Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-10-09

as rule, breed colts as fast as themselves,
and only now and then one faster than them
selves The best and most certain way to
breed four-minute horses is to select the
fastest horse, as . breeder, that can be found.
By far the larger portion of the cots of such
fast trotters as Nutwood, Santa Claus or
Brigadier will not be faster than four minutes.
These being facts, it seems to us that our
friend, and all others who, like him, want
four-minute horses for carriage service, will
have to resort to the best trotters that
can be found to obtain them. Then comes
the next question. How are we to find
out which are the fastest horses :?
1t cannot be done without frequent practical
tests of the severest character. Can these
tests be made in any other way except on the
race-caurse? or are they likely to be made in
any other way? Can they be made on com
mon / Dads az well, and as safely, and with as
little cruelty to the animal, as they can on a
race track prepared especially for the ease and
comfort of the horse? We insist not. But
now as to cruelty to animals. We would ask
if it is any more cruel to drive three-minute
horse a mile in three minutes than it is to
drive four-minute horse in four minutes
Or take even greater extremes as to speed.
VIII not 23O horse trot in 2:30 as easily
and with as little fatigue as q minute horse
will trot in six minutes? The cruelty does not
come in on account of the speed made, but
from over-exertion. To avoid the cruelty
our friend who desires to drive his carriage
in four minutes should secure horses that trot
in much less time-the faster the horse the
less fatigue on four-minute gait
The Agriculture of Northern California.
The development of the agriculture in the
northern part of the State is of the most con-
servative and substantial character. 1t has
proceeded without noie or excitement OF
any kind. The reports from that direction
have been rather in the nature of substantial
achievement than of things that are in antici-
patton. Immigrants who have settled there
have done so not from inducements held out
from interested parties or colonization asso-
Citations, but rather in accordance with ma
ture Judgment arrived at after careful exam
nation of the country, its soil, climate and
facilities as to market. As far north as Te-
hama county the principal product, espe-
cially of the level and bottom lands, has
been wheat. but good corn is raised
along the river bottoms, and dairying is quite
extensively conducted both on the bottoms
and in the foothills of both the coast and
Sierra mountains. This section is also as
well adapted to fruit ard wine culture either
on the level lands or in the foothills. Ne
other section of the State is so well adapted
to varied or diversified agriculture as that
section north of the city of Marysville. The
rains are more abundant and the cereal crops
more certain than further south, excepting
only some localities on the coast and in the
valleys of the coast range, where the fogs
supply moisture till late in the summer. AS
the counties of Butte and Colusa have become
more thicklysettled and the lands been brought
under cultivation, immigration and settle
ment have moved still father north. Within
the last two years Tehama county has grown
more rapidly than any other agricultural
county in the State. By cultivation of the
high rolling red lands of this county in wheat
it has been found that they produce good
crops even the first year, and seem to improve
rapidly be being broken up and exposed to
the weather Lands that had been supposed
almost worthless for agricultural purposes,
and that had been rejected as not worth
taking up, are proving as valuable as any
other lands in the State. These facts are
quietly being disseminated and are attract
ing to this county hardy and industrious
class of actusl settlers and practical farmers.