Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-25
Too Wet.


sufficient to wet the soil so that had it then
cleared up the plows could have been started
all over the State, and could have been kept
going withoutmors rain up to the present time.
1t did not clear up, however, and has not
yet sufficiently to do much work in the field,
and so much rain has fallen in the meantime
that it is now too wet to plow and viii besome
little time, even if it should rain no more.
We expected that large portion of the grain
not already sown on summer fallow, would
have been sown before this, but we
can find some reason for congratulation
that it has been delayed The weed seed and
ali foul stuff seed that was on the surface,
has now sprouted, and is growing rapidly
and now, when the plows do start, this foul
stuff will be turned under, and so far as it
goes will help enrich the soil. But there is
another consideration of value growing out
of the delay enforced by the continued rain
and wet. We refer to the killing of all weeds
that are now growing, by blowing them in, SO
that the wheat will not have them to contend
with while growing and viii not be made
foul by the seed. This is matter of a good
deal of value But the greatest benefit will
accrue to the land itself, because
the covering up of the growing weeds instead
of covering the unsprouted seed will relieve
the soil Of so much foul stuff in the future.
The greatest damage that can now occur to
the land viii be blowing it while too wet
Better wait a little longer and let the soil be-
come in good blowing condition before start
ing the plow Soil plowed too wet is injured
not only for the Immediately following crop.
but it receives q permanent INJURY, often
times greater than the value of any enc single
crop. Land plowed when too wet will show
the effects of it for years in the future
Flowing wet land has the same effect on the
soil shat pudding it does. When we want
TO make a water-tight levee or good solid
foundation for building we sometimes wet
the soil and mix or puddle it. When it dries
after thus mixing it becomes baked and i'm
penetrable By water or air. Flowing heavy
soils when wet has tendency to produce the
same condition. The wetter and the more
the soil is stirred the more perfect the effects
of the pudding. So with blowing. The
wstter the soil aud the more the soil is cult.
waited when in this condition the greater
damage DONE
Favorable for Stock.
This has 50 far been an unusually favorable
season for stock. There was no rain or damp
weather to bleach ont or iDiure the dry
grasses until late in November, and the
weather being mild snd dry, stock did well
on what they found in the fields up TO the
first of the present month. The. rains that
commenced about that time, and have con-
tinued SO constantly since, have been rather
unccmmonly warm for the season of the
year, and now the new grasses, wild oats and
volunteer are coming forward finely, and if
the weather continues favorable, viii in two
or three weeks give stock good feed. In the
coast counties Of Marin, SOnoma, and lower
down through the dairy districts, green feed
is much better and more advanced than in
the interior, and in these districts they are