The Placer herald., 1874-02-28
II L SE AND FA RIM.

petite OF laying hens or they will become too
fat, and the eggs will then produce weakly
chicks. Give no more than they will eagerly
run for If you find misshapen egg, be-
lieve the hen is 100 fat. | feed twice day;
in the morning soft food mixed with hot wa
ter about two tablespoontuls to each fowl,
and at night a small handful of grain, taken
with the palm down, no more; and if they do
rot eagerly run for thlt, | lessen the amount.
Asatics require very little food, and in nine
cases out of ten of want of good success the
cadse is too much feed. | use, says cor
respondent, for soft food, oats ground fine,
bari rly-meal shorts, one part of middlings and
three of bran Mixed shorts and mashed po-
tatoes mixed, etc, and fine grain. Buck
wheat (they must become used to its coior),
barly, wheat, oats, alternating the above so
as to give variety. No corn meal to laying
hens-it is too fattening, and corn should be
given very sparingly. In winter meat, al
ways cook d, about a cubic inch to each
fowl chopped fine; green food in plenty;
little seasoning Of pepper, very little salt
Those who find it too much trouble to give
green food chopped up daily may cut cab
bage in half and hang it up by string in
the pen, a little higher than the fowls heads
from the ground, replacing when eaten. !
speak OF fowls in confinement, not of those
which have range, and can lind grass, and
worms, and insects.
CUTTINGS VS. Rooted V1Nrs.-For exten-
sive vineyard purposes we should always
prefer cuttings. If we wanted to set a few
vines only, and desired to get few grapes
one year earlier. we would take rooted
plants one year old, if to be procured at
reasonable price. There is no disputng this
point-that vine is the more perfect the
less it is made TO suffer from mutiation of
Its roots in any sta of its young growth.
When grown from cuttings IN the places
where they are to remain, the roots all take
their natural positions more completely than
when one year-o!d vines with their short
ened and mutlIated roots are transplanted.
We have had personal experience with
this result. We have gathered larger crops
from four-year-old vines, grown from cut
tings Of the same variety and on the same
soil, than from vines one year older which
had been transplanted when one or two years
old. We believe the loss of the use of the
land for one year, where cuttings are set in
the places where they are to remain, will
more than make good that loss to the grow
er in the sup rior thrift aud perfection Of the
cutting-groHn vines. Chronicle.
"WooL GBowER" wishes some figures in
regard to California sheep and wool growing.
From carefully y-prepared estimates, we may
safely put the number Of sheep in Califor-
MIA, at the beginning Of 1874, at II ,000,-
600 head. And when in stating that in
Central and Southern California two clips
year are taken, and that the spring clip
comes into market nearly two months ear
ler than the eastern wool, too much mpor-
tance cannot be given this industry. If we
put reasonable estimate on the yield of
wool during this year. it will owe reach the
entire wool product of the United States of
1871. The profits here are also amazing;
for it IS estimated that the actual cost of
producing wool in California is less than ten
cents per pound, and California wool shrink
far less than eastern wool, while the ratio of
Increase in the sheep is twenty-five per cent.
greater than in the Eastern States.
Coop Cows and Poor ONES Many per-
sons think that a COW is COW any way
We will suppose that there are two cows for
sale one an ordinary and is offered for $40.
and the other an extra COW is offered for SIS,
both of the same age, and the first one will
tnake on an average 125 pounds of butter in
one year, ard at the price of 30 cents per
pound would amount to the sum of S375
And the other COW will make $50 pounds in
the same time, which at 30 cents per pound
would bc SO, double the amount of the
first Now, suppose it cost $50 year to
keep a COW (Which we think is fair esi-
mate), it will leave only 81 so for making
and taking care Of the butter, etc. of the
frst COW, whereas, You will have S45 left OF
the income of lhe other COW, after deduction
the cost Of keeping, leaving a balance in IA
vor of the good COW of 81 50.-4gricuhur.
ist.
LIGHT DUMpINGs. After making your
bread the second time take off a sufficient
quantity for dumpugs and set it away un-
I'll about an lour before dinner, then make
them up in rolls as you would biscuit; spruk-
lie little -four over your pie-hoard and put
them On i, Just about far enough apart to
allow for raising. Have ready a broier
with sufficient boiling water to steam them
place the steamer over it and put in some of
the dumplings, so as not to touch each other
(see that the lid is placed on tightly, and
let them remain ten minutes; tlen remove
them, and put in others. Send them to the
table hot, to be eaten with cream and sugar,
or butter and molsses
CURE For DIPTHF RIA A soon as the pa
tents throat becomes inflamed give powder
ed ice freely, then make up poultice in the
following manner: Place two quarts OF brew
er's yeast on the stove adding three onions,
finely chopped, and sitting in enough corn
meal TO make a soft batter; allow the mix.
tnge to cook twenty minutes, stirring it all the
time. Place tho mixture in thin, muslin
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