Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-20
INTERESTING roR FARMERS.

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INTERESTING FoR FARMERS.
The sum of 81, 200 was offered for ram
exhibited at the recent sheep show in Aus
tralia.
To certain extent tillage may be SUBJ
stitute for manure, but that man is not
wise who endeavors to substitute manure
for tillage.
The Attorney General gives the opinion
relative to the expectation of oleomargarine
that Sections 4l97 to 4202 of the Revised
Statutes do not cast upon the Collector any
duty of inspecting exports.
The toad destroys from twenty to thirty
insects in an hour, and the mole is con-
tinually destroying grubs, larvae. palmer
worms and insects injurious to agriculture;
no trace OF vegetation is ever found in its
stomach.
A man named Hawthorne recently took
a drove of seventy five hogs by steamer to
the Cascades from Portland, Oregon. On
the way he proceeded to sew up the eyes
of all the swine in order that, after landing,
they might not stray into the forest and
get lost He had served some of them in
that cruel way, when by threats of the
vessels officers he was compelled to desist.
There are in Great Britain %, 600 females
who are farming. These women enjoy all
the rights and privileges of men, with one
exception-they cannot vote for members
of Parliament, but they can vote for all
municipal questions.
A Georgia paper says of the devotion of
that State to cotton planting Simply
because all of us are struggling to swell
the crop to the largest possible dimensions,
under the silly idea that we can make
more money out of it, we ruin ourselves,
and toll from years end to years end with
out accommodating cent OF profit.
1t is estimated that with the yearly rain
fall there is deposited about an average of
eight or ten pounds of ammonia per acre.
! To purchase the same In the form of sui
phate of ammonia would cost the farmer
about 81 so per acre. This may be called
the manurial value of an acre of rain.
Draining wet land is estimated to return
from 40 to so per cent on the yearly cost.
In the same way good stock pays far better
than poor good fencing, well-selected fruit
trees and carefully looked after homesteads
repay the money laid out, and add i'm
nensely to the comfort of the occupant.
1t is claimed by some feeders that 100
pounds of cornmeal and 100 pounds of
bran. mixed, will give a greater gain in
flesh than 200 pounds of meal fed alone.
Meal and bran mixed is a more perfect
! feed than meal alone. Bran contains
larger percentage of phosphoric acid, pot
ash and nitrogen than Indian meal, while
| the latter contains more oil, sugar and
starch than the former.
There is always great uncertainty in
| breeding from cross bred animals, the in
heritance in such cases being quite as like
| ly to take one direction as the other, and
in either case frequently reverting to the
original type in very unexpected manner.
The surest is to use thoroughbred male
of some one breed, and make your own
| crosses. A breed OF cattle can not be
| built up in one or even three generations
of cross, breeding, or OF grading in given
direction.
Mr.. Harrison fed his pigs and thirty
head of cattle on fifty acres of corn, and
had 1000 bushels LETT in the crib. At 30
cents bushel the corn would have been
worth 81, 600. His pigs alone brought this
sum, and the feeding OF thirty cattle and
the 1000 bushels IN the CRIB were the
profits. For several years past there has
been vigorous contest IN Burlington
county, n. j., to raise the heaviest pigs,
and this is sample of the result. 1t is
worth making note of.
Since 1871 the grain crops of the United
States have been valued at the enormous
sum of $40, 600, 900, 600, or an average of
81 900, 600. 600 per annum. Of this total
about one half, or S, 600, 900, 000l has been
the value OF the corn crop, while the wheat
crop during the same period has aggregated
value OF So, 500, 100000. In the year
1880, the United States exported l44, 493,-
COZ bushels Of wheat, valued at Sl7l, 420,-
1876, and 7, l2S. 100 barrels of -four, invoIced
at S39, 6l3, S47.
The Utah Farmer says : "a gentleman
who has had experience asserts that moth
ing is such an enemy to alkah lands as a
crop of alfalfa plowed under. The latter
will remove the former and render the
land fit for cultivation Of any kind of cere-
ais. Thousands OF acres of land may be
utilized by the above process that have
hitherto been considered worthless" AS
the acreage of lands being apparently
rained by alkali is constantly increasing IN
Colorado, it would be worth while to test
the correctness OF the foregoing theory. Ii
any such experiment has been made any
where in tie State we would be glad to
know the result for the benefit OF all inter
ested.
The discussion Of oleomargarine and
butterine has been of late more general
than when these products were first intro
duced The Legislatures of the several
States have had the matter before them
and find the subject difficult one for
legislation. OF course it would inter
fere with "the liberty of the subject"
to say that one shall not work over beef
suet with milk, or that others must
not eat prepared suet or prepared lard
upon their bread If they choose to do 80.
There is disposition to enact laws to pre-
vent these stuffs from being sold az butter,
and to insist that they shall be distinctly
marked to show what they are. This is
easily done by the tub or other original
package, but when it comes to the retailer
it will be difficult to enforce the law SO far
as marking separate pounds and half
pounds. One suggestion il that every
maker shall be obliged to color the stuff
some other color than yellow. II colored
blue or pink it could not be mistaken for
butter-but who would eat 1t!
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