Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-11-07
impressed ia these great exhibition work.
shops of our country, and the wise teacher
will use them. American Teacher.

duces their condition. A horse aHecGed Dy
it either has little appetite or very irreg
ular one he passes large portion OF the
materials of his food in an unassimilated
condition, or not in very different one
from that in which they were eaten and,
in the advanced stages of his illness, he has
dry and staring coat and exhibits the
peculiar appearance of being hide-bound.
The immediate causes of these symptoms
are some morbid change in the stomach,
some imperfections in its secretions, or the
pressure in it of some improper and dis
turbing matter; and the originating cause
may be a filthy, ill-ventilsted stable, the
use of musty hay or grain, the continued
use of condition powders and similar catch
penny nostrums, the heating of the body
with too much clothing, the presence of
intestinal worms, or any one or more Of an
hundred other unhealthy influences. The
cure, like that of dyspepsia in the human
subject. is determined by the nature of the
cause, and must be such as to bring the
digestive system under totally different
set of influences from those which have ac-
companied the disease. If worms be pres.
ent, anthelmintics must be given; if the
organic power of the stomach be dimin.
ished, tonics must be given if good air,
proper exercise and sufficient grooming
have been wanting, these requisites of
health must be supplied; and, in any
event, good, restorative food of different
kind from what the animal has been re-
Gently accustomed to, must be supplied
particularly succulent food in spring and
abundance of nourishing food in autumn.
! Prairie Farmer.
There is unquestionably disposition in
some sections of the State to conceal the
fact about the presence of insect fruit
pests. Whatever may be the facts at San
Jose, the Press is right about facing the
worst as concludes the following "The
Riverside Press and Horticultural says
Our people should be on the alert and not
let either the real scale or the cottony cush-
ion scale get start. If one is found radi-
ical measures should be adopted at once.
At San Jose this last named scale is every.
where, on the trees, fences, stone. walls,
weeds and in the ground. 1t is the curse
to the orchard that yellow fever is to the hu-
man family, and worse, for the yellow fever
will have its run and stop; the scale knows
no limit to it's spread. The Press man
evidently does not know what he is talk.
ing about. There is no cottony cushion
scale in this valley to speak of and never
was. A few specimens OF the pest were
found a year or two ago on the acacia and
other ornamental trees, but they have since
been destroyed. The Press should consult
DR.. Chaplin about these matters before it
exposes its ignorance. San Jose Herald.
The Press man knows Just what he is talk.
ing about. One year ago he visited San
Jose to attend the annual State Conven-
tion of Fruit Growers, and saw there the
cottony cushion scale in all it's glory. A
section of picket fence was exhibited that
showed this insect in such quantities as to
entirely hide the points. DR.. Chaplin was
in Riverside last week and reported prog
ress. 1t does not seem from his report
that the cottony cushion scale had been
killed out in San Jose. He spoke at the
San Diego Convention and indorsed the re-
marks of the editor of this paper relative
to the spread of this insect. The trouble
is that newspapers try to cover up these
pests for fear they will hurt the country
better to face the music and try to have
them exterminated.-[Pr Press and Agricult-
urist.
Lately met in New iberia, says Daniel
Bennett in a letter to the New Orleans
Picay,ne, my old friend Captain David
Ker, formerly sugar planter on Bayou
Teche, and well known to the readers of
Louisiana journals as writer on matters
intimately connected with the sugar inter-
ests of this State. Captain Ker has for
many years been closely investigating the
sugar question in Louisiana, not only sugar
cane culture but the manufacture of cane
sugar. He has waded through a large
amount of the best modern sugar literature,
and has at the same time been examining
these matters practically at the steam train
and vacuum pan, and in the cane field, as
a manager on sugar plantations. He is
well informed on all of these matters, and
being both a good talker and
good writer, he is well calculated to
furnish valuable information to inquirers
for that kind of knowledge. Captain Ker
last year was employed at Ellsworth, Kan
sas, to make up sorghum crop. This year
he will boil a crop of two thousand acres
of sorghum made by the same company
that employed him last year. The COM
pany sells all the syrup it makes at not
less than 30 cents gallon, and they
think sorghum culture will pay in Kansas
at that price for syrup. So the West
ern people generally think. Now, the
curious part Of this business is that in Kan.
sas and in the Western States generally,
as Captain Ker states, and as the West.
ern papers state, the yield Of sorghum
syrup alone, without reducing it to sugar,
averages not over l20 gallons to the acre.
Sorghum syrup is not as good as LOui siana
molasses, and here in Louisiana our lands
will yield on an average 100 gallons of
Il l - . !
of sugar besides. When the cane is not
very ripe 1t is not an uncommon thing to
get 200 gallons Of molasses from az acre. and
from one to two hogsheads of sugar besides.
How Is this, that from white skilled labor
in Kansas they make money out of 100
gallons of syrup to the acre worth 500
while in Louisiana planters often become
insolvent in making from one to two hogs
head of sugar and 100 gallons of molasses
with colored labor? They obtain sugar mills
and sugar machinery at as low figures in
Louisiana as in Kansas. Lumber is cheaper
here than there. Fuel is as cheap or cheaper.
Labor is higher here than in Kansas, and
poorer and less reliable here than there
There skilled white labor can use culti-
vators and improved implements of agri-
culture more successfully than colored
labor can use it IN Louisiana. Skilled
labor in Kansas cultivstes more acres to
the hand than this high-priced and waste
full colored labor cultIvates in Louisiana.
Is there no way that skilled white labor
can bring its skill and economies to bear On
the sugar crop of Louisiana The sorghum
company that employs Captain Ker in
Kansas is this year putting up
a vacuum pan, and has its steam train like
those run by the sugar planters of Louis
lana. How is it that skilled white labor
can make sorghum in Kansas and work it
up iato syrup worth $50 to the acre, and
leave handsome profits to the sorghum
planter, while sugar planters in Louisiana
cannot make money out of sugar made
with colored labor worth more than Sl20
an acre? Who can answer these ques-
tions? l withhold comments for future
occasion.