Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-09-13
YARM AND FRUIT.
The outlook from the State Fair-Brtef
Suggestion and Mention Upon Agri-


Certainly no one who visits the State
Fair, and carefully examines the excellent
and greatly varied productions upon exhi-
bition, can escape the reflection that Cali
forDia's greatness aud unbounded resources
have never yet been fully proclaimed or
appreciated. As We emerge from the
former impraosicable effervescence of
heralding and dwelling upon our wonderful
scenery. gigantic trees. unequaled. marvel
Gus this and that, and come down to the
truly wonderful and grand-the unlimited
and varied productions OF our State for
maintenance Of earta's population, and
supplying the worlds commerce-we shall
commence to understand and appreciate
the true worth OF our heritage, and the due
relative position to which we are entitled
upon this higher basis among the several
States.
Only few years since many of the indus.
tries which now are foremost in Califor-
MIA were experimental and regarded with
doubt and extreme caution. Ten years
hence numerous industries in the State
perimental stage Will be found as successful
and become ss liked in the lisJ of remunera.
tive vocations as those now most firmly
established. Thus, with our unlimited
possibilities in the production of cereals,
fruits OF almest every kind and choice wines
for the world, together with the other
numerous Industries aud productions which
are coming TO the front, and OF which IN d
few years the State will abound, our pres
ent most aanguine estimate Of the S5ste's
future iE probably as it will be viewed
from the standpoint OF fifteen or twenty
years from tins time, but as an introduce
tion OF faint aniolding of our future great.
ness.
A few years ago no one entertained
thought That we possessed unequaled climate
and conditions Tor the development Of su-
perior strains OF blood horses. To-day
this fact is as clearly established as that
California is State IN the Union, and the
same favorable results are fast develop
ing in regard to other lines of stock.
The fooshiil regions, which until recently
have been looked upon as only low-priced
sheep ranges, are now being transformed
from chapa 7 ! thicksts to four or FIVE
hundred-dollar an.acre vineyards and or
chards. Next the "warm belt was
found to be favorable for fruit lands, and
this favorable belt was narrow one, and
of about the altitude at which Penryn aud
Newcastle were situated, and that below
and above this certain line or belt the
favorable conditions vanished. To day
there is to be seen in the fruit exhibits at
the Pavilion perhap the grsndest exhibit
tion of grapes ever yet brought to a State
Fair, and which were grown as high up in
the mountains as Colfax, and raised at that
without irrigation.
Thus the development of our hidden re-
sources ia constantly unfolding, and in the
space OF q few years more we shall be
brought to a more realizing sense of the ex.
haustless possibilities of our common
wealth.
Average unsalted butter contains about
l per cent. OF water.
Herbert Blakely gives the average Pc
riod of gestation in cows at 2S6 days.
Corn weighs about twenty-eight pounds
per cubic foot IN wagon, box or corn-crib
Water containing chloride of lime is said
to improve the quality of rancid butter by
washing with it.
The average of twenty-three analyses of
the milk of FIVE Dutch. Friesan COWS ON the
college farm gave 3 O6 per cent of fat.
Experiments show that 100 pounds of
yellow dent corn cribbed in October
weighed SO II pounds in the following
February.
The following items were furnished the
Iowa Homestead by J. n. Muncey, assist
ant in Experiment Department of Agricult
ural College, Ames, Iowa;
An approximate estimate of the number
of buthels OF potatoes in bin can be made
by allowing 47.6 pounds for every ., l50
cubic inches. made an experiment with
five different sized potatoes to determine
the above.
Prof. Villeroy is said to have made a
test between Holstein and Devon COWS
with the following results 100 pounds
hay when fed to Holstein yielded 2S %
quarts Of milk +; 100 pounds hay fed to
Devon yielded 10. - quarts of milk.
Bi.carbonic of soda neutralizes the Tactic
acid in butter, and is a sure preservative,
but it impartg a soapy taste. Boracic acid
and sulphide Of potassium are superior and
harmless, according to DR.. DeKlenze
Sixty grains are required to the pound of
butter.
Seventy-nine hours, or nearly eight days
labor Of one man, are required to lay
20, $50 shingles. In the above case there
were three carpenters and five common
hands employed in shingling a summer
house 81 by "A. | also found it required
exactly so pounds of three-penny shingle
nails, or nearly four pounds of nails per
1000 shingles.
A scientific authority remarks that facts
collected by Miss Aamerod in Great Brit
ain prove that there the damage caused by
insects is in reality enormous. Not less
than g, 900, 600 will be found set down to
aphides En the country where the inhabit-
ants are devoted to the csttle-raising in.
dustry, while the ravages annually caused
by wire-worms, weevils, ETC., to wheat,
barley, peas, beans and tares seem to range
between 90 and f3 an acre.
Muskmelon.growing is becoming ex-
ceedingly profitable in Southern Illinois.
Farmer ara Frat. Gr0weT says: Lee Davis,
OF Anna, shipped from an acre planted
early and receiving extra care, over 300
bushel crates Of melons, the net receipts
from which were over $500, cash in hand.
Two other acres planted later yielded
about the same amount, or $3.50 per acre.
John Ezell shipped over $50 crates from a
little less than two acres, and received
little over $780,
An expert suggests that daub of tar
upon the noses of sheep during the months
of July and September is an effective pre-
ventive against the attacks of annoying, if
not fatal, grubs. 1.-THE sheep grub, he
says, "is not fatal, but very disagreeable,
and doubtless has bad effect upon the
general health of the animal. If any one
desires to study the subject he may find
the grubs IL many of the heads of the
animals killed in the shambles at later
months more or less fully developed.
a prominent egg commission house in
Milwaukee requested the Sentinel to pub
lish the following for the benefit Of those
desiring to Keep their eggs in a marketa-
BILE condition To one pint of salt aud one