Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-05-17
FRUIT AND FARM NOTES.

FRUIT AND FARM NOTES.
Boil ard mash the small and unmarked
able potatoes and feed them to the fowls.
Charred grain, either of corn, wheat oats
| or buckWheat, should be fed to fowls ocCa-
sionally.
In England inferior barley is ground into
meal for feeding cattle and pigs and moth
ing SURPRISES its value when boiled as a
mash for horses
Lard should never be used on a wagon
wheel, for it will penetrate the hub and
work its way out around the lemons of the
spokes, thus spelling the wheel.
An Orange county, New York dairyman
| has tested the matter and found that his
milk, sold ut 81 cents per quart, was as
good as butter-allowing twelve quarts of
milk for pound of buttcr-at % cents per
| pound.
| PhylloXera on the roots of vines for
wardcd to England for examination by ex-
peIts through Kew officials, by the Gov
eminent of Victoria have been found in
considerable numbers, although the vines
| themselves were cffectually DESTROYED 1t
appears that the earth protected tbs pests,
which had found their way underground
! Take one-half ounce of camphor, dis
solve in one pound of melted lard take
! off the scum and mix in as much fine
black lead as will give it an iron color.
| Clean the machinery and smear with this
mixture After twenty-four hours, rub
clean with soft linen cloth. 1t will keep
clean for months under ordinary circum-
stances.
The true idea of farm life is to build up a
Go ff,r homo r1n
ping place for a year or five years or until it
can be sold. 1t is next to impossible for a
man to put the same zeal and thoughtful
painstaking work upon farm that he in
tends To sell and leave as he does upon one
that he intends to, be his and his family's
so long as they need one.-[The South.
The San Diego Sun says Fifty-nine
boxes of lemons were shipped by the last
steamer, This county will soon take the
front rank as n lemon-producng section
The beautiful home of Major Lee H. UT
at Pala, appesrs To be peculiarly adapted
to this industry, and the fruit produced in
his lemon grove always brings the highest
price III the market. The Bonnie Brae
lemon of Mr.. Higgins has already OBJ
tanned not only State, but a National rep
utation. Let our people propagate the lemon
extensively, and they will soon find an ex-
One of the city dailies recently advised
the working of apricots on almond stocks
1t is known to most horticulturistS that this
combination does not make a good tree
There are hundreds who have tried it. and
found that the scion never made good
union with the wood of the stock. but was
knit to it only by the bark, and is therefore
easily broken off by the wind. The worst
thing about it is that it will grow well and
sometimes get TO be two or three inches in
diameter before it breaks OFF, thus wasting
much time for the orchardist. Whole or
chards worked i'll this way have been loss
and disappointment. Don't put the apricot
on the almond. Better put on the French
prune or some other plums which do well
on the almond.-[R Rural Press.
The vineyards of Los Angeles county,
saws the Ontario Fruit Gr0wer, are reported
to have been seriously affected the present
fspring by the ravages of the nocturnal cut
worm-so called because of its work being
done in the night The worm is Of a gray
! color, and about an inch in length. 1t
comes up in the night and attacks the buds
OF the grapevine, but it does no damage af-
! ter the leaves are once out Some vine
yards in the San Gabriel valley are reported
! 50 severely injured that the owners do not
| count on their grape crop. The worm IS
also reported in Santa Ana and Orange.
| Whatever damage results this year from
| this worm is already done, as the vines are
in leaf. Those who are not injured are safe
and those who are injured can now estimate
the extent of the damage. We hope il is
not 50 great as reported.
Felix Gillet, of Nevada City, and ex-
member of the State Board of Horticulture,
saws, in a letter to the Transcript, In this
part of Nevada county the almond, apricot,
peach, neGtarine, and cherry crop is almost
| a total failure worse than that. trees are
either diving or are so badly damaged by
gum that they are unfit to keep. As to
the plum, il is also badly damaged, and we
may have one pound of them against ten
[ pounds we had two years ago. In regard
| to that gum that has made such sad
| havoc among our almonds, cherries,
! peaches and pllims, bear always in mind
| that whenever we have very cold weather
| during the winter, while the sap in our
| fruit trees is down, the fruit crop will be
small, apart from the apple and the pear,
| On the other hand, the grapes look splen-
| did, and yet we may have couture, n
| kind of blight which was rather common
| in the wine-growing counties of the State
last year
\ practical man says: Z" l have a wagon
of which, six years ago the fellies shrunk
so that the tires became loose | gave it a
good coat of hot oil, and every year since
| il has had a coat of oil or paint, sometimes
both. The tires are tight yet, and they
have not been set for eight or nine wears.
! Many farmers think that as soon as wagon
fellies begin to shrink they must go at once
to a blacksmith shop and get the tire set.
Instead of doing that, which is often a
| damage to the wheels, causing them to
! dish, if they will get some hnseed oil and
! heat it boiling hot and give the fellies all
the oil they can take, it will fill them up to
their usual size, and tighten to keep them
! from shrinking, and also to keep out the
water. If YOU do not wish to go to the
trouble of mixing paint, you can heat the
! oil and tie rag to stick and swab them
over as long rs they will take oil. a brush
is more convenient 10 use but a swab will
answer if you do not wish to buy brush
1t is quite a saving of time and money to
| look after the woodwork on farm machin-
cry Alternate wetting and drying injuries
and causes the best wood to decay and lose
it, strength, unless kept well painted. 1t
pays to keep little oil ON hand to oil fork
handles, rakes, neckyokes, whiffletreeS and
any of the small tools on the farm that are
more or less exposed
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