Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-04-27

! btiii, SUN l4tiCC VI tOuf OQLtSS Ot SNUd
parts of nitrate ofsoda and superphosphats
! TO each bush. Scatter it broadcast on the
| land for distance of two or threet feet or
each side of the row. The earlier this is
/, done in the spring the better, and if not
| done till the bushes are in full leaf avoid
sprinkling the fertilizer on the leaves as il
sometimes burns them Recollect, how
ever, that these fertilizers are not substi-
tutes for hoeing or mulching. If the weeds
and grass are left to grow they will take
the lions share of the nitrates and phos-
pilates. But if you hoe or smother the
grass and weeds the effect of the fertilizers
will be very marked.-4meriedR 4gricalt-
uraliSt.
RAISING TOMATO PLANTS.
An exchange has the following on this
subject: A large grower of tomatoes has
found the following plan of raising tomato
plants all that could be desired: He rolls
strips of resin paper into cylinders, three
inches in diameter and six inches deep,
locking the ends by driving two tacks
through the paper, and clinching them on
a piece of iron pipe as an anvil or block.
These bottomless cups are arranged in the
frame and filled with soil, in which the
seed is planted. When the plants are
ready to set out they are large and well
rooted, and are transplanted with the cyl
lnder around them. This is slipped up so
as to project three inches above the ground
and make an obstacle over which cut
worms will not climb, and so the danger is
evaded, as well as all risk of checking the
growth by transplanting. He has set out
plants already in blossom, without any
check, by means of this device.
Is THIS TRUE?
No passing fancy of the time has gone
out so thoroughly as the rage that once
existed for fancy cattle. Jerseys, Alder
neys and other imported cattle are still
purchased, but they excite no special in
terest and bring very ordinary prices,
sometimes but little more than enough to
cover their original cost and the freight
The secret, in word, is that they are no
longer fashionable Like almost every
thing else, when very few had them
they were craze, but as they became
common, interest in them ceased. The
same sort of fne-bred cows that once
brought $500 and $500 in Philadelphia,
now sell at auction for 500 or S125-PhI-
adelphia Times.
LONGEVITY OF TREES.
Complaint is made that apple and peach
trees are shorter lived than formerly. 1t
is probably true. 1t would be strange if it
were not. High culture forces and de-
velops a tree prematurely, as compared
with natural growth, and stimulates pro-
duction. This is no doubt in some meas
ure at the expense of long life. But there
is no occasion for lamen.ing the fact.
Short life and much fruit is better than
long life with the same amount of fruit.
When trees begin to decline, cut them
down. Younger ones are more profitable.
A peach tree is seldom profitable after
twelve years old, and plum tree after fif-
teen or twenty.
FRUIT IN NAPA COUNTY.
Napa has fruit cannery, but it has
been standing idle for two or three seasons.
We are informed that it will be put in
order and operated the coming season
under new management. They claim
that they will be able to can a large
amount of fruit during the coming season,
thereby greatly improving the fruit grow
ers' condition in the Napa valley, by fur
nishing them a home market for their
green fruits.-Flun Grolger.
sUN-DRIED FRUIT.
Fruit cut and placed on trays in the
sun to dry should not be covered or shaded
while the sun shines, as the process of
evaporation should be continuous and IN
interrupted. You place your fruit in the
sun for the purpose of evaporatimg it, and
you should allow the sun to shine on it as
hot and as long as it will, until this is
accomplished. 1t usually requires three
to five days for apricots and four to six
days for skin peaches to dry in the sun.
DIssoLvING BONES.
Take large water-tight hogshead and
cover the bottom with about six inches deep
of dry SOIL On this put layer of bones
of the same depth, and cover them entirely
with wood ashes on these another layer
of bones, then ashes, and so on until the
hogshead is full. Leave it exposed to the
rains all summer and winter until spring
Then on removing the contents of the
hogshead the bones will crumble to powder
under slight pressure, and be one Of the
most valuable fertilizers, ready for use.
THE WEIGHT OF OATS.
Oats grown IN England and Scotland
weigh fifty pounds to the bushel, while the
same dwindle here to forty pounds, and if
sown again will still further dwindle to
thirty-eight pounds per bushel and the
next season they will be reduced to the
condition of our normal weight of oats,
which is from thirty-four to thirty-six
pounds per bushel. The reason of that
is that the low temperature Of Great
Britain is more conducive to the better
! development of oats than our tropical
summer.