Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-02-03

plant growth, even if it is not injurious to
it. These substances, it is true, may be to
an extent removed or their effects over
come by frequently being brought to the
surface by the deep running pillow; but
anything less than the complete method
marked out, including both drainage and
deep blowing. will give returns proper
tionately below The best results in yield
and profit that it is possible to obtain.
Ii would be of interest and value to
farmers to know, from those who have had
experience in applying artificial drainage
and deep or subsoil blowing, what success
was produced at their hands by these
methods. We therefore invite reports
from those who had such experience, that
the results may be published for the bene-
fit OF cur readers. Let the communication
state briefly and to the point the nature Of
land applied to, the methods used, and re-
sults.]
A dairymau should study the pecnliari-
ties of each COW. Some COWS will appro-
pirate all the extra food they can digest to
the secretion of milk, and even deplete
their own systems TO keep up full flow OF
milk. Such cows should be especially well
provided for-their generosity should be
reciprocated. These are the cows that pay
for feeding. They pay back the principal
with large percentage OF interest on all
the extra food given them. They are the
only good COWS that will pay for extra
feeding. In fact, they are the only good
COWS that will pay for feeding at all. And
dairym may rest assured that cow
that will not respond to liberal feeding by
en equal increase of milk is not worth
keeping, and instead of adding to his In
come runs him in debt every year.
Colonel T. D. Curtis writes that the
white Belgian carrots yield twice as much
as the long orange, and he regards them as
equally nutritious. This is doubtful, as in
numerous experiments larger roots of the
same variety contain proportioDately less
sugar and nutriment than small ones. The
white Belgian carrot is not salsble in the
market, while the long orange will nearly
every year sell for more than its feeding
value, except to be used as an appetizer.
When carrots can be sold by the wagon
load at forty to fifty cents per bushel, and
retail at th,rty-six cents per half bushel,
the price goes tar beyond their feeding
value. At these prices no crop can be more
profitably grown near good market
American Farmer.
A Texas farmer, by turning his sheep in
his wheat in the autumn, and allowing
them to Craze during the winter and spring
when the soil was in condition, says
1.-The last piece of wheat grazed viii
make twenty five bushels to the acre, and
it would have made more, but it was badly
damaged by the worms. Now, don't
think my wheat was materially injured by
grazing, and yet my whole lamb crop was
raised on wheat"
Poultry breeders do not seem to appre-
ciate the great value of bones for their
fowls, and but limited few ever make use
of them for this purpose. No matter
whether the birds are confined or not, they
are sure to be benefited by moderate
quantity of bones, though those kept in
close confinement need them most.
A good sheep does not consume more
food than bad one, nor does it cost more
to shear The freight and charges on high
class wool are not higher than those for the
poorest feeces 1t is therefore the produc-
ton of high-class wool which the flock
masters of the country should ever keep in
view.
The curry-comb, though email, is.an i'm.
portant article about the stable. All ami
mails, except sheep and poultry, will thrive
better and appear to better advantage If
they are daily well groomed.