Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-07-05
fresh water. The summer season is very
severe on the large breeds.

fresh water. The summer season is very
severe on the large breeds.
Having the soil in good filth before
planting the crop will be found to help in
securing good start to grow, and in ad.
dition make the work of cultivation much
easier.
Plant your beans wide enough apart one
4 way-say % or feet-so that horse can
/ travel between the rows and bean-har-
yester can be used Pulling beans is a
back-aching business.
| 1t is stated that at least one-half of the
sugar crop of the world is produced from
beets. Sugar can be produced from many
sources, but beets and the sugar-cane give
the cheapest sources.
There is no occasion TO murmur about
the small outcome of agricultural expert
ment stations until the farmers have mas
tered and put into practice what has al
ready been given them
Smoke introduced into the bottom of
a smoke-house through piece of pipe
| long enough to allow the air to cool before
| 1t reaches the meat is much better than a
| ire In the smoke-house.
When growing fruit for market select
that which sells the best, but for home use
the farmer should endeavor to grow the
kinds preferred by himself, without regard
to size or attractiveness
| Some hortieulturists claim that potash
will cure the yellows. On the other hand,
prominent peach-growers of New Jersey
and Michigan affirm that the eradication
of the diseased trees is the only remedy.
In building wire fence set your posts
and turn a furrow against them on each
side. This lessons the space between the
bottom wire and the ground, and indicates
to animals the presence of an obstruction.
Unruly cattle on farm are verv
troublesome, but the cause is not hard to
find. 1t is. almost invariably, poor past
ure and semi starvation. Why shouldn't
hungry animal jump fences or push
| them down?
1t is a good idea in setting out shade
trees TO set them twice as close as needed
| ultimately, alternating with slow-growing
and fast growing trees Then when they
begin to crowd each other cut out the
fast-growing ones.
Try keeping the tomato vines staked and
tied up from the ground If you have a
| few plants alongside of them that are not
staked, watch the result and see whether
it pays to stake. 1t will not cost much,
| and you may learn something that will be
money in your pocket.
Good work can be done this month by
| going through the orchard and rubbing off
| new sprouts that have started out in I'M
| desirable places. Newly grated fruit
must be looked after, and if any growth
| starts out from the stock it should be
taken off as promptly as possible
Experiments made last season showed
that ashes were very beneficial to melons,
increasing the growth of the vine and in
ducing larger growth of fruit. Potash
| largely assists in the creation of saccharine
matter, thus rendering the melons sweeter.
Use the ashes around the plants literally.
There is great deal of economy prac-
tlced on the farm that is no economy at
| all. 1t IS no economy to eat so much pork
and SO little mutton. 1t is not economy to
wear old and uncomfortable clothing when
we can afford new and comfortable cloth
ing. Every additional pound of wool that
Is consumed adds to the prosperity of all
| classes.
Cholera is disease among fowls that
soon decimates flock. The principal
symptom is intense thirst and copious dis
charge from the bowels The best rem
edy is teaspoonful of liquid carbolic acid
in quart Of water, allowing no other
water to drink. 1t is highly contagious,
and thorough disinfection should be per-
formed.
There is no town or city that does not
demand fruits and vegetables, vet there
are hundreds of towns that depend on dis
tant points for fruits and vegetables that
could profitable be grown nearer home by
farmers. In some sections the farmers
who make speciality of cereal crops pro-
cure their vegetables elsewhere instead OF
producing them.
Sheep viii pay if the receipts and ex-
penses balance, due to the great improve
ment of land upon which sheep are pas
| tured. Hurdling of focks upon small
areas for short time not only manures
the land, but saves the expense of hauling
and spreading it over the surface. 1t is
an old proverb that no piece of land has
ever been exhausted upon which sheep are
kept.
No single kind of crop should be grown
| on the land in succession. Nothing will
exhaust the soil more thoroughly than to
compel it to bear the same kind of crop
several years. Insects can be partially
prevented by changing the crops, and the
cultivation required for certain crop may
prove beneficial also to the one following
Rotation of crops lessons the work of ex.
haustion of the soil, and partially allows il
to recuperate.
There is no best breed for all purposes.
On rich pastures, where stock have access
to an abundance of food, the heavy beet
cattle will thrive; but in those sections
where grass is scant a more active animal
is required The Merino and Southdown
sheep being active foragers, are better
| adapted to hillside pasturage than the
heavier Cotswolds or Oxfords. In selecting
the breed give some consideration regard.
ing the proper conditions necessary for its
thrift and its adaptation to the purposes in
view.
Sowing the land one year and planting
the next Is an old rule which is being
abandoned. BY planting in rows and cul
tivating the land well, weeds and insect:
are destroyed, and the land put in proper
condition for sowed or drilled crop, such
as wheat or clover. Cultivated crop.
should occupy the land two or three sea
sons, however, if possible, in order to have
better opportunities for clearing the sol
and preventing weeds. If sowed crops are
grown from pure seed upon land that ha.
been we'll cultivated the yield will be muct
greater and the labor lessened.
IF WERE YOU.
| III were you, / often say
| To those who seemed TO need advice,
Il al l,.1AI. l...fr, laar rod.