Nevada County picayune., 1889-10-30
FACTS FOR FARMERS


 "A few wood ashes sown oveP the onion bed will help the growth and make them healthy.
 It is better to allow corn to get toe ripe before cutting it for the silo than to put it up too green.
 Sand -burrs como from the seed. and may easily be destroyed in one season by cutting them down as fast as they appear.
 Keep something growing on the land and you will then keep down the weeds. It does not pay to take of a crop and then allow the land to grow up in weeds.
 Gypsum, when pure, is useful to many crops, as is well known, but especially to clover, corn, oats. grass, cabbage, turnips, etc. About one hun dred pounds per acre are usually ap- piled early in the spring.
 Orchard grass will thrive well on damp locations. It Is an excellent grass, but "stools," which gives it an uneven appearance in the fields. As it becomes more compact each season it forms an even pasture.
 It needs extra warm pens and good feeding to make late fall pigs pay for wintering. As rule pigs dropped in October or later should be sold for what they will bring. They will cost more to winter than they will be worth in the spring.
 -Thickened boiled corn meal and oat meal mixed with chopped suet and a little pulverized charcoal every few days will fatten turkeys in eighteen days. They should be kept in par tially darkened shed or stable while being fattened.
 There are a thousand farmers work each other to make low-priced butter where there is one who has become intelligent on this question, so that he can make better article and get bet ter pay for his time and labor.
 Good sheep, good land and good roots generally go together, at any rate it is not often they are very far apart, for wherever land can raise a good crop and is dry enough to carry sheep through the winter it must very soon get into good heart and be able to grow almost any thing.
 If scrub stock does not pay try o,,atbipe hottar Tho CnrcpSG nf stock-raising depends on the breed. A steer of beef-producing breed will weigh one thousand pounds, while a scrub steer of the same age will not reach one half that weight. The large difference shows where the loss occurs from the use of the scrub.
 Do not attempt to save the seeds of pumpkins, melons or squash unless the vines for that purpose are grown at distance from all other varieties of the same family. The pollen of such plants is carried quite a distance by tho winds, and also by insects. Two or more varieties will fertilize the blossoms of each.
 After removing the melon vines in the fall set out red raspberry plant on each hill. The manure left over from the supply given the melons will induce vigorous growth of cane next season, and the plants will be suf- ficiently close, as they will soon thicken in the row. Keep the canes clean until they are nearly ready to bear, and cut them out if too thick.
 The grape is warm-country fruit, and should be set out where it may be exposed to the rays of the sun all the day long. Grapes generally do quite well on the easterly or westerly side of a building, but a southerly exposure is better. The soil should be dry and warm, whether it be sand, gravel or clay. While, like all other plants, the vine takes its food in solution, it will flourish in dryer soil than any other plant, and it will never succeed where there is not good drainage.