Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-22
Farm AND ORCHARD.
CARE Or HORSES COOKED FooD-cAT-
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Setting Out Fig Trees-Deficit in Egg
Produetion-vegetable by Weight
Practical Receipts.

i've against injuries from melon and GU
cumber bugs.
A rich mellow soil and frequent cutting
out of the old wood, is necessary to grow
a good crop of currants.
A blanket for the horse is cheap arti.
Gle considering the food it saves and the
colds and sickness it avoids. 1t is indis-
pensable in well-regulated stables.
Eggs for sitting should be from healthy
adult birds not related. Never breed from
late turkeys if it is possible to get better,
Never breed from yearling turkeys if you
can get two-year olds.
To stop the bleeding of a horse or other
stock from snag or wound, says CORE
spondent of the National Stockmdn, make an
application of dry manure and it will stop
the bleeding of wound every time.
As no two animals are alike, it is best to
consult their appetites and desires. What
ever the animal prefers as food, and
thrives on, it should have. Food cannot
be forced on an animal if he dislikes it.
There is much in the breed, there is
much in the feed, and there is more in the
feeder than in either A good feeder will
do fairly well with a good breed and poor
feed, or with good feed and poor breed.
But good feeder putting good feed into a
good breed is the acme OF perfection in
dairying.
All fertilizers for vines should be spread
around the base over wide surface. As
a rule the vine that makes a rapid growth
at the top and spreads over a large surface
makes large root growth also. If the
fertilizer is spread close to the stem the
small rootlets do not have an opportunity
to appropriate it. As the roots reach out
they will secure all the nutrition that is
within their reach.
Cooked food, when allowed to become
cold, will sour if not used within day
or two. Some claim that such food Is bet
ter for hogs, but others are of the impress
sion that it leads to disease. If the food
left over is to be fed it will be better to
heat it again, adding tablespoonful of
| bicarbonate of soda to four gallons of the
slop. The soda will neutralize the acid,
and the heating will destroy fermentation.
Application of petroleum or kerosene to
black knot of plum trees before it has be-
come too old is said to prove eficacious in
preventing the further extension of the
disease or for curing it. But it is necessary
to be very cautious not to allow the oil TO
run over the healthy bark, which would
kill the tree if the bark was young and
tender. A better way, doubtless would be
first to cut out the excrescence and the sp-
ply the oil.
A way to preserve cut flowers is thus
given by the Orange Judd Farmer: "Im-
merse in a solution of gum arabic and
water two or three times, waiting suffi-
cient time between each immersion to al
low the gum to dry. This process covers
the surface with thin coat of the gum,
which is entirely impervious to the air,
and thus prevents the whitening of the
flowers. Roses thus preserved have all
the beauty of freshly plucked ones, though
they have been plucked several months.
1t is found profitable to devote large
amounts of capital to dairying, and the
labor is also heavy item. If the dairy
business, which requires constant work,
can be made to pay, there is no reason
why it should not be made to pay more,
and at less expense. There is too much
waste of time and labor on some farms,
due to lack of organization and system
attic management. 1t is often the case
that more food and labor are used than
should be the case in proportion to the
product.
Mr.. Golf, in report to the New York
Agricultural Experiment Station, tells
how gooseberry mildew was checked by
spraying the bushes several times with a
half or quarter ounce of sulphide of
\ potassium to gallon of water. The sub
stance also checked the ravages of the cur
rant worm. Apple scab was checked by
sulphide of potassium applied at the rate
of one-half ounce to the gallon. This sub
stance appeared to possess more value than
hyposulphite of sodium. Sulphide of cal
CUM did no good.
Milk fever nearly always results from
overlooking the cow previous to calving.
1t. is usual to feed all COWS alike, and as
the dry COW is not compelled to convert
the greater portion of her food into milk,
the consequence is that she stores up the
surplus as fat, and in very short time
becomes fat enough for the butcher, and
utterly unfit for breeding. When the calf
is dropped it may be weakly, and does not
promptly assist in relieving the udder.
| The COW being also fat and feverish, the
result is milk fever. A COW that is ex-
pected to calve should receive only a
small proportion of carbonaceous food.
Hay is preferable to grain.
The New York Retail Grocers' Union
has again been defeated in Its attempt to
have passed law requiring the sale of
vegetables and fruit by weight. Weight
is the only way in which vegetables and
fruit can be estimated and sold at their
actual value. 1t is interesting to see what
ingenious arguments opponents of honest
trade bring up. San Francisco is about
the only large city where retail grocers
uniformly sell fruits and vegetables by
weight. The system, while at first seeming
a little strange to the newly arrived East
erner, has given the greatest satisfaction,
| the purchaser being well aware that a
pound is a pound, but peck is not always
a peck.
No tree requires more space than the fig.
In California the trees though compare
lively young, have some of them grown to
| size which has caused much speculation
as to their ultimate dimensions. Messrs.
o. & A. Brown, who are setting 1000
White Smyrna fig trees on their ranch
near Delano, Kern county, have concluded
to plant them fifty feet apart each way.
While the trees are small this will seem
to be a waste of ground. Some horticult-
wrists of an economical turn of mind
would suggest that annual crops of one
kind or another be raised between the
rows until the trees are of size to de-
mand the space. This would undoubtedly
bring In certain amount of revenue pre-
vious to the returns from the fig trees; but,
| it should be considered that the fig is a
heavy, regular bearer, which draws upon
| the fertility OF the land for practically
indefinite period. There is question as
to the wisdom of taking for other crops
any of the fertility from the land, which
viii undoubtedly in time be required by
the fig trees The mistake Of trying to
get too many crops from the land in which