Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-03-20

we gathered our frult, ne sad, packed IL
well, and sent carload to Chicago. To be
sure thatit was properly looked after while
or its way there, my brother went along
with the car, and as we had some doubts
about the correctness of returns sent to us
on previous occasions, We thought we would
entrap the commission dealer should he be
disposed to act the part of the rascal.
So my brother had instructions to OBJ
serve carefully the arrival of the fruit,
see it sold, note the prices and buy few
boxes himself The oranges arrived i'll
splendid condition, and being extra fine
ones, sold for 81 and S. per box. My
brother purchased half a dozen boxes at 50
per box. and when the returns were sent US,
what was our establishment to find that our
oranges had arrived in very bad order, and
that they had sold for 81 per box. limmedi-
ately started for Chicago, and finding my
man, surprised him by demanding check
for 81 900. which was the amount due on
the oranges. He, of course, manifested sur
PRISE and said there must be some mis-
take; but when | showed him the receipt
| had for the oranges that my brother had
bought, he had nothing more to say but
paid me the check at once"
PROFITS OF ALFALFA.
p Mccarthy, who resides about ten miles
SCtIiSoSb vi l1duiOlu, ilici no tIC fHNco
that he cut from thirty five acres of alfalfa
$4,000 pounds of seed, or an average OF 6S5
pounds TO the acre. This is an unusually
large yield, and it proved to be an ex-
tremely profitable one. Part of the seed
was sold for 81 cents, and part for IL cents
per pound. The net profit on the seed was
81 GOO, or nearly SAG per acre. In 1888 Mr..
Mccarthy cut 5000 pounds of alfalfa seed
from six-acre field.-[Tulare Times.
FROST AND FRUIT.
The injury done to early fruits by the re-
cent frosts has not been Sc great as was ex-
pected. A portion of the almonds and early
peaches have been destroyed, but enough
remains to insure a fair yield. The yield.
while not so large as we should have had
without the frost, will be of a better quail
ity. The outlook for an abundant Weld of
grapes, apples, pears and plums is very
fiattering.-[ Lower Lake Bulletin
GENERAL NOTES.
The first half of a hens litter of eggs
will weigh more than the last half
Keep your hens in dry shelter during
the wet season, or you will have trouble
from roup.
Dark colored eggs from Brahmas or Ply
mouth Rocks always sell for five to eight
cents dozen more in the Boston markets
than light colored eggs.
1t is cheaper to buy pure wheat for feed
for poultry than screenings at one-fourth
the price. You know what you are getting
in the sack of wheat. but what food value
there may be in the screenings is not
known.
The Guernseys are fast coming into
favor as rivals of the Jerseys, being larger
in Srz md har ~ AZ.
give deeper colored milk than the JERSEYS
and, though not so numerous as the latter
can compare with them, proportionately
in numbers, in butter produced.
An Eastern writer says that the old.
fashioned pear trees, that came from seed
lings, were not only hardy, but grew to
very large size and lived for many wears
| They were not subject TO blight or other
| diseases. The blight was unknown until
the system of grating became extensively
practiced.
Sheep fatten most rapidly at two and
three years old, says contemporary. BY
feeding one-year-old sheep will increase in
weight more rapidly than when older
While they will fatten also at this age the
flesh is not esteemed as when older. as it is
| more watery. Lambs taken very Young
and fed high are fattened and made pal.
atable. But when fattened for profit, as
well as other animals, they should be ma.
tured in growth first.
The roots gather from the soil all those
substances which form the ash of the
plant, and also nitrogen, usually in the
form of nitrate. These substances are
taken up in solution. The plant food
must be dissolved before it can be used
Hence, in applying fertilizers, we must
| take into consideration the readiness with
which they will dissolve as well as Their
| composition. And it is the ready solubil-
ity of commercial fertilizers which gives
them practical value as well as the mat
ter of which they are composed