Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-12-27

ence OF ten degrees In the heat, as COM
pared with the fiat tray. Another advan-
tage of the inclined tray is that it more
readily sheds water in case of rain, drain
ing the fruit and leaving it practically I'M
injured
4. The quicker the process of drying can
be effected the better, thus preserving the
bloom of the berry and its flavor.
5. Raisins should be taken up before
thoroughly dry and placed in the sweat
boxes The moisture remaining promotes
the sweating process and results In bet
ter quality of raisins. The fruit suffers
less from shrinkage, and is altogether
more handsome and salable.
6. The closest attention should be paid
to cleanliness throughout the processes Of
drying and gathering.
THE RIGHTS OF FRUIT-GRowERs.
When fruit trees are neglected, crowded
and abandoned, they not only cease to bear
fruit but generate contagious diseases,
which spread to other trees and orchards
like the seeds of the Canada thistle, and
soon desolate a whole section of country,
some of whose orchards may have been
kept in prime condition. This suggests
the necessity of some legal remedies, such
as enforcement of sanitary regulations
among fruit-growers as are attempted in
the relations of human society. The hor
ticultural societies should take the matter
in hand with vigor, and bring such infiu-
ence to bear upon the lawmakers as to be
able to cause destruction of every tree
and orchard affected with any of these
fruit and fruit-tree infections. A man
iaiI Of
cotton cushion, scale-bug, phylloxera or
Canada thistle than he has to keep
pest house of smallpox, yellow fever or
choldt& on his private grounds in the
midst of his fellow-b beings San Bernar-
dino Index.
PACKING PEACHES.
\ correspondent of the Rural Nep Yorker
makes the following SUGGESTION g | sup
pose the peach is, incontestably, the most
delicious fruit that the world produces.
1t is consequently unfortunate that it
seldom reaches the consumer in perfection.
This is owing to improper packing. The
peach, when ripe and fit for eating, is ex-
ceedingly delicate, and the slightest bruise
is the commencement of decay. | would
suggest, therefore, that producers should
| prepare for next years market crates such
as are used for eggs, with pasteboard par
| titions, in which each peach would be
isolated; those at the bottom would not be
bruised by weight on top, and they would
be protected from the jar consequent on
transportation.
SALE OF GUERNSEY CATTLE.
The sale of thoroughbred Guernsey cat
tie, from the herds of L. w. Ledyard and
Governor J. S. Smith, of ST. Adams, Vt,
at Easton's exchange and salesrooms, at
Broadway and Thirty-eighth street, was
largely attended to-day, and fair prices
were realized. "Silyer OF Ternwood," sire
Cato and dam Silve-. born 1881, sold for
S315; Roselle,' dam La Grle, sire Prince,
$500; % Countess Of Fernwood," born 1873,
sire First Duke, dam Flerh:- de Terte.
| $3.50 and Missus Lady May" born 1882,
sire Champion, out of Rose DIES Lendes,
$780, New York Post.
SOME GENERAL NOTES.
The greatest difficulty with heavy milk
ers approaching the period of calving is
reducing the flow of milk. The Rural
is no trouble in the matter, because the
milk secretions begin to fall as soon as the
COW becomes pregnant, but with heavy and
persistent mixers if the feed is of the
right kind and of sufficient quantity, there
is no necessity for making any special
efforts for driving up the COW. The secre-
ton will not be large at all events, but the
needed phosphates and nitrogen should be
supplied for the building up of the frame
of the calf
An egg is one of the few things that can
not be adulterated; but, according to the
Poultry World, It's value may be considera-
bly, affected by the food supplied to biddy.
The difference, it says, between an egg laid
by plump, healthy hen, fed with good,
fresh food daily, and an egg laid by a thin,
poorly fed hen, is as great as the difference
between good beef and poor. \ fowl fed
on garbage and weak slops, with very little
grain of any kind, may lay eggs, to be sure,
but when these eggs are broken to be used
for cakes pies, etc, they will spread in
weak, watery way over your dish, or look
milky white, instead of having rich
slightly yellow tinge A "rich egg" re-
tains its shape as far as possible, and yields
to the beating of a knife or spoon with
more resistance, and gives you the convic-
ton that you are really beating something
thicker than water or diluted milk.
Oatmeal and wheat-bran is one of the
best of rations for mich cows; but the
Rural NeW Yorker thinks that a still bet
ter ration is made of new process oilmeal,
bran, cornmeal, and liberal supply of yell
low globe mangles.
Doing something to distract his atten-
ton is perhaps the best way to start
balky horse. Some start readily when
handful Of sand is put in their mouth or
ear. Others will be Modified by an ear of
corn eaten and another held at a tempting
distance a little in advance. In cases of
continued obstinacy a cure is sometimes
effected by fastening the horse securely
and leaving him without food or drink I'M
til he is willing to start. A story is told
of one farmer whose horse baked with
hight load in the woods The animal was
tied to a tree and tried at intervals
through the day. At night he was left
standing The next morning, twenty
four hours after the balby fit began, the
horse started freely and never offered to
balk again while his owner was driving
him. A balLy horse should never be
beaten, as it will only make him more
nervous and increase the difficulty
[ Evangelist.
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