarpon it was in pursuit of, for sharks in those waters have never been known to attack a man. Punta Gorda Herald. Leads the World In Phones. A comparison of the telephone development of New York with that of foreign cities shows that New York has more telephones than London and the ten other largest cities of Great Britain combined, according to a careful review just printed in the Electrical Engineer; not only more than Paris, but more' than all the telephones in France, Belgium, Holland and Switzerland combined; more telephones than are to be found in the twenty largest cities in Germany. New York World. Freak Insurance. "Is it a fact?" asked a judge Justice Darling the other day of counsel in a case that was before him, "that insurance companies in sure against a successful appeal by the other side?" "Yes," answered the learned s gentleman. "I have been told so, and they have different rates for different judges." London Mail. DOGTORS MISTAKES Are said often to be buried six feet under ground. But many times women call on their family physicians, suffering, as they imagine, one from dyspepsia, another from heart disease, another from liver or kid ney disease, another from nervous pros tration, another with pain here and there, and in this way they present alike to themselves and their easy-going or over busy doctor, separate diseases, for which he, assuming them to be such, prescribes his pills and potions. In reality, they are all only symptoms caused by some uterine disease. The'phician.'ignorant of the cause of suffering, Itseps upTMXtreatment until large bills are trade. J&jf"suffering patient gets no beUejjJrea&H3fvtbe wrong treatment but probably worse? A proper medicine like Tlr Pipe's Favnrita Prescription, (lirectctl to the cause would have entirely removed the disease, theft? by dispelling all tnose distressing symp toms, and. instituting comfort instead of prolonged misery. It has been well said, that "a disease known is half cured." Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is a scientific medicine, carefully devised by an experienced and skillful physician, and adapted to woman's delicate system. It is made of native American medicinal roots and is perfectly harmless in its effects in uu; cimauuin tr tlir. tcivqr' eiii.cm. As a powerful Invigorating tonic "Fa vorite Prescription" imparts strength to the whole system and to the organs dis tinctly feminine in particular. For over worked, "worn-out," run-down," debili tated teachers, milliners, dressmakers, seamstresses, "shop-girls," house-keepers, nursingniothers, and feeble women gen erally, Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the greatest earthly boon, being un equaled as an appetizing cordial and re storative tonic. As a soothing and strengthening nerv ine " Favorite Prescription " is unequaled and is invaluable in allaying and sub duing nervous excitability, irritability, nervous exhaustion, nervous prostration, neuralgia, hysteria, spasms, St. Vitus's dance, and other distressing, nervous symptoms commonly attendant upon functional and organic disease of the uterus. It induces refreshing sleep and relieves mental anxiety and despondency. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets invigorate the stomach, liver and bowels. One to three a dose. Easv to take as candy. . WILD TOBACCO OF COLORADO. Professor Fritz Knorr of the Col orado Agricultural college has found tobacco growing wild in greatest profusion in the Montezuma valley of Colorado. Professor Knorr is a native of Kentuek' and knows to bacco culture all the way from planting the seed to breaking the necks of the big green worms. While attending the farmers' insti tute at Cortez, in the Montezuma valley, Professor Knorr was asked to suggest a method for eradicating a very troublesome weed. He took a sample of the weed to examine and was amazed to see in it a very fine specimen of wild tobacco. It seems that none of the farmers there was familiar with the tobac co plant and did not recognize the obnoxious weed as the ancestor of the cigars they were smoking. It is believed that tobacco was raised extensively in the Montezuma val ley ages ago by the cliff dwellers, the lost race that left so many evi dences of their civilization and yet not a line of their history. The wild tobacco plant flourishes there in greatest profusion in vicinities thought to have been cultivated by the mysterious race and along what are believed to have once been their irrigation ditches. Kansas City Star. Twas Hetty Green. "Who on earth is that woman?" asked a depositor of one of the clerks in the New York Chemical National bank the other day. He nodded in the direction of a shab bily dressed elderly woman who was behind the railings examining one of the ledgers over a bookkeeper's shoulder. "That woman?" whis pered the clerk. "Why, she's Hetty Green." "Isn't she a good deal of a nuisance?" continued the depositor, who was lacking in the tfcimp of rev erence for money as typified in the person of the richest woman in America. "I don't suppose I should say so," replied the clerk, "but, be tween ouAelves, she is. But then, yon know, she keeps a balance here of something like $5,000,000, and people with accounts like that can be any kind of a nuisance and no one will think it advisable to re mind them of it." Pittsburg Dis patch. anient or a oacy Kisn. I'm just a fishle In a brook Ah, sad the day! And I'm fearful of a hook A hook that may 'Be Inside a worm so neat That I can't see! And, wishing for that worm to i That hook may be The thing that me win turn to meat- A tasty joy, A browned and appetizing treat For some small boy. Ah, woe it is to be a fish And live in brook And know that every boy does wish Xou on hi" fceoki 4 Additional Locals. Wood wanted on subscription at the Gazette o ce, 84t Millard Long, the bycle man, went t Portland, Wednesday, on a business trin. Hugh Herron of Irish Band left yes. terdav for a visit to Lis old home in Illinois. Wanted: Reliable young man to clerk in cigar store. Apply in person. Jack Milne. 43 Mrs. F. O Gray and daughter Glenva left yesterdav for a visit wi:b relatives in Polk couaty. Mrs. William Marvin and daughter I Gladvs leave this morning for an extend. ea visit at their old home in the East. Ice cream and strawben ies with cke will he served on he court house lawn, Saturday, June 8th, from 2 to 10 p. m. by the South Methodist ladies. 4g Byron Taylor left Wed I for Portland, where he will seek employ. ment, failing in which he will proceed to Spokane; where his mother and sister reside. There will be nr services in the Pres byterian church, Sunday morning on ac count of baccalaureate. In the evening at 8 o'clock, Rpbhi Wise of Portland will occupy the pulpit. There was initiation of candidates, a banquet and a genera! social time at the Masonic lodge, Tuesday night, enjoyed by the members and their wives A good time is the report. The cement circular steps are being made this week at the entrance to the new bank building They are similar to those at the administration building at OAC and are very sightly. A number of men were engaged all day yesterday in erecting pens for the hogs, sheep and goats that will be on ex hibition today and tomorrow in the bin stork show. The pens are just north of the Bonlden grocery. ' Th Portland Rose Show pnd Fieata in to be a ereat attraction and it will cer tainly be of great benefit to visitors from all parts of the State of Oregon, as any movement that brings us nearer to Na ture's beautiful thing does us good. There will be special services at the Methodist church, Sunday evening, in honor of the graduate student members who will be leaving after commencement. There will be special mnsic by a yonn$ peoples' choir, and a ladies' quartette, and everyone is invited. Kline's Kandy Kids are to nlav a game 1 of baseball at Albany, Sunday afternoon. They are also to be present at the pioneer picnic at Brownsville, and will show their skill on the diamond. Tomormw ' is the game with U. of O. on the OAO field, and an interesting game is expect, ed. Collie Cathey of this city has in his possession a violin in which the sound ing post is made from a piece of wood from the home of William Penn, the founder of Pennsylvania. The instru. ment was a present to Mr. Cathey from J . H. Penn of Yaqnina. who is a direct descendant of William Penn of historic fame. Thieves raided the Coffey photograph studio, Sunday nigbt, and got off with about $25 worth of finished pictures The building was entered and about $10 worth of photos taken from the work room, besides about $15 worth of elegant photos that were removed from the show case. Most of the stolen goods are ath letic and college pictures, and a number of ocean views and personal photos were also taken. Mr. Coffey is justly indig. nant over the affair and if the guilty parties are appiebended it will go hard with them. Tremendous interest is being develop ed in" the convention oi the Oregon De velopment League, June 21st and 22nd, and large delegations are assured from all sections of the state as a result of the low rates of transportation. An advance meeting of the presidents and secret arise of the different organizations composing the League will be held in the convention room of the Portland Commercial Club, Thursday night, June 20th, at 8 o'clock. The hope of the League officer- relative to this; meeting is that the active men of Oregon may be able to'unite upon plans that will greatly add to the population of the State, and agree upon some scheme which will secuie the co-operation of the entire population of the state in getting the full advantage of the colonist rate which begin September 1st and continue; until October.31st. Gold! Gold! Gold! Gold! Bright and yellow, bard and cold. Molten, graven, hammered, and rolled; Heavy to get, and light to hold; H oarded, bartered, bought and sold, Stolen, borrowed, squandered, doled; Spurned by the young, but hugged by the old To the very verge of the churchyard mold; Price of many a crime untold Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Gold ! Ex. CASTOR I A yr Infants and Children. rou Have Always Bought