Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-02-13

more astonishing. refer to the fact that
many allow the liquid manure and some
of the solid to 60 to waste for want of q
very little care and cost. and then buy back
the very identical ingredients in bags in the
shape of commercial manures.-[T. B.
Terry.
HORN MARKS AS INDICATING AGE.
These are not, as many folks believe, an
indication of how many calves cow may
have had, but of age. This notion loses all
force when we observe that rings are met
Oh the horns of males as well as females.
When beifer or male is two years old q
wrinkle may be found forming at the base
of the horn, and as the horn grows, the
next year this wrinkle is easily seen. This
mark, as it appears in sight, therefore,
stands for three years of age. At five years
a second ring appears. After this, one ap-
pears every year, until at the age of eleven
or twelve the wrinkles are smaller and
closer. and some of the earliest will have
been worn away. So the horns are no
guide to age after this. Neither are the
teeth, for these are affected very much by
the kind OF land that pasturing has been
done on. They wear Of much faster for
grazing on sandy land than on clay.-iCal-
ifornia Patron.
CHICKEN CHOLERA PREVENTIVE.
John Heaney, of Iroquois county. H.,
sends the Prairie Farmer an account of his
experience in preventing the appearance of
chicken plague among his fowls. 1t con-
sists of blue limestone, broken up into
small pieces, about the size of peas, and fed
regularly to the fowls, as much as they
will eat. The people of the West he re-
marks, are in the habit of feeding whole
corn to chickens, and letting them grind it
UP the best they can. At the same time,
they furnish them nothing to grind it with,
in the shape of sharp grit AS nearly all
the common gravel found on the prairies
has been rounded off by the action of water
and ice in the remote past, it is entirely I'M
fitted for the purpose, and reason points TO
the necessity of furnishing something suit
able
GROWING LIMA BEANS.
The following directions for growing
Lima beans are given by correspondent,
coupled with the information that the
profits are much less than formerly on ac-
count of the great decline in price Select
rich, sandy loan, and prepare it as for corn.
Plant about May 1st one foot in the row,
and three and one-half feet between rows.
Cultivate the same as corn. They do not
succeed well where the heat rises 10 1902 in
the latter part of summer. When the
beans are ripe cut them loose from ground,
and allow them to become dry where they
lie in the field Then haul them to the
machine or threshing-hoor and thresh.
Clean with a tanning mill and sack for
market.
GENERAL NOTES.
to1-ac slSn b,,cba1c of ,,ofafoac 10 n, lra
ton of starch.
Wood ashes are said to be valuable
fertilizer for onions.
S. W. Strong is cutting the seventh crop
of alfalfa this season from a piece sown in
March, 1884. This crop is about two feet
! high, and averages two tons to the acre
E0ntario Record.
The Rlual Californian says Of the south
ern part Of the State . Some Of the rail
road settlers are digging up apricot trees
and grapevines and setting out orange trees
instead. The railroad soil is peculiarly
suited to citrus-fruit culture"
Bees win give easily twice as much ex-
tracted as comb honey. Any person can
succeed in obtaining extracted honey, while
only an expert can secure the best success
in working for comb honey. The extractor
IS one of the greatest aids in Bookkeeping.
Attention has been called to the fact that
the streams in certain cultivated portions
of Northern Texas now run during the
part of the year when they were formerly
dry. This is not attributed to any change
in the rainfall. but to a more even alb
sorption of water over the cultivated areas.
House plants, says Popular Gardening
should not be subjected to rapid growth
Where plants shoot up quickly leaves are
liable 10 turn yellow and drop early. a
correspondent states that plenty of water
should be given them, but rarely any ma
nure water. nor should they be removed
from the pots. The best time TO stimulate
them is when they are in bud and ready
to bloom.
According TO the american NdtUrdfgst, We
are to have g new kind of potato that will
not rot. 1t is to be q hybrid formed be-
tween the common Irish potato and sim
liar tuber found in the southernmost parts
of South America. Next to a roll OF fresh
diary butter that has never fiirted with the
oleaginous portions Of the festive porker,
the potato that has no decay lurking in It's
system will occupy the front door of the
American household.
POULTRY NOTES.
Provide gravel, it is the teeth.
Provide sulphur, it prevents disease.
Provide lime and bone, they supply a
want.
Growing chickens should be fed often.
Very young chickens cannot consume food
enough at once to last them half a day
The food should be of the very best, and
preferably mixed.
To be of the best practical use, kerosene
must be used in its strongest form the
common is much better than the more
expensive refined. as disinfectant, doedor-
izer and destroyer of vermin in the poultry
house
There is without doubt great difference
IN the different breed of fowls, and man
agement tells more and with quicker re-
suits on some than on others, yet the true
groundwork of success lies with the owner
or keeper.
Chicks should not be exposed to damp
ness, cold rains, or draughts of air. As
they mature vary the food for the object
intended, and ten to one they will actively
respond TO judicious reatment.-I Atlanta
Constitution.