Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-13


fine, as many as 10000 fbres having been
counted on single square inch on full
grown ram, and the half-bred merinos give
nearly as fire wool as the pure bred.
Turkeys grown three months will, bar
ring accident, grow rapidly from now on.
Rhode Island raises the largest number /;
the farmers of Indiana and Illinois are
raising more than they have done for years
past.
Rye is recommended as green manure
for peach orchards. The rye should be
sown thickly about the 1st of September
and plowed under in the spring. 1t is also
an excellent mulch for protecting the
roots.
A. B. Allen, in the New York Tribune,
advises that pasture lands be divided into
small lots, instead of one large one. The
grass is eaten down cleaner, and while one
lot is pastured the others recuperate. Now
that iron fences are so cheap, this is good
plan.
Those who have tried feeding grain and
hay to horses claim that if full feed of
hay follows the grain the grain will be
crowded out of the stomach before diges-
tion is accomplished, and waste of nutri-
tion ensues, hence the hay should be given
first.
Cucumbers should be picked off the
vines every day, if they are intended for
picking, as they grow rapidly and the
vines will bear more when they are not
compelled to mature the cucumbers. The
smaller they are when picked off for pick
ling the better.
Utilize all bones, even if you have no
means whereby they can be pounded or
ground. The smaller the pieces of bone
the better. They are excellent for all
kinds of fruit trees and if applied around
grape vines the effects of the applications
viii be noticed for years.
Every bird killed means more insects to
fight. Every woman who wears dead
bird as an ornament in her bonnet en-
courages the destruction of the useful
creatures. If the women would reject all
such ornaments they would do service to
farmers and prevent cruelty.
The New Jersey State Agricultural So
ciety, two years ago, balloting for the best
three grapes in general use. one of each
color, decided in favor of the Brighton,
red; Wordop, black, and Niagara, white
and few grape-growers in that State would
to day make any alteration in the list.
Have you yet realized what a pleasure
it is to go into clean, newly whitewashed
hen house? A good time to clean up is
now, then again later in October. This
will keep things looking clean and at
tractive; the outside buildings Should be
painted, the inside whitewashed. White
wash the inside anyway.
Cottonseed meal and bran are the cheap
est of all foods Tor stock, considering their
nutritive value as compared with other
materials. These foods are cheap if simply
brought on the farm for their value as ma
nure alone, and especially on lands def.
cient in nitrogen and phosphates.
Bran is not so nutritious as shorts, but
mixed with cut hay is very much relished
and makes good feed. Barley contains 92O
parts of nutritive matter in 1000 pounds
1t is the common food for the horse in
some parts of the continent of Europe. 1t
is very stimulating and laxative. 1t
should be bruised and given with cut hay.
Boiled barley is good laxative.
All classes of stock do more or less dam
age to pasture by trampling it. The use
of hurdles or changing the stock frequently,
by dividing the pasture into several fields,
will afford better supply of food, by allow
ing the grass on the unoccupied portion to
grow, and less injury will result. A scanty
pasture, which compels animals to be al
ways moving in order to secure food, is of
but little value compared to well-kept
sod.
If our farms are running out" such
should not be the case. In England, where
the land has been cultivated for centuries,
the land is richer to-day than ever before
This is due to the farms being small and
well manured. Every square foot of land
in England is made to yield something, if
used for farming, and the aim is always to
add more plant food than the crop removes.
There is large growth of leaves to
beets and turnips, and they take a large
proportion of plant food from the soil.
These leaves should be fed to cattle, sheep
or hogs, as they are valuable for that pur-
pose. At this season the top and roots
may be fed. When storing away the roots
for winter, all tops that cannot be utilized
for feeding should be added to the manure
heap.
Carrots are regarded as promoting the
strength and endurance of the horse in a
high degree. They are much esteemed as
feed for sick and convalescent horses. In
health, carrots may be given sliced in cut
feed. Half bushel day is sufficient if
other strong feed is not given. Boiled car
rots are given to sick horses. Carrots are
much used in feeding racing and other
sporting horses. They greatly improve
the horses wind.
J. NJ. Gotta, of Illinois, on the village
garden, says: This is made nuisance by
neglect and want of care, a success by
thorough work and thoughtful manage
ment. Don't pillow, but spade it. Plant a
little at time and often, so as to have a
succession of fresh vegetables all summer.
Give at least quarter of it to flowers.
The garden so managed becomes interest
ing and will not be neglected, and is an
economizer by saving butchers, grocers'
and doctors bills.
If you are building a new barn, especi-
ally if it is to be one in which COWS or
other animals are 10 be stabbed, build it
nigh between floor and ceiling, and be
very sure to put in plenty of windows, and
set it so the east, south and west sides will
come fairest to the sunlight, so that in cold
weather flood of golden sunlight will
light up the whole interior. This plan,
says Hoarfs Daiyman, is better than a
COW doctor, and don't cost quarter as
much. Have wire netting outside, so that
the windows can be raised and excellent
ventilation can be had. Aside from all
the good il will do the animals, it makes a
more human habitation for the men to do
their work in.
The use of carrot juice for butter color
ing is wholly unadvisable. The albumen
in the juice quickly decomposes and spoils
the butter If coloring is used in spite of
all objections, let it be the clear annotto,
dissolved in warm water, of which few
drops only are required for each gallon OF
cream. But good taste and common sense
(hnth of these are coIlateraN fnrhid the