Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-07
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

age price OF 81 cents per quart IN 1874
3S cents; in 1876. 81 cents; in 1879, IA
cents !; in 1850, l29 cents. Many years
ago, Jacundas from Knox, at Pittsbure,
brought in New York from so to Is
cents per quart, and for some years
after the war selected berries oil
Triomphe de Grand sold readily at
from 40 to so cents per quart by the crate.
There, are, however, one or two good
points In this decline. These fine sorts
then had no competition in the many ex.
ceilent varieties which have since sprung
into existence and supplied the market
and the scant supply then, confined to a
few purchasers, is replaced by the enor.
nous quantities which enables anyone who
has few cents to feast on Strawberries,
and the whole people can have them.
In treating cows for horn brittleness, a
stock-raiser in Austria found no good result
from feeding lone. meal when the water
used was from a spring perfectly soft
that is, without mineral matter. But upon
changing them to the water Of another
spring containing carbonate, sulphate and
phosphate of lime, and chlorste of mag
nesia in small quantities, the effects were
as fellows l. The animals drank half as
hluCu again as ctiOIe. = ne COWS gave
more and better milk than before. 3. The
worst diseased COWS at once began to get
better, and this was the first case in
which any of them recovered without re.
moval. 4. The oxen showed far better
condition than could be previously attained
on the best food and with the most careful
attention. 5. No fresh cases occurred as
soon as the change of water was intro.
duced.
Mr.. Parry, who has long been a very
successful grower of the raspberry, gave
the New Jersey horticultural Society a
statement 'of some of the large profits OBJ
tanned when this fruit sold at high prices.
He said the best American varieties, with
fair treatment, will yield as many bushels
per acre as cora, and generally bringing
five times as much in market, and when
once planted remain for several wears. A
neighbor of his sent to market one. horse
wagon load of red raspberries, and received
1920 for the lot. A lady near him rented
out her farm, reservipg portion for a rasp.
berry plantation, from which she sold one
year 43 900 quarts of berries, worth, at s
cents quart, So, 40, which was more than
the tenant made from all the other crops on
the farm.
Ten miles from London is fine old place
called Charlton Park. Many years ago a
great sale of mulberry trees, with other
timber, took place there. The auctioneer
could give no explanations az to how such
an immense quantity of mulberry timber
should be there, hut it was subsequently
explained that with q view to British silk
culture, James |. had done all in his power
to encourage mulberry plantations, and
actually appeared in court in a silk suit
woven out of cocoons which the Queen had
personally raised from her siik-worms. 1t
was later on deemed to be impolite to
check French imports, 50 the silk scheme
fell through. Tee Charlton trees had been
planted at the time Of the rage for silk
making.
The development of the beet root in
France has beea greatly hindered by the
cold weather which has prevailed, and the
root remains small, short, and forked,
growing at no great depth in the soil. In
Germany, until quite recently, there have
been abundant rains and low tempera-
ture. Lately, however, there was an I'M
provement in the weather. TIE beet was
developing fairly well, but it had lost lit
lie of its richness. From Austria and Hun
gary there were complaints of iHcessant
rains, which, though it promoted the
growth OF the beet, was damaging the quail
,ty. Adviees from Russia also speak rather
unfavoTabiy Of the prospects. In Bohemia
the quality is very inferior.
With the view of promoting silk culture
in India, it is stated that the revenue and
agricultural departments have made ar
rangements for supplying such of the local
governments and administrations as are
prepared to join in the experiment with
small quantities of silk worm eggs OF the
univoltine variety, for the purpose of silk
worm rearing during the next cold weather.
Il has also been suggested to the provin-
cial governments that, if the experiment he
carried out on large scale, the extensive
cultivation of the mulberry should be at
once commenced in the localities selected
for the trial.
On a ranch twenty-five miles northwest
of Stockton, on Bow Creek, Iowa, are
l,5O0 head of Mexlcan.grade sheep that
nave been winttred on buffalo gysss from
the range. They sheared four pounds per
head, making clip OF c. 900 pounds, worth
- cents, amounting to 81, 32l. There is
also fine LOT Of lambs, worth 81 500 thus
making a total income CT s., $50 The
total expense of keeping the sheep for the
past year has not exceeded $500, leaving a
profit of 81 020.
The increase in the number of cotton
spindles in the Southern States during the
year 1881 81 has been "a follows Geor-
gia, log, 600 Alabama 81. coo Tennessee,
ri 600; Mississippi, % 000; Louisiana,
2l, 600; North Carolina, As COO; South
Carolina, 90, 600; total new spiniles, 36l,-
00O Estimating the cost at S27 per spin
die, the investment represents 50 763, 200,
which, with % per cent. additional sum to
operate with, indicates about SD pa COO
placed in the industry in the South.
A new and rare century plant, botan-
ically known as Agsve Vict1rloe regime, is
now in blossom in the palm house of Har.
ward College. 1t is said to be the frat of
its kind to blossom in cultivation, and no
specimen of the species, so far as is known,
has been seen in bloom in it's native home
among the mountains OF northern Mexico.
The irforescence, which is described as
looking Ike an immense yellow bottle
brush, stands upon stem about eleven
feet high.
Canary seed is scarce the supply in the
United States will barely last fifteen
months, and no more can be gathered for a
year. Abroad, too, the supply ia scanty.
England is shipping canary reed to Spain
sending CO. lis to Newcas tle-and Spain and
southern France are calling upon Smyrna
and the Lavant. Switzerland, too, is short.
and Italy has no surplus. Tue owners of
canary birds should therefore be economical
in feeding their pets.
There are many farmers VINO have extra
good butter cows and do not know it.
They have poor pastures in summer and
no shelter and Indifferent feed in winter.
In the house they have no convenience for
making butter; the milk is set where there
are no arrangements for keeping it cool in
summer, and in the living room, exposed
to the odors of the kitchen, in winter and
neither the quantity nor the quality are
any index Of what n COW can do.
From New Zealand has been shipped to
England a quantity Of preserved rabbits,
estimated to weigh some fifty tons. The
rabbits are packed in tins holding two
pounds each, and thirty six tins make a
csse-that is, seventy-two pounds. The
supply of rabbits appears to be inexhaust-
ible. The average quantity delivered per
day is 5000 On one occasion recently
5000 were delivered in day.
The village of Brockport, Monroe county,
n. Y, is probably the largest market for
beans from first hands in the country. As
many as 40 00G bushels have been sold
there in single season, all the product Of
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