Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-12-07

can be drawn up if necessary.-CalTorria
Fruit Grower.
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
Remember that an animal may be fat
and yet be starved. Fattening food will
not give the bones and muscles what they
absolutely require.
Have clean floor on which to feed the
swine. A hog does not like to eat in filth,
and it does not improve the pork to COM
pei him to do it, either.
Whenever you find mans name on a
package of fruit that is invariably hon
estly packed, that name will be worth
good deal Of money to its owner.
The fruit that has to be kept through
the winter should be put away carefully,
and then carefully watched all through
the winter that that which decays may be
removed.
If you happen to have furnace in the
house, you will not be able to keep apples
in the same room with the furnace. APP
pies must not be kept in too high tenn
perature.
Stephen Powers calls attention in the
Ohio Farmer to the value of wheat bran as a
remedy for scours in lambs, and 1t is fact
that it is one of the very best remedies.
Feed it dry.
1t does not necessarily require large
farm to carry profitable flock of sheep.
Suit the flock to the farm. There is no
profit in trying to carry more than the
farm is able to.
1t will add to the appearance of the yard
| and garden if all the dead plants are pulled
up and burned, or other disposal made of
them, with view of getting them out of
the way and out of sight.
If you have nice thoroughbred calf and
| turn it out to hump itself in the corner OF
! the fence, in the storms and cold, next
spring you will say: "This talk about a
| thoroughbred being better than a scrub IS
all bosh"
Now is a good time to straighten that
ditch that winds through the fields making
80 many short burrows and "bouts" In Guilt
waiting corn. A few hours or day with
pillow and team may save many days work
next year. Try it.
The question has been raised as to
whether it was better to have COWS come
in" every year, or to have them bred once
in two years, the Rural New Yorker made
inquiries of number of dairymen, and
their testimony is in favor OF the former
plan.
On damp days the fowls will sometimes
look sickly and drawn up, showing no dis
position to activity. At such time they
should receive a warm feeding three times
a day, into which a little melted tallow
has been poured. Corn makes good feed
ing on cold, damp days.
1t may not be an easy matter to roast
corn for large focks but for small num-
Der feed of parched corn or wheat once a
week, or oftener if convenient, will be an
excellent change from the ordinary rou-
tine. 1t takes the place of charcoal to a
limited degree, and is very stimulating.
Kill weeds on lawns, says writer, by
dropping crude carbolic acid right into
the hearts of the plants. That kills them
dead to the tips of the roots. That is
good, but by the time you have gone over
a very weedy lawn, you will look about
for some other method or the Rural is
mistaken.
At this season of the year the farmer
should permit his hens to wander over the
stubble field not yet plowed. Such exer-
else does them much good; too much PEN
ming up retards their growth, and they be-
come lazy for want of exercise. Like pigs,
they need turning into field or orchard
i for romp.
An English dairy writer says Dairy
work has made such gigantic strides for
1 al. al and
have been so many wonderful discoveries
and inventions in this department,
that we may not now be surprised at
anything, but may yet eclipse Edison and
his electric marvels before many years.
Farmers muttons may and should be
the best in the world, says the Orange
| COUNTY Farmer. As soon as the sleeps
head is cut off hang up the carcass at once,
slit small hole high up between the hind
legs, insert funnel, and pour in cold water
all the body will hold. This will pre-
vent the "sheepy taste"
Sheep often are troubled with tape
worm. Watch the excrement, and you
will find segments of the worm, when it
exists. The remedy is to have the animal
fast for twelve hours, and then give tur-
pentine, arnica root and linseed oil-half-
ounce of the first, dram of the second
and four ounces of the third in six ounces
of water.
Stagnant water, says the Live Stock Ind
Gator, is injurious to all kinds of fruit trees
or plants, and during the winter especially
| it is often the case that serious injury is
done them by allowing water to stand
around them and freeze. In many cases a
little work at the right time would easily
avoid this. In setting trees in the fall see
that good drainage is given.
A strange and fatal epidemic among
hogs prevails in the central part of Mar
shall county, Iowa, and is carrying off
large numbers of the animals. The symp-
toms resemble those of typhoid fever in
the human being, and the animals some
times linger for many days, finally perish
lug of starvation as much as anything else,
for they will eat nothing. No remedy can
be found.
Never fasten the nests to the walls. No
poultry house can be kept clear of lice as
long as the nests remain in position that
prevents their being thoroughly cleaned,
and to do this properly they should be
taken outside of the house. The nests are
the harboring places of lice, and need over
hauling oftener than anything else In the
poultry house. Ordinary soap and candle
boxes make the best nest boxes.-Mirror.
In storing fruit or vegetables in the
cellar, says an exchange, the better plan is
to have boxes or bins, and arrange them SO
that they will be raised two or three
inches above the bottom and the same dis
lance from the wall. This gives cold
air space all around them, and will add
materially in keeping at more even
temperature, while at the same time the
risk of injury by frost is considerably les
sened.
A new departure in dairy instruction
has been taken by the Victorian (Austra-
lia) Department of Agriculture, says
! HoorFs Dairvnan. A staff of teachers,