Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-01-12

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Of pipes within is a water jacket for the
same purpose, fitted to revolve and agitste
the milk, at the same time it is being
heated. An air-pump is also being at
tsehed to the tanks by which means va
cum more or less perfect can be secured
above the milk while the cream is rising.
After the milk enters the tanks, which
are filled about one-half to three.
fourths FULL hot water or steam Is let
into the pipes and the temperature rapidly
raised to 1867, after which cold water takes
the place of steam, and the temperature is
| reduced to 40'. The heating can be done
in ten minutes, but the cooling takes
much longer time, depending somewhat
upon the amount of milk in the tanks.
When the temperature has been reduced to
95', the vacuum pump is set to work and
the air exhausted from the space over the
milk.
A Leominster farmer recently broke his
horse of "balky" freak in a very qniet
land, as he claims, not cruel) manner.
His horse is IN excellent flesh, and shows
no signs of neglect on the part of his mas
ter. He drove him, attached to rack
wagon, to the wood-lot for small load of
wood. The animal would not pull pound.
He did not beat him with club, but tied
him to tree and "let him stand" He
went to the lot at sunset and asked him
to draw, but he would not straighten
tug. 81 made up my mind, said the
farmer, when that horse went to the
barn he would take that load of wood.
The night was not cold. l went to the
barn, got blankets and covered the horse
warm, and he stood until morning. Then
ne refused to draw. At noon | went down,
and he was probably hungry and lonesome.
He drew that load of wood the first time
| asked him. | returned and got another
load before fed him. l then rewarded
him with good dinner, which he eagerly
devoured. | have drawn several loads
since Once he refused to draw, but as
soon as he saw me start for the house he
started after me with the load. A horse
becomes lonesome ahi disconnected when
left alone, as much so as person and |
claim this method, if rightly used, is far
less cruel, and is better for both horse and
man, than to beat the animal with club.
Fitchburg Mass Sentinel.
The following is recommended az an ex-
cellent combination for fertilizing purposes:
Mix one bushel of salt with two bushels of
uI1 lllllt uuuCl CONCl, dHh dllJN luO lila.
ture to decompose gradually. thus forming
an immediate chemical union of the two
materials. For this purpose the mixture
should lie at least six weeks before use, or,
still better, two or three months, the heap
being turned over occasionally. This salt
and lime mixture when applied at the rate
of twenty to thirty bushels per acre, forms
an excellent top dressing for crops. 1t acts
powerfully on the vegetable matter of soils.
Fifty bushels applied to turuip field have
produced as large crop as twenty loads of
bsrnyard manure. 1t is ALEC destructive
to insets and grubs in the soil. Like salt,
it attracts moisture from the air and has
been found useful against drought. Its de-
composing power is remarkable, and if
three or four bushels Of 1t are mixed with
cord of swamp muck the latter will soon
be reduced to powder. Coarse manure is
in a similar manner decomposed and made
fine. Sour, wet muck thus treated and
compos.ed with bsrnyard manure con-
stitutes a fertilizer almost as valuable
as the unmixed manure Of the barnyard.-
Prairie Farmer.
The Placer Herald of December ooh
says Last week party in Auburn sent
to w. H. Mills, the Central Pacific Land
Agent, box Of raisins, raised, cured and
packed by William Foster, whose place is
in the foothills a few miles northeast of
Lincoln. In acknowledging the receipt of
them Mr. Mills says: a short time ago
some part es st San Diego sent to Charles
Crocker a box Of ralsins, selected with ref.
erence to the beauty OF the fruit and the
skill in packing. They were the admira
tion of the whole Office. When the Foster
box came | took them down to Mr.
Cookers office for the purpose of compsr.
son. 1t gives me pleasure to cay that 1t
was universally admitted here that tle
Lincoln ralsins possessed many points OF
superiority. They were packed better,
the skins were more lender, the fruit more
full and delicious in flavor. Mr.. Mills
then goes on to say that the comparison
was a triumph for the foothills over the
southern part of the 5 ate, where fruit
growing has been established for the past
twenty-five years. Gradually, we may
add, are the no less wonderful merits of
the foothill country being unfolded."
Those who have been troubled with the
wild morning glory-in this part OF the
State at least-will be not willing to accept
the following remedy as a success until
proven by actual experience
vine which has given farmers very serious
trouble, and in some instances compelling them to
abandon portions Of ground wherein il has gained a
firm roofing, is the wild morning glory. This plant
sends down a root two three inches in diameter
and three feet in length, and its growth is so rank
"a to choke out even pampas grass Heretofore
vluch difficulty has been experienced in eradicating
it, but reliable gentleman Of this place is respOn-
sibe for the statement that hogs will not only thrive
upon patches OF the root, but will completely obt
crate l., digging up and turning the soil in
orier to obtain what they apparently relish a
delic1cy. II fed with slight addition Of other food
for variety they can be inclosed in portable fence,
moved from place to place they clean the ground,
and will be found to thrive upon what has in many
instances been a useless, Troublesome growth. 1t is
sail that if confined IN a pampas field where this
morning glory is troublesome, they will clear it
without injury TO the pampas. This item is yalu
able in country where pampas plume and hog
Kissing staple industries and where little
troub has been experienced from the wild vine
above spoken of.-iSanta Barbara Independent.
James Winter, an extensive sheep. breed.
err OF Au, tralia. has recently purchased and
shipped home from the States seventy five
head OF young American Merino sheep.
His entire purchase amounted to little
over $50 600. He gave $4,000 to Mr..
Barton, Vermont breeder, for four ram
lambs Sc 900 TO +. Townsend, of New
Nork, for fifteen ram lambs and two year
ling ewes; 81 500 for two ram lambs,
81, 500 for three yearling ewes. and 81 800
for eight yearliug ewes to S r. Lusk, and
TO G. W. Markham, of the same State,
81 600 for five ewes. 1t would seem that
Mr.. Garland's mission to Australia is likely
to prove fruitful one. a few such transsc-
tions as these will send the price of Amer
lean Merino sheep on a boom that will
eclipse the olden days when the sheep men
of the Northwest first began to awaken to
the importance of the fiae.wool industry,
Prairie Farmer.
An Eastern paper says: For the last
two years couple of buck mountain sheep
have been running with Mr. Bailey's flock
in Bull Run basin, Nevada, and there are
now between twenty and thirty half.breed
lambs in the lot. They are mostly covered
with hair, although there is some wool in
terspersed with it. They carry their heads
1;Le the wild sheen INIT are "a easily herded