Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-11-12
FACTS PoR FARMERS.


Blue grass improves on the same ground
for hundred years.
1t is estimated that not more than one
acre of land to a farm in Vermont is planted
to corn.
Pigs are said to consume far more food
in proportion to their weight than either
sheep or oxen.
The number Of cattle reported in Texas
for 1881 is A, AGA, 900 head, which are valued
at $39, $40. 800.
Young COWS do not give as rich milk as
those of maturer age do. A lean COW gives
poor milk and fat cow gives rich milk.
Such has been the recent damage to the
British crops that the current wheat def.
cheney in the United Kingdom is estimated
at l25, 600, 600 bushels.
Celery will bear cold to temperature of
% degrees without injury, but any cold
below this will destroy its vitality, and de:
cay Immediately follows.
Green manuring, or the plowing in of
green crops, is especially adapted for light,
sandy soils, which need humus to in
crease their retentive power.
The American wheat acreage is spread.
ing in advance of the rate of increase in
population, hence larger quantities will be
available year by year for exporte
The potato is more productive than any
other esculent, and one authority places
the yield from an equal quantity of ground
at thirty pounds of potatoes to one pound
of wheat.
The general opinion is that ants are en-
emies of fruit trees but it has long since
been proved that they destroy larvae and
chrysalides, and they do not destroy the
fresh fruit.
If the owner of cow will realize the
fact that unless she pays him in clear cash
S44 so yearly she is kept at loss, he will
soon become interested in the subject of
the improvement of dairy COWS.
Both for its effect upon fattening and
upon health, small amount of leeched
wood ashes should be given to swine. The
food without this is rich in phosphoric,
acid, but has little lime, and the equivalent
should be thus supplied.
The dependence of the farmer is to be
more and more on stock. Stock itself and
it's products are more and more in demand,
while the manure must be had to make
farming successful. Success with stock,
then, includes almost everything else.
The SCOT of soft, or rather bituminous
coal busted upon onions when wet with
dew is said to be remedy for the maggot.
The mother fly closely resembles the house
fly. As SCOT is a good fertilizer nothing is
lost by its application, even if it does not
always destroy the maggots. 1t might be
well to try SCOT derived from the burning
of pitch pine or other soft woods.
While working with the bees avoid all
sudden jars, quick, active motions, and
never fight then. Careful handling will
cure all cross bees, while with careless,
rough handling the most quiet will become
cross. 1t is part of the nature Of bees to
gorge themselves with honey when
alarmed, and when in this condition they
rarely, if ever, sting unless pinched.
The Scientific american gives this as an
excellent mode for preserving eggs Take
fresh ones, put dozen or more into small
willow basket and immerse this for five
seconds in boiling water containing about
five pounds of common brown sugar per
gallon. Place the eggs on trays to dry.
Then pack, when cool, small ends down, in
an intimate mixture of one part of finely
powdered charcoal and two of dry bran.
In this way they will last six months or
more. The scalding water causes the
formation of thin skin of hard albumen
next the inner surface of the she'll, and the
sugar or syrup closes all the pores.