Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-01

pay for the thermometer if you do not use
one.
1t is recommended in one of our ex-
chang s to bathe cows teats in hot water
when the cow attempts to hold up her
milk. 1t is claimed that the muscles
are relaxed and the cow is powerless. 1t
Is simple ensseedv. worthy of trial at
least.
More public tests of milk and butter
cows should be made at our fairs. If
nothing more is accomplished tnan attract
ing the interest of the public in the COM
petitive trials mat alone will be great
poip.. gained by the breeders of thorough
breds.
The proper way to apply manure to the
land is not TO spread it on hard surface,
as the rains may wash away the best por-
tiops. but to loosen the top soil either with
the plow, cultivator or pulverizer, and
the soluble matter will then go down in
stead of flow off
1t will pay to pack butter when it is
cheap, provided there is a good tub to
put it in and good place to keep it. A
damp or hot place will not do. The
store-room must be dry, sweet and cool.
Cover with damp salt and cloth. This
will make paste.
The kind of food the pigs are often
compelled to eat does not conduce to their
health. The supposition that slop must
be put in barrel, there to ferment and
become filthy, and possess an intolerable
odor in order to become fit for the pigs, is
| mistaken one Healthy pork can only
be produced from sound, clean food.
Those who are planting asparagus beds
| to last twenty-five to fifty years had beteer
plant further apart than usually recon-
| mended. For garden culture plant in
| rows four feet apart, and three feet apart
in the row; in growing for market by
field culture, plant four to five feet apart
both ways, and cultivate both ways.
Clover hay, cut fine, and cooked, or
| stepped in boiling water, makes an excel
lent change Of food for brood sows or for
COWS that have recently calved. 1t is also
| excellent for young stock of all kinds. If
slightly seasoned with salt, and small
quantity of bran and cornmeal added to
it, it will provide nearly complete food.
Cleanliness in the stable is more i'm
portant than cleanliness in the dairy.
Many COWS are MIXED with the manure
covering their sides, and often the udders
are filthy. The udders and teats should
always be washed and wiped dry with a
clean towel, and the hands of the mixer
| should also be treated in the same man
ner. By SO doing much of the soluble
filth that goes into the milk will be
avoided.
The amount of water that falls upon ex'
posed manure during the winter is very
large and as it passes through the heap il
carries off all matter that is soluble, leav
ing a large pile of material containing bu
little nutrition for plants, but which cost;
just as much to haul as that which is more
valuable A cheap shed, or covering o.
any kind (even if only of boards laid or
the heap, will save more than the cost O
protecting the heap.
A Kansas paper tells of farmer who
wanted to dig a well N neighborhoot
where others had, in some instances, dug
two hundred feet without finding water
He planted the field in which he wished
to dig with oats. Every day he watched
| the oats, observing the spots that showed
the greatest moisture. Finally he selected
a spot and sank well. At twenty-foul
| feet he had fine stream of water. 1t Is
| said to be the best well in the county.