Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-11-04
NOTES FOB TEE FARM.

For lining eggs, pickle is make of pure
stone lime, tiue, clean salt, and pure water,
in the following proportions SIX 20 eight
quarts of salt, sixty to sixty-tive gallons O.
water, and one bushel OF lime. The
stronger the lime-water, and the more free
| from sediment, the better. Stake the lime
with portion of the water, then add the
remainder of the water and the salt. Sir
well, three or four times, at intervals, aud
| then let it stand until well settled and cold.
| Either dip or draw off the clear pickle into
the cask or vat intended to preserve the
eggs This is on large scale, but may be
proportional according to Judgment for
family use.
| Fruit growers must be reminded that
their hoes, cultivators and plows may do
more damage TO plants thsn good II not
used with discretion. The small fruits
| berries, currants, grapes, also dwarf pears,
| ounces, ETC., root near the surface. Here
are found the best roots those that pro.
vide most nourishment. Nature designed
these to be mulched by the dead leaves,
and ia our fields mulching would be the
best treatment if it were possible. Az it
is, the best we can do is TO give frequent
but shallow cultivation.
The Secretary OF the Michigan Horti-
| cultural Society gives 10 substance the fol-
lowing report OF the fruit this year in TIA:
great fruit State: Seventy five reports
place the apple crop at less than three
tourths the average fifty less than one
half, and thirty four less than a fourth
Pears are nearly full yield peaches
about half a crop; grapes abundant;
plums good average. Of apples the heav.
lest bearers are Baldwin and golden russell
northern spy very few. Autumn apples
failure.
Tie DroCers' Journal says that the rate
at which cattle have been coming into
Chicago for the pas. two months has
never before been equaied. Taking the
last five week. ended Saturday, Septem-
Der 231 the total receipts have been 49,
| $40 head, making weekly average OF 81,
| SIS for five consecutive weeks, while the
present also exceeds the average. A daily
average supply of G, 264 for go long period
| is certainly remarkable.
At tie meeting of the Kansas State Hor.
ticultuIal Society one large apple grower
! from LeavenwoSth uaty stated that he
| had an orchard CT 900 Missouri pippins
that on the fifth year from planting yielded
| 500 bushels, and that the past year
| bushels and had sold them for enough to
pay for the cost OF the entire orchard. TIE
| above variety is the only one that bare a
| full crop the past season IN Kansas and
| Missouri.
| George May Powell makes the very good
suggestion, that sprouting scorns or nuts
from she forest may be planted with no
more trouble than the setting out of cab.
| bsge plants, and the training of the young
to look after the growth Of these g foi est
babies" would be one of the best means
of inducing the incoming generation to
take an interest il forestry.
In respect to late experiments made in
| Germany on the cooling of milk before it is
Get fer the cream to rise, they show that
while there is no essential difference be-
tween its cream rising capacity in the one
instance over the other, excepting that the
process Of souring is longer retarded in the
cooled milk, the butter made from the
cream of cooled milk keeps far better than
that made from the uncoole5.
a paper published in Central Iowa tells
how one enterprising farmer planted FIVE
pounds of the White Star potatoes AID dug
ten bushels. Another farmer planted two
small potatoes of the same variety and
harvested over bushel. A third planted
half peck of the Mammoth Pearl variety
and the product was over ten bushels.
There are other parts of the State and
other varieties yet to hear from.
| The Rural Nep Yorker, noting the vast
number of insects which commit suicide
about the electric lights of cities, says it
seems as if this brilliant light might be
used with advantage as an insecticida in
the hop.yard, the tobacco field and other
places on tie farm, where night. flying in.
sects are esy ecially numerous and destruc-
tive to crops, and believes it will yet be
made useful to the insect-tormented farmer.