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1 HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION The Agricultural College Is a Valuable Friend to the Farmer Vage of News Notes and Interesting Articles Written bv College Experts. VIEW OP OKKGO.V AtilUCTLTl'R AL COLLEGE AT CORVALLIS, OH. IT'S SOLE AIM IS TO AID AGBICULTUniSTS. Farm Gardens Are Both Valuable and Necessary THAT farmers the state over are real izing more and more the value and necessity of a farin vegetable garden, was Stated recently by Professor A. G. Bou quet, section of Vegetable Gardening, Oregon Agricultural College, In a talk to the Corvallis Grange. "Vegetables form a very important part of the diet of a healthy person and many farm tables are poorly supplied with them or have but a meager variety. Personally I think the farm vegetable, Karden is a reasonable and legitimate part of farm work. In actual value It exceeds by three to five times the value of the average farm crop. Unfortunately, how ever, the real value of produce grown on the place is seldom considered by our farmers. It would be, however, if they were to live in the city for a few weeks and have to purchase all the green stuff they consume. "The farm vegetable garden should be carefully planned and properly planted. No haphazard 'throw-the-seed-in-the-frround' methods will suffice. The garden bhould be regularly attended to the same as other parts of the farm work." A recent boys' and girls' industrial club bulletin written by Professor Bou quet gives suggestive plans, varieties of vegetables to plant, and dates and meth ods of proceeding. Although this bulle tin was written for boys and girls, it can be prontaDiy read by older persons. Swine Management. Bulletin No. 191 on Swine Management has just been issued by the Extension Di vision of the Oregon Agricultural Col lege. This is a popular bulletin, written ly G. R. Samson of the animal husbandry department, dealing with the different phases of the swine industry, particularly with reference to Oregon conditions. Among the subjects considered are lo cality, the farm, the man, houses and necessary equipment, miscellaneous equipment, number of pigs for the farm, adaptability of pigs to different types of farming, market considerations, " points for selecting farm swine, care and man agement of brood sows, calculating ra tions, feeding the growing pig and feed ing for market, methods of feeding, and a short treatment of raising pure-bred swine. The bulletin contains 43 pages and in cludes several drawings of useful equip ment for the swine raiser. Experimental work is not reviewed nor mentioned In this bulletin except Insofar as results may ' be applied by the treatment of the subject matter in hand. The records of experimental feeding work conducted by the station in recent years will appear in a bulletin soon to be Issued but not yet out of the printer's hands. Bulletin No. 191 may be had by those interested by writing the Oregon Agricul tural College, Corvallis, Oregon. Poland China Hogs. For early maturity or ability to pro flues a finished fat carcass at an early flge, no breed excels the Poland China, thinks R. E. Reynolds, livestock exten sion specialist of Oregon Agricultural Col lege. Having been originated in a corn state, Ohio, and developed on corn feeds, it will probably stand heavy corn feeding better than most other breeds and is a general favorite with the corn belt farmer. It is a typical American breed. In 'size it generally ranks as medium, hardly av eraging up to the Berltshlres, although there is little difference. The earlier types were freely marked with white, but black is the fashionable color today with white on face, feet and tip of tail. A limited number of small white mark ings on other parts are not seriously ob jected to. Many breeders have gone to extremes In the matter of selecting for lineness of bone with the result that in many cases they have evolved a hog that lacks somewhat in size and fecundity. This matter is receiving the attention of many thoughtful breeders with the re Bult that the over-fine type Is falling into disfavor with the general farmer. ii-U.ji l-H H' '' 54 U Molding Cream Too Long is Cause of Poor Butter (I A5t fully convinced that the prac J tice of holding the cream in order to reduce hauling expenses contributes more toward the production of second class butter than any other factor," was the emphatic statement of J. D. MIckle, Oregon Dairy and Food Commissioner, when speaking before the State Dairy As sociation during the 0. A. C. Farmers' Week. "This is a most serious question for every dairyman in Oregon and I regret the fact that those who never attend dairy meetings or dairy conventions are usually the ones who need to give the subject the greatest amount of attention. "But the fault does not lie entirely with the dairymen, for the scarcity of Oregon dairy produce together with the expense of added freight or express charges to imported products had a strong tendency to foster Borne of the bad methods of Ore gon dairy and creamery men. "Good butter cannot be made from poor cream and poor butter should have no place as a product of this state. But as long as our creameries will accept an inferior cream upon the same basis as a good cream and through skillful methods of manufacture attempt to overcome the bad work of the dairymen and pass on to the consumer an article of short life, just so long will poor butter be offered for sale. On the other hand make a mone tary distinction in the grades of cream and just watch the producers work to get into the first class." Catching Pocket Gophers, G. F. Sykes, professor of Zoology, Ore gon Agricultural College, contributes the following interesting and very timely in formation concerning the western pocket gopher which S a common pest through out the western or.d southern parts of the state: The gopher is a subterranean animal and spends almost- its entire life burrow ing about under the ground rooting up lawns and fields and feeding on roots of grass, grains and vegetables. It has a particularly pernicious habit of gnawing off young fruit trees from six to 10 inches under the surface of the ground. Not only is the pocket gopher a cave dweller, but he dwells alone with the exception of a few days during the Spring season when he leaves his burrow under cover of the darkness and makes a still hunt for a mate whom he deserts almost as soon as the nuptial season is over. This habit offers advantages for apply ing control measures which the farmer cannot afford to overlook. Now is the time to trap. The usual efforts to com bat by poisoning should not be discon tinued, but trapping should by all means bo done at this time. Our Answer. We hnve had so many communleations and inquiries relative to the Kuropcan War that we are Koinpr to break our long silence at last and remark: "A soldier of the Legion, Lay liyini? at Prenemvsl, He remarked that Sherman lold the truth, When he Raid 'that war was Hmvri,' 'It was a glorious canoe,' he said, 'in which I foiiKht and fmysl.' 'Hut what we have been flfrhtlng for, "find knows I cannot tmysl" '.' "The Germans and the French,- Have been fightinif on the Aisne. They flht a week without a reft, ' And then they fifcht asraicne. They atop not for the thunder. The liKhtnlns; or the raisne, lint what the fight Ik all about, will .ninronn nrl1SP rapialsne?" Too Much Roughage May Be Dangerous for Cows r0N'T make the mistake of overwork- " Ing the cow by asking her to han dle too much roughage," was the sugges tion of Mr. Ira P. Whitney when describ ing to the Jersey Breeders' Association the system of feeding nt the famous Waikiki farm near Spokane, Wash. "There is a limit to her storage ca pacity. Give her as much roughage as he can manage readily, then Biipply the balance of her ration in the form of con centrates. "To the dairyman who is growing wheat, oats and barley, and I believe nearly every dairyman in this valley should be doing so, I would suggest that you market them through the dairy cow. If she can't handle them for you at a . profit, sell her. "Don't act too quickly on my advice at the present time, for I realize that grains of all kinds have soared out of sight, but this condition will not last always, and with normal prices for grain the dairy cow should be able to handle them at a profit for you. "Bran and shorts are good but the de mand is forcing the prices up and the quality down, and I would prefer to grind the grains as they are produced on the farm. "Linseed oil meal, soybean meal and other feeds rich in protein can be used to advantage, especially with heavy pro ducers, but if used to excess they will do a great deal more harm than good. Pens grown and threshed with oats is an ex cellent source of protein when well ground, and no dairyman Is justified in buying feed when he can produce it at less cost at home." Peas and Onts. Farmers who have failed to sow a suffi cient amount of vetch and oats last Fall so they are short of green feed and for age pasture, cow hay, or Summer silage, will find field peas aud oats one of the best crops for Spring sowiug for these purposes. Peas are an excellent substitute for vetch and oats, which as a rule, do not do well when sown in the Spring. For best results field peas must be seeded just as early as possible, preferably in fact before the 15th of iarch. They should be drilled in at the rate of two to 2 1-2 bushels per acre, three or four inches deep, followed about ten days later with one and one-half bushels of oats drilled over the peas cross-wise to a depth of about one and one-half inches. Apply Land Plaster Now. March ii the time to broadcast land plaster over the clover, vetch and alfalfa crops at the rate of from 40 to 60 pounds per acre, the lower rate where the crop is to be grown for seed. Land plaster does not correct soil acidity. Neither is it a fertilizer. It is a stimulant and hence should be used only on the legumes and on soils which have a good content of po tassium and phosphorous. A paire of Interesting; Items tram the Oregon Aurleultiwal College at Conallls will alternate In the farm woekly with naxe ef news aotfn frum the Wah!nKln State f oUrice at Pullman. This will afford n tateri'bunsre of views from the two bin airrirultural rollesje of the Northwest that should prove of benefit to the reader, for the Institutions deal with similar problems. I the institutions deal wll FREE BOOKLET FREE 'The Use of Explosives in Agriculture" How and why to subsoil, how to get out stumps, how to ditch, how to break up boulders. Written by an expert. This is a modern farmer's handbook on up-to-date methods. , Sign blank below and send today, Name Address ,,,, , CALIFORNIA TROJAN POWDER CO. 307 Railway Exchange Bldg. PORTLAND, OREGON Recent Experiment With Alfalfa Molasses Meal PROFESSOR R. R. Graves, of tho De partment of Dairy Husbandry, Ore gon Agricultural College, reports the re sults of an interesting experiment made to determine the relative economy and efficiency in milk production by replac ing the grain ration With alfalfa molasses meal. Two lots of cows were selected, each lot containing four animals, all being as nearly equal as possible in age and period of lactation. The cows In both groups were fed a balanced ration con sisting of practically all of the alfalfa hay they would eat, 30 pounds of corn silage, and one pound of grain equivalent to each four pounds of milk produced dally. One lot of cows were used as a check. For the other lot during the second ten day period, one-tbird of the digestible nu trients of the grain ration were replaced by an amount of alfalfa molasses meal sufficient to give the same amount pound for pound of digestible nutrients. The third ten days the substitution was one-halt. The fourth period the grain was entirely dispensed with. The con clusions reached as a result of the experi ment were briefly as follows: First, that alfalfa molasses meal can probably be used economically to sub stitute one-half the digestible nutrients In the grain mixture when its cost is not more than 80 per cent of the grain. Second, it may be used as a substitute to tho extent of replacing one-half the grain ration in a proportion of five parts meal to four parts grain or nutritive value pound for pound without affecting the milk flow. Third, when more than one-half is re placed the milk flow is chocked. Fourth, when more than one-half Is replaced Under the combination used In this experiment some cows fail to relish the ration. Sudan grass is worth to the farmer of Texas for 1915 not less than $1,000,000 while it was only introduced into the United States five years ago i j tOFFEES if r.-i This Famous 40c fuslMffl Fragrant, delicious, satiufy inff. Perfectly blended and roasted. 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