Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-05-25

seed. 3. Draw OH buttermllk and WASH
the churn till the water is clear and free
from buttermilk. 8. Make a strong brine
and pour into the churn through a hair
sieve. 10. Remove butter and work or
butter-worker. Never use the hands.
A GOOD COW.
A good COW is hat-ribbed Just back Of
the shoulders and has well-sprung ribs
further back. She has broad, fiat ribs and
so far apart that one can lay two fingers
between them. Her skin should be. loose
and iabby over the flank and her umbili-
cal development should be firm and strong,
with the veins under the belly very prom
inent. She should be broad between the
eyes, should have a short, slightly dlshed
face, and bright and prominent eyes. Be-
sides, the poll or forehead should be long
between the horns and the eye, the neck
should be clean and thin, the backbone
should be strong, the pelvic arch high,
the hams thin TO give ample room for a
large udder, extending well back and in
front, one that will be soft and fabby
when MIXED out, and should have a three
fold wedged-shaped form, the general
tendency of weight being toward the
udder, indicating power to produce milk.
-Rural Home.
GENERAL FARM NOTES.
Spring cleaning should apply to the
barn and cellar as well as to the rooms of
the house.
A mess of cooked meat, chopped, is an
excellent food for the hens, in order to
promote laying.
A bushel Of land plaster per acre on the
clover will show beneficial effects. On
sandy soil ashes are better.
Too much corn to horses in warm weather
will cause profuse perspiration. Oats
should be used in preference.
Pinks may be divided and planted along
the borders. The beds will soon become
thick and matted with the plants.
When you put in melons try the icing
rind watermelon. OF canteloupes use the
Emerald gem. The latter is small, but of
excellent flavor.
The clover field is the place for the pigs
that have been weaned. They will need
very little other food. A mess Of skinned
milk, or buttermilk, with a small guam
tity of .ground oats at night, will cause the
pigs to grow rapidly, if they have the run
ofclover.
If you have any corn fodder the sheep
will pick it over and clean the stalks. If
the fodder is bright and clean all classes of
stock will relish it. If the fodder is run
through a cutter and the stocks crushed as
well as chopped by the cutter, there will
be but little waste.
The potato beetle will attack the egg
plant in preference to anything else, and
nnlpss c1ah rlan+c p naraf-,llu ra+alal
and the beetles picked off they will de-
stroy the plants in less than a day. To
save the plants they should be examined
two or three times day.
When cultivating the ground to destroy
grass only a few inches deep will suffice.
One inch of soil, kept fine, on top, will
serve as a mulch, and in pulverizing it the
grassland weeds will be killed. Never let
the. ground become hard and crusty, if
there is a probability of a dry season.
During heavy rains the soluble matter
of the manure heap viii be carried away.
1t is the most valuable portion. Have the
manure heap over a pit, or dish the ground
in the center, so hat the liquid will not
flow away.
A Southern cultivator says the most
salable sweet potato is one that is short
and thick, and it is to produce these that
you pillow shallow and make fat hill
ridges, so that as the potatoes grow they
will reach the hard soil and be checked in
their downward growth, and will develop
thickness. @
There is as much art in the work of i'm
proving the drones of a hive of as to en-
deavor to secure better queens. Some
e1ra - ~ &c Lanc 80 80 ,ol-oJ - ~
hard winters. In the natural condition
bees are hardy, but when their care is in
the hands of the bee-keeper, his iudgmen :
is important, and he can do much TO add
vigor to the swarms.
Land that mas grown much clover seed
is not good for a strawberry patch. 1t is
good for almost any other farm crop for
which clover is either harmless or a valu-
able manure. But among strawberries
clover is one of the worst of weeds, and for
this reason it is not best to SOW gypsum or
land plaster on the strawberry patch lest it
cause too great an intrusion Of clover.
There is nc root that is better for mich
cows than the parsnip. 1t is largely
grown on the islands Of Jersey, and feed
ing with it for successive generations has
probably had much TO do with developing
the butter-making qualities of the Jersey
breed Of COWS. The parsnip is less difficult
to keep clear Of weeds than the carrot, and
is fully as good, if not better, cropped on
deep, rich soil.
The production of wool in India, Cen.
trail Asia and China is estimated at 800
000, 900 pounds. Australia and New Yea
land possess 100000 sheep, producing
200, 000,000 pounds of wool, worth S114,,
10000. La Plata possesses 100, 000, 00C
sheep, producing 10000 tons of wool, worth
S~4,S40,000. Europe possesses 200, 000,0 0(
sheep, yielding 400,000,000 pounds of wool
1t is estimated that between 10000, 00C
and 100000 pounds Of maple sugar, Oh
its equivalent in syrup, is made in the
United States each year.
The editor Of Hoards Dairyman, in an
swer to a query about the average temper
allure of spring and web water in North
ern and Western States, says: 1t is {
rare one that is below 45 degrees. Most o
them will average 500 or above
The capital required for beginning mar
ket-gardening in the vicinity of any larg1
city shoald not be less than $500 per acr'
for anything less than 10 acres. The frs
year rarely pays more than current ex
penses, and the capital of $500 per acre i
all absorbed in horses, wagons, nipple
ments, sashes, manures, seeds, etc. If tn
capital be insufficient 10 procure thes,
properly, the chances of success are cor
resondingly diminished. Above all, b,
careful not to attempt the cultivation @
more land than your capital and expert
ence can properly manage; More men ar
stranded, both or the farm and garden, il
attempting to cultivate too much, perhaps
than from any other cause.
The question as to the proper classified
ton of beans under the tariff was involves
in the case of Robertson, Collector, V.
Solomon ct al, decided recently by tn
Supreme Court of she United States. Tn,
record of the case Siscloses a singular diff
ference of opinion regarding the prope
classification. The Collector levied dut
on the beans at the rate of 40 per cent. o.
die ground that they were garden seed