Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-07-02
AGRICULTURAL.
MATTER PREPARED SPECIALLY FOR
THE RECORD UNION"
ure-Washes for Scale Bugs-or-
chard Pests.

As we anticipated and remarked in these
columns some weeks since, the cool weather
has brought the wheat crop up to much
better quality and yield than had been gen.
orally expected 1t vii, be remembered that
the same thing has taken place for number
of years now il succession. Last year. at the
end of long season of north Winds the
wheat crop was almost despaired OF nearly
all over the State. The straw was rapidly
turning yellow, and prematurely rlpenlng'
the side and joint leaves were absolutely
burned and crisped, and the halt-tormed
kernel was shrinking ard seemed past re-
demption. At this time and this stage OF the
cron the north winds ceased, cool breezes from
the ocean came in at the Golden Gate and
over the depressions in the Coast Range, and
settled down Upon the valleys and penetrated
every cove and canyon Of the interior. The
dry and parched soil absorbed the moisture
from this damp atmosphere, and the moisture
from the soil so rapidly coming to the surface,
drawn up by the forces that had been convey.
ing it away in evaporation, meeting that
from the air, bathed the roots of the half
famished grain and reinvigorated root and
stem, reopened the dried-up channels of
circulation and repIenished the shrinking
berry with the necessary ingredients to en-
able it to complete its growth. Similar to
this has been the change in the weather this
year, and with similar effects. The presence
of an unknown and Respondent visitor in the
heavens leads many to attribute the change
in the weather to the influence that body has
II ok ILL
the favorable influences are to be found nearer
at home-in the changes being brought about
gradually in our climate by the cultivation
of the soil and the growth of orchards. vine
yards and ornamental trees where once the
naked earth sent up its glimmering mirage
to deceive the few and istless inhabitants
of the country. Let us not attribute these
favorable changes to such transient causes as
the uncertain influence of the comet, over
which we have and can have no con-
troll, but let us see in them the effects
of our own well-directed industry, and hence
take courage to continue that industry and
give it direction to produce still greater and
more salutary changes, while the great in
terror of the eastern side of our continent is
being visited by alternate droughts and vio-
lent storms of wind and rain and hall-ex-
tremes that have ever followed in the wake
of destroyed forests and disobedience OF the
laws OF nature CALCULATED W pEeSoIfc
equilibrium of climate. Let us learn lesson
from that country's experience, and from the
experience of every other country under sim
liar conditions, and from this on let us see to
it that favorable climatic influences on our
side of the continent are improved rather
than DESTROYED If allowed to do so, the
forests of which our mountain sides have
been in a measure stripped will soon be re.
placed with a new growth of young timber,
and the destruction of oak openings of the
valleys and plains will more than be compen-
stated by the growth of green crops, and the
extension of orchards, vineyards and
artificial groves and ornamental
trees Let every man who cuts down
tree, plant one in its place, and let every
one who owns barren and treeless plain, dot
it over with trees of some kind, and let every
one who destroys blade of native grass sup
ply its place with an srtifcially- planted
growing plant of greater shading and cooling
capacity, and the continued equilibrium of
our climate will be assured. Would the
wheat-growers make more certain their
annual crops, let them contribute to the
causes that have operated in their favor so
conspicuously for the few past years, and their
wishes will be gratihed more and more as time
rolls on, and the harvest seasons come and CO.
1t is a truth that both experience and science
are continually confirming that the weather
In any country is, to a very great extent,
within the control of the people who inhabit
that country.