Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-12-01

Let those who will be proud and chill
For me, from June to June,
Ny DOllys words sweet as curds-
Her laugh is like tune
With hey, ETC.
Break, break to hear, 0, crocus spear
o, tall Lent-lilies, fame
There'll be bride at Easter-tide,
And Dolly Is her name.
With hey, Dolly no, Dolly
Dolly shall be mine
Before the spray is white with May
Or blooms the Byzantine.
-tAustin Dobson, in Harper's.
An excellent condition powder for horses
is made as follows Golden seal one-half
ounce, ginger one. half ounce, and gensian
one.half ounce. Give daily in the food for
ten days.
The Pittsburg Stockman suggests that
too many farmers are inclined to put off
many necessary jobs until the time comes
when the necessity is made most apparent.
Thus many leave all their draining and
ditching until spring, when the ground is
full of water, the worst and most incon-
yenient time for such work.
Mr.. Wetmore says that the raisins made
by w. j. Whitney, of Apex, whose ranch
adjoins the Wolfskill tract, are the finest
he has seen in the State. Mr.. Whitney
made about three tons of raisns this sea-
son, and would have made as much more
but for the damage done his grapes by bees.
He now has eighteen acres in vines, and
will plant forty acres more the coming sea.
son, mostly of the muscat Variety San
Diego Union.
A correspondent says that when rabbits
become quite hungry in severe winters they
prefer the bark of apple trees to any other
food, but even then will take this food if
lying on the ground rather than gnaw it
from upright stems. He then gives what
trimming the old trees require, and leaves
the branches lying scattered through the
orchard till spring, and has never had a
tree girdled. a few limbs on each acre
will be enough.-[Country Gentleman.
A writer in Farmer and Fruit GyO1Uer
says "If the agricultural colleges and
experiment stations would make disinter-
ested trials of the new fruits, and give the
public unbiased opinions of the character
and merits of each fruit, it might prove of
as much value in their bulletins as some of
the lengthy accounts about albuminoids
and carbohydrates. Nurserymen's circu-
lars are generally made to puff those plants
in which their pecuniary interest predomi-
mates.
Gver-crowding of fowls is the cause of
nearly all diseases that occur among them.
There is too much strife and competition
among them when kept in large numbers,
and the same is true of animals. The larg.
est breeder of fowls in the world, Hawkins,
of Lancaster, Mass, divides his large flock
into many smaller ones. He keeps over
1000 hens on the same farm, and finds
them profitable. In addition to this num-
Der of hens. thousands of chicks are an
nually Matched and sent to the large cities.
A good healing salve for man or beast is
made by taking of olive oil one quart resin
one ounce, beeswax one ounce, Melt and
heat almost to boiling, then gradually add
three-fourths pound red lead. for winter
use, or one pound if desired for use in
warm weather; stir well, and as soon as
the lead is taken up by the oil, and when
nearly COOL add one-fourth ounce pulver-
lied camphor gum. This can be used with
safety, and is one of the best known RENE
dies for gals, bruises, burns, fever sores,
ulcers, etc.
The cost OF storing ensilage is stated by
Wisconsin farmer as follows My en-
silage last year, made of grass, cost me
eighty cents ton to put it in the silo.
This season, in three and half days, l
put l25 tons of grass in my silO, at a sost
of 81 70, or fraction less than 81 cents
per ton. at the rate of four tons of en-.
silage as an equivalent of ton of hay
this would be equal to 81 IS per ton
for hay. l doubt if hay can be put up for
less than this, and no doubt a well-p
served ensilage is better than hay"
The trimming out of the over-dense tops
is work that may be commenced at any
time, and continue through the winter, as
leisure is found. In thinning out it will
be better to take out many small limbs by
several cuts than to remove large ones by
cutting once only. Large wounds do not
heal as readily. and taking out large limbs
leaves the trees less we'll balanced. The
aim should be to diminish the number of
fruit buds by thinning out the small twigs.
Mr.. Hilmsn, of Marlboro, who has great
success with his trees, cuts back quite
freely with light pruning shears, thus &C.
complishing his object without making any
large wounds I New England Farmer.
In the Union the other day we gave the
opinion OF K. D. Blowers, of Yolo, that
the cultivation of the guava in the vicinity
of San Diego promised to become an i'm
portant and very profitable branch of fruit
culture. He thought $500 per acre might
be obtained from guava plants. 0ne of the
Messrs High, whose thrifty five acre place
in the Chollas valley, mile east of town,
Is so well known, says he thinks this esti-
mate Of profit is rather under the mark.
They have little less than a quarter of an
acre devoted to guava plants, and from
this small piece Of ground they have already
gathered and sold more than 500 worth
OF fruit, besides using good deal in max
ing jelly; and the plants will continue to
bear for three months yet.-[San Diego
Union.
VIII there ever be less wool or mutton
wanted per capita than now! No. Is the
wool and mutton product keeping pace
with the increase OF population, Il Is
probable that it is not. VIII sheep and
wool therefore be less remunerative in the
years to come than nowl Certainly not.
As the inhabitants of a country increase.
meat prices increase, because meat is in
thickly settled countries always one of the
most costly articles of food. As prices in.
crease, the masses seek the cheaper kinds.
Mutton is one of the cheapest. Hence, as
population increases, it must be in other
countries adapted 70 sheep as in England,
that the popular taste will incline that
way. 1t is so in sill the thickly-settleG
districts of Europe it is becoming more
and more SO from decade to decade in the
United States. The use of wool will
certainly not decline. Il is becou ing more
and more sought year by year. Hence,
those who earliest pay attention to those
breeds OF sheep adat ted 70 their localities,
IN connection with other stock, will earliest
reap the full reward Of their endeavors.-
breeders Gszstte.
Farm stables are rot only often heated
to excess by being overcrowded, but they
are foul aud vitiated from gases or vapors
of positively noxious quality, engendered
from the decomposition Of the litter. faces
and urine, together with the exhalStions