Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-02-02

are sold by all chemical fertilizer firms at
IS per bag 900 pounds), and it will be
seen that bag will go long ways.
The Inter-Ocean says: The tile-mAkers
of Illinois may Justly claim high rank
among those who have "made two blades
of grass grow where only one grew before,
or, to be more explicit, doubled the volume
of the product. The annual grass crop OF
this State is worth millions more for tile
drainage, and corn can now be raised where,
if nature were left to take Ter course, only
swamp hay could be harvested. The rain
fall of the State is excessive. A great deal
has been expended for tiles by the farmers
of Illinois, but the investment, as rule,
has paid for itself many times over.
Parmeutier, the French scientist, says :
1.-The best way of storing wheat, retaining
the seed. terminating and food. making
principles in their perfection, is to dry
thoroughly and clean the grain, packing
the production in dry, clean sacks, kept
apart from each other. Care should also
be taken to preserve as low temperature
as possible in the granary all the time the
wheat is stored there" The superiority of
! California wheat is made strikingly appa-
rent by such needfully prescribed caution
to be observed elsewhere.
II you are going to set a new orchard
| this spring, remember that it is an excel
lent thing to prepare plan OF the orchard,
! showing the position OF each tree, its vari-
! ETY., etc. If tree dies it can be replaced
| by one of the same sort. Some fruit-raisers
| keep a book in which they register the
age and variety of every tree in the orch
ard, together with any items in regard to
their grating productiveness, treatment,
etc, which are thought to be Desirable
| Prairie Farmer.
The Rural Ne,c Yorker says that root
grating the apple is now generally prac-
ticed, the cions of the desired variety be-
ing whip-graited upon the crowns of
seeding stocks. But nurserymen, to in
crease the number of trees from a given
| number Of stocks, often cut up these long
roots OF seedlings into three or four pieces
and put cion on each, aud in this way
make one original stock serve to produce
several trees. This practice is not to be
commended.
n. Atwell, one of the Michigan Commits
sioners, whose duty it is look after the
peach districts of that State, and check if
possible the ravages of the destructive dis
ease known as "yellows," claims that
there is no known remedy, and that the
only safe plan is to uproot and burn the
trees upon the first appearance OF the
disease.
The american Grocer finds that in 1888
! 5000, 900 cases of tomatoes were packed in
the United Statss, each containing two
dozen tins. The exact figures are 70. 645..
500 cans. Their value at wholesale was
probably $4,000, 600. Maryland puts mp
about one-half of the product, and New
jersey over a fifth.
A farmer in Kansas reports the effect of
an application of one ton of bran to the
acre as equal to that obtained from the
usual application of mixture of bone dust,
guano, lime and wood ashes. and the diff
ference in yield of the crop that received
the bran as compared with those not treat
ed was very great.
Next to Australia we are now producing
more clothing wool than any other country.
In 1876 our wool product was 10000 600
pounds, while the present year it will not
be far from $50, 600, 600 pounds.
1t is reported that horses and cattle west
of the Medina river in Texas are dying by
hundreds fer want of grass. Owners are
driving their stock south.