Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-10-25

evaporating. The second size should no
be mixed with the largest, nor the large
with the smaller. A package composed
wholly of medinm-sized fruit will sell bet
ter than if few large ones are mixed
through it, for the few large ones will spoi
the appearance of the smaller by contrast
PLANTING POTATOES.
If the coming season could only be fore
known it would be much easier to make
exact rules for the hest ways of conducting
farm operations. 1t is generally agreed
that in times of drouth, or on land subject
to it, potatoes planted four, FIVE or even six
inches deep, thrive better and suffer les:
than those planted at shallower depths
1t has been our practice to regulate depth
of planting largely by the condition of the
ground at planting time. If the soil is
cold and wet we do not cover so deeply as
we do later in the season. Yet nine times
out of ten, the only evil that ever befell
the potatoes came from drouth. Even the
very early potatoes may often suffer from
too shallow planting, while we never knew,
except In one or two cases, on heavy, I'M
drained ground, potatoes to be injured by
too deep planting. Ofcourse, deep planting
alone is not sufficient to insure crop, but
it is powerful aid to good cultivation. If
the potato set be in the ground deeply, the
harrow may be used freely to destroy
weeds before the top appears above the
surface. Besides with deep planting there
is not the need or apparent need of piling
earth around the hills or, as it is usually
called chilling up" to keep the potatoes
from burning" The tubers will not al
ways set as deeply as the seed is planted,
but they will not grow out of the ground
and turn green in the sun, as they usually
do when planted shallow and hilled up
Coleman's Rural World.
HANGERS
Fixed and permanent managers, as a gen.
eral rule, save time and labor in feeding
stock. All animals should have low man
gers, otherwise the muscles of the neck be-
come stiff or contracted by the non-use of
natural exercise. This is most readily OBJ
servable in race-horses and stations which
are confined in stalls. For such tub or
box should be used, and removed from the
stall Immediately after feeding But the
special advantage of movable feed trough
a discharge from the nostrils, as the soiled
feed vessels can be more readily and COM
pletely cleansed. Horses long confined in
cities, whose working lives are spent in Sc
we're confinement in cramped stalls with
high hay-racks and feed-boxes, when, from
lameness or injury, they are sent in the
country to pasture for recovery or recupera-
ton, suffer severe pain in grazing. If this
is not soon discovered the horse is returned
to the owner in half-starved condition,
and the poor beast is a fit subject for the
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Administration Agricultwist.
APPLES FOR COWS.
A Lameille county (Vt.) correspondent
of the Rural Ne,u Yorker writes: MY
father and myself have fed apples to mich
cows for many years, and have never, in
our experience, seen any i'll effects from
the practice. | think that those who
have had trouble must have fed iuiu-
diciously-they must have given too many
to begin with, or something of the kind.
Cooking seems to double the value of ap-
pies for food. Fitting them in this way
causes good deal of work, but believe it
pays. | have stored large quantities of
apples when / have had them, to be used
N the early winter like roots, and | have
always considered them as valuable as the
after. | have also fattened number of
;attle on cooked apples, and found that
hey fattened easily, and made beef of the
very best quality. | have never fed SKIM
milk to cows, using it all for hens and
chickens. think that sweet skim milk
would be a good feed for COWS, but have
NY doubts about sour milk and whey"
SALT FOR FOWLS.
Poultry are never to be sailed. Salt
IS very injurious to them. Sailed meat,
ish, or any other salt food, rapidly kills
.hem"
Advice similar to the above every now
and then pops out in the papers. 1t is all
Dosh We have kept fowls for years, feed
salt two or three times week, and have
never been able to trace up a single death
that was caused by the feeding of salt.
We do not believe in too free use of the
article A teaspoonful, thoroughly mixed
in the soft food for twenty fowls, is about
enough.
DO NOT GREASE CHICKS.
While grease will kill lice, it will also
kill the chicks if used too freely. A few
drops on the heads, necks and faces of
chicks is sure death to lice, but some other
remedy must be used on the body. Be-
cause grease has proved beneficial when
used in small quantities, some have been
tempted to use more of it than is desir-
able, and with fatal results to both lice
and chicks. Kerosene, when applied on
fowls or chicks, is dangerous remedy, as
it irritates and blisters the skin, and
quickly kills if too freely used. Sweet oil,
cottonseed oil, lard oil or linseed oil are
harmless, but even they should be used
with judgment.
FARM NOTES.
Keep the onions in a cool place, and
spread them out Never pile them up in
heaps.
The sale of milk in bottles is increasing
in popularity in some of the Eastern
States.
Use little mutton tallow or vaseline
when there are signs of the cows teats
cracking
Plans for numbering farm houses and
others in the country are being tried In
some States.
If there is anything that needs a
thorough cleaning occasionally it is the
water-trough.
While putting the tools and implements
away do not forget to coat them with
kerosene, as it is an excellent preventive
of rust.
All recent agricultural exchanges that
refer to the practice of sulphuring fruit
condemn it. Not one has word to say in
its favor.
Germany sent to the United States last
year beet-root sugar to the value of Sl6,-
100000. Two years ago the amount was
less than 81 100000.
In France practical knowledge of gard
ening is given in the primary schools. In
this country the gardens of many large
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