Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-06-27

| declined. the growth became less ana less
each year, and about the sixth year they
were entirely worthless although the al
mond root was in perfectly healthy con
dition Most of them broke off It the
point of union; none of them showed g
perfect union"
James E. French, LOOMS, who, as has
heretofore been stated, iooses goodly pei
cent of his apricot trees each year, favorS
| grating or budding upon peach, and
thinks that if the budding is done not
nearer than eighteen inches or two feet
from the ground, the trees will not die
He says that none of the trees in his Or
chard that are budded thus far from the
ground have died This is point worthy
! of consideration, and if there are others
who find upon examining their trees sim
liar state of facts, we should be glad to have
them send 4 statement of the same to the
RECORD UNION, that our readers interested
in the subject may have the benefit derived
from such observation and comparison.
prominent fruit-groWer at Newcastle
says his experience has convinced him that
itsis not safe to bud apricot upon almond,
as the union Of the two woods is not sutfi-
GENTLY perfect. He did not state what
stock he would use, but regards much OF
the fatality in apricot orchards TO be trace
able to the factors included in the budding.
c. B. Connolly, of the same place, dis
courages pruning apricot trees, and thinks
they are, for some reason, injured in that
way He would only apply the pruning
shears when he found broken limb, or it
was necessary to give proper direction to
the shape of the tree. He applies the same
rule to the pruning OF peach trees, and
states that while others around him have
been seriously troubled with curled leaf
and few peaches, his trees have been free
from the leaf trouble and he has had large
crops of peaches. If his trees in the fall
show a want of vitality, he sprays them
| with concentrated I've, and in the spring a
new bark appears and Il thrifty growth fol-
lows.
The experience of William Shillings-
| burg, who resides in the vicinity Of Mr..
| Connolly, leads him 10 the same conclusion
| concerning apricOtS. He would never cut
them any more than good husbandry in
! keeping them III proper shape required
| He also opposes the use Of much water-of
course referring to irrigation-in the case Of
{ apricot trees. He says he has found the
| best results by giving them very little or no
water, but III this, several OF bis neighbors
| take the opposite view and, as will be seen
above, r. D. Stephens, of Mayhem, &C
| counts for the trees dying on his place, so
! far as the limited number of apricots he
! mas iiu1, 10 Il lGCh vi luOISttt4t DCCduSc u pun
! the higher ground.
The above gives an idea of the various
! views and suggestions upon the apricot
| question. The effect of SO many trees dy-
! ing or being rendered worthless during the
| past two or three years greatly lessened
| the putting out Of further orchards of this
| variety last spring, and it is expected the
| sales will be still less another planting sea-
! son. j. f. Madden states that while there
| had been large sales Of young apricot trees
at Newcastle Tor years past very few were
sold last spring. People in buying trees
would remark to him that they did not
wish any apricots, as after growing two or
! three years and arouSing great expecta-
I ton they would suddenly die without no
| tee or proYocation.
| These complaints may now be said to be
| general throughout the State, and not con-
| fined to any particular soil, climate or
| locality. The Press and Horticltlt1riSt, pub
| lished at Riverside San Bernardino county,
! recently said There are many apricot
| trees lost this season with the gum disease.
Healthy trees are suddenly attacked; they
wilt, the gum exudes from the bark in
large quantities. and in a week 5 time the
tree is dead and the leaves are dry and
| brown
KILL TIE POULTRY LICE.
Almost all poultry are lousy more or less.
! think good arrangements for busting will
always keep the lice in check. The small
hen louise moves along the roosts and sides
Of the building several feet, and sometimes
aunoys cattle and horses, but the trouble
to them IS quite tenn Orary. If the fowls
are freed from them, they will leave other
stock at once. Roosts ought always TO be
removable, so that they can be scraped and
washed with kerosene. find kerosene or
crude petroleum an excellent addition to
whitewash. This treatment, with q good
busting box for the fowls, in which there
| may be occasionally thrown a pailful of
wood ashes and a pound Of flowers Of sui
phur, viii keep lice etiectually in check.
Horses and cattle in adjoining apartments,
with only loose board partitions separating
them from the pouitry-house, will not be
seriously troubled by the vermin.
HOW TO HAVE GOOD CROPS.
Reports from the harvest fields so far are
encouraging. In every instance we believe
the yield has proved better than was antiC-
ipated. In Fresno and Tulare it is even
said that the wheat crop is turning out bet
ter than it did last year In Butte and
most of the northern counties considerably
more than half an average crop is now eX-
pected. The grain on summer-fallowed
lands is likely to yield good crop every
where Ii is the winter-sOWn grain that
has failed. If the practice of summertal-
lowing were universal. there would be no
failure Of grain crops in this State. And if
the fields were put through the rotation Of
grain, pasture and summer-fallow, grain
crop being produced from each field every
! third wear, the crops would always be
| large a ranch of 600 acres could thus al
WAYS have 200 acres in grain, and under
| this system much greater profit could be
made than by incessant cropping Of the
| soil without manuring. By this method
! only one-third of a ranch needs to be
! plowed and seeded each year. This plan
! is entirely practical, and has been thor
| oughlv tested in California, with the most
satisfactory results
WASHING BUrrER.
The only time that all the buttermilk
and what il contains can be separated from
! the butter, and removed without requiring
| to knead or over work the butter. is while
| the butter IS yet in q granulated form. If
I the churning be so far advanced that the
butter will be gathered III a large lump ii
will have all through the lamp more or
| less buttermilk in which butjeTGlilk there
viii Of course be membran0us or Gaseous
or other solid matter. Not only Will the
| grain of the butter be injured by the
| kneaGiug required 10 remove this butter
milk but the llueading will remove little
else than the liquid Of the buttermilk,
leaving much of the solid matter incor-
poratcd with the butter. The kneading
of the butter tends only to press and So
Edify ali the solid matter of the mass,
squeezing ont only liquid. Moreover,
wien the butermilk is gathered INTO a
lump Of butter, any faint or impurity in
the buuern1ilk by closer, longer even
permanent contact with the butter, ma
jerially INJURIES the quality Of the butter
If. on the other hand, the buttermilk and
ali it contains be drawn away before the