Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-10-11
FARM AND FRUIT.
THE BEST METHODS AND THE
BEST RESULTS.
Something Concerning Live Stock
The Growing of Cereals-items
of Embarrassing Etc.

An old horseman says: II you want to
buy horse don't believe your own brother.
Take no mans word for it. Your eye Is
your market. Don't buy a horse IN lar-
ness. Unhitch him and take everything
off but his halter, and lead him around.
If he has corn or is stiff, or has any other
failing. YOU can see it. Let him go by
himself Il way. and if he slaves right into
ANYTHING YOU know he is blind. No mat
ter how clear and bright his eyes are, he
can't see any more than bat. Back him,
too. Some horses show their weakness at
tricks in that way when they don't in any
other. But, be rs smart as You can, You
Will get caught sometimes. Even an ex-
pert gets stuck. A horse may look ever so
nice and 90 a great pace and vet have fits.
There isn't Il man could tell it till some
thing happens. Or he may have weak
back. Give him the whip and of he goes
for mile or two, then all of sudden he
stops in the road. After a rest he starts again,
but he soon stops for good, and nothing
but derrick could move him The veal,
points of horse can be better discovered
while standing than while moving. If he
is sound he will stand firmly and squarely
on his limbs without moving any of them,
the feet fatty upon the ground, with legs
plump and naturally poised; or if the foot
is lifted from the ground and the weight
taken from it, disease may be suspected, or
at least tenderness, which is precursor OF
ho IL. IIc
spread apart, or straddles with his hind
legs. there is Il weakness in the loins, and
the kidneys are disordcrod. Heavy pull
ing bends the knees. Blush milky cast
ewes in horses indicate moon-blindness or
something els. \ bad-tempered horse
keeps his ears thrown back \ kicking
horse IS apt to have Scared legs 4
stumbling horse has blemished knees
When the skin is rough and harsh, and
does not move easily to the touch, the
horse is heavy eater, and digestion is bad.
Never buy a horse whose breathing organs
are at all impaired. Place your ear at the
side of the heart, and if wheeling sound
is heard it Is an indication of trouble.
The Marvsville appeal has brief article
illustrating the relative value of fruit and
grain is crop, in which it says: Down the
valley five miles from this city is the ranch
of T. T. and f. Millar. 1t contains 400
acres of land. Two hundred of this are on
the bottom and over $50 acres are uplands
MANY Years ago, before the results of hy-
drauiic mining were known or even sl!s-
pected, an orchard Of 100 acres were plant
ed on the bottoms. The fruit experiment
was perfect success. The orchard four
ished, and although fruit was low it was j
profitable investment The~work of the
hyCirauiickers began to have its effects, and
the orchard became overilowed and to
some extent covered with slickens Several
hundred trees died. and all of them were
more or less injured. Later there was a
levee built that gave partial protection to
the orchard, but moi till about 10 per cent.
of the trees had died. There are now
about the number OF trees in this orch
ard that there should be on 80 acres OF
land The trees left alive have resained a
comparatively healthy condition, but are
not 80 productive now as they would be II
the land was thoroughly protected from
overflow. The fruit trees are pretty evenly
divided between the following varieties
Apple, pear, peach, apricot plum, prunes,
fig and ounce. This orchard is rented for
$500 a year. This is a net rent, the own
ers being to no expense whatever in cult
walton. They pay the taxes only We
wish every grain-grower in this upper
country to make Il comparison between
this 60 acres of fruit land and any so acres
of wheat land lie may have or know Of
The Messrs. Millar are filling up the
spaces with Young trees where the old
trees died. They will also set out large
tracts Of land with fruit trees and vines.
They are thoroughly convinced that fruit
growing is the best business of this valley,
and tina; no part Of this State has superior
advantages to this region around Marys-
vile
The reports concerning wheat, gathered
from exchanges in the grain-growing sec
tions Of the State, are of interest at present
to growers and dealers Ten thousand
sacks Of wheat at .jscinto, belonging to the
Glenn estate,waS offered for sale on Friday
last, says the Chico Enterprise, and all the
grain buyers put in bids fer it. There was
considerable competition and anxiety on
Saturday afternoon rs to who was the sue
cesSful bidder, and it was finally announced
by telegraph that Mr.. Billiard and Mr.
Jones had put III the same bid which was
10 he kept secret bat we learn that Il was
IN the neighborhood OF 81 OF per GENITAL.
There was good stiffness in the market
ON saturday, which was encouraging.
Thv,t5Iling in Napa valley is ahout over,
but nn grain has vet been thrashed in
Browns valley and other localities in that
section The grain thrashed in Napa
county IS much of ii injured by the Hes
sian tiy, and the loss from this source, to-
gethcr with the present low price for
wheat, has considerably discouraged the
farmers * to embarrassing, and many OF
them will put ont portions OF their ranches
the coming season to grapes and orchards.
Mr.. Peacock tells the Marysville 1ppeqi
that when at Port Costa few DAYS since
he s,tw mile of cars loaded with wheat on
the sije-tFackS of the Nevada Warehouse
Company Each ear had fifteen tons Of
wheat y ear and bumpers occupies about
thirtv feet in length There were there
fore fifteen tons of wheat 10 every thirty
feet OF the mile and half 4 little figur-
ing vii! show that there were more than
G,000,09G pounds Of wheat on that side
track.
The Red Bluff SeatincI SAYS. Mr.. Pat
terson, of Humbugtown, Pa, has intro
ducei = new variety Of whear into the upper
end Of this county and other parts of the
State, and has made small fortune in the
enterprise. lie brought the grain here
last summer and sold 1t to farmers, from one
To FIVE bushels each, for seed. This season
he returned and bought their entire crops.
payiu ; ~ per hushel, or about 80 cents
more than the market price He took it
TO estern counties, where he had preyi-
ously obtained orders ior it, and delivered
il IL = per bushel. 1t is known rs the
golden Russian wheat is Of superior
quality, very prolific large in grain and
weighs several pounds 10 the bushei more
than ordinary wheat.
g. 6, Barber has sent to Redding a
c0rn-syal& grown on the McCloud river,
which measured sixteen feet and one inch
On HRS farm, on Fern creek, which
empties into the McCloud, we observed
stalks Of corn that had not then tassele,l
out that measured twenty-one feet in
hi.ht We expect that by this time that
corn has grown high ENOUGH for campaign
flag-poieS.--[Shasta Courier.
Several carloads Of Bartlett pears have
been shipped this season from Grass Val
ley to Sacramento and thence TO the East
ern market 4 gentleman who was al
Grass Valley this week states that the
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