Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-07-14
Farm AND GARDEN.

iHC VI lCCuilIS UhSy
Herkimer county, which friend inquiries
about, proved injurious to cheese and has
been discontinued.
Too much attention cannot be paid to
regularity in the care of stock. Any de-
lay beyond the usual time of feeding or
milking makes the animal uneasy.
Iowa expects to raise 200. 900, 600 bushels
of corn and 100000 bushels of wheat
this year, and the oat crop promises to be
the largest known. Iowa is great on rails
ing wheat, corn and Republicans.
The Orovills Mercury ssys that zone
field of grain near Nelson Station, thrashed
last week, yielded thirty nine bushels to
the acre. Evidently it was not injured to
any extent by the blighting winds from
the north"
N. B. Dudley, of Logan county, KY,
says an Eastern exchange, has a Holstein
heifer which dropped bull calf on the
10th of May, which at ten days old weighed
l40 pounds. The COW gives forsy-tive
pounds of milk per day.
DR.. Maxwell T. Masters writes that he
has often seen the experiment tried Of
thinning potato tops by pulling out all the
smaller stems, leaving only two or at most
three of the stronger ones to the hill, and
never knew an instance where the result
was not larger tubers and frequently a
heavier total crop.
A great deal of growing was done some
years ago about foxtail grass taking the
country, but foxtsil is of some account, as
stock will eat it when green. Now, how
ever, new grass has appeared in Califor.
MIA which is too much for the foxtail and
is spreading rapidly. This is called pow
erty grass. The Colusa Sun says it looks
like very rich grass, having fDe, rich
| looking head, almost as large as an ordi-
nary head of club wheat, but no kind of
stock will eat it, 1t first appeared upon
the sheep ranges in Tehama county, about
three years ago, and last year little of it
appeared along the foothills in the north
ern part of the county. This year it is
| thick all over the foothill country north
of Willows. 1t seemed to come all at
once, so that many believe it to be the
spontaneous production of the soil. If it
has seed at all, it is very fine, the large
heads spoken of being soft and spongy.
The Teras Wool Grocer speaking upon
the subject of injury to the price of wool
says OF late we hear some complaints
from Eastern manufacturers of the use OF
tar and paint for wool-branoing sheep.
They say it is difficult, if not impossible,
to remove it all from the fleece, either by
picking or securing. II this betrue would
it not be we'll for sheepmen to consider
this grievance and adopt aome other plan
of marking or branding? Anything that
works to the disadvantage OF sorting and
cleaning wool is to be avoided. The WOO
Industry of Texas is a source of too much
revenue to become lessened in any way,
except by natural causes, such as supply
and demand. II it is necessary to wool
brand all, and nothing but tar and paint
will answer the desired end, how would il
do to use it on the sleeps forehead instead
of body, Last summer some of our sheel
became mixed with a neighboring flock.
When we went among them to catch ours,
we were struck with the lavishness with
which tar had been applied. They had
the initials of the owners name on one
side, and on the other large figures. Now
when this wool reached the manufacturer
there must have been come little 'cussing'
we imagine. This is, however, an excep'
tional case of too much branding. As
manufacturers take advantage of every
thing we do, and many things we do not,
to reduce prices on the staple, it will be
we'll to come as nesr doing things right as
we can, giving them clean wool and max
! ing them pay for it. 1t is for our own
sake that care should be taken.
We know of no labor, no recreation, no
fancy, the pursuit of which is rewarded
with more unalloyed pleasure than is the
cultivation of garden. The miser gloats
no more over his dearest treasure than
does the gardener over his choice fruits
and flowers; the picture. fancier is not
more proud of his wonderous works of art
than is the florist of bis tulips; nor does
the owner of rarest gems point them out
to admiring friends with more OF saEisfac-
ton than does the amateur his best-named
flowers. The picture gallery may boast its
Rubens it's Leonardo di Vinci, it's Paul
Potter, but the gsrden-bed will show
greater wonders, and yet hold in reserve
those which are still greater. A man goes
not to his garden as into a picture-gsllery,
museum, or cabinet-ever to see the
same thing in the same place. Every day
develops some new claim to his attention.
Now he finds new visitor in the form of
flower, anon it is fruit or vegetable
which excites remark. To-day his crocus,
carnation and ohrysanthemum are in glory,
and to. morrow his picotees, pinks and pan.
sizes will outshine the brightest. And SO
fruit, vegetable and flower, in their several
varieties, fellow, in grand and ever living,
ever changing procession sure reward
of toll snd trouble, the sweetener of cares
and the refreshment after anxieties. Would
he share the delight of that which his
hands had produced He needs not the
society of connoisseur. The high and
low, the rich and the poor, may all be en-
tertained. His garden delights all senses
it's fragrance, its brilliance, its useful.
ness, speak in every tongue and in Ian
guage never misunderstood Il Thomas
Miller.