Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-07-14
INDUSTRIAL BREvIrIRs.

in regard to timber claims requires but tel
acres to be planted to timber on each guar
ter section, OF a corresponding proportion
on eighty or forty.acre lots. The condi
tions are as follows Five acres on eaci
quarter section are to be broken the frs
| year, cropped the second, and the add
tlonal five acres broken. The third yea
five acres must be planted with trees Ak
or ?. 700 to the acre. The fourth year the
remaining five acres which were cropped
the third year are to be planted in the SAINT
manner. The trees are to be cultivated FOL
| eight years, when there must be 675 livint
trees to the acre. This obtains patent Il
the land.
Two or three years ago Scotch inventor
| devised system OF compressed. air blast
ing for use in coal mines, where the out
flow of gas made the use of powder blast.
hazardous. AT a recent meeting of the
Iron and Steel Institute much simpler
mode of ohviating the use of powder was
described by Mr.. Mosley. In this sys
TEN the steam generated by the contact
of water with caustic lime is the explosive
agent. After the cartridge of caustic lime
water is forced in by small force pump,
and the coal is broken by the slow pressure
of the steam. The system is said to be
rapid in its operation. and entirely safe
DR.. Guyiop, OF France, draws attention
to the reprehensible practice OF rearing
foals, or, indeed, any live stock, on the
house. feeding principle. Plenty of air,
light and exercise are requisite for all
young stock. He prefers even the bad
plan of letting the foals run wild, even all
the winter. The breeders of the famous
Percheron horses chain the foals to pivot
driven into the soil the chain is six ards
long, sufficient to allow the animal to exer.
else and Craze, while securing that no harm
shall arise from any neighbor anchored
close by. As the ground is fed down, the
pivot is advanced. At night the foals are
housed.
Many farmers throw away the old brine
in beef and pork barrels and fish packages.
Sometimes they throw it on grass patch
or under a tree, and kill the vegetation.
II they desire to kill vegetation with it,
they should pour it onto patches of bur.
dock and thistles, or around trees that are
worthless. 1t is better, however, to use it
for manure, in which case it should be ap-
piled with judgment. 1t may be applied
to asparagus beds literally, but to other
things sparingly. Ordinarily the best dis.
position to make OF it is to pour it on a
manure or compost heap, and allow it to
be absorbed.
Kaolin is being used ON the South Caro-
lima Railway with great success as cover
ing for boilers. 1t is mixed with plaster of
Paris in the proportion of two parts of the
former to one of the latter, iute being
mixed with it instead Of hair, which is de.
stroyed by the heat 1t is said to prevent
loss of heat much more effectually than
the ordinary wood tagging, while the
greasy nature of the kaolin preserves the
iron from corrosion, at the same time bav-
ing no chemical action upon it.
A table just completed by the Indiana
Burean of Statistics, with view to ascer-
tanning the benefits derived from tile drain
age, shows that land which yielded an
average OF @ bushels Of wheat per acre
for five years before drainage, yielded l9I
bushels for five years after being drained.
With corn the increase was from 81 to "A
bushels per acre. During the same period
the number of cases of malarial sickness
diminished from l,S40 cases TO 400 cases
after drainage.
1t is stated that for every ten hogsheads
of sugar extracted from the sugar cane,
eleven hogsheads are lost, because no ade-
quate machinery has yet been devised for
crushing the cane and extracting the rich
juice thereof. The assertion comes from
the very highest authority on matters ap-
pertaining to sugar culture that our plant
ers loose 200, 900 hogsheads year by this
waste, an amount representing $50, 900, 900
per annum.
Statistics have been published by the
French Department Of Public Works rela-
tive to the planting of trees along the high
roads of the country. The total length of
the routes nationales is 80, 93S, l26 meters,
of which %, 13l 92S may be bordered with
trees. OF this distance IA 335, 81 meters
are planted, while 9, 396, 6l7 meters remain
to be done. The number of trees used to
form the Welcome avenue is 2, 09l, sos.
a veteran breeder of cattle living on the
island of Jersey claims several advantages
for lettering cows. They may be summed
up as follows There is economy of food,
amounting from 80 to 60 per cent; regu-
larity in feeding; perfect control Of the
food supply; saving of expense of making
and maintaining fences greater gentle
ness of the cattle tethered ; and finally
an increase in quantity of butter.
There are between twenty and thirty
potato starch factories In Aroostook coun-
ty, Maine. Each one of these consumes
from 1000 to 5000 bushels of potatoes q
day. This locality has but few railroads,
and the expense to the farmer OF market
ing the potatoes is very great. The first
factory for the manufacture of starch was
erected ON the Aroostook river in 1872.
In Germany, during the slippery season,
temporary calks are used for horse shoes
Two sharp pointed studs an inch long are
screwed into holes left in the shoes, and
when the horse enters the stable they are
taken out and button screwed into their
place, thereby preventing all damage tc
the horse and keeping the screw. holes from
filling.
A Florida paper says that within radius
of eight miles Of Sanford, that State, there
are 2,0S2 orange groves, containing l65, 235
trees, and, although only I've per cent OF
the trees are now bearing, they produce
2, 800, 900 oranges annually. The entire
State is SAID to produce SO, 900, 600 oranges.
OF one thousand English farmers who
were landed in one week at Montreal, zoo
proceeded to Ontario, and the remainder
went on to Manitoba. 1t is estimated
that their aggregate capital amounted to
5000, 900.
A English smoker predicts that hops will
soon be mixed with tobacco for using in
the pipe. He states that smoker will
soon learn to prefer a mixture of three
fourths hops and one-fourth tobacco,
1t is reported that there is a great de-
mand for merino bucks in western Texas.
The present is an excellent time to send
them there, as the owners OF sheep are well
supplied with money.
The fine herd Of pedigree polled cattle
belonging to ID. A. Pearson, Of Scotland,
has been destroyed by contagious pleuro-
pneumonia, introduced by COW purchased
for mixer.
England imports eggs annually that are
worth $4,000, 900. A dozen eggs average
one and q half pounds in weight.