Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-07-20
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| trees clean the first year, and give an ap-
| plication of wood ashes occasionally.
Cow peas may be grown between the
| hills of corn, as the same cultivation fol
the one crop is suitable for the other.
Wet grass is injurious to young chicks,
even in the summer. Do not turn the her
and her brood out until the sun is well up
Keep the soil around cabbage plants fire.
quently stirred and they will grow faster
Weeds and grass must not be allowed
among cabbages.
| Geese may be plucked ever six weeks
but not during damp or cool weather
Ducks may also be plucked of their feathers
at the same time.
Hens will become lousy now if not pro-
| vided with dust baths and the hen-houses
kept clean. Lice propagate very rapidly
In warm weather.
Water the young celery plants with a
| solution of pound of saltpeter in twenty
gallons of water. Thin them out if too
thick, and use only the strong and stocky
plants.
Sell the young geese in preference to the
old ones. Old geese make the best breed
ers, are more careful with their young, and
give large supply of feathers when
plucked.
But few plants win thrive on wet soil.
A good drain is sometimes better than
manure. The warmest days of summer
| cannot impart sufficient heat to plants on
wet soil
The blackberry is persistent weed and
a nuisance if allowed to secure a stand on
piece Of ground where it is not wanted.
Every piece Of root that is cut of makes a
new plant.
Experience has shown that mules bred
from thoroughbred mares can endure more
labor and fatigue than those bred from the
common mares, even when the latter have
the advantage of size.
A zigzag rail fence is supposed to be one
of the cheapest that can be built, but unless
the corners are kept free of weeds it is the
most expensive that can be used, as it in
creases the labor of weed-killing.
10 test the water pour coal oil IN the
cesspooi. If there is a contamination of
the drinking water of the well by the cess
pool the odor of the oil will in a short time
become perceptible when the water is used
Dogs that become addicted to sheep
killing do so from pure yicIousness. In a
majority Of cases the dogs do not eat any
portion Of the carcass but will kill dozen
or more sheep for the delight of so doing.
If beets are slow in growing, scatter a
small quantity of some kind of commercial
fertilizer along the rows and work it in
with the hoe or cultivator. If the plants
are small, the rake will answer with which
to do the work.
Keep good, pure water within the reach
Of your young horses while they are in the
pasture fields if you would have them
thrive well. All the food possible viii not
keep them in good condition if they
haven't good water to drink
A dead limb on a tree should never be
allowed TO remain. The sooner all limbs
and branches that show signs Of decay are
cut off the better. The tree will thrive
better and the new wood on the other por-
tons OF the tree make more growth.
In buying a farm point of paramount
Importance with almost anything else is
ats ability to furnish good water. To ig-
more this is to overlook consideration
which cannot be neglected without future
| cost. Good water means health for the
| family, health and thrift for the stock,
comfort and safety for every thing on the
farm
The value of SKINNED milk for feed is
much better understood than it used to be-
| Once II was fed almost exclusively to pigs,
and that with little other food. 1t made
the pigs grow, but not better than ground
corn and oats mixed with wheat bran. A
more profitable use of milk is to feed it to
hens for egg production. If kept sweet, as
1t Will be in the creamery process. the
milk may be more proftably fed to cows,
wi soon learn to like it. 1t is also good
fer growing calves and heifers up to the
time they come in milk themselves.
Hens in focbs from 10 to 20 will lay,
| says the Tennessee Farmer, under favorable
circumstances, to their utmost capacity.
Hens in tiocks from 20 to so will lay only
| fairly well. In focks of 50 to so they will
1 not pay for their feed. More than so hens
In one flock are nuisance that we would
not fool with. This does not mean that
| one person cannot keep so hens proftablv.
| 1t does mean, however, that one person
can arrange his fowls into focks of Is to
70, giving them a separate run, say q yard
/ 5Ox2OO feet, with grass in it, and multiply
such separate runs as much as is desired.
and make all pay.
The dairy interests of the United States
foot up to $4,000, 100000, while the entire
banking capital of the country is only
about 1871 100000. The number of mich
cows is 2l,000,000, giving an average of
4 $50 gallons each, annually, or 7,35O.000-
/ Geo gallons in a year. The value of the
dairy products last year was about $780,
100000, being S20,000,000 more than the
value of the whole wheat crop of the
country. If by careful breeding and feed
I ing the product of these cows should be
/ doubled, without materially increasing the
| cost OF production, the increase in profits
/ would be simply enormous, with present
/ prices maintained. Yet such an increase
! Is more than possible.-Rllral Home
Canada thistles may be destroyed by to-
tally excluding light and air from the
! plants-in other words, keep them plowed
/ under for an entire season 50 that not a
vestige can appear above ground. The
course which we have many times success
fully adopted Is to turn the whole crop
well under. This operation is first per-
| formed about the time they are beginning
to blossom, then repeating the thorough
piowing in three or four weeks, or before a
single leaf or stem can reach the light
and two or three times afterwards by the
first of October. If the work has been
thoroughly done, and no plant has been
allowed TO breathe at the surface, the
| patch is efectually killed. Country Gen
tLenan.
No idea can be more mistaken THAI is
the one held by some old-fashioned farm
ers that the race-horse is necessarily
worthless except for his own specially.
Great speed means immense muscular
power, and also the nervous energy to give
it greater effectiveness. There may be
TOO much nervousness in the best trotting
stock to take kindly to the steady mil al