Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-06

| monstrated that the estimate made few |
months, or even month ago,was greatly IN |
excess of the real yield. The estimate was |
seized upon by the bears to depress the |
price, and the result has been to the great |
| loss of the grain producers. If California |
produces 10000, 600 of bushels she will do
exceedingly we'll From many sections
| there comes news from the harvesters that
the falling off from the estimate will reach
| from 20 to 40 per cent, while from nearly
every section the harvest shows that the
estimate was greatly exaggerated The
estimated immense crops was also used by
1 the bag-ring to force the price of bags to
| figure which is wholly unreasonable, cut
| ting down the profits of the farmer, which,
with the low price of wheat, makes his
crops of little profit. Each year is year of
costly experience to the farmer that it is not
wisdom to depend upon the wheat alone as
crop. That it is better to divide up the farm
and raise a variety of crops if he would
succeed. Many are turning their wheat
| fields into vineyards and orchards, and find
! that wealth is the result. More will each
year follow in the same wake, and no longer
place their whole dependence upon the
uncertainties of this cereal crop. The
farmers of the State are kept poor, and
their lands are impoverished, by this con-
tinual raising of a single crop of wheat.
countries make the profits of a wheat crop
very uncertain when the season is the most
favorable. By raising a variety OF crops
the farmer is secured against this compe-
tition If he makes little on wheat, he
makes up on some other production. Good
Judgment would seem to indicate uni
versal change in the habits of the farming
community if they would prosper. Less
land, with a variety of productions, would
bring competence, if not wealth, where
large holdings now hardly serve TO make
both ends meet. Experience is often very
costly teacher, but its lessons are very i'm
pressive and forcible, as the farmers OF the
State have found out.
LARGE APPLES.
H. Myers, who owns ranch near Belle
mill, about thirty miles east of Red Bluff,
in the pine woods, beautiful little valley
in the mountains, brought to the Sentinel
office this morning six very large red APP
pies, a sample of many bushels grown in
| his orchard this year. We had the curios-
itv to measure them the largest way round,
with the following result: The largest
measured 144 inches, two 14B each, two IA,
and one 49,, making total of exactly 81
| inches These apples were grown without
irrigation, as all of Mr.. Myers fruit is, ex-
cept some very early apples that he wishes |
1
sound and fresh until next year. There |
are thousands of acres in Tehama county |
Just as good for fruit and vegetables as Mr.. |
Myers land.-Red Bluff Sentinel
CORN PLANTED IN JULY.
The foothill country is becoming more |
desirable for fruit and vegetables every |
season. Away up on the Champion Mill |
road, twenty miles east of this place, is W. |
o. Jennings farm and stock ranch. 1t was |
said before he bought the place that corn |
and garden truck" could not be grown |
there. Mr. Jennings has proved that asser
ton to be false. He planted corn, melons,
potatoes, etc, the second day of July. The |
corn is now ripe, fine, large ears, and has
been gathered and put into the barn. He
has beer using melons and potatoes nearly |
two months, which were large and we'll
favored. The valley lands produce no
better fruits than can be grown in the foot
hills.-Red Bluff Sentinel.
PLANTING ORANGE TREES.
1t is evident that the boom in planting
orange trees last winter in this vicinity,
was the beginning of lasting movement,
and not sudden impulse that will soon
die out Already two agents for nurseries
| have visited this town and met with en-
couraging orders. While it is possible |
| that no large orange groves will be set out, |
vet almost every person that has room in |
| his ward or grounds about town will in
crease his orange and lemon trees. 1t is |
also gratifying to know that many farmers |
through the foothills and down along !
! Feather river, are making preparations to |
set out all the way from ten TO two or |
| three hundred trees apiece. The time is !
not distant when Oroville will be shipping |
many carloads of oranges each season.
| Or0Uale Register.
LIVE STOCK NOTES.
At the public sale at Louisville. Ky, of
twenty-seven head of pure-bred Herefords
owned by G. W. Henry, of Chicago, fair
prices were realized. Six bulls brought an
| average of $3.50 95. thus making an aver
age of Sl4i So and twenty-one females
an average of 1927 so for the entire herd of
twentv-seven. OF these all but one were
; purchased by Kentuckians living in the ia
NOUS blue grass short-horn region. The
Hereford folks are much elated over the re-
suit of the sale as the bluegrass breeders
have heretofore Stunned the Herefords al
together.
The death of the famous Clydesdale stall
lion Darnley 300 is reported by the London
Lire Stock Journal, which says of him
" He was bred by the late Sir William Stir
ling Maxwell, Bart, and was without ex-
ception the most successful breeding stall
lion III Scotland The loss to his owner,
Mr.. Riddell, and also TO the country ct
large, is heavy 5ne. Darnley was foaled
in 1872, and was first at the Highland and
Agricultural Socieiys Show at Edinburgh
lin 1877 and 1884, as well as winner of
champion cups at Dumfries in 1878 and
Edinburgh in 1884, and the Glasgow premi
UNI in 1876 and 1877. Only a few weeks
ago it was reported that Darnley had been
hired for the fourth year in succession by
the Rims of Galloway District Society"
The wholesale price of beef has, says the
Liverpool Journal Of Commerce, not been
so low for the last thirty years. PINE
carcasses of American beef were recently
disposed of at the Birkenhead Lairages at
AID g cents per pound. First-class store
cattle were a drug at Chester Fair, and
f could only be disposed of at reduction of
at least 80 per cent as compared with the
prices realized two years since. 1t is,
therefore, expected that very heavy losses
viii be sustained by the exporters of Amer
, lean live cattle and dressed beef.
RI The Jersey Cattle Breeders of Illinois will
meet at the Palmer House in Chicago No
vember 10th. As several matters of interest
: will be considered at their meeting q good
j attendance is desired. This meeting comes
! about the SINE time as the meeting Of the
National Butter, Cheese aud Egg Associa-
! ton, so it will be good time for those in
: terested in dairy products to be on hand.
t GENERAL NOTES.
e The reason why thorough fumiga,ion
e does not entirely destroy vermin in hen
5 houses is because they are constantly
: Matching out from eggs deposited pre-
q viouslv, and whose vitality is not destroyed.
. | Repeating the process is necessary until
I the last are done for. The cleaner the
i hen house can be kept, the less liable it
$ will be to harbor the eggs. Removal of the
i filth will destroy many and make less fumi-
: CATION necessary.
: A flock OF hens viii pay for themselves
d before they ale one year old if they are
rightly cared for. You can sell them, if
you choose for a good price and raise an
Il other lot, but 1t is not advisable to do so,
as the second year is the most profitable.
e but do not keep them after they are two