Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-10-21
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J. NJ. Vance writes to tie Indiana Far.
mer, giving the yield from his long wool
sheep this year My entire stock of Lin
colnshires made an average or II pounds
and Q ounces per fleece, As head in all.
The heaviest fleece weighed Is pounds, off
of one year old eve.
A farmer of my acquaintance, whose
business is chiefly raising hogs, had one
acre of artichokes, two or three years ago ;
he now has Six acres, and talks of planting
four more. He says that in some yeara
one acre of artichokes is worth three of
corn and that small piece, according to
tie number of hogs, will any year be worth
more than the same area of core. Some
use the tops as green feed horses and cat
tie both seem to relish them i Farm and
Garden.
IL is said that an acre of wheat will sus.
tain three and hslf individuals for o2e
year An acre OF potatoes will sustain
ten persons for year. In Ireland the in.
PRODUCTION OF the potato has been followed
by dsoline of ever Irish industry except
agriculture. The small amount OF labor
requir, for obtaining sustenance from the
ssry labor, and the time gained is not profit
ably spent in developing other industries.
but is apt to be passed in likeness. 1t ia
SO the world over. where the earth yields
OF its abundance almost without toll.
All trees and plants are not partial to the
came character Of soil, and though they
may live for few years in urcongenial
ground, certain varieties will never reach
their greatest perfection unless their roots
are thoroughly adapted to the soil iu which
they are placed. Wsmay change the char
acter of some soils, as, fer icstace, wet,
retentiye clay, by systematic uaderdrain.
ing, etc but it is difficult matter to con-
vert pure sand iato a stiff, adhesive
mold. Now, this par.iality to special
soils extends even to varieties of the same
species OF fruit, az, for instance the straw
berry The TriomPhe de Grand, Jucunda
and come others will attain perfection
only In heavy soils, while the Kentucky
and many others are specially adapted
to the light sands of portions of New
jersey and Delaware. The pear, in
particular, is very partial 10 q strong,
rather heavy soil and the apple, plum
and ounce succeed best on one OF q
cherries aad peaches seem TO succeed bet
Ter on thoroughly drained, open aud fra.
bic loan, with little, ii any, clay. Moist
ure Is an essential to success iu the
cultivation OF ounces, Strawberries and
some exec tionai varieties of other fruits.
as the Ncwt6wn Pippin apple. Grapes de-
iignE IN a moist atmosphere, and their
roots VIII ramhia fer a long distance in
search OF water For these moisture loving
varieties a good mulch during summer has
baen found highly advantageous, ard aoth.
ing is better fer tha purpose than long
strawy manure. S.ys Downing: "a
pretty careful observation for several DAYS
mas convinced us that s. light, sandy soil
is, on the whole, the worst soil for fruit
trees" Another point is, that although
fruits, as rule, are psrtial TO stimulating
fertilizers in the soil, the cherry will not
thrive if in very rich land, or, st least, a
very few years will be the extent Of its ex.
istenee.-[Josiah Hopes.
1t ia quite as important to fatten and
market economically the animal prodacts
of the farm as it is to raise them. A pound
Of beef, pork or poultry can be made much
cheaper in September and October than
the rations must go to keeping up animal
heat. There is no sleight OF hand in lay.
ing fat upon an animals CARCASS. It must
come out of good homes! food in the rstions
fed. The temperature in the latter part
of summer and early autumn is in favor of
the best use of all the fattening articles of
food, while there is enough Of green food
to sharpen the appetite aud keep up good
digestion. We have found green corn
stalks, especially sweet corn, al excellent
article in the sly, to lie fed in come ciion
with corn on the cob, and cornmeal and
other rations. We have never seen pork
made more rapidly than with this kind Of
feeding. Il Will 5e safe 20 {, cd all that the
swine will eat up clean, and no more.
Slack up the food little hen AMI thing is
left in the trough This viii require hstle
attention, bat the pigs will grow 50 fast tn st
oae can afford to hnger by the sty few
minutes, once in day, TO see the FAT &C.
cumulate. Cora is high this season, and
we want to make the beet use OF il. TIE
best poul.rymen we know begin to give ex-
ira feed in September, when they mean to
kill in November. The THANKSGIVING
market is pretty sure to be a good one, aud
brings ready cash. TIE small potatoes
boiled, and mixed with Indian neal aud
hot water, make an excellent feed for tar.
keys and other poultry. This favUrs growth
as well as fattening The rations Of corn
and other grain, unground, may be reserved
to the last few weeks OF lfe. Turkeys
should have their liberty all through the ex.
ira feeding. Some pou!trymon put up their
geese and ducks, Int We doubt the economy
of this msthod With a good run they will
have variety CT fcoj, and thrive better
with an access to pasture wiki pond Oh
brook, while they are receiving full feed
for market. All that the fsttenirg ami
mails will eat up clean is good rule for
the last month of fe-diag i American
Agricnlturis5.