Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-11

sen at the meeting OF citizens last MONDAY
evening to organize a branch immigration
Association, he raises six tons OF grapes 10
the acre from all the vines he has properly
set out: and this, too, on granite SOIL. At
S25 per ton, which is Il reasonable figure,
Mr.. Mortensen's land produces an income
of $50 per annum to the acre. With such
facts staring him in the face, what rancher
can afford to raise grain for Market
Mountain Democrat.
GAPEs AND EARTHwoRMs,
J sew York microscopist, DR.. Walker,
Of Franklinville, has discovered that the
gape worm, producing the well-known dis
ease in fowls, lives during one stage Of ex-
istence in the earthworms; just as the
liver fluke of sheep passes during part OF
its life in a species CT snail. In paper
read before the Buffalo Microscopical So
ciety, DR.. Walker stated that the earth
worms are the hest of the minute cysts of
the cape worms, and the chickens III eatng
the former, also swallow the latter. Prob
ably only those earthworms in yards where
the fowls have run for some time contain
the parasites, and hence the fowl yards
should be occasionally changed.
VINE HoPPERs.
The vine hoppers are already getting in
their work about Cloyerdale. The little
pests look something like a diminutive
grasshopper, active as tleas. They live on
both sides of the leaf and eat holes in
them. The first sign of their coming we
observed some of the leaves frosted around
the edges. At a venture we have sulphured
4he vines, which cannot be very far amiss,
as they are to be salphured shortly any
how. If this fails we will try buhach.
Since sulphuring we have examined and
found none of the pests. They suddenly
discovered that they had business across
the fence in another plantation, which the
proprietor hadnot " pizened. -[Cloverdale
Sentinel
GENERAL NOTES.
One lemon tree near Orlando, Fla, pro-
duced 7,000 fruits in one season.
If you keep cows for making butter. test
each ones milk separately, and see if she
is performing the work for which you keep
her.
An orange-grower al Orange puts anotlce
into each box, requesting the purchaser to
inform him OF any cause OF dissatisfaction
with the fruit.
To prevent rust, dissolve one ounce cam
phor in one pound of melted lard lake oil
the scum, and mix in as much fine black
lead as will give it iron color. Clean the
machinery, and smear it with this mixture.
4 fter twenty-four hours rub clean with a
soft linen cloth.
Aside from keeping two or three good
cats around house and barns, every farmer
should remove loose boards and rubbish,
which make a harbOr for rats, mice and
other vermin. Rats and mice destroy mill
ions of bushels OF grain every year, be
sides doing much damage to fruit trees and
| otter property.
The Natoma Water and Mining Com
pany, cultvating :, 500 acres OF vineyard in
! the foothills Of Sacramento county, has
abandoned the use Of irrigation Tor wine
grapes. The company has plenty of water
at all times, but experience has convinced
| the management that the best wine Is
made from grapes not irrigated, and that
the vines thrive without irrigation.
The mammoth grapevine. grown on the
place of f. W. Fish, of Saltwater, and
which has been for several weeks on eXhi-
| bition at the Shasta county Bank, was on
! Wednesday shipped to the New Orleans
Exposition. where it will doubtless attract
a great deal of attention. This vine shows
an aggregate length Of shoot, in a single
years growth, Of 1913 feet Exchange.
The orchard is not outside of woman's
anu JtNtNAlAIs5' SNAC'shIii =
and packing the ripened fruit-who could
better accomplish this kind Of work? In
these pursuits, especially, | would say work
upon the principle Of doing the very best
that can be done. Raise the choicest fruits
and flowers. Select them carefully and
offer them for sale il the most attractive
style It will pay you TO have your rosy
checked apples, luscious grapes, plums,
peaches and pears free from dust and
| packed with ncatness and care.-LClev
| land Leader.
Poultry raising, even without any Of the
new patent incUbators can be made vastly
profitable by the sale of eggs alone, nor
need this industry be confined to country
people, though of course poultry can be
raised at less expense on a farm than in
town \ iudicious selection of good breeds
OF fowl, careful, pains-taEing attention to
! the henncry-which, by the way, should
not be oyercrowdcd-is almost sure to re-
pay amply the outlay on the beginning
which may be very small, and eventually
to yield a good profit In this, as in all
other pursuits, concentration Of energy is
| the prime factor of success.