Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-11-27
THE FARM.
VARIOUS SUBJECTS OF H0RTI-
COUTURE AND AGRICULTURE
Striving for Observation-Disclosures
interests California Raisins
Taking tine Lead.

fruit products. Already this IS beginning
to be observed, and it is credtable and de-
sirable that it should be so. Thus the peo-
pie in the vicinity of Newcastle and Penryn
claim with much pride that the fruit
grown in that section is higher colored and
richer-favor than can be found else
where in the State. Grass Valley and Ne
vada City are asserting, with much force
and commendable pride, that the Bartlett
pears raised in that locality are the finest
grown upon the coast, and stand shipment
far better than those grown in the valley or
elsewhere than their vicinity. Oroville is
shaping the public mind to turn in that
Central California, while Newcastle is max
ing its voice heard, upon about the same
key, concerning citrus fruits. 1t is most
promising outlook that this spirit of
friendly but earnest rivalry between sec
tons and growers exists, for rivalry will in
sure increased effort for improvement and
superiority, and such effort is all that is re-
quired to bring greatest prosperity and
highest remunerative results. Let the
fruit-growers and other producers of every
section strive earnestly to produce and Sc
cure reputation for the best in their respect
i've lines of production.
The raisin crop of 1886 in this State will
be of a quality to raise still higher the rep
utation of the California product at the
East. There is being combined more ex.
perience with the exercise of great care in
curing and packing, and these are the only
essentials for placing our best raisins at
the head of the markets of the world. No
soil or climate in the universe excels, if
even equals ours, for producing the finest
quality of grapes for raisin-making, and as
to curing and preparing for market, the
genius of our people will prove equal to
the highest demands. Raisin-making has
been engaged in upon the coast but very
few years, and for this brief time most re-
markable progress and success have been
achieved. Already leading New York pa
pers assert that the first quality of this
years California raisins which have
reached that market are equal to the best
imported London layers, and even superior
in some respects. 1t will be seen that lit
tie further advance in quality of our pro-
duct will place US in command of the raisin
market of the world, and this accom-
plished, CALIFORNIA; entire area cannot sup
ply the demand.
The extent to which pumpkins are
grown in some parts of California is quite
phenomenal For instance, there was
raised the present year on the Meek ranch,
near Haywards, Alameda county, about
800 tons, the crop yielding about 80 tons
TO the acre There were many that were
of great size, but the largest that was
weighed marked 225 pounds, and required
three men to load it into wagon. OF the
crop from his ranch 400 tons were pur-
chased by one dairyman, for which he paid
So per ton, or s., 200 for about one half of
the crop. Some of the Grand Army visit
ors in August last were amazed at seeing a
pumpkin in a produce market in this city
that weighed about 100 pounds, and were
anxious to live where such vegetable won
ders were possible. Had they seen pump
king weighing 225 pounds, instead of 100,
they would have formed a nearer concep
lion of what our soil and climate are really
capable of producing.
HoLsTEIN MILK AND BUTTER RECORDS.
Messrs. Smiths, Powell & Lamb, of SYRIA
cllse. n. Y, make the following written
statement in regard to the milk and butter
record of some individuals in their herd of
Uolstein-Friesian cattle: Following the
six-vear-old record of Clothilde, which was
26O2I pounds ounces, Clothilde, second,
her daughter, has given as four-yea odd,
%. 602 pounds 10 ounces in year, and an
other daughter, Clothilde, fourth, has
given. as a two-year-old, 14,021 pounds IA
ounces in a year. making a dam and two
daughters average q ,215 pounds ounces
in wear for the same year, and at an aver
age age of three years. Netherland Princess,
fourth, a two-year-old daughter of Neither
land Prince, and of the same blood as him
self, being out of Netherland Princess, has
made as a two-year-old 20 pounds HIP
ounces of butter in week, making
pound of butter from 1898 pounds of
milk. Netherland Dorinda, an aunt of
Netherland Prince, has just made q pounds
AZ ounces in a week, and is going
higher. having made pounds lot
ounces of butter in two days, 1917 pounds
of milk making a pound of butter. Eight
cen COWS and heifers have averaged over
1900 pounds in our herd the past year,
and we have now in our herd thirty COWS
whose yearly records average over 1900
pounds. Aaggie Idaline, third, has made
il pounds At ounces of butter in q week ;
Aaegie Cornelia, second, II pounds 8
ouncer; Albino, II pounds IL ounces ;
Benola Fletcher, 10 pounds IA ounces as a
three-year-old Stella Arts, IL pounds 81
ounces as a three-year old Bessie Arts, ID
pounds ounce as a three year-old. These
records were made without any grain feed
nor had they had grain for some three or
four months prior TO the making of the
record Our idea is that we have the
grandest butter breed of cattle in the world
and all we have to do is to develop 1t.
From the tests we have made we have
every reason to believe that they excel the
Jersey or any other breed of cattle for
butter.
THE LAST MILK THE RICHEST.
WHY the first milk drawn from a COW at
each milking is the poorest, and why that
drawn last, the "strippings,' is the richest,
has been the subject of Dr. Sturtevants and
Professor Arnold's organizes, and together
they seem to have given the true reasons.
Professor Arnold first says 1t is not because
the cows udder is like an open vessel, in
which the cream can rise, but there is no
such thing as backward motion to milk,
or any of its elements after it has once
started from the point of formation, but
the ducts converge into the one in the teat.
DR.. Sturtevant says that the heavier,
more liquid part of the milk will move
through the milk tubes more easily than
the solid and lighter portion, much on
the principle, we suppose, that a pebble
would move downward in tube of running
water faster than the water, and that &C.
counts for part of the result. Professor Ar
mold saws that in addition TO this cause the
fat of the milk, after it has passed the mi
tial point of secretion, is absorbed into the
general circulation faster than the proteine
Is. and so becomes poorer in fat the longer
it is retained in the udder The facts cor
e