Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27

many a family living near the city might
swell their income by keeping few pigs.
If there happens to be a small piece of
land about the place where some parsnips
could be grown, these could be boiled and
mixed with the mill feed, whereby the ex-
pense of feeding would be materially re.
reduced. Cabbage-leaves, turnips, beets,
or any sort of vegetables boiled, make good
feed for pigs. Every gardener throws away
enough in trimming up bis vegetables to
feed and keep fat SOW and ten pigs"
The largest sale of land ever made in
Southern California for fruit purposes has
just been completed at Ontario to the San
Bernsrdino County Raisin Company of
Boston, Mass. This company has recently
been organized with a capital stock of
81 600 900. The lends selected are located
in solid body on the railroad east of On
tario. The water will be piped to the
highest corner of each ten acre lot, and
the company will have a steady stream OF
water continuously flowing upon their lands
night and day. or two hundred inches of
day water. 1t is intended to plant not
lees than five hundred acres of vineyard
this coming winter, and, if possible,
larger acreage. This vineyard, when com.
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on the coast, and probably the largest one
in the world. The company is composed
| of wealthy men, and their endeavor will
be to establish brand for their raisins
that will stand higa in the markets. AL
ready heavy raisin dealers in Boston and
London have signifed their desire to
handle their crop when the vineyard comes
into bearing. The raisin industry is as yet
in its infancy on this coast and the yield
this season is estimated at l25, 900 boxes
| California raisins have been brought into
competition in the Eastern cities with the
imported article, and have stood the test,
both as regards quality and price, and that
too, at very satisfactory figures to the pro-
ducer. American Garden.
Rise when you like in the morning, and
you will find the Swedish farmer already
at work. In the heat of high noon he may
be asleep in his wooden bunk in the living
room, but most of the day the house is de-
serted, and the key hangs on the door jsmb
or is stuck in the shingles of the low porch.
| The laborers come ia for their dinner after
hours of dusty work in the fields. a huge
copper pot is brought out in the middle of
the courtyard and filled with water. The
girls take off their kerchiefs and bath their
arms and necks, budding together in the
shade of the porch. Men follow, and re-
peat the operation. Then the girls dip their
feet in the bath, and dry them on the en-
broidered towels hanging in the sun, and
finally the men and boys likewise finish
their dinner toilet in the same water. The
meal is simple one-porridge, milk, un-
leavened bread, and perhaps some dry or
picked fish. Weak fermented drink is
handed round in a clumsy wooden firkin,
with side and cover painted or carved two
generations ago. At the close of the meal
they sit around the room and sing a hymn
together before they return to the fields.
Everything in the houseis of the most prim
tive order. In the single large room on
the ground floor are chairs made of hollow
tree-trupks, tables of rough-hewn plsnks
turn up on folding legs against the side of
the room, and there are hunks in the WALL
with curiously carved and painted trim
mings. Beside the rude stone fire platform,
where the smoke curls up under an over
hanging hood, stands the well-worn chop
ping block, where during the long evenings
of the winter months the farmer sits by the
hour splitting kindling. wood and whiting.
From the smoky beams overhead hang tools,
of folded rye bread, about the appearances
and texture of coarse brown paper. To
Tighten up the dull.toned interior, the farm
er's wife has hung her embroidered towels
and brilliant coverlets along the front of
the straw. filled hunks, and spread a richly
colored piece of soft home. woven wool over
the painted chest where the Bibles and
hymn-books are carefully stored. On the
-. Ill
stretched piece Of home. made rag carpet
Geraniums and roses bloom in the long low
window, where the green. toned glass set in
lead let's in a mellow light. The rakes
which hang by the door are whitfield out of
tough wood. The beer-mug the old hand
mangles, and the saddle-bows are carved in
grotesque forms or covered with intricate
ornamentstion. Among the few pieces of
coarse crockery is found perhaps a quaint |
silver cup, and sticking in the same rack |
with the clumsy wooden ladies is battered |
but serviceable silver spoon which has fed |
a half-dozen generations. The only litera. |
ture in sight is bundle of Swedish news |
papers from far-off Minnesota, carefully |
preserved and read again and again. Har- J
per's Magazine.
TIE Farmers Gazette has the following |
to say upon the economical conduct of a |
farm, and how to stop leaks: "On almost |
every farm there is more or less of fruit |
and vegetables lost by decay. During the |
fruit season there is so much fruit In the |
farmers orchard, it is considered cheap, |
but it should be remembered that it's in
trinsic value is just the same at all times. |
Every pound has money value. To allow |
it to go to destruction by decay or other
wise, is to allow just so much money to be |
absorbed by the earth. The same is true |
of vegetables; not one pound was pro-
duced without expense. Land is worth |
money. That money must be fed. 1t only |
takes dollar ten years to eat another dol |
lar entirely up. Money feeds upon money,
and will not subsist upon any other food.
For instance, A says to B. will take |
one of your dollars and feed it ten years
for its work. What will you feed it, says |
B? will feed it ten cents each year. The
offer is accepted, the dollar is set to work
if it earns nothing A will be dollar poorer
at the end of the time. The land on which |
the vegetables grew cost money; that money |
is eating at the above rate. If it is not fed |
out of the proceeds of the crop that grows
on it, it will feed on the money invested |
in the land. 1t takes good farming and
close economy to make farm earn ten
cents per annum for every dollar invested
in it. 1t takes the entire crop turned to
the best account. Hence. if the vegetables
and fruit not used in their season, are al
lowed to go to waste, the farmer must
come out behind at the end of the year Just
as much as that which was not utilized
would be worth in food for man or beast.
If this surplus is really surplus and can.
not be sold, it must be utilized in some
other way. otherwise the farmer must come
out behind, and if SO, it is but matter of
time that the money invested in the farm
will have eaten it up entirely. Every
pound of produce grown on the farm has a
cash value for feed. Every pound will add
just SO much to the weight OF an animal.
Every pound of beef. pork and mutton is
wanted in the market, and there is no sur
plus Every pound of produce raised on
the farm has a cash value for feed for