Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-14
INDUSTRIAL BREyIrIEs.

a lie Conte pear weighing one pound.
ana measuring thirteen and ne.eiehth
lnches IN circumference, has been grown in
Leon county, Florida, this season.
| The Government of Nicaragua is endeav.
oring to generaiize the growth of cincbona
trees, for which some of the mountain
regions of the Republic are emineutlv
adapted.
A Philadelphia magistrate recently an.
nounced the law as saying that the owner.
ship of swarming bees is vested in the
original possessor only SO long as he can
keep them in sight.
1t is estimated that the South has this
season paid to the North $50, 600, 900 for
wheat, $50 000, 900 for corn, S72, 0O0, 900
for meats, and about S25. 900. 600 for hay,
butter, cheese, oats, apples, potatoes, etc.
a gentleman from Vicksburg, Miss, be.
lieves that the electric light can be en-
ployed to good advantage in attracting the
insects that injure the cotton plant, and
that it may be the means of destroying
them.
The fruit growers of this country are al.
most the only class of producers who are
united in favor of free trade: They want
all persons to have all the fruit they can
obtain, and are not particular about where
it grows.
The figs produced on trees the first few
years after they commence to bear are Of
inferior quality, and said to create the i'm
preston that the varieties are poor. After
the trees become older, however, the
quality improves.
A school Of domestic economy is to be
opened at Clark University, Atlanta, GA.
A "model home is to be established in a
convenient cottage, and all the domestic
processes conducted therein in the best
manner.
Experiments in planting pine seeds have
resulted in securing good groves of trees in
places where transplanted trees failed to
grow. Pines are being introduced on many
worn-out farms in the Eastern States in
this manner.
There was completed July 22i, at Ma.
rlne City, Mich, a well which passed
through lis feet of solid crystal salt. Salt
was encountered first at depth of ,633
feet, and from that point to the depth of
l, I4S feet the material removed was pure
salt.
The success that has attended bagging
clusters OF grapes has induced several per-
sons to put paper coverings over tomatoes
and other fruits. They are pleased with
the result, as better ripening is secured and
higher color obtained.
a deck-load of jackasses arrived recently
in New York, the importation OF Abel
Leonard, of Mount Leonard, Mo, who is
to take them west for breeding purposes
They were collected with care in Spain,
and stood the voyage well.
Mere attention is now given to draining
swamp land in the Southern States than at
any tin in their history. The expense is,
of course, considerable, but the outlay ia
compensated for in the large crops produced
and in the great saving in the matter o.
fe 'tilZers.
A farmer near Liverpool, England, has
invented a self.a acting ventilating apparatus
which prevents hay or grain put into stack
quite WEI from being injured by heating,
thus rendering the farmer comparatively
indeperd lent of the weather in that moist
climate.
The latest advices from the cranberry
marshes in the vicinity of Berlin, Wis, are
very unfavorable, for more than a quarter
of crop. The excessive drought last year
killed large number of the vines, and
now the bugs are doing great damage to
the remaining ones.
The oxeye daisy has become very popu-
lar as flower, and is now extensively
raised in village and city gardens. 1t will
doubtless spread into the country and take
possession OF fields and pastures. It will
then be known as the "Dutch cuss," and
regarded as vegetable pest.
Until very recently, Mexico has not
raised coffee enough for the supply of the
people. About fifteen years ago more at
tention began to be paid to coffee culture,
and trees to the number of a million have
been planted every year. 1t is believed
that in a near future Mexico will export
not only coffee, but sugar and tea.
a. B. Howard, of Massachusetts,, says:
A friend of ours, who grows cabbsges ex-
| tensively for market, has found that salt
! peter dissolved at the rate of one and
half to two ounces to a gallon OF water,
| and applied with a sprinkler, will COM
pletely Danish the European cabbage
worm. 1t has proved not only sure cpre
for this nuisance, but a special fertilizer in
stimulating an increased growth OF plant.
By careful pruning and protecting his
vines, and allowing but one or two melons
to ripen on each vine, = Georgia farmer
succeeds IN getting watermelons weighing
sixty pounds and more. One growing
melon weighed sixty five pounds August
23l. and was expected to reach seventy or
seventy-fve pounds by the time it was
! fully ripe. These melons briGg from 80
| cents to 81 each at the nearest town. The
secret of his success, he claims, is in Judi
cious pruning, an art only to be learned
! by experience.
In Tie British Medical Journal DR..
| William Clayton, Medical Superintendent
of the Smallpox Hospital at Homertop,
says: "Apropos OF smallpox in birds, 1
may, perhaps, mention that some years
ago former steward of this hospital was
in the habit of breeding large number of
canlries. As these arrived at maturity it
was common occurrence to find many of
them dead, aud presenting evidence Of hav-
ing suffered from some eruptive disease. 1t
was further observed that when the hospital
contained somewhat large number of
patients the mortality among the birds in
creased, and vice versa"
SOME INDIANA WOMEN.