Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-27

I'LL duO IOlInS y O66uLlIut COOI6St
TO the Ark shining green of the center. A
taf.s, a handsome climber with small,
FOUND, dark green leaves that will cling
tenaciously to any rough surface. 1t is ex-
csllent for conservatory decoration, where
it can remain permanently. The leaves of
these plants. not being numerous, can be
readily kept free from dust by wiping with
q moist sponge. This should also be done
with palms and all large-leaved plants at
least once week.-American Agriculttrist.
THE PECAN TREE BECOMING VALUABLE.
The Southern journals consider that the
pecan tree is becoming too valuable for
lumber. The woodman's axe is passing
them by in many places. and in some dis
tricts the planting of the pecan is extern
slye. Our National Agricultural Depart
ment says: THE pecan is the nut of the
future, and the Southern planters who are
setting great orchards of pecan trees now
will reap big fortunes in a few years
hence. One man who has an orchard OF
1000 grated pecan trees, in Florida, ex-
poets revenue of $4,000 annually from
them. The pecan grows only in America,
and plantations of them are now started
numerously in all the Gulf States. The
finest specimens now produced come from
the neighborbood of Ocean Springs, Miss.
Writers generally treat the pecan as ex-
clusively Southern nut tree, but very fine
ones grow in Posey county, Indiana, lati-
tude 800.
KEEPING GRAPES IN WINTER.
The mode of packing larger fruit for
keeping during and through winter, in
shallow trays about three inches deep,
placed one above another, SO that each tray
covers the one below, answers an excellent
purpose for keeping grapes, says the AL
bany CultiOdtor. They may be placed in
cool apartn ent, where the temperature
never goes much below freezing. Grapes
which have been well grown and ripened
will bear several degrees below the freezing
point, while poorly ripened ones from un-
pruned vines are easily frozen. Select such
varieties as do not drop. pick on a clear
day. ventilate and dry ten days. remove all
defective berries, keep dry, cool and suf-
iciently aired. Examine the fiat boxes in
the pile successfully once month.
NUTMEG.
Nutmeg and mace, two of the principal
spices of commerce, grow in the same pod.
The tiny tree upon which they grow is al
most identical with pear tree two to three
years old. The nutmeg is the center or
seed of the fruit. which is about the size of
an ordinary hens egg. The best COMPARE
son of the fruit would be with the hickory
nut. In ripening, the outside cracks open,
showing the nutmeg inclosed in a thin lacy
covering, which is the mace. 1t is found
in all the tropical islands of America and
Asia, the most fruitful trees growing in
Jamaica, some of them yielding as many
as 5000 nutmegs in year.
EGGS FOR MATCHING.
If the weather is not too cool, the eggs
may be placed in the cellar on trays or
racks, and turned half over twice week.
Any temperature above freezing, so that
the eggs are kept cool, will answer. Eggs
Kept in this manner will hatch when six
weeks old, and the chicks will be as strong
and as active as those from freshly laid
eggs. If any of our readers have doubts on
the matter, let them try the experiment
with few eggs at first.
THE BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.
More sugar is now made from beets than
from sugar.cane. and the results of the
beet-sugar industry at Grand Island, Neb.,
have encouraged the farmers who are inter-
ested in beet sugar in the belief that it is
possible to make the sugar-beet industry a
profitable one in this country. Over six
teen tons of beets can be grown on an acre,
and they serve not only for the production
of sugar. but also as food for stock in the
pulpy condition. Discoveries and inven.
tons are rapidly cheapening the cost, and
in few more years there is possibility of
sugar beet factories springing up IN ali Sec
lions.
FARM NOTES.
Many abandoned farms have been given
up because they were too large to be profit
ably cultivated. 1t is very seldom that
small farm is abandoned.
Growing trees of any kind is growing a
crop. Now, if we will use the trees as we
use other crops, giving them good, rich soil
and decent care, we shall act wisely, and
likely successfully grow one crop of trees
tits unnecessary to teach an incubator
Matched chick TO eat; they will soon learn.
twenty-four hours. Afterward they will
generally obey the instincts of nature and
pick around for morsel
According to On English exchange, the
custom of explaining by school children
on certain day in each year, known as
"Arbor day." has been imported from
America into Australia, in accordance with
the decision of the Minister for Public In
struction.
Before frosts catch bedding plants, Sc
cure some cuttings for next springs use.
1t is often left till too late for fear of spoil
ing the plants for display now, but it can
be but few more weeks before the cold
will finish them for the season in most
places, and stock should be preserved now.
The corners of the fences, where the
weeds have died down, can be raked out
and the refuse consigned to the flames. 1t
will be astonishing to view the large pile
that can be accumulated from such ne
elected places, which serve more than any
other source to distribute weeds on the
farm.
The farmer is always ready to pay more
for well-made goods than for the poorer
articles. The same rule applies to farm
produce. That which sells for the highest
priceis of the best quality. By endeavor-
ing TO produce superior crops, or stock, not
only can higher prices be obtained but the
produce is also larger.
Ammonia in the stables is injurious to
animals, and especially to the horse. Am
monis is quickly generated from liquids in
the stalls. To prevent this the stalls should
be we'll Uttered with absorbent material
and cleaned out daily. Litter once used
should not be dried and used again, but
consigned to the manure heap.
1t is claimed that the limit to production
is unknown, and that the land can be made
to yield to an extent, OF any crop adapted
to it, beyond the most sanguine expecta-
tons, as the future may bring into practice
methods of cultivation and manuring not
now known, the result being larger aver
age crops without loss of fertility.
Delaware raised an enormous quantity of
tomatoes this year, the number of cans
prepared for market exceeding 100000. A
ton of tomatoes, as they come from the
field, will fill 400 to $50 cans. Calling it
425. product of 100000 cans means that
II, 200 tons of tomatoes were purchased by
the Gamers in that State this year.
Sheep that are exposed to snow-storms
are more subject to injury therefrom than
other animals, as the wool collects the
snow, which is warmed by the body of the
sheep, portion of it reaching the skin.
The sheep is tender animal, and when i'll