Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-09-01
PARM AND FRUIT.

bic COWS managed to get into the lot and
two of them died from eating the lime.
A shipment of 800 bushels of red-osk
acorns has been made to Germany for plant
ing on untillable lands and hillsides. This
tree has been found to do well in Europe,
and its wood is valuable. The acorns were
gathered in Missouri at an average cost of
81 bushel.
The "boss" fleece of 1883, at least, is
that taken from "Woolly," California
ram owned by Hutton Brothers, of Los
Angeles. It is fourteen months growth,
apd weighs 62ll pounds. Woolly" is a
pure blood French merino, directly from
stock of the Rambouillet farm of France.
imported in 1859 by J. D. Patterson. lex
change.
A successful melon grower has learned
that picking off the first formed fruit causes
the later setting to grow much larger. This
is the method adopted in growing the enor-
nous specimens sent from the South, and
which every farmers boy has at one time
1t is a good plan to pick CT the first formed
fruit of any kind of vine to increase its
productiveness.-[Ea Eastern Exchange.
It is denied by Schmidt Muhlheim that
the formation of part of the milk obtained
from COW begins with the process of milk
ing, and that the udder is too small to give
room for all the fluid to be obtained at one
milking. On the contrary, the most thor
ouqh effort will leave some milk in tie
duets, whence it is driven into the milk
reservoirs ny the newly formed secretion
pushing from behind, and which may be
obtained after the lapse Of an hour from the
time the milking began.
We have lately noticed that hundreds Of
young trees, mostly cherry, have died dur
ing the past summer. This does not apply
to trees set out IN an orchard by them
selves, but when planted in an old orchard
between the rows Of trees. Two success
sive dry seasons have no doubt checked
the full bearing capacity of all kinds OF
fruit trees in this valley, and naturally the
old trees having deep hold, honey-comb-
ing each other underground, the show for
Young tree to prosper seems very slim. We
do not believe in crowding an orchard SO
full of trees, unless the old ones are about
20 let up bearing and it is necessary to plant
out trees to take their places. I Haywards
Journal
Speaking of pyrethrum, from which bu-
bach is made, Truth, published at the East,
says PyrethIum, or Persian Insect
Powder" bids fair to be the best of insect
exterminasors. The powder is cheap,
poisonous only to insects, aud very effect
ual At the experiment station at Amherst
they mixed tablespoonful of the insect
powder in pailful OF equal parts of water
I'D laH
rants, potatoes, or other plants infested
with bugs or worms. The buttermilk
makes the powder stick to the plant, and
in about half an hour the insects get
coed mouthful OF it, curl up, drop to the
ground and die. Should it prove effeOtual
against the rose bug on grapevines, py-
rethrum will certainly be blessing. The
plant is easily grown IL gardens.
We have made and read many calcula-
tions about what number Of oranges may
be produced from a certain number of
trees, having given number to the acre,
age and care of them being taken into con-
sideration. a cool, level-headed man at
Jacksonville, Florida, makes the following
moderate calculation of the orange culture
in that State: l. Twenty'one acres of
land affords sufficient space for LOCO
orange trees, 80 feet apart 2, If well
cultivated on high hammock land the pro-
duct will be 500 fruit per tree in ten years.
3. As fruit sells on the tree at one cent,
the product for each tree would bring IS
per annum. 4. If the tree produces So per
annum, the value of each tree may be
placed at $50. If each tree is worth the
sum indicated, a grove Of /, 900 trees would
1
sells at one cent apiece in Florida, while in
California much greater price is realized,
and when our groves have reached the age
of some of the Florida ones, we shall be
able to supply much of the Eastern market
with better article and at very remuner-
alive prices to the producer. -[Ontario
Fruit Grower.
DR.. James R Nichols, in a paper on
"Tne Sweet Principles of Fruits and
Plants" read before a recent nesting of
the Massachusetts, Horticultural Society,
gave expression to many interesting states
mente, come OF which are here presented.
No one of the fruits in their wild state
hold enough sugar to make them accept
able to the human palate, but the sweet
principles may largely be increased by
cultivation and fertilization. In increas-
ing the sugar IL fruit other desirable quail
tiles are also increased. The beet, under
ordinary conditions, will afford from to
6 per cent. OF sugar, but by scientific and
generous culture the percentage can be
nearly doubled. Touching on the sui ject
of fertilizers, Dr. Nichols said that nitro
genous manures are not required in orch
ards to any extent, the supply in the soil
being equal to the small amount demanded
by TIE growing fruit. Potash is the moss
important element in securing flourish
ing condition of fruit. Both the vine
and the fruit are great consumers of
potash, as are also most of the
small fruits. Wood ashes and bone meal
are excellent materials for retaining the
worn. out gsape border, as we'll as desirable
for new borders. 1t was advised to place
the fertilizers in successive layers rather
than in the usual form of mixed heap.
Wood ashes are the best source of potash,
in DR.. Nichols opinion, and next come the
German chlorides. The German KANT
salts he thought poisonous TO soils. He
recommended as the best fertilizer for
fruits and most cereal crops mixture of
finely ground bones and good wood ashes,
in the proportion of six barrels OF the
former and twelve of the latter, to be well
mixed together, adding during the mixing
twelve buckets of water and enc barrel of
gypsum of plaster. When the German
chiorides are employed in place of the
ashes the compost may be extended with
humus. He has used the Charleston phos-
phate nodules, ground fine, with consider
able success, in place of ground bone.
Marshall P. Wilder, Who approved of DIR.
Nichols paper, believed the combination of
wood ashes and powdered bone of great
value.-[N. Y. World.
CURIOUS TREES. -TwQ remarkable trees
of Central Africa have Ven described by
the Spanish traveller, Abargues de Sosten.
One of these tha Acacia mimnsa proHs