Nevada County picayune., 1889-09-18
FACTS FOR FARMERS

member of q famous farmers tub says feed onions to sheep to kill the cks.
 It is a good idea to cultivate the young orchard for three years; then It may be seeded down for three years, when it should be cultivated again.
 -Ashed with agood roof is necessary in every hog pasture. However well hogs may enjoy an abundance of water in warm weather, when the rain comes in torrents for days, they take to dry shed with evident pleasure.
 The advantage in sorting out the fruit before sending to market, not only includes quicker sale, but re- alizes better profit; and when there is any thing like full crop this will be found the most profitable plan with all kinds of fruit, whether marketed At home or sent a considerable distance away.
 Spraying fruit trees in blossom with arsenical poisons is strongly con demned by Prof. A. J. Cook It poisons bees and the honey they are making, and Prof Cook thinks 1t may even poison people who eat honey made from the blossoms sprayed. He suggests that legislatures should enact laws punishing the spraying of trees in bloom with fine and Imprisonment.
 Ground squirrels have become so great a nuisance in California that the farmers in some counties are organ izing against them. It is proposed to pay bounty raised by local taxation of so much per acre to every farmer who shall keep his land free from squirrels, and to appoint squirrel in- spectors, whose duty it shall be to de- stroy the pests when the owners of the land neglect to do so, and who shall be paid for their services by the commu- nity.
 One cent Is small matter! Yes, but when added to the receipt for each pound of butter or meat, each quart or berries or milk, through the year, 1t is little thing that tells. Added to a price it is so much gain, so much net profit. The first cost must come out of the price. whether it be large or small; the cost being covered, every cent extra is so much clear. Isn't 1t, then, wise to pick and. pack, and to raise only frst-class products, that the extra price may be securedP
 It requires but little experience to discover that the same kinds of crops can not be grown on the same ground for many years in succession without detriment. Plants of the same family should not be planted to succeed each i other Plants which occupy the ground for number of years, such as rhubarb and asparagus, should sue ceed annual plants. Crops grown for 1 heads, such as cabbage, caulitlower, etc, should be succeeded by crops grown for their bulbs or roots.
 Plant strawberries In the spring Fall plantings are liable to freeze out and they will not bear a crop the en suing spring and summer plantings require more care and skill than the ordinary farmer is likely to bestow Strawberry plants can be set in April without losing one in a hundred i proper care is taken in putting then out. They should not be allowed t' fruit the first spring, as they will no be sufficiently rooted, and it will reduce their vitality too much; besides th' fruit will be inferior and dirty. y.-Coun try Gentleman.
 Many farmers cling tenaciously t( the idea that "corn makes the hog. Corn is a very necessary article in the production of pork, but all the corn IL America can not make pork at prof out of the long-nosed. thin-shouldered thin jowlcd, habby, cadaverous looking little individual found in many of thu pig pens on many farms. The soone the farmer gets rid of these proftles scrubs and breed quick maturing swine they will learn that there is something else needed besides corn 70 make swine breeding a paying investment -Th' Swinehcrd.