Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-08
FARM AND ORCHARD.
SENSIBLE REMARKS ABOUT BREEDING
DRAFT HORSES.
Profit in SKINNED Milk Or
ange Peel-Cure for Kickers-Gen-
eral Farm Notes.

sand draft stations every year to breed
and We cannot wait to raise them, but we
buy them ready made to use at once, and,
while we do not raise but few hundred
full bloods, we are grading up rapidly to
the best imported sires, keeping all our
high grade mares and developing.
When we get ten per cent. of our thir-
teen million horses, say million or two,
graded up to heavy draft, and we get our
home markets supplied, we hope to have a
little surplus of $4,000 to $4,000 of these
American draft horses heavy enough for
European markets, 1890 to 1000 pounds,
and in this we propose to get our money
back for the extravagant prices the Eng
fish and French breeders make us paw for
the few thousand stations we now have to
buy.
Let them keep all their good mares and
raise US all the good stations they can, for
we need them now and need them badly.
Our small American horses must be
promptly improved with the heavy draft
and coach horse blood. If our importers
were to buy up their mares, they would
soon have a corner on English horse breed
ing.
We may not breed on intelligent lines,
according to the old English doctrine, but
the Yankee breeders viii soon astonish the
world with millions of the finest draft and
coach horses the world has ever produced,
and the world Will be our market.
A correspondent of the English Lire Stock
Journal is bewailing our condition because
we have no Shire mares. He says: owe
in England have been in the habit of con-
graduating ourselves that the Shire horse
trade has been almost entirely to stations,
and that we have kept the mares that laid
the golden eggs at home, and in this way
we anticipate TO always keep this trade in
our hands" This is very true, but at the
same time | imagine the want of good
mares in America has operated against
any Shire stations of character that have
gone out producing quite the results that
might have been expected Western Agrl-
cutturist.
PRESERVING ORANGE PEEL.
While Californians, as a rule, are pros
porous and have many of the good things
of life, there is a general tendency to waste
some things, which, If properly manipu-
lated, would be source of profit and
pleasure. About every orange grove and
IN many houses where oranges are freely
used, large quantities of peelings are
thrown away. These can be made into as
palatable conserve as that of the citron.
To many it has a much more agreeable
flavor and taste, and when used in pastry
or as a sweetmeat, it is very acceptable.
Thick-skinned oranges are as a general
rule at discount; but, in this instance,
they are superior to those having a thin
skin. Remove the peeling after cutting in
quarters or halves. Soak it in frequently
changed fresh water for several days until
the unpleasant bitterness is gone. The
water should be kept at a blood-warm
temperature. The next process is to put
the peel lDto fresh water and boil slowly
until soft enough to easily pass a fork
through. Drain all of the water thor
oughly from the peel and put it in thick
granulated sugar syrup AID boil until the
sugar shows signs of crystalizing, when it
should be removed and placed on shallow
trays or tins and the remaining syrup
poured over it. The product is somewhat
similar to crystallized orange peel.-Cdli-
.Jornia Fruit Grocer.
PROFIT IN SKINNED MILK.
1t is said in the columns of the Name
Farmer: 1--WE believe there is no way the
skim milk will net so good returns as fed
at once to the cows which gave it." This
is not merely belief, but we actually
know it. We have seen it used in this
way in Chautauqua county, New York,
where it has been the common practice
for years and years, and there are no better
money-making dairymen in the world.
We do not say they make q fine article Of
butter in this way, for they do not, but it
is because they have universally the vii
famous habit of settling the milk in shall
low pans for forty-eight hours and until
the milk begins to clabber at the bottom,
then they run the SKINNED milk into a
vat and feed from there, thus letting it get
more than half-rotten before the COW gets
it. thus of course, tainting the milk with a
cowy odor. But if fed fresh when sweet
or nearly SO, there is no more profitable
use can be made of skinned milk.-Amer-
can DaiTyman.
THE ROPE CURE FOR KIcKERs.
During the last thirty years neigh
Dor has permanently cured over twenty
horses of the kicking habit, without fail in
any case attempted, says writer IN the
New York Tribune Following is his
method: Take a half-inch rope that has
been stretched until it cannot be stretched
any more, tie it around the horse SIX
inches back of the pad and belly-band OF
the harness insert short stick and twist
it up nearly as tight as the rope will bear
without breaking, and tie the stick so that
il will STAY. Fasten the horse IN stall
where there is room behind him to WELD
long-lash whip, then strike him around
the hind legs quite severely at the second
or third blow he will generally kick with
both feet with all his might, but only tol
two or three times. If he has been In the
habit of kicking in harness, drive hin
with the rope on two weeks, or until he
quits making threats. Some will kick
once or twice with one foot, and bob up
and threaten for several days. They
sbould be tickled or teased, or have q
basket or pail thrown under them or tieo
to hind foot several times a day to make
them try and kick, and until they cease to
make any effort in that direction. The
remedy is then effectual. After driving
the animal half an hour therope should b'
frightened. This will also cure buckins
horses, or any which try to throw then
rider.
BAY HORSES.
Did anyone ever see man or woman
with "bayo hair? asks the Horse World
No more than he saw an auburn horse
The word bay does not Of itself signify
color, and its use for the purpose Of desig
mating the color of horse is purely ira
ditional. 1t originated in England in {
district where the breed of horses wa
mostly seyeralshades away from the brown
and yet too brown to be called red. Iher'
grew in this district great many pa!
trees, to the leaves Of which the horse
exhibited decided affinity. The bay tre'