Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-15

methods. No sulphur is used on his figs
and he got fancy price for everything
California Farmer and Dealer.
sINGLE-EYE POTATO CUTTINGS.
While extensive experiments in potato
culture seem to point to the use of medium.
sized whole tubers as producing the largest
yield, yet, whether the amount produced
by these over that yielded by cut
tubers offsets the extra cost of seed apd
more cumbrous planting, must depend on
the market price which the crop realizes.
Those who use the cut-seed are remind
ed that there is such thing as so cutting
them as to at least partially destroy the
germ-vitality of the eye. The eyes have
feeder flaments leading from the center of
tuber (as affirmed by DR.. Sturtevant, of
the New York Agricultural Experiment
Station, and the cut should be made so as
to preserve with the eye as much feeder
filaments as possible. Also, it is found
best to let the cut pieces dry few days
and callous over before planting, there
being less liability to rot before growing.
FARM NOTES.
Nests for setting hens should be warm
in winter and cool in summer.
Nine cases out of ten, where variety Of
fruit which once fourished in given soil
has ceased to flourish and perfect fine fruit
there, the change is due to the fact that
the soil has become destitute of the neces-
sary mineral manure.
There are at the present time in Ger
many upward Of 600 cooperative cream
cries. Of this number 302 are situated in
the province Of Schleswig- -Holstein, where
they are chiefly engaged in preparing
butter for export to the English market.
A ffteen-mile journey is an average
days work for horse. How far does the
COW travel in poor pasture, nipping a
penny-weight of grass here and there, to
get her daily ration? Then she is ex-
pected to pay for it through the milk
pail.
1t is claimed that land plaster is a
special fertilizer for cabbages. If this is
true there is no reason for neglectlng such
a crop as plaster is as cheap as lime. Plas-
ter is excellent for clover and grasses, and
its use has always been beneficial COM
pared with its cost.
1t is said that coat of boiled linseed oil
and ground charcoal on any kind of post
will prevent its rotting. Any good paint
will no doubt do just as well. The miner
al paints are very cheap, and coat of
them on the post before it is set in the
ground would at least double its life.
Suckers around trees grow rapidly, and
do more damage than the bearing Of crops
by trees. They should never be allowed
to grow more than to put in an appear
ance Keep them down from the start,
and the nutriment that would be taken by
the suckers will be diverted to the trees
Those intending to test the different
methods Of spraying in order to prevent
the ravages of the grape rot and other
fungus diseases should not overlook the
fact that the ground around the vines must
be treated first. The ground is the hot
bed of the disease, from which the vines
are attacked. The use of lime and other
remedies on the ground should begin now
ard the work continued throughout the
entire season.
The science of fine butter-making is not
a subtle art that few can comprehend, but
it possesses salient points that all must OBJ
serve as essential, if they desire to be
counted among the successful. Mature
cream churned at the proper temperature
about 600 in summer and 64o in winter
will grain butter hard and firm, and work
into product of the proper consistency
and texture. Use no color but such as is
known to be reliable, and do not use an
excessive quantity of that.
Dr. Peter Collier says, in the Elmira
HusbdndmGn, that the intellectual activity
which has been aroused among our agri-
cultural classes during the past ten years
has been astounding, and in every direc-
tion the people are reaching out for help
to enable them more intelligently to
conduct their affairs. Nowadays thou
sands of farmers are discussing the prob
lens connected with the feeding of their
crops and stock in terms which we're to
them without meaning, an unknown
tongue, less than ten years ago.
Answering the question, Shall we plant
the Russian apricot ?" asked at the meet
ing of the Ohio State Horticultural So
ciety, g. T. Trowbridge said that the april
cots we now have would thrive where the
peach would grow. The tree was as hardy
or harder than the peach, but the trouble
was its early blooming; blossoming
two weeks earlier than the peach, the
crops were nearly always destroyed by the
late frosts. If it should be shown that the
Russian varieties blossomed as late or later
than peaches, then we could plant them
with the hope of growing an occasional
crop of apricots.
1t has been suggested that fruit growers
have special marks or labels on their fruit
boxes, that customers may know who pro-
duced the fruit and from whom to buy.
In this manner the fruit-grower who sends
choice fruit to market will not be depend
ent on the failures of his neighbors TO
properly assort their fruit. Merit and pro-
fit should go where they properly belong.
A writer in the Americasa Florist gives
his testimony as to the superiority of evap-
Grating tobacco water to burning the to-
bacco for fumigating purposes in green
houses. He always keeps barrel full Of
tobacco stems soaking in water, and has
tin pan 2x3 feet and inches deep. He
fills the pan about half full of tobacco
water and then puts in three or four red
hot Are bricks. 1t kills the greenhy very
quickly, and never Injuries the most tender
plants.
A GOOD appetite is essential to good
health. Hoods Sarsapsrilla creates and
sbarpsns the appetite, and also assists ths
digestive organs. Take Hoods Sarsepe