Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-18
FARM AND FRUIT.
What Our Neighbors Have to Say on
These Topics.

says ne viii nave 2,UOU Jokes Oh oidiiSSs,
and his raisin grapes are Welding much
better than he expected. Heretofore Mr..
Twogood has melted from his orange crop
IS per box ever since his orchard has
come into bearing, with the exception OF
one wear, when the extreme cold injured
the fruit then he got 81 % per box. w.
n. Mann bought $500 more trays than
was necessary for his vineyard last year,
and now says he will still need 1000 more
trays before he can save his crop. DR..
Shugart last year had 80 pounds to the
vine, and a larger yield this year had it
not been for the Storm Consul Lucata, Of
Cephalonia, writes that the average annual
Weld of the raisin crop per acre is 500
pounds. This means about three-quarters
of ton Of grapes to the acre. What do
the vineyardists of California think of
those figures when they are accustomed to
getting from 20 to 80 pounds to the vine ?
a farmer gives the result of his obser-
walton on the subject: | have an orchard
of superior apples, of which | am a great
admirer. | discovered one spring that
several of the trees were in a state of de-
cline, and upon examination found every
tree infested with vermin of different
kinds dug the turf from around the
trunk of each tree, and applied half Il
bushel of leached ashes in its place, piling
them up around the body of each tree.
The improvement in the orchard soon
became apparent, and have no doubt if
the same process were repeated annually;
it would be attended with like favorable
results. examined the trees last fall and
found all of them clear of vermin but one,
which l purposely omitted applying the
ashes to- This leads me to the conclusion
that ashes destroy the vermin, and like
wise promote the growth of the trees
Tribune and Farmer.
The potato expert of New England is
A. Rand, of Selburne, Vt. He is this
year growing 700 named varieties, $50 of
which belong to B. K. Bliss centennial
collection He has made potato culture
and the production of new varieties the
study Of lifetime, and he has Il son,
w. II. Rand, who takes an intelligent in
terest in practical and progressive farming.
The Early Rose potato reproduces itself
closely by seed. Many so-called varieties,
like the Chicago Market Rosy Morn,
Early Vermont, the Gem, etc, are seed
lings of the Rose, and resemble it so closely
as to hardly warrant a new name. The
third year from seed decides the merit of Il
seeding. Many of them lack vitality,
and very few possess strikingly good char
acteristics. One lot of 1000 seedlings
proved entirely worthless. Mr.. Rand has
tried for years to produce something to
take the place of the old Peachblow, that
seems to have entirely run out. The re-
suit of cross on the old Early blow has
produced round potato, perfect in form,
with bright pink dotted eye and the old
Peachblow flesh and flavor B. k. Bliss
has purchased this new potato and named
it the Perfect Peachblow Mr. Rand also
grows a considerable quantity of cucum-
bers for seed. In favorable year this is
a very profitable crop, but risky. Rand q
Son are good example Of special farming
which is necessarily becoming more COM
mon in New England. When intelli-
gently conducted, special farming is usually
profitable for certainly man can succeed
lest in the line of work for which he is
specially qualified. n. E. Homestead.
The Fresno Erpositor says: Otto Froe-
Itch, who owns a fine place Of thirty-one
and a half acres at the northern limit OF
town, speaking relative to the yield of his
fruit trees, gave these figures: His plum
trees, he said, averaged him over 200
pounds Of fruit to to the tree this season,
and his peaches yielded equally heavy.
The fruit Of four of his peach trees he sent
to market separately for the purpose of ar
irving at some conclusion as to the value
Of the crop, and was astonished when he
received his returns from San Francisco, to
find that they netted SOL 20-Sl2 so per
tree. The smallest number of peach trees
planted per acre is los, and therefore an
acre of trees bearing equally heavy would
give the enormous return of 81, $40 30 per
acre. OF course these trees bore full
crop; but supposing his trees only bore a
quarter Of this amount, could a farmer
plant crop that would pay him better :?
From an apricot tree Mr.. Froelich tells Us
he took, by actual weight, over 900 pounds
of marketable fruit, while the lowest yield
of any of his trees of this variety of fruit
was 100 pounds. His pear trees Welded an
average of over $50 pounds of choice fruit
per tree, and his almond trees are all
heavily loaded. His grape vines are young,
but they have crop Of fully four tons per
acre on them. Twenty dollars per acre is
as much or more than the grain farmers of
this county will be able to realize for their
crops this season.
Farmers wives should not always be
forgotten by the press. l feel to indorse
Miss Scaminelfs ideas in a late Homestead.
They were like cold water to thirsty
soul. Are not our lives, in a great meas
urc, what We choose to make them? If a
woman plans to work as hard as she can
ali the time, no doubt she will find plenty
to do. If she plans and studies to have a
little time OF her own for rest and recre-
alton, she will nearly always find it, and gain
health of body and mind with it. Would
not 1t be an improvement to pay more at
tentlon to the decoration of our minds, and
less to our dresses? As to farmers wives
necessarily having harder lives than any
other class of women, don't believe it..
But | may not be Il disinterested Judge,
as my father and husband are both farm
ers and trust my children will be- Hep
sey True.
Here is what an exchange says about
strawberry culture; People who grow
strawberries, and especially on large
scale, sometimes suffer quite an inconveni-
ence from the runners of the plants filing
up the space between the rows. Talking
with iruit-grower not long ago about the
matter, he told us that this trouble can be
avoided. The whole secret, it appears,
lies in putting out the sets in proper posi-
ton. Plants throw out runners on the
opposite side from the parent runner; for
instance, II runner creeps ont to the
south and makes 4 stand, the stand will
throw out runner from the south side,
never from the east or west, until new
crowns are formed, SO all that is necessary
is to mark the sets as taken up, and so ar
range them that the runners will all take
the same direction, and with the row.
The bottoms of the Feather river, saws
the Marysville Appeal, are covered with
wild grapes. Sunday an Appeal party
went up four miles graping. They re-
turned with a wagon-load. These grapes
are small purple variety and make the
best jam and jelly. Now is the time to
get winters supply. Tame grapes are
cheap enough but they do not make such
delicious jam as the wild variety, and you
don't have the fun of gathering them. You
can get up nice party, have good COM
pany through the day, have lunch on
the river bank, climb the trees for the
grapes and have good days rest and
recreation, and then of course you will be
invited out this winter to eat the jam made
by the ladies of the party.