Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-12


Grafton. Volumes have been written IS
to what should be done with old sheer,
vet we cannot recall writer who has
recommended that he may be let alone.
Old horses who have not been condemned
to the equine gaIleys-the street cars
are respected for the good they have done.
How many little lives are filled with sun
shine by the old Dobblns that loaf around
the long summer day. Even the old
COW has a place in the family history of
the farm. But, alas, the old sheep-al-
ways talked about in the farm papers,
never thought about on the farm-disap-
pears like the mooted pin, and no one
wots the manner of his taking off.
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
Dig up the dahlia roots before frost and
store them in the cellar in boxes, the roots
covered with dry sand.
Celery is not ouly very healthful forman
| out for beast also. So don't waste the
| leaves and root trimmings.
In addition to growing rapidly, trees set
in the poultry yard are not only healthy
but add to the comfort of poultry in afford
ing good shade.
1t costs no more to feed and raise the
best than it does the poorestwhile the diff
ference in the quality will make consid-
cradle difference in the profit.
Kerosene, applied as spray on the walls,
roosts and floors Of poultry-houses, will
kill the lice instantly, while the work can
also be done in few minutes.
Keep the onions in barn loft, or some
other dry place When the crop is dug
/ let them dry WELL Store them free from
dirt and loosely, as they should not be
piled, but scattered, to admit the air.
One of the finest apple orchards ever
seen was mulched every three or four years
six inches deep with salt-meadow hay.
The hens were turned in periodically to
give it thorough scratching OVERHEARD
New Yorker.
An experienced market gardener once
remarked that he found it paid him better
to buy the best cauliaower seed, even
though he had to pay five cents seed for
it, than to purchase ordinary seed at five
cents package.
/ In growing vegetables of any sort for
shipping market, it is always good rule
to plant largely of those with which the
market was oyer-stocked the last season,
and less largely of those which then ruled
! highest in price.
Young pear trees that have blighted will
sometimes send out shoots low down near
the roots Such shoots may grow and give
the encouragement of new start, but it is
better to dig the trees up and put some
thing else in their place.
| A correspondent of the Lire Stock Indi-
Gator says: 81 can invest $1,000 in sheep
and burn every pound of wool produced
for FIVE years and make more clear money
than can be made on cattle, horses or hogs
in the same length of time.
The RurdI New Yorker has been asking a
number of experts about the uniformity
o. cream, and has ELECTED replies to the
effect that there is as much difference in
samples of cream as in the COWS and the
milk from which the samples come.
Although poultry breeding is ranked
among the small beginnings in commercial
circles, still, like other pursuits, it requires
common sense and good management, and
to be kept within the limits of the ability
and faculties of him who embarks in it,
Ohio Poultry Journal.
The effect of damp ground and stagnant
water on fowls, especially on young tur-
keys, is well known. Fatal diseases fol-
low as inevitably in those cases as with
human exposure to miasmatic exhala-
tions. A dry, gravelly spot is absolutely
necessary to healthful conditions.
The editor of american Bee Journal
says: A good queen lays the eggs in reg
ular order, and one in a cell. The pres
ence of four or five eggs in a cell suggests
that either the queen is a poor one Tor
drone-layer, as she is sometimes called),
or that the hive contains laying workers.
1t is usually contended when swarm
once deserts hive it is useless to put them
back in the same hive in the same place.
But the experience of c. II. Dibbem has
been different; in several instances this
year he has returned swarms to the same
hives, and they have generally remained.
In towns and cities people might have
grapes with but little trouble if they
would just plant vineor two. No matter
if the surroundings are paved with brick,
the vine may be carried to the second or
third story and trained in front of bal
cony, where grapes enough for family
might be grown.
This is the season when the chance nest
egg will find its way iGto the egg-basket,
despite all precautions, and the only way
to avoid such a nuisance is to make it rule
not to use stale eggs as nest-eggs. No one
who resorts to, or allows, such filthy
method, will ever build up reputation for
selling fresh eggs.
So far as possible the farm ought to sup
ply all the feed necessary to keep the
stock and to fatten for market, and the
number Of stock that can be kept will de-
pend largely upon the way the food is
supplied, and the value of the manure will
also largely depend upon the same condi-
tions.-Fdrm, Field and Stoekman.
A fruit-grower reports that, having an
orchard of young trees badly infested with
bark lice, he made solution of sal soda
half pound to gallon of water-and APP
piled it with whitewash brush. In
weeks time they were all dead and washed
off. The trees grew two feet a year after
ward, and remained very healthy.
In Tioga county, New York, Hun
garian grass is largely grown as a
summer food for cows and a sup
Elementary hay crop. 1t is consider
cred more succuient than millet, and cows
eat it better. 1t is thought better for pro-
ducing milk than timothy hay, as COWS
will increase in milk on going from timothy
to Hungarian hay.
Never whip a horse when he is fright
ened or nervous, or try to force itup to the
| object that has caused the alarm draw in
on the reins, suddenly speak out with as
surance that you are not afraid, then turn
the animal little way from the unpleas-
ant sight and bid it 60. A blow of a whip
upon frightened horse gives it double
cause for violent action,
Many of the dairy authorities" says
the Rural Men Yorker, "advise the growing
of parsnips as food for butter cows.
Many claim that this root is better thar