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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 25, 1898)
a VOL. I SCIO, LINN COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, The far west “inexhaustible fertil ity’/ farmer sends ten pounds of nitrogen up jn smoke in burning a IS PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY, BY KO Y B. GILL & ALBEBT COLE, ton of straw, while his eastern brother “jyorn out” farmers spends IK THE CITY OF $1.50 for the same quantity of the gció, L.ÏNN CO., OREGON. same element in a cqtnmercial fer TERMS : tilizer.—Exchange. z$he ÿd/ntigim <^Cews. Per annum, Invariably in advance.........|1 50 3ix months, << “ .......100 Per annum if not p^id in q,dvanqe, .......... 2 00 When a hog has kidney worms he will begin to get weak in the back; Advertising rates at fair, living rates,to pe the hind part will wobble as theani. paid monthly. rnal trjes to walk. As the disease Transient advertisements must be paid for progresses the hind legs will give When the order is given for their insertion. way and at last the animal will not be able to stand on its hind feet at HAVANA HARBOR, F.EB. 15,1898, ajl, but can only move by dragging St. Louis Republic. them along on the gronnd. If let Death came out of the black night’s alone the sihimal will linger along for a Jong time before death will re deep, And- steered for a battlership,s lieve its sufferings: If taken in time turpentine will side; usually cure. But a small quantity But never a man of the sailor clan on the small of the back over the Looked on the Deathman’s ride. kidneys, and repeat for several days The «Kansan lad and the Hampshire or nntj| the gnitpal is cured. Give boy, a tablespoonful in milk once a day And the boy from Tennessee, until cured. With never a fear that death was near, Swung into eternity. and liberally supplied. Almost un consciously other dairymen in the neighborhood have adopted the same plan, and are daily proving its val ue. If we were able we would pay for and send to every dairy farmer in this community a good farm paper. Come into this office and borrow cur exchange^. There ape improve ments going on all the time lnstock- and dairy4arm|ng that a farmer ought to know* Thaj; other men are making money on farms we knpw, and reading what they write will dp no harm and mjght be of benefit to some. Some dairymen wet the hay with hot water and let it stand from ten to twelve hours before feeding, and claim that it pays them to do it. One writer says he scalds his hay and finds that his cows relish it and eat more, and the flow of milk is in A number of experienced poultry creased materially. men say that one of the best feeds fpr young chicks is hard-boiled eggs, When we' consider that it has mixed with bread crumbs, using been repeatedly proved that the feed this feed the first three or four days, that will make a pound of dressed The eggs are boiled hard and beef will make a pound of butter mashed fine, shell and all, and when fed to a true dairy cow and mixed with the bread crumbs. when we further consider that the Other breeders do not favor this price of the butter is from three to feed, but the merit of it may depend five times that ot the beef, we can on the quantity given to chicks. It see how smart it would be for a makes an extremely -rich diet, and dairyman to breed cows, feed cows, it would be very easy to overfeed. wait on cows, be to all this dairy ex This being avoided, it would proba pense for beef in place of butter.— bly be an excellent food-^Texas Hoard’s Dairyman, Stock and Farm Journal. Nor flag, nor shot, nor battle cry, Nor strain of. the nation’s air, Broke into the gloom of the sailor’s I doom, N ot yet a priestly prayer. There looks a face from far-away home, With eye bent on the sea, For the Hampshire Jack who’ll not come back, Or the lad from Tennessee. Not theirs was the glory of battle; No victory crowned the day, But a nation weeps, that the dark •sea keeps per dead beneath the bay. A Column Devoted To The Interests of Farmers. While it is generally admitted that the Barred Plymouth Rock is about as good a general purpose fowl as can be had, and especially so when raised the carcass for the market, it is but fair to say that in the matter of egg production as for agers a cross with the famous Leg horn would give better results. At Edgewood (N. J.) a cross of Golden Wyandottes on Brown Leghorns brought out a breed that has been most satisfactory. The pullets are strongly marked with the main characteristic of ihe male, Wyan dotte and "have retained all of the egg producing powers of the Leg horn and none of her lightness or smallness of frame; The cross seems to be a good one and will be kept for several-seasons of trial when the reverse cross will probably be made —using a Brown Leghorn cockerel with the crossed pullet—to more strongly, if possible strengthen the egg producing powers of coming generations.—Exchange. It is a pretty good rule that the sooner a pig can be brought to 200 pounds and the sooner he can be gotten to market after reaching this weight, the greater will be the per cent of profit in feeding him. Aside from the risk etc., it has been shown that the gain above 200 pounds costs more, and that even with pork bringing good prices, there is often an actual loss in feed ing above 250 pounds. The expense of supports for peas is a detriment to their cultivation, and for that reason many prefer the dwarf varieties, which, though early, are not as prolific as tfie taller growing kinds. It has been sug gested that 3-inch mesh of Woven wire be used in the rows for peas, having the rows run north and south, planting early peas on the east side and later kinds on the west. When the peas are removed set out large pot-grown tomatoplants. The wire should last for several years. When young men tell you they never read experiment station bul letins, that they take no stock what ever in the farm institutes, and at the same time, they are about to be sold under mortage on a farm their old father gave them free of debt, there is something wrong in the brain machinery of those men and no mistake.—Hoard’s Dairyman. Oregon horses are being shipped out in all directions. One car load left Portland for Vermont last week, one for Manatoba,Canada and several boat loads for Alaska. most desirable hams anfi the most savory bacon. A pig that can be made to weigh J 50 to 200 pounds in seven months will yield more profit than a 300 pound hog a year old. The shorter lives the less danger of their loss by disease. Some experi ments have shown thaf pp to 150 pounds less than five and one-half pounds of food,- on the average, made a pound of pork, while with 500 pound hogs it took eight pounds to make the same weight. It has been proved that up to fifty pounds at a given price for grain, the pork costs three cents a pound, but that at 175 to 200 pounds each pound add ed costs nearly six cents. Of course, the price of food must have been much higher than here, but the principle involved is the same for us as for them. In finishing fiogs their heallh must be constantly looked after. They must have clear feeding plat forms and pure water. The ration must be so balanced, as to supply, muscle fat. An exclusive corn ra tion will not make the highest pric ed pork. The Canadian farmer bal ances his starch corn with nitrogen ous peas or beans. Alfalfa is a good food. So is skim milk When made into a mush with ground grain. Fed as a drink itls not well digest ed. The good farmers no longer keep their swine in filth, but give them dry quarters, clean food and pure water,- keep charcoal where they can run to it, crowd them from the day of their birth, ki|l young and make monpy.—Rural Spirit. We are N ot “Closing.out at Cost”, nor purpose selling at C ost at all, because it takes money and P rofit to keep a business going. But beginning with tomorrow and lasting until further notice we will sell goods at unprecedented low prices. Whenever the grass seeding fails, Ffankly we do this in order to get hold of a little money to pay our debts, and at the blame is usually laid upon the the same time reduce our stock, which is too large for this time of the year, and there weather. J3ut that is not always correct, even in part. Grass belongs by make room for spring'goods. The following prices will show you that-we are’not to the same botanical family as talking through our hats. wheat, only the grain has had a greater development of its seed. $2 50. Leather boots, mens - - - All farmers understand that the $3 50 & $3.- Fine shoes, ladies - wheat crop needs phosphate to be $1 50 He,avy shoes, ladies - " - * - grown successfully year after year, on the same land. To be sure, the Childrens shoes proportionately low. soil is cultivated, and these is a new We have a few children’s mackintoshes at - - 1 35 seeding with some manure .,each A big line of shirtings, outings and satteens at low prices. year, for the grain crop, Yet farm ers think that grass, without reseed Brown-muslins 20 and 25 yards for . , » =■ • - 1 00 ing, and without new supplies of Good dark calico 25 M ” - - - - 100 mineral matter, will continue to grow. The result is that the grass’ We have one of the biggest stock of dress goods . in the country and gradually dies out and is replaced will sell everything at C ut prices. by mosses or other weeds of low or 40 cents per yard 52 inch lady cloth, the very best • » ganization that can live without n mineral plant food. Not only is the 32 ” Tricot, all.wonLand.excellent value ■ 20 » 5, p amount of grass lessened, but its Nice half wool goods ? . | . 15 ,quality is also jmpair«d by lack of n n n 25 Flannels of all colors, the best on earth the mineral. On land that has long been without phosphate, cattle will Our prices on Clothing nobody can beat. 6UM SOSOS, PRICES “ out 01 Is I 3 50 per pair Long-leg Snag Proof boots,-good as ever sold • - » Long-leg common 3 00 2 50 Short-leg Snag Proof ” good as ever sold 2 00 Short-leg common 40c Ladies first grade over-shoes And lastly have you heard how our prices on coffee rqake our poor compeds. turn pale?----- Read: Arbuckles & Lyons 10 cents a package, 10 packages for 1 00 Good broken roast, 20 pounds for 1 00 (Our compedsask 11 cents per pound for the above.) 1 00 14 pounds Green Rio for 4 cents per bap Baby Elephant Soap 3f WE ALWAYS PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE All kind of poultry is High. $3 50 dozen Large fat old hens, Good last years chickens from $2 50 to 3 00 p Good geese 7i cents per pound or 7 50 Dried aples, sun dried 5.cents, machine dried 6 & Qi cents per pound. Eggs * » < ' 17 cents per dozen, Ross E*. Hibler, Scio. Like many other things it is easi er to prevent than to cure, and one means of prevention is to keep a supply of salt and wood ashes in a box in a place where they can help themselves. This will not only get rid of the worms but help material ly to keep the hogs healthy,—Exch, The Atlanta, Ga., Journal tells the following story, incident to that lo cality, which illustrates the value of the care of good CdW'3, “way down south:” A successful dairyman has in his employ a Swede, whose love for cattle is rather unusual, and the care he gives the cows is almost amusing, but it has proved profita ble. for the herd has a better butter record than any other for miles around. The Swede makes it his daily business during the winter to brush and curry the cows as he does the horses; the food is carefully pre pared, and regularly given in proper quantities, an occasional dainty, not part of the regular ration, being in cluded. The water is tempered in cold weather, the barn Is free from draughts, and the bedding is clean When a farmer through ignorance or laziness tries to make his cows believe that.straw for feed and a board fence for shelter is as good as the best of care, he will come out in the spring declaring that cattle in general and milk cows in particular are a failure. It requires care and feed to make a milch cow profitable. Dairy authorities claim that a cow which does not yield 4,000 pounds of milk in a year is not worth keep ing. Perhaps some milkmen in this country can guess what is the mat ter with their cows. The remedy is this: improve the stock by breeding from a good dairy sire. Two-year old heifers of likely build and good lineage are worth $60 cash in dairy counties in Eastern states. Stait out to buy a good cow in this county and you will soon find that good cows are worth good money and considerable of it. The verdict of dairymen in re gard to the silo is that they can keep one • third more stock and make more butter from the cows than without one. It is said that when the milk from cows long in milk fails to churn eas ily, that by thoroughly beating the milk on the stove there will be no trouble in bringing the butter. It is comi ng to be the general opin ion in Eastern states that the only way to make, money by raising any kind of live stock is to keep it grow ing from its birth and turn it off ear ly. In the case of hogs it is prefer red not to let them pass a single winter. While the Eastern condi tions are sodifferent. that weassume that what is the bost practice there will not be f und the best here, yet we would do well to understand the Eastern idea. There the packers now demand lean hogs, for the rea son that their customers want them , their change of taste growing out of the changed condition of modern life, under which men expose themselves less, have fess need for fatty foods, which in fact, they obtain far more than formerly from vegetable oils. They are also becoming more fas tidious In their taste and have dis covered that young hogs make the NO. FEBRUARY 25, 1898. not thrive, and cows which give / milk will take to the eating of old I bones to secure the mineral nutri tion they require. People who have learned that ground bone is good to make hens lay are apt to forget that the more bulky.cow has an equally wonderful operation to perform. That is to take from her grass feed the nutrition required to make mjlk, which is less concentrated tljan the egg, but contains very nearly the same kind of nutrition. When we began using mineral man ures on grain we found that thè sec ond and third crops of grass seeded with the grain did not pan out as they used to do. It is far better to apply the phosphate with the grain. The grass seeded with it will get the effects of the mineral fertilizing for at least two years thereafter.—Am. Cultivator. Prof. Bailey, of New York, in a lecture before the Wisconsin. State Horticultural Society the 2d inst., affirmed and established the follow ing principles regard to root and top pruning of fruit trees. .To stimulate top growth retards fruiting; cutting off branches stimu lates top growth; To retard top growth hastens fruiting. Pruning the roots retardstop growth. There fore, top pruning retards fruiting; root pruning hastens it. A bearing tree should not be greatly disturbed._ If a tree refuses to bear change your treatment of it. Winter pruning is proper in the east, but if practiced iii the north west the wounds should be painted. Never prune severely at one time, but a little every year as needed. John Cruze, of Lee County, Io., writes to the Rural World as fol lows: ' - “Have just had some interesting experience with mange or scab on pigs. Lost fourteen out of thirty- six, from doping them with every thing I heard or read about. Was in despair, until common sense came to my aid. I figured it out (hat it was a parasite under the skin, and to cure the pig the parasite must be destroyed. (So I mixed up some' turpentine and coal pil, half ¿nd half, and added quite a bit of sul» phur. Then, while the pigs were at the trough, I squirted the mix ture all over them, from nose to. tail, by means'of a machine oil can.' Have not lost a pig since, and have’ not been obliged to repeat the dose.” 21 SAY, LOOK HERE! Why don’t you patronize the School Library at Peery & Peery’s? It contains the boohs of our best authors. Reading for short or long periods at very low r^tes. Call and examine it. Jto Shaving ■ Jatto; I II On and after January 1 1898/the old prices will be resumed, towit: Haircutting, 25c; Shaving, 15c; Shampooing, 25c; Seafoam, 15c; Baths, 25c; 6 Batht’ks. $1 Shaving by the month, (cash in ad vance) two baths included, 1 50 H. L. Sumner, Prop. 11 GAN YOU READ? The Weekly Oregonian, Per year $2 00 2 20 San Francisco Examiner, 3175 Hoards Dairyman, ■180 Orange Judd Farmer, Thrice-a-week World, 2 00 1175 Farm, Field and Fireside, „ ’W‘