Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-31

Iom Thumbs, no more n0nsuches, seek-no
furthers, ne plus ultras, hog pens, sheep
noses, Big Bebs, ironclads, legal tenders,
Sucker States, or stump worlds" He
advises the use of the simplest names, OBJ.
serving that one word will, as rule, form
a better name than two or more.
Some one has made calculation show.
ing that a difference in yield of milk of
one-sixth of quart per day. should, at
the usual prices, make difference of $40
in the value of a COW, the feed and care be-
ing the same. But it should not be for
gotten that the value of ordinary COWS may
be much increased by attention to regular.
clean milking, plenty Of good water, shell
ter in winter, and general comfort at all
times, 1t is very easy for careless mixer
to dry up COW much more than one.sixth
OF a quart per day, and this represents
more than the interest of $40 year.
Says Austin Gray, in the Iowa Register'
Too much pruning is worse than no
pruning. When will farmers learn to
commence pruning their trees when first
planted, and prune a little every year
enough to give them shspe-and enough
each year to keep them in shape, and no
more, and not neglect them for years to
care for themselves through hardship and
grief, till finally, impatient that the trees
do not bear, they come to the conclusion
that something must be done, and so go
into them with an ak and saw and butcher
them to death.
Mrs. Strong who owns a ranch on the
Merced river near Hopeton, says the Mer-
ced EcpresS, had under cultivation this
year about 250 acres of cotton. 1t is cul-
tivated by Cinnamon on shares, and its es-
tlmated yield was 100 bales, weighing $50
pounds each. The staple is not so fine as
that grown on the Louisiana bottom, and
is termed the "middling." The product
is sold to the manufacturers at San Fran
cisco and Marysville.
A Georgia farmer says that milo maize
has been great success with him. I"
have" says be, "been feeding it to mich
cows they are very fond of it. 1t causes
large flow of milk and leads to rich but
ter. On good land it will make double
the quantity of forage of any other plant
1 have ever seen, and it can be cut several
times during the year. | should think
that it would be just right for ensilage." "
Strange it is how settlers will live for
years In a certain locality and know
scarcely anything of its resources. We
are told that gentleman settled in the
Bald Hills, near Igo, and for four years
hauled all the water he used. Finally he
determined to sink ell, and upon going
down twenty feet struck stream of ar
tesian water which ran over the top of the
well.-[Redding Free Press.
The only profitable way to grow crops in
bearing orchard is to manure double, once
for the crop and once for the fruit. Even
then, unless the season is favorable, the
yield of hoed crops or grain will often not
pay expenses. Raspberries can better be
grown in the shade of apple trees than any
thing else. They love shade, provided the
soil is sufficiently rich. Exchange.
In bean growing districts the crop is now
mainly harvested by machine drawn by
a single horse which cuts the stems of the
beans Just below the surface, leaving the
crop standing 1t greatly decreases the
labor of harvesting, and saves the bean
steams and leaves from being mixed with
dirt, as in the old method of hand-pulling.
To cure snake-bitten animals Stand
the animal in mud if practicable; if not,
bind mud to the bite, changing often.
This should be of very clayey nature,
and may be prepared by mixing with
water; also good for poison-oak and as
readily obtainable as any other remedy
Exchange.
The Farmers Adcocate says that the
best regulated dairies are those where the
COWS are treated with firmness, made to
know their places and keep in them. a
COW is as easily spoiled with over-indul-
gence as with too harsh treatment.
The composition used by Mr.. Hatch, of
San Jose, Cal, to kill phylloxera consists
of equal parts by weight of sulphuret of
carbon, potash, oxide of iron. and sulphur,
mixed with eight tines the same amount
OF mercury.
recent sale of Clydesdale horses at
Chicago was discontinued from lack of sat-
isfactory prices, after three stations had
been knocked off at 81, $50, an average of
81, $50, and three mares at S2, 625, an aver
age of 1915.
In Russia the finer varieties of plums are
raised by planting the trees at an angle of
forty five degrees, or lower, and bending
then down before snow falls in winter,
which then covers and protects them COM
pletely.
Cows in this season often suffer from lack
of pure, gooi water. If stinted in supply,
a falling off in milk is sure to result, and if
the water drank is stagnant it will impart
a bad flavor to butter.
Once in a while some one gets his expe-
rience in bee-keeping from the wrong end
of the bee, and never likes bees any more.