Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-09-26
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

Measure 200 feet on each side and you
Will have square acre within an inch.
A prominent fruit-grower says that the
profits derived from fruit depend upon the
quality Of the crop, instead of the quantity.
The Tribune says that Wm. Pickett has
on his place, near Sonoma, grape vines OF
the Black Hamburg variety which will pro-
duce four crops this season.
The Chester White hogs are still the IA
vorite in Pennsylvania, a position they
have held for many years. although coming
in competition with all other breeds.
The average yield for three years of
whole potatoes planted at the Ohio Expert
ment Station was 246 bushels per acre ;
that from single-eye pieces, 100 bushels per
acre.
Have your pigs and hogs access 10 plenty
of fresh water2 II not, provide it as soon
as possible. Good, pure, fresh water is as
essential to healthy development in the
hog as in the cow or horse.
In Northern Ohio droughts are much less
frequent now under a system of mixed hus-
bandry than they were twenty or thirty
years ago under a system of pasture, mead
ow and dairying under old-fashioned meth
DDS
a novel mode of lighting is used in the
new wine cellar now being dug at Jacob
Schram's place. a large mirror is so
placed as 10 reflect the suns rays into the
tunnel, causing brilliant Light Calisto-
gian.
The French claim to have discovered
that mixture of oil, naphtha, quiczlime
and water viii destroy the winter eggs of
the phyiloxera without injuring the grape
vines. Winter is the best time TO attack the
scourge.
But few farmers know the relative val
ues OF the feeding stuffs they buy, or the
composition OF the manure used. And vet
the thoroughly practical farmer should
possess such knowledge, as much IS may
be possible in order to better enable him
to conduct his business in the most profta-
Bile manner and at the least expense.
The Rural Home says that few farmers
have ever been poorer by spending little
money on literature connected with their
business and studying it. The man who
knows what he is doing, and knows how
and where 20 cheaper the cost of his prod
uct, will pull through, while the uulearned
are drag both TO themselves and Others.
In testing the value OF cooked and IN
cooked food for pigs, an Ohio pork-raiser
claims that bushel of corn fed on the COB
will produce nine pounds of pork, while an
NAAtAA IAttiAtANf SAOQll- b44U l6u law Will
yield twelve pounds The food used was
corn. bushel boiled made thirteen and
half pounds Of pork and bushel of
cooked meal mado sixteen and q half
pounds.
The first year OF the heifer demands the
most care. The COW is partially creature
of habits and when she has her first calf
she should not be permitted to dry off
sooner than eight months. Her quantity
of milk may be small near the END of that
period, but she should be MIXED rs long as
porsible. The next season the difficulty Will
not be so great, and by the time she has
her third calf her habits will be fixed
The Riverside Rress and Horticuls,rist
says that DR.. Jarvis has sold his dried april
cot crop of thirty tons for nearly 5000, in
sacks, at his ranch This saves q large ex-
pense of boxing and delivering Another
frult-gr0wer in Arlington recently sold his
crop Of l. 500 pounds Of dried apricots at 25
cents per pound, delivered in the East.
which is about 233 cents per pound deliv-
cred here. DR.. Jarvis has about forty acres
of apricot orchard in bearing.
The following mixtures arerecommend-
ed as excellent for coating blows and tools
in order 20 keep them from rusting: Dis
solve an ounce Of resin in four ounces OF
Hnseed oil, and add one quart Of kerosene,
stirring the mixture we'll. Apply in a
warm condition. Another method is to
dissolve an ounce OF camphor in turpen-
tine, and add four ounces Of lard and one
ounce of pulverized black lead or stove
polish; mix well and rub on with q rag.
We have noticed some discussion lately
IN the exchanges as to whether there is
such thing as an evergreen blackberry
vine. A. III. Poe informs US that he has
one that has made q growth on one vine
this season of twenty-seven feet and It is
now growing two inches per day. An
other shoot from the same root has grown
eighteen feet Mr.. Poe has also left al this
Office a specimen Of his Pampas grass,
which is nine feet high LaBcpoyt Bee
Democrat.
The price OF grapes is steadily on the in
crease, confidence is restored and something
OF The old time enthusiasm in the wine in
dussry is being evincei As high as s25
per ton Is offered for white grapes and lin
tandel, and other varieties are selling at
$50. Some parties refuse $40 all round for
their grapes and are holding for $25. The
price seems now fixed at from 500 TO eos.
except in cases of Mission and Malvoisies
which 90 begging at IS to $12 respectively.
lSt Helena Star.
The plant known rs sesame bids fair to
become formidable rival Of the olive. It
Is largely grown In lndl2 and China. II is
an annual, maturing in three months from
the time of planting, and two crops are
grown each year. The seeds are very
sruall, ten Of them weighing only grain.
They contain fifty per cent. of oil. by
weight, while the fruit Of the olive has but
thirty per cent. The imports Of sesame
fruit into France amount to 70, 900 or S0.0 900
tons per aunum. The oil is much used to
adulerate olive oil, which it closely re-
sembles.-[ Exchange
a Michigan strawberry grower practices
straw -mulching Of the vines to keep the
berries clean, and when the season is ended
burns the straw Is it lies. The heat clears
off the leaves and creepers from the plants,
besides destroying the seeds that lie on the
surface, as well as insects and larva. After
several years trial it has been found that
when rain comes new leaves start out from
the crown Of the plant, which is uuiniured
by the fiery ordeal through which it has
passed. The vines are then cultivated as
usual. The first burning oyer the vines
was an accident, but the result proving so
good the practice has been continued.