Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-11-14

very mucn on tne SAINT Dasie as WHICH,
human traveller goes to q foreign country,
and misses his home diet. Cows have
their individual tastes like any one else,
and may need little training. It is quite
certain that some have eaten and do eat
the millet greedily, and others will doubt
less do SO when they get used to it. 1t is
certainly worth while for the mesa-dwell-
ers to try to convert them, as certain Tu-
lare COWS have been converted to consider
ing knot-grass or "bird grass " a deli
cacy, and as Southern COWS have taken to
the Japan clover, at which, at first, they
turned up their noses in utter contempt, as
l can personally testify. 1 can say, there.
fore, try again-there are not many plants
that will do with as little moisture as the
evergreen millet, and you have little choice
for forage. Bring some persuasion and
reasoning to bear on those cows, and see if
they will not ultimately prove the pud.
dings quality by eating it." The Santa
Cruz Surf says upon the same subject ::
Give hundred acres of land have been
purchased in the Lompoc valley, by l. X.
Fisher and Frank Smith. This land they
intend to entirely devote to the raising of
evergreen millet, grass which is rapidly
1t makes most excellent fodder, and
horses and cattle prefer it to alfalfa or
almost any other feed. 1t is planted like
corn, and those who have tried it say it
hourishes abundantly in almost any arabic
soil, and spreads very rapidly from the
root, needing no irrigation and furnishing
a steady rank growth all the year round. "
The power of the State to fix the rates
that may be charged by canal companies
for water to be used for irrigation purposes
is to be tested in the southern part of the
State, according to the Anaheim Gazette,
which says: "The Riverside Canal Com
pany have brought q suit against every
user of water in the settlement, to deter
mine the right of the company to charge a
rate for water higher than that fixed by
the Board of Supervisors. The canals have
cost the company 1920, 900, and they claim
that they should be allowed to charge for
water sum sufficient to pay them u per
cent. per month interest on $50 600, and S
per cent. per annum on SIG, 600, in add
ton to 500. 600 annually for running ex.
penses, repairs, etc. Thus, their receipts
ought to be S45, 900 year whereas, being
allowed to charge only y cents per inch
for water, their receipts are but SIS, 600
per year. The suit is formidable one,
into which much personal feeling enters,
and it will be bitterly prosecuted and as
bitterly defended. Anaheim, having in
some degree got out of the legal woods,
can sit on the fence and shed its sympathy
on the combatants." The Press and Hor.
ticulturiSt, referring to the suit of the River.
side Canal Company, says: eve trust
that the people of Riverside will not get
out of their legal woods in the way that
Anaheim did, by paying $4,000 counsel
fees, and then losing every point in the
case except that Anaheim ought to settle
its case out of the Courts" There are
other localities that could give precious ad-
wise from similar dear bought experience,
but generally speaking, while ga burned
child avoids fire, it also avoids mention
ing the fact that it was ever so foolish as
to have got into position to be burned,
and hence the value of its experience is
lost to others.
On November 9Th there was meeting
of those interested in breeding improved
poultry, at the rooms of the Art Associ-
alton in this city. There were present
fourteen of the most prominent fanciers
of the State, and there was a general
disposition to organize Poultry Associa-
ton and to contribute to it's success. The
following officers were elected: President,
G. B. Bsyley, of Oakland; Vice-Presi-
dents, D. D. Briggs, of Los Gatos, and
VIM. Niles, of Los Angeles Recording
Secretary, D. Fl. Everett, of San Fran.
cisco; Treasurer, J. NJ. Lund, of Oak
land Corresponding Secretary, Mrs. M.
Z. Newhall, of San lose Executive Com
mittee, J. ]. Raynor, of Fruitvale o. J..
Albee, of San Jose, T. D. Morris, of
Sonoma; Thomas Waite, Brighton R. G..
Head, Napa George FREEZER, Napa, and
John Peterson, of Oakland. A constitu-
ton and bylaws for the government of
the Association were adopted. 1t was
decided to hold an exhibition in Dash
away Hall, San Francisco, on December
18th, 10Th and goth. Premiums will be
offered by the Society and the friends of
the poultry interest for the best exhibits,
of which due notice will be given.
Thoroughbred poultry and pigeons are
eligible for entry at the exhibition. and
full information as to rules and regula-
tions can be had by addressing the Secre.
tary, Box III, San Francisco. The
entrance fee to the Association was fixed
at So, with yearly dues of 81; life mem.
bership, Sl0.-[Paciic Rural Press.
The Gridley Herald says: "The gain
fields of the Sausal Redondo and Centinela
ranches, owned by D. Freeman, yielded
l26, 2l5 bags, keeping two steam thrashers
busy three and half months. The job
was finished on Thursday last. An oyster
supper, and prizes of rifle, shotgun and
two fine watches, to be ratified for by the
men who had worked the entire season on
the machines, were given by the genial
proprietor. By giving prizes to those who
stay with the machines" from the day
they go out until the finish, Mr.. f. induces
them to stay, and thus he avoids change
of men and the delay in looking for others
to take the place of those who leave. That
the plan works we'll is shown by the fact
that most of his men have worked on the
thrashers three seasons without losing a
day. This winter Mr.. Freeman is going
to put in IL 600 acres of wheat and u 600
acres of barley. He commenced sowing
yesterday" The same paper, speaking of
the Jersey yield, remarks: lex Super.
visor Gray, of this city, about two years
ago decided to try his hand raising thor.
oughbred cattle, He now has heller
nineteen months of age, from the milk of
which he makes l0a pounds of butter per
week-an average of l. pounds per day.
That is what we call good record for so
young an animal"
A gentleman at the East has made an
examination of the depth to which the
roots of the potato run. A plant was sc.
lected which grew on high ridge, the
seed having been planted six inches deep.
a trench was dug at the side to expose the
soil, and the roots were washed with
stream of water turned against them, lay.
ing the fibers bare. One root was found
to reach thirty.four inches below the top
of the ridge, or twenty.eight inches below
the tubers. The deeper roots appeared
most fibrous. Very few roots were found
above the tubers. The soil did not allow
the tracing of the finest roots. This ex.
pertinent seems to indicate the Importance
of deep soil for the potato, an indica-
tion which repeated experiments corrobo-
rata and in warn dr-y eaasono Al a-o,, -