Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-07-02

Announcement was made in the columns
of the REcoRD-U MON a few days since that
the State ViticulturaI Commission had pro-
mulgated the following, for the extermina-
ton Of grasshoppers: Forty pounds
bran, fifteen pounds middlings, two gallons
cheap syrup, twenty pounds arsenic, to be
mixed thin with water a tablespoonful 10
be put by the side Of each vine or tree"
Learning that this remedy. or a similar
one, was being used at the NatOma vine
Yards Folsom, a communication was ad-
dressed to the superintendent, for such in
formation as he could give concerning it
and the results obtained, and in answer to
which the following has been received:
EDS RECORD UNION We are in receipt of
your favor of yesterday, and in reply take much
pleasure in giving you our remedy for killing
graSShOppers, or we should rather say Mr..
Mcttc'S. OF Mormon Island, for, as far as we
know, ne was the first one to introduce it, some
five or six weeks ago Our receipt is very sim
lar to those lately published viz: Take five
pounds middlucS, which mix thoroughly with
one pound arsenic; then dilute one-half pint
mOlasses with one gallon water and moisten
the mid1lingS and arsenic with this, but do not
make II too wet Is otherwise il is more likely to
bake and harden in The sun. This mixture we
drop on small pieces of boards, shingles or
shake, and deposit these along our roads and
spoonful under each vine in order to keep the
mixture as far away from the vines MS possible
and as 1t viii draw the hopperS for quite long
distance il is Just as effective
We have used the above remedy for about
three weeks, and have found il to be sure death
to any hopper that has eaten Of it. Wherever
we have used il dead hoppers are lying around
in all directions.
Hoping the above may be of use to others
who are visited by this pest, we remain yours
truly THE NAroMN WATER AND MINING Co.,
per X. II. PLATT.
ANOTHER GARDEN OF EDEN-The Tucson
CTti.cu said recently that the bottom lands
along the lower Colorado river, from old
Fort Yuma south TO where it cmpties into
the Gulf Of California, are extensive and
very rich An old-time-, who has been
over it times without number, in referring
10 that section, said " Il is the richest land
God ever made. Why said he, casting
his eyes upward hemp, wild hemp,
grows twenty feet high down there, and in
sufficient quantities To supply the whole
country with rope and jute for grain sacks.
The soil is black as Egyptian night. The
valley is from fifteen to twenty miles wide
on the Arizona and Sonora, or eastern. side
of the river and about fifteen miles wide on
the California and Lower California side.
Taking it altogether, this rich body of land,
through which the great Colorado runs be-
tween Yuma and the Gulf of California,
contains ,250, 600 acres of the richest land
in the world, which, with the grazing lands
| adjacent, would easily support popula-
! ton of 00,0o0, to say nothing of popu-
| ous city that would be sure to spring up
on the gulf. OF course, 1 mean when the
water of the Colorado river is raised out of its
| bed by comprehensive system of irrigat-
| ing canals, beginning at point few miles
, 90
| from either side These canals would not
only furnish water for irrigating purposes,
bot for drinking purposes for man and
| beast on ranches and in towns and villages
that would surely spring up.'-[Yuma SEN
| tinel.