Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-19

that is at once expeditions and perfect in
its work The vine to be grated is sawed
off transversely four inches below the sur
face of the ground, and a slot made in it
by another tool adapted neatly for the pur-
pose The scion is inserted and fits per-
fectly, and failure to take reduced to a
minimum. The old process of cleft graft
ing is neither neat nor entirely successful,
and any Improvement upon it cannot but
be looked on with favor With this APP
paratus two men can readily graft 1,00e TO
i 200 in day of ten hours. The doctor
has filed letters patent upon his invention.
VALLEY Union, Pasadena.
Agricultural writer's, says the 3fjlers Re
uiew, are now amusing themselves by telling
their readers how much manure d ton OF
bran will make. The latest writer says it
viii produce $14 so worth. This is at the
rate of three-fourths of a cent a pound for
the bran. Pretty good material for manure
this, and the only one we ever heard OF
that would give such results. We know OF
some mills, however, which might turn
out this kind of bran. They are not called
-four mills nowadays, however. They are
now known as corn-cob mills.
Here is an infallible specific against all
manner of poultry vermin, which will do
no violence to incubating eggs, nor soil a
feather of the fowl: Flour of sulphur, five
pounds fluid commercial carbolic acid,
one drachm; mix thoroughly in pan or
box with stick, and then with naked hand
take the fowl by both legs, and resting it
on the breast, put handful of the carbol-
lied sulphur on the fluff and gently work
it all through the feathers. In five days
you can not find an insect with micro
scope Fancier's Gazette.
Wick says that SCOT is one of the most val
liable substances the gardener can employ.
That from coal is better than that from
wood. 1t can be employed as a fertilizer
for any crop, and ii is not only valuable as
manure, but to drive away insects that
attack cabbage, turnip, radish and other
plants. 1t contains bitter principle which
insects do not fancy, and repels, also, by its
grittiness. In the liquid form use peck
to hogshead Of water, and apply to straw
berries, roses, etc, from a sprinkler
Farmers are often bothered to know what
to do with young calves that they don't
care to either raise or fatten. Cut it up,
and when you are boiling some potatoes
for the hogs and hens, put III the meat on
the potatoes Your hens will relish meal
OF it two or three times a week and shell
out the eggs to pay for your trouble. The
boys can tan the calf-skin by sprinkling on
salt and alum, and it will be useful for
wagon cushions, etc.
The New York Experiment Station finds
by analysis that there is very little differ
ence in nutritive value between the narrow
leaved plantain and timothy The objec-
ton to the plantain must be, therefore,
says the Bulletin that it occupies more
space in growth than would the same nu-
tritive value in the form of grass.
As to the question: VIII a change from
North to South change the character of ap-
pies? 1t will not change their nature but
1t Will change their season, the winter ap-
pies becoming fall or summer fruit, and the
and fall sorts much earlier. -TCleVe-
land Leader.
From the report Of Consul Frisbie it ap-
pears that the manufacture in France of
fine champagne requires great care and
skill from the picking of the grapes until
the product is sent to market. At least
Two years are requisite TO make good cham
payne.
There is no use in cleaning your poultry
house unless you burn the old nests They
will harbor more of the various kinds of
poultry parasites than you can ever exter-
inmate with a whitewash brush.-[Troy
FINES
Winding string tightly around the
body OF a limb in June or July, will cause
barren fruit trees to yield the following
season. The string should be cut the fol- |
owing winter or early spring.
Do not, in feeding calves, change too sud |
ien1y from one food to another, and give |
10 more than is readily eaten
A good crop of beets win be found an ex-
client adjunct to the grain and hay feed |
or stock