Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-27
Farm AVID FRUIT.

OlQ plan OF working OUT Cle ROAD tax. Int
roads are kept in repair by contract, and
the result is much better roadways, really
costing no more money than under the old
system.
Sulphurous acid germinated in cellars by
the combustion of sulphur will destroy the
germs which injure the flavor OF cream and
milk kept in cellars or outhouses. In
damp cellars the butter product is seri
ously decreased, besides being injured IL
quality.
At the present time there are estimated
to be, in the United States, 40 900, 00C
sheep, 10000, 600 cattle and 20 900, 00C
horses. In two.thirds of the country these
animals require to be fed from three to five
months, and they will consume ar aggre.
gate of go. 900, 900 tons, which, at s. pei
ton, represents the enormous sum OF $3.50,
100000 Is not hay, therefore, king?
1t is related that not long ago John
Bright attended an auction sale of high.
priced shorthorn cattle in England, and in
response to an inquiry said ''No, l have
not come TO buy hut to see the fool who
will pay 60 600 for bull. "There he
is," said Lady Skelmersdale promptly,
by the Peoples Tribune is not matter Of
record.
The Cleveland Herald says: "Those
who have apples this fall should try the
plan of putting away few barrels OF
choice hand picked fruit packed in very
dry sawdust. Place the barrel in cool,
dry place in the cellar, and watch the
effect. See if you do not next fall put up
all your apples that way. The only
trouble is, there is no expense about it
even the suggestion is thrown in )"
Professor ]. w. Ssnborn found, in ex-
periments at the Missouri Agricultural
College, that meal. fed steers gained, in
sixty-one days, seventy pounds more, on
$50 pounds of fodder, than steers fed on
whole corn. TIE cost of grinding was
81 50 I; value of the extra seventy pounds
of flesh, So 50-or dollar was gained in
flesh and $50 pounds of fodder saved be.
side. Wheat straw was fed with the grain
IN both cases.
Three hundred and fifty acres of onions
are grown annually on the onion meadows
in Orange county, N. Y, a tract of land
that thirty years ago was a bog and sup
this year will be 200 barrels per acre, and
it is expected that they will bring $500. a
remarkable income from any farm land.
1t is worth while for farmers everywhere
to try experiments with their apparently
worthless land.
One bushel of mediur.sized wheat per
acre gives fifteen grains to every square
foot. Two bushels to the acre, the guam
tity most frequently sowp, gives thirty
grains. 1t is evident that much of this
seed as ordinarily sown does not grow.
With shrunken wheat the number of grains
per acre is greatly increased. 1t is worth
while to test wheat before sowing to find
how large proportion OF the seed will
germinate.
A good sigu of the times is that so many
young men in starting to farm adopt i'm
proved stock, and they become enthusi.
astic, earnest and ambitious. which alone
will bring success, and all the more certain
on the high tide of improved stock breed
ing. Stock of some kind is essential to
successful farming, and improved stock
brings the best profit, quickest returns, and
gives a charm of prosperity and dignity to
the farm Western Agriculturist.
The Holstein cow Echo, owned by Fred.
C. Stevens, the proprietor of Maplewood
stock form, Attica, N. Y, has just CON-
pleted her. years milk record, which foods
up Is 1901 pounds, which is ll5 pounds
more than the record of the famous COW
Aggie, which has heretofore led all the
bovines of the wsrld. Echo is ten years
old and weighs l, ,6l0 pounds, consequently
has given over ten times her weight in
milk during the year. The largest yield in
one day was S5 pounds in a mouth 4, 1856
pounds.
An Illinois farmer, in communication
to the Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph, says
that fresh, clean hog lard, rubbed three or
four times on any kind of warts on horses
or cattle, will remove them on three or four
applications. l have removed the warts
time after time, and had never been able to
find the wart for the fourth application.
II | should send the Latin name for lard
and tell men to pay fifty cents to the drug
gist for about two cents worth Of good
lard, this remedy would be oftener used.
For all wounds and bruises, cracks on
cows teats, etc., it is better than any
patent liniments or ointments.
Major Thos. E. Ketchum, of Stockton.
at the meeting of the State Grange, gave
the following item of his experience with
alfalfa 81 have about twenty acres Of
alfalfa on land not irrigated (near Linden,
San Joaquin county,. l have kept upon
this alfalfa, which was sowed about March,
1878, from IS to 100 head of hogs, 40 head
of horned stock, and about 80 head of
horses. The stock are turned into the field
after the alfalfa has got good start, and
the field furnishes good feed until the grain
is out, say the last of July or the first of
August. 1 find difficulty in getting good
stand unless the spring is wet"
The Los Angelee Times "The expert.
medt of shipping grapes to the Chicago
market from Santa Ana valley has unfortu-
nately proved failure this year, and some
of the shippers are out of pocket. 1t seems
that large consignments were forwarded
from Sacramento about the time our grapes
were sent on, and the market being over
stocked, prices fell, and later shipments
could hardly be disposed of. Some of the
leading growers are of the opinion that
dealers are endeavoring to pre-.
vent the shipment of Southern California
fruit to the East"
"There is no longer any faith here,
writes the British Consul at La Rochelle,
4" in the power of insecticides TO save the
great body of the vines, and the present
period is one rather of experiment as to
the success which will result from planta-
tion OF American stocks. Under the most
favorable circumstances, even should the
American vine prove to have lasting re.
it would be years before the vine
yards could be re.establised, and up to the
present time but very small acreage has
been planted compared with that annually
destroyed. 1t has taken ages to build up
the vineyards of France, and the present
generation can scarcely hope to see the
damage done by the phylloxera repaired,
at all events as regards this district. The
majority of the vineyards here are in small
holdings, and replanting, which is costly,
will probably be rarely undertaken, except
by the more wealthy proprietors; 1000
plants are required to hectare, if planted
out at the customary distance in this coun-
try, and the price per plant being twenty
five cent?, it costs go, exclusive of labor,