Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-05-23
MAKING BUTTER BY ELECTRICITY.


by N. Tichenor for a process of butter
making by electricity. 1t is stated that,
the milk being placed in vessel OF special
form. a pair of electrodes is introduced
and connected to dynamo capable OF
welding current of forty volts, when IN
from three to FIVE minutes the butter &C
cumulatcs at one end OF the poles IN the
form of little balls The claims include
the removal OF rancidity from butter, and
the manufacture of cheese, by the help OF
the current.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Farm Journal advises that we keep
clibbine horses loose in stables without
managers. Let them eat off the floor
Charley AfcCabe, captain Of a crew OF
sheep-shearers in Union county, Oregon,
SAYS the Heppner GaGete, feeces the woody
ones at the rate of 100 per day-which IS
considered lightning work.
The Ohio Agricultural Experiment sta
ton calls attention to the fact that IN It's
experiments potatoes raised from large,
whole seed ripcned nine days earlier than
those from seed cut TO single eyes.
Select the calm. steady hand and horses
to work in the orchard; the cross, petulant,
reyengeful, malicious man should be kept
away from the orchard. Tree murderer5
are sadly too numerous Exchange.
Spring-sowed wheat and barley looks
badly in Oregon. Dry weather and the
frosts have injured them very much, but
considering the continual drought the fall
sown wheat looks pretty well since the cold
nights ceased.
The East Orego,ttan, of Pendleton, thinks
that wheat in eastern Oregon is not yet in
ured by drought Though the frost killed
down the young plants, new shoots have
taken their place, and there is yet good
promise for a good crop.
A herd of cows having only very pure
soft water to drink were seriously affected
with the disease called there bone brittle
ness. When the herd was supplied with
hard water Qime) the disease disappeared,
but only 10 reappear when the cattle were
put back on the soft water again. Prot.
| Caldwell, in \. Y. Tribune.
The editor returned from & trip to Tuiare
valley on Thursday evening. Crops III the
upper San Joaquin on the dry lands are
very poor, but on the moist and SEMI
moist lands west Of Tulare, wheat and
barley will be good crop, and ii looks as
though this year Tulare would be the boss
wheat county of the State Press and
HOrticulturst.
y writer IN coleman : fttpCt ~ nItN ,
that there has not been q better time in
many years than this il for going into the
wool-growing business. 1t is a trueism
scarcely necessary to remind you OF, that
the time to buy is when every one wants
10 sell. No one need fear that wooI-grow-
ing will go out Of fashion iii this country
permanently, for it never will
On the 25th of April number of south
ern Oregon fruit-Srowers met at Ashland
| and organized the Southern Oregon Fruit
Growers Association. with b. +. Miller
President and j. Henry Gritfis Secretary.
! The Association has gone TO work IN way
! that augurs we'll for the fruit interests of
/ southern Oregon, and the State in general
Will wish it every success Northwestern
| Farmer.
An effort has been made TO cultivate the
nettle, Jrtica dioica, with the object of
obtaining from it q material suitable for
weaving A lady i'll Germany has raised
ncttlcs on patches Of waste or nearly profit
less land, and has secured a crop which
has yielded fibres of such fneness and
tenacity that she has induced some farmers
in her neighborhood to try what further
Improvement can be effected in the nettle
by growing it on soil formerly devoted to
wheat.
The common mop vine, grown as i
climber, has long been used in places where
it is desirable to cover considerable space.
It may be safely recommended for piazzas,
fences, outbuildings, or to hide old or par
TALLY decayed stumps of trees, and we have
even seen it climbing bare pole of great
hight. with the extreme ends dangling in
the form of lash, which by the wayside
inn is quite suggestive to the wayfarer and
! his horse Prairie Farmer.
An exchange says: "A sample of New
York cheese recently sold at London was
! found on analysis to contain not q
single ingredient of milk. 1t was
composed chiefly of lard and color
ing matter, and was, of course, vile
stuff The law in New York against the
| manufacture and sale Of bogus dairy pro
! ducts is evidently not enforced as it should
| be. The manufacture Of lard cheese ought
to be a State-prison ofiense. If it is per
| sisted in it viii entirely destroy the dairy
industries of this country"