Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-18
EpucArEp FARMERS.

Scientific farming has begun to take
fresh start all over the country. The agri-
cultural colleges of the extreme West
have done something for this the faeili-
ties for the transportation of garden fruits
and other crops from the Southern to the
Northern sections of the country have
opened new markets for the agriculturist :;
and the number of those who have under
taken to work the land under the direction
of scientific principles has been greatly in
creased. The result is that a new estimate
has been put upon farming, and the over
crowding of mechanical pursuits has COM
PEELED people to consider anew what can
be done by tilling the land. Then the
opening of arabic land at the South to the
Northern immigrant has turned further
attention TO this matter. With the free
land of the country best suited to agricult-
ural purposes now almost entirely occu-
pied, a reconsideration of the methods of
farming is in order, and the agricultural
colleges have done wisely in anticipating
the demand for educated and scientific
tillers of the soil. The educated faraaer is
to be one of the strong men in our future
civilization, and it is not stroke of rhe-
toric for Mr.. Reeve, in treating of agricuIt-
ure in the May Hupers, to describe it as
a calling as honorable and requiring as
distinct a training as any Of the so-called
liberal professions Boston Herald.
CALIFORNIA ORANGE CROP.
Early in December last, the California
Fruit Grouer made careful estimate of
the coming orange crop, and placed it at
100000 boxes. We have since been can
wasting the field as to what the crop
actually is, and we are pleased to be able
to state from most reliable authority, the
figures being based on shipments made,
and stock on hand, placing the crop for
the season of 'SS and 'S9, the harvesting Of
which is about over, at 100000 to 765, 900
boxes Of sixty-hve pounds of fruit each, or
$500 carloads of three hundred boxes
each.-Cdlifornia Fruit Grorer.
POULTRY scRATcHINGs.
BY far the greater part of poultry dis
eases are on the outside, and their names
are hen lice and mites or spiders. The best
remedies are buhach and kerosene, the
former to be used on the fowls and the lat
ter on the perches, in the nests and in the
whitewash. These two substances give US
absolute control of the insects that infest
poultry and poultry houses, and conse-
ouently control of the so-called diseases
resulting from insects-America Agicstlt-
urist FOR Nay.
FARM NOTES.
Trim up the shade trees and have them
in good shape and attractive.
Finely sifted coal ashes are excellent for
providing dust baths for poultry.
All the rakings, sod grass and refuse of
the farm can be used as foundation for a
compost heap.
If you have rough road across the
farm, where heavy loads are moved, make
it smooth before you use it again.
Cultivate the peach orchard in the same
manner as when cultivating corn. That
is, use the cultivator and stir the top soil
frequently.
Do not try TO cultivate onions deep; if
an inch of the surface is kept mellow, and
no weeds allowed to grow, it is all the
cultivation that will be needed.
The shorter the peach tree is cut back
when planted, the stronger and healthier
1t will he after it gets start. Keep the
soil around young peach trees clean and
loose.
Wood ashes are excellent on the flower
BEDS Roses need an application of them
now. Al kinds of flowers will be bene-