Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-28
Foa THE FaaM

A corrtsp ndens .sys he knows by two
years. successful experience that dash of
soapsuds is death to carrant worms
TChica o J9urcal.
A New Yo-k Safe farmer says: 81
consider r1r, either cut gre5n FIR soiling,
or cat early AMI cured 10, hay. excellent
forage for ooas, and even boss. | feed
to all these AID they eat it sreedily."
Take a new fiower-pot, wash it clean,
wrap i. in a wet cloth and set over butter !;
it VIII keep it as hard as il on ice. Milk,
if put into an earthfn can, or even a tin
| o ie, will keep swee. long time, If well
wrapped ia wet cloth.-[Dstroit Post.
A ccIresp ndent OF the american Agri-
calturist c,siEns that winding airing
t Chilly around TIE body or limb in June
or July, will cause barren fruit trees to
yiel! the folio wing season. Let our read.
e's try il on single limbs and alterua,e
tees next summer. The string should be
cut the following winter or early spring.
For several years l have used wood
ashes about my peach trees with marked
success About one peck OF fresh ashes
is applied each spring and fall about the
stem Of the tree in little conicaI mound.
The mound prevents the attacks of the
SOiSA ohu VIC vi s~SsSS uPoii 1iiO
soil stimulates the tree so that IL ia enabled
to resist disease James Wood, in n. Y.
World.
Professor Blcunt, of the Colorado State
College, makes tins report to the Presi.
dent: 81 would also call your attention
to the black. bearded centennial, winter
wheat of extraordinary weight-seventy-
four pounds per straed busael-and whose
grain surpasses anything ell visitors have
ever seen, and the straw is remark able for
its stiffness and its habts-be5ter than any
l have heretofore raised"
In commenting upon the fact that up
wards of IS, GOO 0o0 worth of cotton seed
meal IS annually imported into Great
Britain 20 feed cattle, English agricultural
Authorities style it the very best food i'm.
ported. admitting that only by igs use can
English grszsrs compete with the Ameri-
| cans. Il might be profitable for our cattle
rsissrs to take this hint and feed proper
rations of cotton seed meal.
When weeds are ripening their seeds is
the time to cuS them down. Pile them up
together as soon as cut down and burn
them when dry. DO not leave them scat.
tered over the ground or they will drop
heir seed as they dry aud all the labor will
be gathered up now and carried off out of
the way of fall blowing and sowing.
a good egg wtIl sink III water A boiled
egg, which is done, will dry quickly on
the shell, when tsken from the kettle.
After an egg has laid a day or more, the
shell comes off easily wheu eoiied A fresh
egg has a iime-lke surface 20 It's shell.
Stale eggs are CLASSY and smooth OF shell.
Eggs which have been packed in lime look
strained, and show the action of the lime
on the surface. Eggs packed 10 bran for a
long lire smell aad taste musty. With
the aid OF the hands, piece of paper
rolled in funpel shape and held toward the
lieht, the human eye can look through an
egg, shell ard all. If an egg is clean and
go,aes' III appearance, when held to the
EshF, it IL COED; if dark or spotted, it is
bad. The badness of an egg can sometimes
b. told by shaking near the holders ear,
bat the test is a dangerous one Thin
shells are caused by lack Of gravel, etc,
among the hens laying eggs. Many de-
vices have hsen tested 10 keep eggs fresh,
but the lese time au EGG is kept the better
for the egg and the one that eats it, Ru.
raj Gentleman.