Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-10-26

can be mixed with oats or turned down. the
throat from bottle. Copperas and gem
tian is an excellent tonic. Breeders Will
do well to keep small quantity on hand.
Get the druggist to put up four ounces
each, compromising it in his mortar so as
to mix it thoroughly. Put the powder in
small box or wide-mouthed glass jar,
label it, and when needed give to grown
horses tablespoonful in their feed at
night. A yearling will require about one
third as much as a grown animal, and
weanlings much smaller quantity.
A DOMINATION swINDLE.
The fruit-tree swindlers are again IN
testing the country, says the Astorldn. The
scheme now in hand is to furnish the
farmer with so many dollars worth OF
trees-say S500-free of charge. The
farmer is to plant and take proper care OF
these trees, and to deliver to the agent one
half their profits for ten or twelve years.
But if the farm is sold during this time
the trees are to be paid for at the price
agreed upon; and as evidence OF good
faith the farmer gives his bond to such
effect for the amount. So far there is no
fraud. but in a short time a man comes
along, admires the farm and tries to buy
it. The price is finally agreed upon and
the farmer is to furnish free title to the
land. Of course the bond has been re-
corded, and, to secure the sale, is promptly
paid. And after the fruit-tree agent is
dispensed with the farmer turns to his sup
posed purchaser-but alas! the bird has
flown, and he goes home sadder if not a
wiser man.
Now is the time to prepare for active
operations if broilers are the object IN
view. Chicks Matched October LIST will be
in prime order for market by January,
and will continue to sell well until May,
when the earlier Matched chicks from the
ranches are being picked up and the prices
begin to drop. With properly equipped
establishment eggs may be Matched and
reared during the next six months sue
cessfully and at good profit. We know
this to be a fact, for we have tried it, and
if our duties would permit would try it
again. We are now getting our incubator
in order so as to be prepared for any
scarcity of broody hens during the winter.
California Cdckler.
FARM NOTES.
The man who has all the money he
needs is the only one who can afford to
raise scrubs.
See that the hen is not setting IN drafts,
or she may be taken sick before the hatch
is half done.
A fruit-raiser in Newark, N. j., sells his
ounces at S. per 100. He prunes carefully
and applies manure two inches deep in the
fall, and spades the ground the next spring
The guinea is hardy, healthy, good
layer, though not popular for the table. A
flock of gu1ncoo beautiful in appear
ance and add life and music to the farm
stead.
Clover hay, cut up about an eighth of
an inch. mixed with bran and scalded,
makes capital breakfast for the fowls,
and one that will tell wonderfully on the
egg basket.
The Swiss Government distributes $780,
900 every year in prizes for bulls. The prize
bulls are not allowed to be taken out of the
country. The chief sources of farm profit
in that country are from butter and cheese.
A small crack in the wall of the stable
will do greater injury than to leave win
dow out. More harm results from con-
slant current of air coming on portion of
the body of an animal than when the an
imal is exposed entirely.
1t should not be forgotten that sunfower
seeds are of the best material for feeding
to poultry. Let those who have sunfowers
and all farmers ought to have-observe
how fond the sparrows are of these seeds.
Why not dub the sunhower the national
"posey%
Salt is seldom given poultry, under the
supposition that it injurious, which is true
if the salt is given in large quantities; but
recent experiments prove that salt is nee
essary to limited extent, as hens will lay
more eggs and remain in good condition
by allowing salt than if withheld entirely.
The proper mode of giving salt to poultry
is by seasoning the soft food allowed the
hens.
An inventive genius in Rome, Ca, has
constructed little machine that he calls
the Chicken walker" 1t proposes to do
away with the fences around gardens and
protect the gardens from damage by chick
ems. When the machinery is placed on a
chickens feet, and the fowl goes in the
garden to make an effort to scratch the
soil, instead of accomplishing its desire
the attachment walks the chicken out of
the garden-the harder it scratches the
faster it walks.
Our experience with oyster shells is con-
fined to California. The shells used for
the poultry of San Jose and the surround
ing valley are gathered by boatmen at tie
oyster beds about twelve miles from the
port of Alviso. At Alviso they are put in
sacks holding about so pounds each, and
sold to merchants wholesale, or by the
sack to anyone in need of them. These
shells are small and very tender, requir-
ing no grinding or crushing to prepare
them for the poultry. They cost retail
So cents per sack, and are being used more