Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-17

discovered what is believed to be the most
perfect remedy for scale bug that has yet
been tried. He takes common rock salt
and boils it down to strong brine, and then
applies the brine with a mop or whitewash
brush, and wherever the branches are
saturated with the brine the bugs are abso-
lutely destroyed. The remedy is so cheap
and simple that no one need have his
orchard ruined by this most destructive in
sect for want of the means to destroy it. 1t
should have thorough test, and if as eff
fective as Mr. Dunn clair.is it to be, he
should be voted pension.-L Fresno Re
publican.
1t is said that large crop of apples may
be grown when a hive of bees is stationed
in the orchard The pollen is rubbed from
their bodies against the pistils of thousands
OF flowers, which thus become fortified.
Many of the strange freaks of hybTidizing
varieties are due to the agency of bees. This
method is not generally necessary, how
ever in California 10 increase the bearing
of apple trees, as timing, rather than null
tipiying fruit, is what should be done here.
We received to-day five apples of the
Gloria Mundi variety, from the orchard OF
Richard Fulkerson, which are among the
finest specimens of apples We have ever
seen. They are all Of nearly the same size,
and the largest measures fifteen and one
half inches in circumference. The others
fall but little short of this measurement.
Ii would not take many apples OF this size
to fill Darrel.-[Santa Rosa Republican.
A Pennsylvania farmer last year sold
over Sc, 900 worth of potatoes from twelve
acres. He fortified with compost Of
hard wood ashes and oyster-shell lime,
plowed deep, planted medium-siZed, we'll
form cd tbrpe feet AnnIt
gave level cultivation and cultivated often.
From one hill he took thirty-one fine
large tubers.
The time spent in securing plows or run
ming to the shop for repairs when the soil
is in condition for working is criminal
waste. The time to put implements III re-
pair is before their use is required. All
bright surfaces should have been covered
with a mixture OF lampblack and kerosene
and carefully preserved from abrasion
when last Put away.
The Cincinnati Enquirer says A farmer
in the oil regions of Pennsylvania warns
people against using petroleum on fruit
trees and shrubbery. In the vicinity of
flowing wells it kills all the trees; and an
orchard in which the trees had been painted
with 1t showed handsome bark and fine
fruit the first year, but atterward declined.
The Colusa Sun says: l.. Z. Moulton is
having a large bend in the river cleared of
timber, and intends planting out an i'm
mense pear orchard. This land is between
the levee and the river, and be has found
by careful examination that pear trees can
not be killed by water standing on them in
the winter and spring months.
The fumes of sulphur will destroy any
yermin that may be lurking in the feathers
of the under part of the fowl. To do this
properly pay visit TO the hen in the night
and slightly disturb her, when by a natural
instinct she will bristle up her feathers all
over her body This, then, is the best
chance for using the sulphur.
Says the Marysville appeal: Sheep men
inform us that good pasture for sheep is
scarcer now than ever before known and
hard to obtain. The stubble fields are
pretty much all engaged at high prices,
and the foothill grasses have been pretty
well cleaned out by grasshoppers.
A swine-breeder says 1t is fair 70 assume
that at least nine-tenths of the diseases in
young pigs are due TO overlooking. II is not
safe to feed young pigs all they will eat IN
til they are at least four months old, and
then it is not best unless they are destined
for early market.
DR.. Cougar, of Pasadena, says that the
seeding orange crop viii be very heavy in
that section, while the budded crop will be
light this coming season. This, it is said,
is the reverse of what it is in Riverside
1t is said that the spores of smut found
in smutty grain are so small that { 500, 900
can be placed side by side in the space of
one square inch.
1t has been estimated that various insects
damage the crops of this country to an an
nual amount of $50, 100000.
The: runners from young strawberries
should be kept trimmed off, unless needed
for additional plants.
Apple trees are much benefited by an
occasional dressing of the ground with
wood ashes
The olive crop of southern Europe is
estimated to be worth Ats, 000,0 900 francs.