Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-10-24
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lCorr. Farmer and Dairyman.
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EAsTERN PEACHES SHIPPED TO EUROPE
The experiment of shipping peaGbs
from Delaware to Liverpool this season has
proved the business profitable when prop
erly conducted. G. A. Cochrane, of Mid
dletown, has invented case in which to
pack perishable food for shipment. and hes
been shipping peaches from Delaware to
Liverpool, in the Cunard steamers, in these
cases. He had shipped tomatoes last year
with success, but did not try peaches until
this season. He picked peaches at Clay
ton, Del, August Goth, shipped them bv
ordinary freight to New York, and put
them on the steamer on the 22d. They
were landed in Liverpool ON the night of
the 30th, and were sold the next day, or Il
days after packing in Clayton. They were
IN line order, selling readily at about 50 per
case, costing him for fruit, freight and com
mission, about 81 so per case. There were
2SS peaches in each case. each packed by it.
self, and thoroughly ventilated during the
transit 1t will be seen, that he obtained 81
cents each at wholesale, for his peaches
They cost him II cents each, laid down in
Liverpool. The practicabilitv of safe ship
ment of perishable fruits to long distances
was thoroughly demonstrated. and this fact
Is 81 the greatest moment to horticulturists
every where-lGeorgetown, Del, Democrat
HOW GOOD PEAR ORIGINATED.
The Seckel pear originated near Phila-
delphia before the revolution. A noted
sportsman known as Dutch Jacob" used
TO bring home every fail some small but
delicious pears declining to tell ANYBODY
where he procured them. About that pc
Rod the London Land Company, which
owned some land below the city, made q
sale, and Dutch Jacob" purchased the
lot upon which his pear tree stood 1t az
teTwarc became tie properly of Mr.. seckel
and as he permitted nurserymen TO take
gratis and buds from the tree they gave the
fruit his name.
GENERAL REVIEW NOTES.
There are $50 butter and cream factories
in Iowa, 407 in Illinois, 100 in Wisconsin.
100 in Kansas, 100 in Minnesota, 81 in Mis-
souri,, 80 in Indiana, and 40 in Nebraska
total of ,Fe8 in eight States. The value OF
the dairy products of Iowa alone in 1884
was S50000,000, and that OF the United
States was $500 0000oo. The value of the
mich cows of the United States is put at
100000, 600 in excess of the entire capital
stock of all the national banks and trust
companies of the country
From careful researches in Russia,
Kowalewski has found that cereals grow
faster in The north than in the south For
instance, oats and spring wheat take 1913
days and barley 10 to ripen about the
southern province Of Kherson, and only IS
and IS days at Arkhangelsh in The north.
The Intermediate regions show intermedi-
etc differences. The cause is the greater
length OF the daily exposure TO sunlight in
the high latitudes.
An Eastern exchange says: AT least one
Massachusetts man has become sensible,
f,.1 10 x1l a. Mr. -
ems running at large over farm are poei-
tive benefit. We always thought so, but
some neighbors would scold so II one of
ours got into their ieldsL There would be
less pestiferous insects and better fertilized
fields than now If more chickens were
raised and allowed unlimited range"
The Duke of Devonshire has al Holker
Hall notable herd of Shorthorn cattle.
he has paid for the stock. in all, since 1851
the sum of sl07,245. and the gross receipts
from sales in the same time amount TO
s464, 6G5 Out of the difference between
these sums he has paid all expensee of
management feeding, etc, and laid away
g handsome net profit
To keep poultry healthy that ia confined
! to limited quarters the year round. exer-
else is needful. Any way that can be de-
vised should De put in practice. Scattering
dry lOod among leaves TO make them
scratch for it, or burying it in their yard,
obliging them to shell their own corn, or
scattering meat scraps 10 make them run,
are good methods.
The nearer to nature that we can arrange
for poultry, the better market article We
obtain. Fowls we'll cared for, that have
had unlimited range through the summer,
Will tatten in three weeks, and the market
is seldom glutted with choice poultry.
The constituents Of the egg are found in
good wholesome proportions in milk, corn,
oats, wheat, meat, grass and potatoes
articles that are available on any farm; any
two of these given alternately are better
than feeding altogether with one kind
II is claimed that cream separator, even
on farm where the ordinary number of
cows are kept, will make increase enough
In the receipts i'll one year to pay for the
whole expense of butter making.
SO long as this country does not produce
eggs to supply the demand, and foreigners
can send theirs here free Of duty, there is
not much danger Of Cutting the market
In the Northwest farmers and fruit
growers are now experimenting with Rus
sian plums. All others seem to winter kill
Wigglers +" and other vermin in cisterns
may be destroyed by keeping minnows
therein.