Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-04-03

ram and damp, cool weather has kept the
gram and grass back in most sections, and
they are still short The recent warm
weather has produced much change and
started rapid growth.
A cherry tree stood in the way of the
Southern Pacific Narrow Gauge Railway
extension that Is being pushed at Alma
den, and the owner asked about 500
for the tree. Experts were appointed,
and he then showed that it had
for years yielded him crops, each of which
sold Tor sums equivalent TO the interest on
the amount named. They finally agreed
to award him $500, and the tree had to
go.-[ Exchange.
Professor Alvord states that the best
time for cutting clover to be when it is
IN fuil bloom. few plants will scent
a whole barnful, and thus give the re-
quislte flavor 10 the hay withou; the
cattle ever coming in contact with it as
food. Since all these flavors are caused
by volatile oils, it may be that chemists can
furnish the requisite oils without feeding
anything specially 10 produce them
Yreka Journal.
A letter received ia Chico, from NJ. V.
Roe. says that at Nimshew the snow-storm
last week was very severe The snow fell
steadily for twenty-four hours, covering
the ground to depth of two feet on a
lever. The orchard was broken down ter
ribly. The plum trees are almost ruined,
being either broken down or having their
tops broken off. The snow had to be
knocked OFF the apple trees to save them
from RUN. The storm was the heaviest
ever seen there, and has caused a great
deal of damage.-[Chico Enterprise
a Potrero correspondent of the San Diego
Sun says . am up on a mountain fiat,
tour miles from Potrero, keeping a few bees,
and IN my little garden last spring there
came up tomato plant. Ii grew thrifty and
l let II stand. 1t grew so fine that staked
1t with three stakes and Slated across TO sup
port OF the weight. 1t ran up nearly five
feet IN all directions. l did not weigh or
measure the crop but 10 believe that the
one plant had 800 pounds of ripe fruit on it
and about 40 pounds OF green ones at frost
time. 1t was beauty. 1t looked more
like an orange tree than tomato plant.
The benefit which Owls derive from eat
ing charcoal is acknowledged. The method
OF putting it before them, however, is not
well understood. Pounded charcoal is not
in the shape in which fowls usually find
their food, and consequently is not very
entcing TO them. Corn burnt on the cob
and the refuse, which consists almost en-
tirely of the grains reduced to charcoal.
If placed before them, they eat greed
ity and with marked improvement in
their health, as shown by the bright color
of their combs and their sooner production
of greater average of eggs to the flock
than before.
More than half of the diseases so preva-
lent among farm horses are due to i'm
proper attention to the common laws of
sanitation, and farmers would save many
times the expense of a properly constructed
stable were they to try the experiment
The animals that are so closely connected
with the successful working of the farm
assuredly deserve better care and atten-
ton than is usually given then. The hui
name man will therefore see that they
have light, roomy, well-ventilated stables,
where disease will be far less likely to
enter.