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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 28, 1898)
4 ^he ^aniiam IH There is but one remedy at hand All who raise fowls for eggs, are to continue the vigor and usefulness making a good profit on stock and of our favorite egg producing breeds, feed, if there is good management, and that is the introduction of new A good hen will lay twelve dozen blood every year. This is easily eggs a year, worth, at a bit a dozen, said, but hard to accomplish, as it is $1 50. Deduct 50c for feed, and difficult to know just where to turn ’there is a net profit of $1 per head. for this strength our flocks so much Two or three times a week let the need. The breeders of thorough poultry have meat Scfaps. One cent breds for strictly useful qualities are a pound is not too much to pay for so few that one hesitates and is puz green bone, as a lot of meat clings zled as to where to seek for vigor. to the bone. Keep grit, cracked Yet unless this course is pursued I oyster shells and green food before firmly believe that it is only a mat them all the time.—IndianaFarmer. ter of a few years before our favor The youhg dairy heifer ought to ite egg producing breeds will be a be as well fed and eared for as the thing of'the past.—Turf, Farm and milk cow, because her future useful Home. ness depends on her condition prior A hog fattens more quickly by be to her first pregnancy. She .does ing fed no more at any time than it not.need food either -for milk pro will eat. It should always clean up duction nor for fat, but ought to be all in the trough. When it has fed, kept in strong,,growing.condition clean the trough out and-do not feed by food that makes boneand muscu again until the animal shows plainly lar tissue and" gives vigor of consti that it is hungry. If overfed so that tution. The heifer should have a it feeds indifferently it will lose less more active life than' the cow kept weight to permit it to go without for milk, but requires just as much a day than it would by continuing care in feeding and just as sufficient shelter from inclement weather. . to feed beyond its-appetite. T. B. Terry, of Ohio, made an in teresting experiment with a potato IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY this year. This potato he cut! into seventy-four pieces, each piece hav BOY B. GILL & ALBERT COLE. A Column Devoted To The IN THE CITY OF ing one-sixth of an eye. The pieces were planted in seventy-four hills SCIO, LINN CO., OREGON, Interests of Farmers. 33 inches apart each way. Thé land TERMS : was. clover sod, the .planting being Per annum, invariably in advance....,..$1 50 done late, after a crop of clover had Six pecks of corn or wheat should Six months, ....... 1 00 been cut, and the crop suffered from Per annum if not paid in advance, ......... 2 00 be more than enough fora hen during lack of moisture, but by the time a whole year, as she will need more Advertising rates at fair, living rates,to be the potatoes had matured the vines food in summer than in winter The paid monthly. coveied the ground, and from an Transient advertisements must be paid fOT next point is, how much will six exact square rod the yield was over When the order is given for their insertion. pecks of food cost? At present prices five pecks of large tubers, at the rate the cost of six pecks of corn should of 200 bushels per acre. Mr. Terry LISEfTE. not exceed 40c; at wholesale the cost does not recommend the use of one- Soft and still in the shadows brown, is less. The second point -is, how sixth of an eye in planting, but he -Lisette sits watching the twinkling many eggs will the hens lay, and thinks that one'eye to the hill is suf how much is obtained for them? town, ficient; his experiment ought to And ever and aye as she combs her Let us fix the cost of the food for a prove this. He says only potatoes year at 50cj for, When We estimate hair of strong vitality would be capable She hears the revel of Vanity -Fair. on six pecks of grain a year, we of making such a yield as this pota mean grain or its equivalent; but -Fiddle and drum and showman’s to made. when other food is given; then the bell, There is just one way to tell a grain must-be reduced proportion-, And the merry laugh of Pulcinel, good milch cow and that is by the ately. It is difficult to estimate the milk and butter she produces. Ped And voices that call through the exact quantity, as there is no way of igree is worth nothing if the cow moonshine bright, knowing the proportion of bone; cannot produce more milk and but “Home with us, dance with us, love, meat-, grass, worms, etc., eaten, ter for the farmer than the scrub tonight!” cow. There are tod many “full bloods"” in this country and not Ah Lisette! my pretty Lisette! enough butter producing- cows. Do not-listen! do not care! For bed-bugs the following is re Lips are laughing, but eyes are commended: One ounce of - kero wet, sene oil,.two ounces of household Hearts are breaking in Vanity ammonia, and one.and one-half oun Fair! ces of spirits of turpentine. Put in oil can, mix thoroughly while using ‘•Just for an hour!’? to her heart she We are N Closing out at Cost”, nor purpose selling at .C ost at all, because it and inject into all crevices where cries, bugs are apt to collect. Also, under As she sees the gleam in her lover’s takes money and P rofit to keep a business -going. But beginning with tomorrow edges of base boards or cracks in the eyes, and lasting until further notice we will sell goods at unprecedented low prices. walls, etc. And she sets a rose in tier golden Erankly we do this in order to get hold of a little money to jpay our debts, and at If you want your hens to lay in hair the same time reduce our stock, which is too large for this time of the year, and there the winter you must keep them And dances away to Vanity Fair. warm, comfortable and healthy, says And the lights flash, arid the voices by make room for spring goods. The following prices will show you that we are not “The Busy Bee.” If they exhaust peal, talking through our hats. all bf their surplus vitality trying to Ever the dancers whirl and wheel, keep warm, they will have no super $2 50 Leather boots, mens - *■ While, the words in het heart are abundant energy left -out of which $3 50 & $3. Fine, shoes,- ladies - - - ringing yet, produce eggs. A laying hen may $1 50 . Heavy shoes/ ladies _ - _ _ _ ‘“Stay with us; dance with us, love be considered a machine, a living machine, it is true, but none the Lisette!” Childrens shoes proportionately low. less a machine for grinding out eggs We have a few children’s mackintoshes at - 1 35 Ah, Lisette! my pretty Lisette! ’ and you cannot expect to get any Do hot listen! do not care! A big iine of shirtings, outings and satteens at low prices. thing out of the machine except -Lips are laughing, but eyes are what you put in it- All the ele Brown muslins 20 and 25 yards for - . 1 00 ments that go to make up a chicken wet, 1 00 Good datk calico 25 ” . ” are in an egg, and a hen must eat Hearts are breaking in Vanity We have one of the biggest stock of dress goods in the country and that which will keep tip her own fair! bodily existence and supply surplus ■will sell everything at C ut prices. » Lisette lias gone away through the enough to produce a chicken, or else 40 cents per yard 52 inch ‘lady cloth, the very best night, she cannot produce an egg. M 20 Into the world She deems sobright, 32 ” ' Tricot, all wool and excellent value The most profitable sheep in the H Till Time shall silver her golden herd so long as they continue strong 15 M Nice half wool goods - hair, >> and hearty are the old ewes. They 25 }) Flannels of all colors, the best on earth produce stronger lambs, with better And she learns the meaning of Van Our prices on Clothing nobody can beat.^ vitality, and fear them better than ity Fair. I young ewes- So" long as the lamb God bring her home some day, some crop has much importance, it will day, 3 50 per pair Long-leg Snag Proof~boots, good as ever sold pay to keep the old ewes. Note the TO the only joy that Will last for aye, best, and watch for indications that 3 00 Long-leg common And. send her the love and'peace the season of their usefulness is wan ” good as eyer sold 2 50 Short-leg Snag Proof from care ing. That is never found in Vanity Fair! 2 00 Short-leg common All over fife southern half of the Ladies first grade over-shoes -- - - - 40c great American corn belt, the spja Ah, Lisette! my pretty Lisette! bean wfil grow luxuriantly .and it is Won’t you. listen? Won,tvbu And lastly have you heard how our prices on coffee make oUT poor one of the best stock feeds ever dis ‘care? * compeds. turn pale? ——Read: covered. The difference between it Lips are laughing, but eyes are 1 00 Arbuckles & Lyons 10 cents a package, 10 packages for and corn is that the soja contains /wet, protein and oil; the corn contains & 1 00 Good broken roast, 19 pounds for Hearts are breaking in Vanity starch and oil. For-fattening hogsa fair! (Our compeds.ask 11 cents per pound “for the ajaove.) mixture composed of two-thirds —S' E Wheatherly in Temple Bat. Cornmeal and one-third soja bean, 1 00 12 pounds Green Rio -for - - . - • . ■ meal makes the ideal food for hogs, There has been published in coun The soja bean will grow well in lati try newspapers from time to time, tude as_ fiir north as a line cutting off and in some instances large papers the ubper third of the states of have published a lot.of alleged pos*- All kind of poultry is high. Indiana, UlinoisTand Ohio. Soja tai laws, telling what a grip newspa $3 50 dozen meal makes lean meat. It is also-a Large fat old hens, per men had on subscribers, and n muscle making, human food. Good last years chickens from $2 50 to 3 00 how the subscriber who refused to fi Up to date poultrymen have a pay for a paper when taken cut of Good geese 7i cents per pound or ■ 7 50 new method of plumping their fate office (whether subscribed for or not) Dried/aples, sun dried 5 cents, machine dried 6 &-6i cents per pound..- tened'poultry. The birds are laid is liable for subscription, and that no in troughs, pressed closely together, subscriber who was in arrears could Eggs - - - ’ - ‘ 17 cents per dozen. a glazed brick or some other clean, hot let go till hfe paid up. The whole heavy weight pressed up against thing is a dream, and. is only intend each one. as added, to hold them ed to give people who are jgnorant firmly in place until the trough is ot postal laws' a scare, and make full, when a board, four or five inch them pay for something they neyer es wide is laid on top of them, and contracted for. If a subscriber pays, twenty or thirty pounds of weights for a paper a stated time, nothing are put on the board. In this posi cah be collected by law, if it is sent on, without another contract, either hence the cost is based upon six For milk feVer in cows tell yotfr A new method of buying and sell tion they are lef several hours, to. Verbal or written.. That’s all josh pecks of grain, which is as much as readers to try this: One tablespoon ing cows is proposed by the North cool, when they are taken but and "about- subscribers being liable for a hen will eat in a year if she re ful of snuff in a quart of warm milk. Carolina Experiment Station. It is shipped; presenting, a very plump subscription if they take publication ceives Uo Other food. With 50c as a What I have seenof this disease is, based on the- yield of milk and Appearance and commanding à high out of P O box. Newspapers can Cost for food for a year, eggs should that after the first attack the'-bowels quality of same, as determined by er price in tire market. At the November meeting of the collect for nothing only what is con- sell for 18c a dozen, allowing eleven refuse to move, and if you can get a tests. It is proposed to pay for the tracted.j dozen (132 eggs) a year as the pro passage through her she Will come cows at the rate of $12 per gallon of Missouri Valley Horticultural socie Some years ago we received a duction of the hen, to ciear$l profit, through all right. I had a fine Jer milk -giv^ti pet day that is rich ty, Secretary Goodman said he cotlid publication regularly for a year or The. cost of buildings, labor, etc., is sey cow freshened this summer; the enough to show per cent of butter keep from 3000 to 4000 bushels of more, that we never subscribed for. not included. Some hens will not lay next afternoon I noticed her stag fat. To this price add or subtract $1 apples in his cellar. He first sprink. Indue time we received a statement, 100 eggs in a year, -and a flock may gering around in the field. I man for evefy orie» cjdarter of 1 per cent led them with a solution of copperas, a dun, then a notification from a contain sick hens,worthless hens and aged to get her to the barn, and of fat above or below the percent. then piled the apples as high as pos newspaper collection agehey, that a large number of males. We do gave her a full dose of Epsom salts, By this rule the cow is bought en sible in the bins’. He did not w^nt they would get judgment against us not believe, therefore, that eggs applied warm cloths to the loins, tirely on her merits. It is believed tod much ventilation, as in his ex (they seemed to" know they could alone will pay unless one can man and gave tincture of aconite; but she to be a conservative plan, and, if perience the apples exposed to the: hot-collect), and was going to com age large flocks. But the hens may gradually became weaker, and in adopted will certainly raise the air rotted worse than in the middle. thence action immediately. We hatch and raise chicks, and that is about forty-eight hours she lay with standard of bows and increase their Apples left in piles have a gray tvrote the agency that we was at one where the profit will be gained, for her head turned up over her shoul milk and butter production, for if coating fofmed dtt the otltside, and time connected With a newspaper if the hens false only two or three der, and I expected her to die any they cah not be sold easily for milk if they once reach,this stage they are, Ourselves. We never heard from ch icks she will in that'manner pay minuté. Her boWels had not mov cows they will sooh be turned over comparatively free from rot. The them again. all her expenses, leaving the ’eggs ed after getting her to the bafh. À to the butcher.-“-Country Ghntleman. coating is formed in from six weeks I The P O department considers as. so much cleat profit, the amount neighbor sent me word to try the J'nst why the covV pea is not more to two months, and most of-the Buch statements, as refered to obove, of profit being according to the price snuff cufë. Î did so and in less than widely grown is'heard to see, for it rotting is done during this period. fts bordering closely to black-mail2 obtained for the eggs, which are five minutes she was up and eating, certaiply is one of the most valuable The Cellar should be sprayed or JhR* BMHtoMannaaart greater in some localities than in and the next day she gave four gal leguminous plants that- we have for .sprinkled frequently to stop all fungus growth. He also advbcated The president sent to the senate others. We believe-that to make lons of milk. Since then Î have restoring the fetility of the soil. building, storage houses over springs, pay one will secute the best tried snuff fof physic, and it will act And as a money crop they are hot to the nomination of David Dunne to poultry be despised, as the seed is generally, as the flow Of water will keep the results from poultry and eggs com be collector of internal revenue for bined easier than eggs alone.—Pouk every time.—C E Fulton in Hoard’s as high as beans. ^National Stack house cool, and’ also give sufficient the district of Oregon, hairyman. man, try Keeper. ventilation: ©UM SOODS, PRICES “OUT OF SIGHT” SAY, LOOK HERE! -------------- , Why don’t you patronize the School Library at Peery 3c Peery’s? It contains the books of our best authors. Reading for short or long periods at Defy low rates. Call and examine it. < I -LU f I » ■ «ff r» I Wils ! i i-'ìl-4» : É i-in «■¿ìli Bring Io Your Pictures. We make nice picture frames, any style and price you wish... PEERY & PEERY. 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