Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-11-21

girls as well as boys could attend and learn
how to make butter and cheese. Why
should not the women of the land have
chance to get some of the abundance of in
formation to be had at our agricultural
colleges? Surely the women have to work
on the farms, and hard, -[American
Dairyman.
There are 600 tile factories in the State of
Illinois and all running at their full ca
pacity. 1t is estimated that more than
$1,000 miles of tile are turned out by them
every year and that its effect is to so far in
crease the productiveness of the soil as to
almost double the value of the land. Sure
ly here is lesson to the farmers of Ore
gon.
A sale of orchids was held for four con-
secutive days in New York, two weeks ago.
Two thousand plants that had been col
lected by Mrs. Mary ]. Morgan were dis
posed of for $4,000. They cost 100000
originally, and 100000 more had been
spent in their cultivation. For one plant
$500 was given.
A new and easy method of bleaching
celery, where grown ON level surface, is
to inclose it by four-inch drain tile
slipped over the plant when foot high.
The leaves grow over the top, affording
sufficient shade, and the confined stalks
whiten perfectly.
The Santa Maria Times says: Several
cattle dealers have been around here trying
to buy young cattle, but our dairymen
were 10th to sell their yearlings, believing
that abundant rain will come and they can
take care of them until better price is
obtained.
To preserve fence posts, boil any guam
tity of linseed oil, and mix charcoal dust
| with it until it becomes the consistency of
paint. Give the part of the post to be
placed in the ground single coat, taking
care that the posts are well dried before APP
plying.
Cattle men in Klamath county. Or, are
| indignant because the price of beef is so
much lower than last year. They do not
get as much by from Sc to $40 per head as
! they did last fall, and chances are that
prices will be much lower before spring.
"The Navel orange" from Riverside,
| Cal, took the premium at the New Orleans
| Exposition as the finest orange in the
world. Orange raisers will learn after
awhile that it pays to raise the best varie-
ties of fruit.-[Chicago InterOcean.
| Professor Maynard of the Massachusetts
State Agricultural Experiment Station, re-
ports that repeated applications of muriate
of potash, and judicious pruning, have re-
stored peach trees to health which had been
badly affected with yellows.
Unhealthy milk may be divided into two
classes First, unhealthy because secreted
| by an unhealthy COW; second, by ABSORB
ton of disease from the atmosphere, or by
| becoming contaminated from the addition
of impure water, etc.
The decomposition and souring of milk
are caused by the growth in it of minute
| living organisms. The germs of these get
| into it from the air.
The Riverside Fruit Company, Los An
| geles county, had packed $500 boxes of
+, raisins this season, up to the 18th inst.
Southern negroes say that melons grown
on the edge of swamps give the fever to
! persons who eat them.
1t is said that copperas mixed with the
whitewash put upon the cellar walls will
keep vermin away.