Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-02

| and thirty hens, and had to buy eggs to
| mt in the iucubators, and did not find any
ones with as many chicks in as the eggs
laid bv NV hens. d friend got fifty eggs
| and there were only nineteen that were
fortified in the lot. have often made
mention of the good qualities of the light
Brahmas as mothers 10 these columns, and
have record of one as far back as 1865. |
have one now that is very good. She was
LAYING in December and was sitting IN
January, and came off in February with
ten chicks out of fifteen eggs, and raised
them all to broiler size. She began laying
when they were four weeks old, and laid
about thirty eggs. Then l set her on
seventeen eggs and she came off two weeks
ago with fourteen chicks, and put nine
more with her that were Matched out In
the incubator-nine chicks out of nineteen
eggs that were bought for black Javas, but
they are blue in color, all but two. She
has twenty-one now that are nice and
healthy, and | shall expect her to set twice
more this season and raise them before
cold weather | reserved three of her
early pullets last season. They began lay
ing in September, and one has set and is
now laying again, but the other two have
laid ever since and show no signs Of want
ing to set. They are part Leghorn. | re-
served two fine pullets out of this Febru
airy hatch, the rest | sold for forty cents
each.
FARM NOTES.
Stake up the falling tomato vines if you
wish the fruit to ripen early.
Great Britain has l,421,3S9 horses
that is four horses per cultivated acre. En-
gland alone has 1901 ,04l; Scotland, 1885,
POS.
1t is easier to fatten an animal in sum-
mer than at any other season, as the ami
NAL requires less food for its support.
The cost of fattening is also less in the
summer.
Let the calf suck for few days. The
milk is good for nothing else, and the milk
does the calf good and the sucking does
the cow good, especially if the udder is at
all iniamed.
Do not be looking abroad for market
until you are sure you can't find one at
home. A steady home market is worth
more than ten times as much as an uncer-
tain foreign one.
If you have garlic in the pasture you
will have plenty of annoyance. Some
times remedy for the garlic flavor in the
milk is asked. The only remedy we know
of is the use of pasture that is free from
garlic.
Where one has small plot, and prefers
to grow flowers, the soapsuds will be found
excellent if thrown around the shrubs and
bushes, but the surface of the ground
should not be allowed to bake or become
hard
When plant produces seed it will not
afterward make an attempt to flower. Pan
sizes, which bear flowers profusely, should
be kept clean by picking the flowers off
daily. If this is not done the supply of
flowers will soon fall off
The farmer who makes his soil deep and
rich with high culture and manure, and
whose cattle are sleek and gentle, is the
one who complains least about the de-
preston, but it affects poor and unthink-
ing farmers much more than the opposite
class
White-washed laths hung on a barbed-
wire fence will make it visible to stock,
and guard against some of the dangers at
tending the use of barbed wire. The soil
ing system instead of pasturage is another
remedy against the dangers of barbed-wire
fences.
A ffteen-mile journey is an average
days work for horse. How far does the
COW travel in poor pasture, nipping a
pennyweight of grass here and there to get
her daily ration? Then she is expected to
pay for it through the milk-pail, says the
Mirror and Farmer.
What folly it is in farmer to buy ton
after ton of artificial fertilizers and waste
tons of manure in his barnyard by expos
ure and neglect 1t is about as silly for
the same man to spend as much annually
for tobacco as his taxes cost, and then COM
plain of high taxes.
Throughout France gardening is pr@ti-
cally taught in the primary and elemen-
tary schools. Thre are about $4,000 of
these schools, each of which has garden
attached to it, and is under the care. of
master capable of imparting knowledge
of the first principles of horticulture.
The Country Gentleman says the Law
renee, late autumn and early winter pear,
of fine quality, but not equal to the best, is
only partially melting, but it has the good
quality of never becoming scabby, is always
fair, and the tree holds IS foliage late in
autumn until the fruit is we'll matured. 1t
is a good market variety.
Veterinary surgeons state that the milk
is the first thing affected when COW be-
comes i'll, and that the milk will show in
dications of coming milk-fever and garget
a week before any outward sign can be dis
covered. A sore, or anything that may be
liable to poison the blood, also poisons the
milk at the same time.
1t is no easier to keep poultry than to
keep other stock, as labor and proper man
agement must be used to meet success.
Less capital may be required in poultry,
but it must be judiciously expended, or a
loss can result as easily as from any other
source. Experience is of more value than
capital in poultry raising.
Do not try to make a speciality of wool
and mutton at the same time The best
mutton breeds are not the kind of sheep
for producing the choice grades of wool
The size of the sheep does not affect its
production of wool. The heaviest feeces
come from the Merino, which is the small
est breed of sheep now known.
If farmers were as careful and syste-
matte in the management of their herds
as the breeders of pure breeds are with
their cattle, much better results would be
secured from ordinary stock. Even the
best breeds will fail if not rightly man
aged, and all classes of stock can be made
more productive if extra care is given.
Professor Fernald reports that an ant
hill near house, which was doing much
damage to the lawn, was exterminated by
making holes in the hill fifteen inches
apart with a small stick and pouring two
or three teaspoonfuls of bi-sulphate Of car
bon into each hole, after which the holes
were closed up and the earth pressed down
by stepping on it.