Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-27


Farmers who are complaining of hard
times can see how the case stood with
their grandfathers.
BEAUTY, THE AUCTIoNEER.
Attractiveness secures an added price
for any product the fruit-grower may
have to sell. Beauty is one of the most
successful auctioneers in the world.
Berries in a clean box sell better
than in dirty box; and the addition
of few green leaves or neat covering of
netting of a complimentary color will
further increase the price A decayed or
dirty berry often prevents the sale of a
quart. The keepers of fruit-stands buy the
nicest-colored apples and rub them till
they glisten. Why? Because such apples
will sell readily when apples of better
quality, but not attractive will not sell at
all. Nor is it the least dishonest to thus
obtain the aid of beauty, the auctioneer.
1t is not practicing deception it is simply
pleasing the eye, which is usually the
buyer. Putting clean, bright fruit in clean,
neat boxes, and setting it off - with leaves
and netting is not like putting the best on
top and inferior fruit in the middle, and is
the surest, cheapest way of getting a sure
demand and high price.-American Agri-
cult,uiSt for November.
THE RAIsIN CROP.
Seventeen more carloads of raisins were
sent from Santa Ana last week making the
total sent out so far this season $4,000
boxes Their estimated value is S75,0O0.-
Los angeles Telegram, November 18Th.
Henry Bros, Blacks Station, have 70
acres of Muscats, Muscatelles and Sultanas,
all in good bearing condition. They have
had fine success in curing the raisins and
will finish packing this years crop of
5000 boxes in about three weeks Wood
land Democrat.
For the past ten years, C. L. Durbau, of
Mesilla Valley, has been putting up raisins,
and each year they seem better than before.
They are made from the finest raisin
grapes, are cured in the best manner, and
are large, luscious, and of fine flavor. We
have tested them for several years past, and
know that in keeping qualities they equal
the finest imported raisins. -Or0UitLe Regis
ter, November 18th.
GENERAL NOTES.
The Los Angeles Times has knocked all
the poetry out of orange groves. 1t says
there is more money to be made in grow
ing cabbages than oranges, and gives the
figures to prove it. An acre of good ground
will yield 25 tons of cabbage.
The problem of farming consists in
making the soil increasingly fertile. Ma
nure is the farmers savings bank, and if
more of them would have large heaps of it
every spring to spread upon their lands,
instead of money at interest, they would
prosper better in the end.
Use plenty of whitewash in the poultry
house. The lice will appear unless pre-
cautions are taken to avoid them. Clean
up the poultry house and yards, dust insect
powder into all the cracks and crevices, put
tobacco refuse in the nests, coal oil in the
roosts, and whitewash the walls of the
poultry house, first adding tablespoonful
of carbolic acid to each bucket of white
wash used
A dairy writer says The following
rules will apply to the selection of calves
to be raised for dairy cows The head
should not be over-large, the neckEthin
rather than thick, and the skin possessing
a soft feel that can only be judged by an
expert. Look to the escutcheon and milk
veins. These are as good indications of
character as the pedigree.
A swine breeder says that in weaving
pigs there is something more to be consid-
cred than simply taking them away from
their mother. They should be weaned
gradually, so as not to get any stunt or set
back. To take pigs away before they have
been taught to eat gives them check for
at least two weeks. Feeding them in a
separate place to which they have access
will accustom them to eating.
The Woodland Democrat says the farmers
of Yolo county are using the refuse of the
wineries for fertilizer with good results.
After the grapes have been crushed, the
seeds, stems and skinSare gathered up and
carried off by the farmers, who dump
them on their lands and pillow them under.
It would seem as if there was no waste to
the grape, and no limit to its resources.