Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-21

buds. He had, however, about four tons oil
the Jones seeding variety. which he sold at
$50 ton to the Petaluma Cannery. 4 COED
number of these peaches were picked a. d
found to actually measure eleven inches.
Mr.. Kennel has 100 tons of the yellow egg
plum which he has sold to the cannery
for $50 q ton He has ten tons of the French
petit prune, which he will dry. For this
purpose he has constructed drier which
is a model OF perfection. 1t is building
of I6 by u feet, constructed of wood There
is erected within the building. at the est
end, o four cornered brick wall about G tset
square and 5 feet high. Within this is
placed q stove with circles of pipe round
ing up even with the Top of the masonry
work. On top of the brick foundation is
built the receptacle for placing the fruit
over the heated pipes underneath. This
part is constructed OF wood, and will hold
forty-eight traos 81 by p feet. There Is
space on the sides which allows of all
steam or smoke 10 escape through a
pipe in the center. The drier looks like
bakery oven, and the fruit is change
about ON the trays.-HedtdsbTg Eata.
prise FL
CHEAP HARVESTING. ~
The Delta, Tulare county, gives descriye
ton OF lately invented harvesting nis..
chine. One team is employed TO batl
water for use in the boiler, and one 10
follow the harvester and pick up tie sacks
of wheat. These are the only horses en-
ployed. The men engaged are the en-
gineer, fireman, steerSman, header tender,
sack sewer, water hauler and sack hauler.
With these seven men fifty acres can be
headed and thrashed in day and the
grain piled in sacks rs fast as it comes from
IL
in a field of fifty acres in the morning
could be left piled in sacks in the evening.
Mr.. Berry's actual cast outlay for running
the harvester in his own field, not taking
into account allowance for wear and tearoi
machinery and interest on value of sane,
amounts to about forty cents per acre; and
he can make a profit on harvesting for
Others at one dollar per acre, whereas the
lowest rates charged by other combined
harYesters is two dollars.
PROFITABLE wHEAT-GRowING.
We have frequently heard this question
asked in regard TO raising wheat upon the
plains Of the San Joaquin valley. 1t has
been answered as many times, but MT al
ways in a thoroughly reliable manner.
Professor Hamilton Wallace is the owner
of twenty-acre lot in the West Park ract,
Last spring he decided TO have the place
seeded 10 wheat, it being too late to set it
to fruit. He hired every bit Of the labor
done, blowing, seeding, heading, thrashng
and hauling to warehouse, and as 4 result
he received S201 - net from his crop upon
the twenty acres. As no special pains
were taken to secure extraordinary results,
this may be taken as an average yield dcr-
ing g fair season, with prices of labor high
and grain extremely low.-Ffes'to Republi-
can.
A PRUNE GRADER.
Ola feature in the recent horticultural
show in that city, the San Jose Mercury
says: The prunes displayed by S. f. Leib
were acknowledged by connoisseurs 10 be
the finest in the hall. Mr.. Leib has in
vented q machine which will be of invalu-
able assistance to fruit-growers. Hereto
fore there has been great trouble in assert
ing prunes, and but three grades could be
determined by the naked eye. But by the
use of Mr.. Leib's machine no less than
twenty grades can be shown. To prove
the accuracy of his invention, let the
twenty single graded specimens be placed
in the form Of a circle, the poorest begin
ming and the best completing it, and the
difference between the two extremes can
be told at glance.
DIVERSIFIED NOTES.
The hens are paying rent on many a
wornout farm. They are calling people
back from the factories 70 the deserted farm
houses.-Excha1lge.
Every farmer and landowner every
where should make it a point to plant and
rear at least two better trees than he is
compelled TO cut down, as the general
destruction Of trees inlpairs the health,
impairs the pocket and impairs the beauty
of the country.
Professor Law, of Cornell University, re-
Gently examined the milk from cows which
had access to water from stagnaut pools,
and found in every case the milk full OF
living organisms. He also found the ami
mails themselves to be in feveriSh condi-
ton owing to their blood being charged
with the living animalcul@.
An English paper says that American
horse breeders are taking the cream of
English horSeiesh out ofthat country. The
same journal also asserts that the English
horse on importation into this country, de-
velops new vigor and increased size, and
that in this country he is destined TO reach
the highest state of perfection; also, that
England must soon look to America, not
only for work horses, but for breeding
stock.
An exchange says concerning the tanning
of wild horses Take fnely-grated horse
castor, oils of rhodium and cummin, keep
these in separate bottles, well corked; put
some of the oil of cummin on your hand
and approach the horse on the windy side.
He will then move toward YOU then rub
some of the cummin on his nose, give him
a little of the castor on anything he likes,
and get eight or ten drops OF the oil
rhodium on his tongue; you can then get
him TO do anything you like. Be kind and
attentive to the animal and your control is
certain"
If whole herd of say 90 COWS will aver
age 10000 pounds of milk without wedding
out or testing individual cows, then in all
probability at least 10 OF them yield G,000
pounds, and perhaps the other ten only
1000 pounds each. In such a case it is
easy to see, says the National StOckma'a, that
the best ten cows pay liberal profit, but
half of this is lost in making up the def
cheney OF the other ten. 1t is good practice
to weigh the milk of each COW once week
for the season, and then weed out those that
do not come up to profitable yield.