Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-13

| HdIuly ulScerulDie llOtu ZIG AuAA
wool averages 81 so head, but IS conslu
cred mere incident, the animal being re
garded exclusively as a meat prcducer
| About half the yield are twins. flnally
he urges that the farmer who keeps south
downs is always prepare for company
and can send more beef, pork and poultry
to market besides having the best OF living
| at home
BUTTER WORKER.
I have method of working butter thai
| is somewhat primitive, but nevertheless tnt
| best, believe, in existence. l have nae
some controversy with manufacturers o.
machines, over 4 statement OF NINE tha'
| there were no machines made that were III
| to be used to handle butter with from the
fact that any grinding process Is delete
rious. The Blanchard is not machine
only peculiar shaped combination OF
tables worked together BY hand lever
which produces the same effect in more
| awkward way than my simple board and
roller, with which can handle ten pounds
| of butter as easily as they can five pounds
| With wildwood board as wide as can be
obtained, and three feet long, and large
bakers rolling-pin, roll out the butter in a
sheet as for biscuits from dough, absorb
| the buttermillk with fine, fiat sponge 7
| have used one costing so cents for three
years. then. by a quick turn of the roller
| over the end of the sheet, wind the butter
around the roller. lift it clear from the
board, and turn it and unroll in q pile in
| the middle of the board; wipe the milk
from the board and repeat the operation a
| few times, and you will be ready for salt.
| After weighing the butter roll out all over
the board evenly as possible, and roll the
| batch up like jelly roll; turn 1t around
lengthwise of the board, and repeat the
! first operation until the butter IS ready to
mold or cut into cakes. This is the quick
est, easiest and best way TO work butter
and with little experience man can
/ handle fifteen to twenty pounds at time,
and finish ii in less time than in any other
way that know of. I can give you de-
| tailed reasons for this statement, but think
| they would be obvious 10 any experienced
person.-TRufus Worthing in New Eng
! land Farmer.
FEEDING MILK TO POULTRY.
a neighbor of ours whose hens, to our
evaporation, kept laying on when eggs
| were IS cents per dozen, while ours per-
sistently laid Off during the same season,
| on being questioned, revealed the fact that
his hens had pailful of skinned (perhaps
clabbered) milk each day. and no other
drink. On comparing notes, we each
found that our management OF our fowls
was almost exactly alike. with this single
difference-a difference fiat had put many
dollar to the credit side of his ledger,
while our own was left blank during the
same period, and this thing had been
going on for years, with the results in favor
of q milk diet. Young chickens should be
encouraged to grow as rapidly as possible,
both for their own good and the pecuniary
pClu .ft l,air
less feed is sure rule always. To breed
ers located il butter making district
there is no food OF more pIofit for this fore
ing process than curd made Of skinned
milk separated from the whey Exchange.
GENERAL NOTES.
In selecting females for breeding pur-
poses, whether COW, eve, mare or SOW, al
WAYS prefer those that are good mixers.
An animal that provides its young with
plenty of nourishment even il inferior. will
give better results than one more highly
bred if it does not give its young enough for
proper growth 1t is of course best to select
the well-bred stock for breeding purposes
III preference, bat the matter of milk pro-
duction Should always be an important Que.
farmer writes the Colorado Farmer that
for scratches in horses take white pine pitch
resin, beeswax and honey, half ounce each;
fresh lard, half pound melt well together
over slow fire; stirtill quite thick, so that
the parts may not settle and scpal ate. This
also makes an excellent application for
harness gals, cuts and sores of all kinds on
horses and cattle.
Oyster shells, old mortar, crushed egg
shells, chalk, burnt limestone all go to the
assistance Of forming the shell, and the
hens should have something of that ma
ture in order to be able to lay regularly. A
hen can no more lay from insufficient egg
material than a COW can give milk without
proper grain and hay.
A successful farmer at the East says ::
" In blowing use a subsoiler to loosen the
hard-pan, or else gradually bring MP the
heavy clay by sinking the plow little
deeper each year. Another profitable way
is to give two plowings, first bringing the
clay to the surface, and then throwing 1t
back again"
The best stock-water is that of living
springs; the next, that of running streams.
Fully equal to these, save in the exception
of hardness, is the water of wells free from
surface drainage. The worst water is that
of slack streams, and especially stagnant
ponds.
An Eastern exchange says . The driven
wen patent winch mas been the source OF
SD much troublesome litigation against
farmers, expired on January 18th, and any
one is free hereafter to drive well on his
own premises without fear Of prosecution"
A man poled some lima beans with com
mon, six-toot laths. driven one foot into
the ground, and when the vines had
climbed the three-foot poles they were
pinched back. Result, more and earlier
beans than oyer before
Arizona has grass enough to feed 5000, 0O0
cattle, but much of it can be made no use
of because there is no water. Artesian wells
will probably remedy this difficulty.
The cherry grows best in rich, warm,
sandy loan. liza mulch Of leaves, straw or
brush is put around them they will be very
much benefited by it.
a steer was lately taken to the Cincinnati
market that weighed 4, 250 pounds. 1t vas
six years old, and was reared near Decatur,
Ind.
The fnest-havored mutton ever served on
a Colorado table, it is said, had been fatted
on alfalfa.