Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-21
FARM AND ORCHARD.
SEEDING FRUIT TREES SHOULD BE
ALLOWED TO MATURE.
The Jersey Cow as a Cheese-Maker-
Grating Wax-starving Orange
Trees-Farm Notes.


been secured from seedlings, and other still
better varieties will, no doubt, be gotten
from the same source. 1t is the usual Gus
tom of orchardists to pull up and destroy
every seeding that makes its appearance.
This is a short-sighted policy, for what
is characterized as a worthless incumbrance
to the ground may prove of the greatest
value. Around fruit farms many seeds
have an opportunity to terminate, but,
when left to nature, only those Of the
hardest constitutions force their way to
the surface. They will oftentimes, if given
the opportunity, prove to be good, healthy,
characteristic varieties. Instead of de-
stroying the seedlings, carefully transplant
them to some out-ot-the-way place, and
allow sufficient time to produce several
crops before passing harsh judgment.
Seedlings, when coming into bearing, some
times do not produce for several years
fruit of seeming value, but with the ma
turity of the tree the fruit is found to be
of great superiority All of the luscious
fruits we have are the results of the labor
and watchfulness Of Others and it would
not be amiss to each year plant few fruit
seeds, with the hope that from them may
spring something better than we already
have. In this way you will foster the true
horticultural spirit, and there will be con-
tributed something to the advancement of
the business which you have adopted
California Fruit GroDer.
THE JERSEY COW.
The Jersey is considered pre-eminently
as butter COW, with her most profitable
use in that direction, on account of the
large proportion of cream contained in her
milk. Consumers of cheese need not be
told that It's excellence depends almost
wholly on the quality of the milk from
which it is prepared, as is further well in
dictated by the commercial terms of cream
cheese, skim cheese, etc, according as the
milk from which it was made may have
been whole milk, or skinned and robbed
of its cream. If the milk be POOR in but
ter the cheese must be equally so, and will
grade according to its richness proficiency
in cream. Many persons are of the opin-
ion that cream which has once been sepa-
rated can never be so well mixed again
with the milk, that portion of the fatty
matter will not flow out with the whey,
thus rendering the cheese less rich. This
has given rise to some discussion as to
whether rich Jersey milk can be proftably
made into cheese without skimming. Ac-
cording to the late Professor Arnold, while
the Jersey is emphatically a butter COW
her milk is rich in cheese matter, and can,
without the waste of its buttery matter,
be converted into cheese as rich as English
Stilton. Commenting on the above, HodrFs
.Ddirvn,Gn says: professor Arnold was
speaking of new, warm milk, almost i'm
mediately from the COW, when the solids
are in the most perfect emulsion and hence
more of the globules of fat will be held by
the rennet. With mixed milk brought to
a factory once a day the case would be diff
ferent." Practical home cheese-makers
universally agree that the sooner the milk
is set for cheese-making after it has been
drawn from the COW the more of butter fat
the cheese will contain.
cHURNING SWEET CREAM.
Hoards Dairgunan tells that Professor
James Long, one of the dairy lights of
England, has been experimenting in
common Modification and sweet cream
mixed with Tactic acid. From equal
amounts of well-mixed cream, the sweet
cream gave SO ounces of butter, that
ripened 4S@ ounces, and that with Tactic
acid yielded A ounces.
He then tried it using acetic acid, l
ounce to Is pounds of cream, and from it
got 40 ounces of butter, from sweet cream
40 ounces, from cream ripened twenty -four
hours SO ounces, and from well-ripened
cream As ounces.
1t will be seen there is only slight
difference in results between churning
well-ripened cream that takes time and
care and that of churning at once that
treated with acetic acid. He says the
buffers were in each case good.
1t was also found, as is always the case,
that sweet cream poured into that which
is sour does not all churn.
We have always supposed that 1t helped
some to age and even slightly sour cream,
but the Professor reports that which was
ripened but slightly did not yield as much
as the sweet cream.
STARVING ORANGE TREES.
At last people in California are awaken
ing 10 the fact that orange trees exhaust
the soil, and to secure continuous,
healthy growth, fertilizers must be applied.
The orange is one of the heaviest producers
and. consequently, one OF the grossest feed
ers among fruit trees. Years ago, many
of the Florida orange growers found it
necessary TO fertilize freely to secure re-
munerative crops. The Florida soil has
as much. if not more, of the leading con-
stituents required by the orange, than has
California soil which is devoted to its cult
ure. Because the land is black and rich
looking, it is no guarantee that there is an
abundance of the elements required by
the orange. If some orehardists, that
might be named, whose trees look sickly,
are full of weak twigs, black scale, and
small. sour fruit, would experiment freely
with fertilizers, the result would be most
gratifying. California Fruit Gro0er.
COOP GRATING WAX
number of our readers will have
little grating to do this winter and spring
and the following recipe may be of value
to them. 1t makes a pliable wax, which
is neither too soft nor too stiff; -Four
pounds of resin, one pound OF beeswax,
one mint of boiled linseed oil; melt to-
sether and when sufficiently cool, pull the
Compound as you would taffy and form it
into shapes as you may desire for keeping.
n is of the greatest Importance to have
perfectly pure linseed oil.
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
Put the manure on your future onion bed
now. Then add more manure early in the
spring.
Farmers should favor the selling of all
produce by weight, instead Of by the
bushel.
You will place your squashes in cool,
drv place. 4 squash should be placed so
that the air can get all around it. Squashes
should not touch each other.
H., = ono reason. among others. why