Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-06-12
REvovArIxe RANCID BUrrER.

and there will soon be plenty OF peaches,
apples, pears, plums and apricots.-4ub1rn
Republican.
RENovATING RANCID BUTTER.
The New York S,e,, is responsible for the
statement that up in New Hampton, Orange
county, \. Y, newly established firm is
doing an extensive and thriving business
in taking butter of all degrees of rancidity
and impurity, and subjecting it to pat
ente,i process invented and owned by the
firm, by which it is made over and after
wards placed on the market as new, sweet
butter. 1t says: 1.-THE rancid stock is pur-
chased in New York city and in Western
markets, and costs the concern an average
of ten cents pound AT the renovating
works it is placed in large watts and sur
rounded by boiling water. When the but
ter is heated to the right degree all the i'm
purities rise to the surface of the melted
compound. They are skinned off, and the
remaining liquid butter is run from the
watts to a big circular churn. There milk
and cream is added, and the ingredients are
churned until the whole are thoroughly
mixed, and the new milk and cream have
been formed into butter. The fresh butter
is a small proportion of the whole but it
seems to be sufficient to leaven the lump,
so that when it is treated with butter color
ing and salt, it is turned out as an appar-
entity prime product of Orange county.
The dairy inspectors did not seem to regard
this manufacturing of new style butter as
Objectionable"
ATTEMPTING TOO MUCH.
The following from the american Agrt-
c,tlturist, is worthy of careful consideration
1t is an almost universal failing of both
the experienced and the inexperienced cul-
tivator, to attempt more than can be readily
accomplished with the means at command,
and as regularly as the seasons come
around more work is laid out in the spring
than can be completed during the summer.
A larger number of plants are raised or
purchased than can be properly set out and
cared for; more walks are laid out than
will be kept clean and free from weeds
during the summer; in fact, il is so easy and
agreeable to plan and to plant in the spring
that few persons can forego the pleasure,
even if the account is TO be more than over
balanced later in the season by chagrin at
seeing poorly laid schemes for future en-
ioyment all come to naught. The better
plan is to strive to secure neat little gar
den or few beds of flowers, which can be
readily managed, than to attempt so much
that the labor involved becomes burden
instead OF pleasure. A few plants in per-
fiction look better, and should yield the
owner more pleasure than many, with
none perfect or well grown. One common
error, in grounds of limited extent, is the
of larger plants than are
adapted to the situation and surroundings,
and the result is overgrowing and crowd
ing"
FENCE POSTS THAT WILL LAST.
| discovered many years ago, says Il
writer, that wood could be made to last
longer than iron in the ground, but thought
the process so simple that it was not well
to make a stir about it. | would as soon
have poplar, Eastwood or ash as any other
kind of timber for fence posts. have taken
out Eastwood posts, after having been set
out seven years, that were as sound when
aiken out as when put IN the ground.
Time and weather seemed to have no effect
IN them. The posts can be prepared for
ess than two cents apiece. This IS the
recipe: Take boiled linseed oil and stir in
coal to the consistency of paint.
Put coat of this over the timber, and
here is not man that will live to see II
rot
PIUTE FARMING.
The Lovelock correspondent of the Win
ENttICf CtutC ShlSi
IS happy over the crop prospect in his
torty-acre tract of wheat, barley and vege-
ables. Cattle have been intruding on his
ranch, and it requires the services of two
Or more Piutes day and night to keep them
1ff. Princess Sarah, through Eastern
friends, has secured means to purchase
for a mile of fence, which Naches
IS now engaged in building, and which,
when completed, will turn stock for the
lime being. The Princess is rustler, and
the farm in a very credltable
manner. Her school attracts attention,
and the many white lady visitors to that
institution of learning speak very highly
of the manner in which it is conducted.
GENERAL NOTES.
]. s. Tibbets, of Santa Rita, sends the tol-
lowing to the Rural Press: " If fruit grow
ers would practice whitewashing their
trees with lime, there would be less conf
plant of sun scalding. as well as injury
from bark parasites. 1t is well known that
white colors radiate heat, while dark ones
absorb it. l have never seen any injury
from sun scalding or otherwise on trees
that had received a good coating OF white
wash. On the contrary, trees thus treated
always present clean, healthy appear
ance, the bark of the trunks and large limbs
presenting a smooth, green, shining as
pect."
An important experiment has Just been
made in transporting fresh
fruit over the long route from South Aus
tralia to England. The fruit various kinds
of apples, pears and grapes-was packed in
sawdust aud placed in cold chamber kept
at a uniform temperature OF 4Oo. 1t ar
rived in London in excellent condition. II
these fruits can be successfully transported
from Australia to England, then certainly
there will be no question about furnishing
California fruits. not only at the remotest
parts of the Eastern States, but also IL need
be in Europe.
Good horses are one of the signs OF a
prosperous section, and there Is notice
able improvement in horses all over
Placer county. Several ranchers who
drive TO Auburn come to
town this year behind good teams,
while last year they drove rather poor
specimens of mustangs. The same thing
is true of the many teams that may De seen
every day in Newcastle. The stock is rap
idly improving, and that more attention Is
paid to breeding is good sign.-A~6ufR
Republican.
Talk about orange production w j..
Card. who lives few miles north OF town.
brought specimen to this office this morn
ing which caps the climax. On the LIST OF
April he planted an orange seed III small
tin can. Since then it has grown an inch
and half high, has six leaves, and at the
top has full-blown orange blossom, and
will soon have an orange. All this in two
months. Can Los Angeles, Riverside or
any country beat this? This is no orange
yarn, but positive fact.-Ororiite Mercury.
For the highest success small fruits need
very rich soil, full of 'humus' or veg
etable matter. with abundant moisture and
no weeds. The moisture comes from
rich soil that holds it somewhat easily, and
then is aided by frequent culture, mulch
ing and irrigation. Beginners should start
with a small plant. and particularly so
when short of capital.
Many persons think that corn is the best
food for poultry. 1t is if you do not wish
eggs. For eggs feed soft food. bran and
meal. with little salt in the morning and
little cayenne pepper added every other
morning corn, wheat or oats in the even
ing A sole diet of corn produces too much
fat.
Good tillage is the strongest weapon with
which the farmer can fight hard times and
gain success. Imperfect culture on the
other hand, will scarcely enable him to
gain living from the richest soil, and the
soil will deterior2te rapidly in quality
from such treatment beside.
The chinch bugs that made such bad
work in places last year, ana were expected
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