Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-28

tritive elements than an equal quart of
cream, as cream is almost entirely heat
producing and fat forming, while the ele-
ments of growth. nitrogen, phosphorlc
acid and mineral matter, is contained IN
the skim milk. The production of one
quart of skim milk takes from the soil
! larger amount of fertility than many times
the same quantity of cream. The real
| richest milk is that containing the nitro
gen and mineral matter, but consumers
gauge the quality by the proportion of
cream, which is the least expensive arti-
/ Gle IN the milk There is probably no
known method of protection other than to
endeayor to patronize those who keep
choice stock, for it is to the kind of COWS
that one must look for the quality of the
milk.
RAISE YOUR OWN COWS.
Half dozen good COWS are worth a
dozen poor ones. 1t takes as much food
and care to keep poor COW as it does
good one, and while the former barely re-
| turns enough to "pay her way" the latter
returns a comfortable profit to her owner.
Those farmers who are looking around for
really good COWS know how difficult it is to
| buy one when found, at price they can
afford to pay. Yet they Frequently keep
/ looking around" for several years, when
! they might in the same time have raised
several choice COWS themselves. OF course
! it takes some time to raise good-sized
| herd of profitable COWS, but this expenditure
of time is only in lieu OF the money ex
| pendituro absolutely necessary to purchase
! a desirable animal. As farmer usually
can spare the time better than he can spare
| the cash. it is easy to see what course to
pursue There are few farmers who do not
! have at least one, two or three cows fairly
good, which can be used as start in i'm
proyement. Do not use a scrub bull merely
because your neighbor happens to have
| him and charges nothing, but rather pay
fair price for a good, pure-bred one. Save
all the heifer calves and carefully raise
them. When they are about three years
! old and less than four years from the time
/ the improvement is started, you will have
/ fine cows Other calves will also be COM
/ ing on, from them as well as from the
! original cows, and in five or six years there
will be quite herd; the common, unprof-
! liable COWS having been worked of to the
| butcher. Many farmer wishes he had
/ commenced five or six years ago. He
does not think that he will likely say the
/ the same thing five or six years hence, yet
does not commence now. Good, pure-bred
bulls have new come to be so well distrib
/ uted that the use of one can usually be Sc
cured without much difficulty, while a
! good bull calf can be had from such stock,
| eligible to entry, for a compar atively low
price. Enough can, as a rule, be counted
/ on from neighboring farmers herds to pay
for his keep.
FARM NOTES.
The Poultry Keeper says that all claims
OF any difference between chickens Matched
in incubators or under hens are sheer nom
sense.
One gallon of red paint and five gallons
of crude petroleum, well mixed, is claimed
to be the cheapest paint that can be made.
1t is also very durable.
Good seed should be always secured in
advance. There is then time for careful
test and its quality can be ascertained be-
fore the whole crop is planted.
The old idea that young cattle and colts
must winter at straw stacks in open fields,
to make them tough, happily has gone,
much to the comfort Of the young animals.
The more the peach trees are cut back
when young the more stocky will be the
| trunks and branches. The very tall trees
are also more roughly shaken by the
winds.
House plants should have as much sun
| and light during the winter months as pos
sible; admit air whenever the tenn
perature is not too cold, say 400 Fahrenheit
in the open air.
A turkey can be made very fat in ten
days by liberal feeding. Turkeys will not
fatten if confined to crops, but they may
be kept in a small yard provided they are
given a variety of food.
Do not throw the cornstalks away, but
pass them through cutter and use them
in the manure heap as absorbents. so as to
allow them to quickly decompose. If they
are tender, cut them and feed them to
stock.
The housewife who makes a practice of
giving fowls mixed mess of warm mash
and vegetables, with scraps of meat and
crumbs of bread, will quickly discover that
| it is superior to an exclusive diet of grain
for poultry.
The leaves of house plants should be
kept clean, and frequently sprinkled with
water or washed VII plant syringe
this not only keeps off the insects, but
clears the leaves of dust and opens up the
breathing pores.
The injury to seed corn in winter is not
due so much by exposure to extreme cold
as to the corn not being perfectly dry. Seed
corn should be kept in a dry place, where
dampness cannot reach it, and the cold
will then have but little effect on 1t.
There are at the present time in Ger
many upward Of 600 cooperative cream
cries. OF this number 302 are situated IN
the province of Schleswig- Holstein, where
they are chiefly engaged in preparing
butter for export to the English market.
One advantage with currants is that il
they are kept properly pruned, the old
wood cut out, the weeds kept down and
the soil rich by the application of fertil-
izers. the plants will grow and bear fruit
for twenty-five years without replenishing'
As general rule, for the Matching Of
chickens q days are required; for par
tridges, "A days; for pheasants, % days
for guinea hens, % days; for common
ducks, 2S days; for pea fowls, % days; for
turkeys, Is DAYS; for barbary ducks, 30
days, and for geese, 80 days.
Pigeons are fond Of all the seeds given
to cage BIRDS such as millet, canary and
hemp seed, but they are too dear for gen
eral use, though they may be probably
given as an occasional treat. Hemp seed
is very stimulating, and should be seldom
given to pigeons in close confinement.
As soon as the leaves have fallen it will
pay to go over the orchard and look out for
the tent caterpillar. By picking off the
clusters of eggs that usually can De seen
after this time and burning, this pest may
in a great measure be gotten rid OF. So
far as nossible this work should be done.