Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-07-26

Just keep the crowns tliled with soil. The
earth does no harm to the cabbages, as the
heads grow up from the bottom and throw
! off the earth
| There are 40 beets so good for the table
as those intended for that purpose Grow
| ing the varieties intended for stock, with the
| view of using some of them on the table, is
a mistake. The large varieties are too
coarse and tough.
| a fifteen-mile journey is an average
| days work for horse. How far does the
| COW travel in a poor pasture. nipping a
| pennyweight of grass here and there, to
get her daily ration? Then she is ex-
pected to pay for it through the milkpail,
says the Mirror and Farmer
While butter is cheap use all the cream
and milk in cooking and upon the table
that you wish. For vegetables, pie-crust
and many other uses in the culinary art
cream is far ahead of butter or lard, and
should be INDUCED in by every farmers
and dairyman's family.
A dairyman claims that two ounces of
salt per day to each COW increased the
butter product one-fifth, which indicates
that a loss may occur by the failure to
supply some inexpensive essential, though
the farmer may be feeding literally and
giving his animals the best Of care other
wise.
When chickens are to be caught it is
best to do it after they have gone to roost
The chasing liable TO ensue if one at
tempts TO catch them during the day not
only annoys the person in pursuit, but is
highly injurious TO the fowl Besides all
the other poultry is generally frightened,
and more or less injury results from this.
Bran and grain are cheap as well as
milk. Store them in the COW now, that
she may be in good shape to produce milk
fat her, but grass alone, and such watery
grass as some parts of the country are pro-
ducing this season, is very poor stuff to
build up the system of COW that is a
good mixer. Give some bran or grain, or
both, to help out-we feed bran and lit
tie cornmeal each day.
Honey was employed by the ancientsfor
most of the medical purposes for which
sugar is now used, and especially with bar
ley water for bronchial affections and sore
throat. Its present use is almost exclu-
slvely local and for the same purpose as of
old; and particularly to stimulate the
mucous surface. Honey is employed in
gargles TO cure thrush, sore throat, etc,
but Its efficacy is increased by the addition
of chlorate of potassium.
Samuel B. Green, in late letter in the
Farm and Fireside, replying to a subscri-
bers question whether it would be best to
keep his orchard completely mulched, and
if so with what material, said ''The best
mulch for an orchard is loose top soil.
If an orchard is heavily mulched the
roots are very liable to come to the surface
and be injured if the mulch is removed.
Then, 1t is very apt to stimulate late fall
growth, which is not advantageous"
Says the National Statesman and Farmer:
There is some complaint OF an unsatisfac-
tory outcome in sheep-shearing this spring.
Fleeces seem to lack density and the yield
OF wool is in many cases Disappointing
This is owing to the warm and open win
ter, a kind of season very unfavorable for
successful sheep husbandry. The result
of this may be to shorten the supply of
wool beyond expectation A steadily cold
winter is the kind for the wool-grower.
1t is claimed-with show of truth
that gram shipped IN bulk to Europe will
increase so much in weight by moisture
on the passage as to pay the freight. The
California Agricultural College made
some experiments in this matter and
found that the different cereals at 65O
would absorb as follows; Oats, 29.OS per
cent; barley, 2S.17; wheat, 1902 1t is
well to remember, however, that while
grain expands by moisture, measured
bushel OF damp grain weighs less than
dry bushel.-hoaghn,a,,.
The Springfield Republican describes the
methods followed by Mr. Dillon of Massa-
chusetts in his efforts to grow "prize
crop" of potatoes. We are told that he
has copied the English bank" system
partially. He plants two rows fifteen
inches apart, and then gives thirty inches
space between the next two rows, fifteen
inches distant from each other. He runs
a cultiVator between the rows that are
thirty inches apart, and another imple-
ment with one tooth, which digs deep, in
the ffteen-inch space. The hills are
about seven inches apart in the rows, and
one and two eyes of cut potatoes in hill,
making Il 500 hills on measured acre.