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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.
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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
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While, the words in het heart are
abundant
energy left -out of which
$3 50 & $3. Fine, shoes,- ladies
-
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-
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
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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
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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
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-
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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
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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.
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I old prices will be resumed, towit:
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Baths,
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