Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-23

not affect the finest grain, nor smut blast
the corn, and the rain and sunshine will
bless the earth in due season.
The happy farmer and his better wife
are always liberal to the poor, moderate in
luxuries, avoiding extravagant follies,
good livers, but moderate eaters, especially
at the evening meal, taking no stimulant
to excite the nerves or deaden the sensibil-
tiles. Retire early and sleep soundly, ex-
cept when disturbed by the babies. The
good farmer visits the widow and orphan
in their Affections, and keeps himself I'M
spotted from the world" He tends to his
own business and never unnecessarily prizes
into his neighbours. That is the way to be
happy-IoWa State Register.
SOURCE OF POCKET MONEY.
Farmers in many parts of the West are
devoting more attention to poultry, and
the profits from this source, in many cases,
keep their homes supplied with numerous
useful articles. The poultry yard is GER
tainly worthy of attention from all farm
ers. Poultry-raising is profitable, if it is
sensibly and methodically pursued. 1t is
a branch of farming which requires but
little hard work and space, while it carries
with it much enjoyment. | know of moth
ing equally profitable which can take its
place. In running farm, either large or
small, to leave out poultry would seem, to
me, to omit one of the best features, and
also cut off a steady supply of ready money
for household purposes which would soon
be missed.-Rurat Home.
CORN AND COTTON.
When cotton was king no one ever
dreamed that it would become sharp and
successful rival of corn. But progress and
science have accomplished it. Years ago
it was discovered that the oil could be ex-
tracted from lard, leaving the stearine for
candles. The discovery of petroleum de-
stroyed the demand for stearine candles,
thus lessening the price of pork. But lard
oil continued to be worth from 20 to so
cents per gallon for lubricating and illu-
minating purposes. Then science and
greed discovered that eotton-seed oil, worth
not exceeding p cents per gallon, could be
injected into the stearine of lard and thus
made was sold as compound refined lard"
by Armour and like dealers. The firm
named at Chicago purchases 100000 barrels
of cotton-seed oil annually, and thus
millions of pounds of lard oil is displaced
and cotton-seed oil is substituted in its
place, so that this compound article can
be sold as cheaply per pound as the fat pig.
And thus the price of corn-fed hogs is
greatly reduced, and cotton is again in
stalled as King, with Armour as Prime
Minister. And hence there is not half the
demand for fat hogs there was formerly,
but lean ones command the best price
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DRAFT MARES.
1t is wonderful how America has adj
vanced in practical appreciation of the
draft horse interest. A few years ago
many thought the half bloods too large
and heavy to use on the farm to-day we
see high grades as large as full bloods on
many farms, and they are now as well ap-
preciated where they have been tried on
American farms as on the European farms
where the full blood heavy draft horse is
the agricultural horse. The grade draft
mares quite generally are kept for the
farm work and for breeding. More useful
or valuable animals cannot be found on
any farm than a few high grade draft
mares. Some are too often tempted by
the price to sell their best mares, but that
is like selling the goose that lays the
golden egg. Rather breed with view to
raising the best draft brood mares and
soon the increased numbers of colts with
size and quality will be mine
of wealth on the farm.
GRADING UP.
In grading up to draft stations farmers
should not lose sight of the fact that the
fourth and fifth crosses from recorded stall
lions are eligible to record, but all of the
sires used must be recorded in the same
stud book as the first one. Already there ]
are great many entries being recorded
by farmers who started with common
mares and many more could be, but the
mares have been bred first to stallion
recorded in the Norman or French Stud
Book, then the colt bred to a Percheron
and the next colt to Clyde and the next
to a Shire, which is no nearer being ell
igible to any stud book than the first
native mare.
JUDIcIoUs BREEDING.
Two strings to our bow seems to be an
important feature in our American stock
breeding. In sheep for wool and mutton,
in cattle for meat and milk, and none the
less so in good brood mares that can do the
farm work and produce good colts as well.
They cost no more to keep and they work
as well as geldings or mules, that are un-
productive and rapidly deteriorate in
value. The farmer who is judiciously
breeding to imported draft stations, and
keeps his mares to grade up higher is on
the high road to prosperity, with crop OF
geidings to sell every year at
good prices.
FARM NOTES.
Iowa is importing more draft and coach
horses than ever before, and Iowa farmers
are attracting the Eastern horsebuyers
and pocketing the Eastern gold for their
good grade horses.
The large importations Of coach horses
this season from France, England and
Germany, indicate strong desire to in
crease the size of our light harness horses
to the sphere Of usefulness and profit.
Don't put twenty hens in building that
is only large enough to hold ten. You
will get as many eggs from ten hens well
cared for, with ample room, as from double
that number crowded into close quarters.
American enterprise is proverbial
throughout Europe for improved stock.
Still, we have some welded to their ideal
of scrub stock and poverty that curse both
the community and the farmer. On the,
other hand, every improved stock COM
munity is prosperous. Especially Is this
true in horse-breeding communities.
1t requires only few red raspberry
plants to afford large supply of fruit, and
the plants quickly become very thick in
the rows. The wood of the old canes is
cut out in the winter, and the new canes
topped of in the spring. To have large,
well-favored raspberries use plenty of
manure around the canes, and once year
give them an application of wood ashes.
Would agriculture prosper with such a
team as Mr. Virgins four-in-hand If we