Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-12-12

bushel usually, sometimes IS cents to 81
per bushel. Cheat will not grow if covered
over two inches deep, so it is no trouble as
to growing in the crop when sown in other
grain, and is just as easy to get nd OF as
spring oats. Two years in succession will
clean the worst wildcat land that can be
found, if three bushels are sown each year
per acre and moved for hay or burned off,
and the land is as good as new. Try 1t and
you will be surprised beyond all reason.
| can pack all the wild oats that grow on
my cheat summer-fallow in a pint cup.
Now if you have any low wet land, say
swales or boys in your farm, sow these to
cheat and it will make you fine lot OF
hay; the land being wet does not hurt cheat.
You can easily get three to five tons on
such land where otherwise you would not
get enough oats or wheat to feed pig
twenty-four hours. Please try it and satisfy
yourselves this is my experience the last
twenty-three years.
SUT-BEARING TREES FOB PROFIT.
Felix Gillet proprietor of the Barren Hill
Nurseries at Nevada City, has just issued a
new descriptive and illustrated catalogue
and price list of his stock of fruit, nut and
ornamental trees, vines, etc. Mr.. Gillet
has made a speciality of propagating nut
most complete collection TO be found upon
the coast. Quite a large number of the
many varieties which he carries in nursery
stock he has already had planted out suifi-
GENTLY long to have them now in bearing.
Samples were received not long since from
him of Red Alverline or Spanish filberts,
also Piedmont or Italian filberts, and of
Italian chestnuts. These were all of the
very finest quality, and the chestnuts espe-
cially showed most prolific and man.
moth growth, producing three very large
nuts to each burr, and, although of enor-
nous size, still maintaining a very delicate
fiber and flavor. Mr.. Gillet refers to the
various kinds of nuts he has produced this
year as undeniable proof of the unusual
adaptability of California soil and climate
for nut-growing. and predicts that in the
near future this industry will come strongly
to the front as one of the most profitable
lines for planting. The various kinds of
nut trees are fully described in the cata-
logue, as are also his stock of fruit trees and
vines of all kinds, and many Of which are
entirely new to this coast.
UTILIZING THE MoJAyR DESERT.
1t seems the much despised Mojave
desert is at last to become valuable as q
raisin drying ground for vineyards located
in more moist localities. The Orange Tn
Jltnc of the 2Sth says:
The packing houses are still running
with full force, and the supply of grapes
will keep most of them at work for d
month or two to come. Mcpherson Bros
have had a large force Of carpenters putting
on an addition TO their packing house,
40x100 feet, and have it nearly completed
1t will be used for store house, and also
to complete the drying of large quantity
of raisins which were nearly ready for the
sweat boxes when the storms came on.
They are also shipping large quantity of
grapes to the Mojave desert, where they
they will get nearly their full stock of
grapes into raisins. The unprecedented
rains caught them with $4,000 worth OF
grapes on the drying grounds, but by
prompt and energetic labor they have
gained control of the situation, and We are
glad to know that they will come out all
right"
GENERAL TOPICS AND NOTES.
Last summer the Commissioner of Agri-
culture decided to combine with the ento-
theological division of the bureau q new
branch ofinvestigation relating to economic
ornithology. DR.. c. Hart Merriam, a we'll
known ornithologist. and Secretary of the
American OrnithologistS' Union, has been
appointed special agent to take charge of
the divisional work. Dir. Merriam made
his headquarters at Sing Sing, n. Y, until
October 1st, and since that at Washington.
The scope of the investigation will cover
the entire field interreation OF birds and
agriculture, particularly from the ento-
mologistS standpoint. The inquiry will
relate primarily to the food habits of birds,
but will include also the collection of data
bearing on the migration and geographical
distribution of North American species.
The American Turf Convention, which
met in st. Louis, November 18th, changed
their name to the American Turf Congress,
adopted new rules. elected General James
+. Robinson, President, and B. G. Bruce
Secretary, both of Lexington, KY, and
selected Cincinnati, o.. for the next annual
meeting place, and the second Wednesday
of November, 1886, as the time.
An exchange saws: The best remedy
against the girdling of trees by rabbits is to
coat the bark with some substance often
sive to them, one of the best being thick
wash made OF COW manure and water,
with enough water-slacked lime to make
the mixture of dull white color or green
iSh gray. The mixture may be applied
with an old broom or brush.
AT late meeting of the Franklin (Mass.)
Farmers Club, Mr.. Badger showed five
bushels of remarkably smooth and hand
some Beauty of Hebron potatoes, grown
upon single square rod of ground, or at
the rate of 800 bushels per acre. He also
left at home full bushel sorted out from
the same lot, making the entire yield at the
rate of $50 bushels per acre.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette says:
The fast walker is the coming draft horse.
a prompt-moving, st-walking team al
ways sells for high price, and the founda-
ton of fast walking lies in training There
is good opening for profit in this direc-
ton. If team is urged to walk fast be-
fore being trained to fast gait, the lesson
will never be forgotten.
At the Michigan Agricultural College
farm sixty tons of first cutting of clover
and timothy and twenty tons of second
cutting were taken from twenty-five acres.
This is at the rate of fraction less than
valuable crop compared with wheat or
corn.
Spencer Borden, of Fall River Mass, has
a Jersey COW which gave in eight weeks
1850 pounds of milk, which made 40
pounds Of butter, without any extra feed
ing. This was more than twice her own
weight in milk, and an average of II
pounds ounces of butter for the time.
A London paper claims that there is no
better way of securing a heavy crop of
peaches and nectarines than by putting
colony of bees in the house when the trees
are in blossom" The English grow peaches
in lighthouses, but hive may also be use
full in the orchards here.
Mr.. Ellsworth, an Illinois man, gives the
Prairie Farmer remedy for Canada this
ties which he has found effectual. 1t is
simply a small quantity of benzine poured
around the roots of the thistle plants. A
single application will kill them even to
the tips of the roots.
Sheep husbandry is steadily declining in
France, the present number of sheep and
lambs being less by II, 100000 Mutton is
imported from Germany, Algeria and East
ern Europe, and sells 20 per cent higher
than beef.