Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-08

three and one-half pounds of butter
Leaving out of consideration the perform
ances of phenomenal cows, accurate record
are at hand of native cows with records Q
from $500 to 5000 pounds in the season
which shows that 4 steady advance is beln!
made in the yields of our COWS. The i'm
provement is very slow, and will continue
to be until farmers raise their best heife
cows, and have the sire with mother o
milking strains to more perfectly establish
the milking habit.
Apple trees do not make good shade
trees for the pastures. The cattle spend
too much time in looking for the fallen
fruit, and perhaps in fighting over it, wher
they should be eating grass. After a windy
day they are apt to eat more apples thar
are good for them, which is as bad rs toe
much of anything else. Apples may be
fed to cows in considerable quantities, with
the effect of increasing the milk, but 1t
will be best to begin with small quantities
at first and gradually increase the ration
In this way the danger from over-eating,
or from making the teeth sore from the
effects of the acid, will be avoided, and the
apples will serve as a substitute for roots
sweet apples are better than sour, and ripe
apples better than green.
The particles of a soil have the power
of attaching to themselves and holding by
cohesive attraction certain amount OF
water. When this is exceeded the re-
dundancy will drip from it if the soil be
placed in a vessel with a perforated bot
tom. This is the water of saturation, and
is that which occupies the spaces between
the particles and is not adhering to them
This is that which is carried off by the
underdrain, but the adhering moisture is
not in the least affected by it. This can
be greatly reduced by strong pressure,
but can be entirely removed only by evap-
Grafton at a temperature above the boiling
point of water. The power to hold water
short of saturation differs widely in differ
ent soils Clay soils have this property in
the highest degree.
The following is said by the 44mericaa
Stock Journal to be an intallible remedy for
chicken cholera: Make a mixture of two
ounces each of red pepper, alum, resin and
flowers Of sulphur, and put it in their food
in proportions of one tablespoonful to three
pints Of scalded meal. In severe cases give
about one-third of a teaspoonful in a meal
pellet once a day to each fowl, putting a
small lump of alum in their drinking
water. The writer says: II have tried
the above ingredients with marked success ;
have cured fowls in the last stages of the
disease. | make ii practice now to give
my fowls some of it once or twice week,
and there are no symptoms of any disease
among them"
| In the IS provinces of European Russia
there are 1864, 723 horses, of which almost
100000 are in the military circle of Ka-
zan. Previous to 1873 exports of horses
ranged from 5000 to 10000 per year, never
exceeding the last number In 1879 the
number exported was 10000; in 1880 it
! was $4,000; in 1882 they were 81, 269; and
up to September 1st last year, the number
was 1920, against $4,000 in the CORE
spending period of the previous year. 1t
has been proposed that tax of so gold
rubles be imposed upon each horse ex-
ported where the value of the animal is
less than 800 rubles.
An experienced horticulturist says that
fresh cider should be boiled and skinned
completely before being bunged up. In
the spring, if vinegar is desired, place it
in warm, sunny room, and add six pounds
of diluted brown sugar to the barrel, leav-
ing the barrel open for three or four weeks,
according to the acidity of the cider. The
exposure to the air admits oxygen and
changes the alcohol into acetic acid or vim
egar.
The grazing of land by a mixed stock of
cattle, sheep and horses results in the land
being more evenly grazed than where one
kind only is kept. Where, however, many
sheep are grazed with cattle, as they pick
out all the finest of the grasses and clovers
with their narrow noses, the cattle will not
thrive SO well.
\ writer in the Prairie Farmer proposes
to have bed of clean, sharp sand, twelve
to twenty feet square, inclosed and rooted
over, for his horses 10 roll in. Rain and
snow, he says, should be excluded at all
times, and the bed should be raised to pre-
vent water from running into the in
closure.
Charles Downing, the veteran pomolo-
gist, regards the Hubbardston Nonsuch as
the most perfect apple he knows Of, be-
cause it has just the amount Of sugar and
acid for an eating or cooking apple with
out any addition Of commercial sugar.
No matter how sloppy the food is given
to pigs, they should hav day a good
supply of clean, fresh water. This is es-
pecially needed in summer for pigs kept in
pens and with little green food.