Sacramento daily record-union., 1889-06-08

no cheesy taste. Mixing milk is injurious
to the yield of butter. This is well known
to milkmen and buttermakers. If milk
which has been set for some time, and on
which the cream partly risen, is stirred
the cream never rises again fully; and
there is a considerable loss of butter from
it.
TREATMENT FOR CURLED LEAF.
As the curl leaf has nearly destroyed the
peach crop this season, and all that it can
do has already been done, it is useless to
prescribe remedies for the result. But as
it is liable TO occur any other year, |
thought | would give little experience
have had this spring in arresting It's de-
structIon of leaf and fruit. Some years ago
a correspondent of the Paciic Rural Press
from lone, Amador county, said that dig
ging the earth away from the tree and un-
covering the roots of the tree at the first
sign of curl, would arrest its progress.
tried it this spring and can say it has been
a partial success with me. The leaves did
not curl in the tops of the trees and then
have got part of peach crop, and that,
too, on the most tender tree we have (the
Morris White), so as the cur! leaf" does
not only curtail the crop of fruit, but also
Injuries the tree, am gamer in two points,
that Is, | have kept my trees growing and
saved 4 partial crop Of fruit. There are
some l did not experiment on and the
leaves curled clear to the top. And here
let me say that the Morris peach did not
curl and has the crop for this year.
Orchardists that contemplate planting the
peach in the future please make a note
Of that. These points are worth consider
ing. Il. Springer, IN H0aa'o7.d Dmocrat.
CARE OF MILK.
Carry the milk to a convenient place
where the atmosphere Is pure, and there
strain II, either into carrying or milk
setting vessel. \ cloth strainer, when it
a good one and care is taken to keep it
clean, is to be preferred to wire strainers.
If one uses q wire strainer add a cloth
strainer and 50 make it double The
writer has frequently seen mixers run
several millings through single s,rainer,
leaving hoth and dirt to accumulate
therein, and much Of it to be forced
through into the milk. This froth should
DC thrown out Of the straiuer every time u
pail of milk has been poured through it.
GENERAL NOTES.
"The happiest and most prosperous man
Of family in California to-day" saws the
Biggs ArglS, IS h6~who has his all in q
fifteen or twenty-acre tract of land, on
which he raises his own garden, his few
hogs his two or three COWS, his chickens,
his every variety of fruit and berry, nuts,
and, in fact, everything that he wants.
We know Of few so situated as yet, bur the
tide Is drifting that way, and the sooner
our people give up the idea that a man
must own nearly a township to make a
living cultivating the mother earth, the
sooner our people viii become yersed in
the true philosophy Of what constitutes
the simon-pure life Of comfort and bappi-
ness"
The Selma Lrjya,or speaks Of expert
ments made by Professor Sanders with the
asperest. He tried a few seeds on his
place last year and proved its value and
ability to grow where everything else dries
out. The seed is good poultry feed and
somewhat resembles turkey MULLEN seed,
and Professor Sanders says it is the only
valuable feed plant that will grow on as
little moisture as turkey mullen requires.
"Why should not the rudiments of agri-
culture be taught in the common school,
in country districts at least? Many a
farmer has had to learn by slow and dear
experience what he should have been
taught when boz. This is a subject in
which farmers are closely interested, and
their voices and influence should be heard
and felt in regard to it." Thus asks the
Hartford Times. To which we would
respond-Eyen so Why not ?
The head of the family will often be sur
prised when he learns how much he and
the boys can do to ameliorate the cares of
tie patient mother by good garden, and
when 1t has become an accomplished fact,
will be equally surprised to see what the
mother can do for all in the way of good
living and improved health.
Small potatoes make an excellent food
for poultry. They should however, be
mixed with some kind of grain, and will
be much relished if they are boiled and
mashed. Cornmeal, wheat or oats can be
added, and frst-cIass food can be made at
a low cost.
J. uncey, Jessup, Iowa, has made some
intere ing experiments with two of his
Holstein-friesian cows, in which he ascer-
tanned the cost OF 100 pounds of milk to
be 3S.2-lOth cents and that Of pound of
butter to be 8,3-10th cents.
Denmark has made money by spending
$4,000 annually 10 maintain dairy schools.
Within twenty years Denmark's exports Of
butter have increased from 81, 2,l00,0 900 to
Sl3,OOO,OOO per annum.