Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-04
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CARE OF CREAM.
Cream should be kept cold and sweet
until there is enough for churning, and
then all soured or ripened alike by putting
in warm room and stirring from bottom
to top once an hour. Experts claim that
this method will produce one-tenth more
butter than by the promiscuous mixing of
the cream in all stages of ripening, and if
faithfully observed would save the butter
makers of the country thousands of dollars
The time taken to churn does not affect
product unless forced by temperature, and
need not exceed fifteen minutes if cream is
in proper condition Milk cooled rapidly
to forty degrees will give clean separa-
ton of cream in four to twenty hours
Winter dairying was commended. The
u Sc of malt sprouts was condemned, as the
butter will not keep. Cause supposed to
be undeyeloped nitrogen.
FARM NOTES.
There is hardly anything better for the
cracked and sore teats of cows than rich,
old boiled linseed oil. 1t softens them
and enters every crack, and then dries,
forming skin which keeps the sore from
dirt and the air and allows it to heal rap
idly.
Can l grow mutton proftably 300 miles
from the market? asks a correspondent.
Well, Kentucky sells more than 10000
sheep every year in the Boston market,
and gets more per pound for them than
New England breeders can get for their
sheep.
If we could impress farmers and garden
ers with the Importance of thoroughly
testing seed before planting we should re-
move the cause of an immense amount of
failure in crops. Nine-tenths of the
trouble in growing crops, We believe, is to
be found in poor seed.
According to the Rural New Yorker a
salt meadow hay mulch six inches deep
applied every FIVE or six years is great
benefit to an orchard. The best orchard
the editor ever saw was treated in this
way, the hens being occasionally turned in
to give the hay good scratching.
If farmers who have large weeds grow
ing in front of their farms would take a
ride along those where the weeds are kept
moved down it seems to us they would
surely NOW their own weeds. The trouble
is light and the improved. appearance
worth great deal to the farm and the
farming reputation.
For the great mass of farmers the cheap
est, safest and best method of improving
their stock is the continued use of good
and pure bred sires on the best females OBJ
tainable, but the present low prices of pure
breed stock makes it an especially good
time in which TO lay the foundation for a
full bred flock or herd
After the road tax is worked out many
farmers think that all they do after that on
the roads is lost labor. Really, the making
of good roads is more to the farmers inter-
est Ian any other kind of tax he pays.
Equally so it should seem is the keeping of
weeds from seeding, either on his own land
or that of his neighbors.
The personal qualities of the animals to
be used in breeding are more important
than those of their ancestors; the qualities
of parents more important than grand
parents, and vastly more Important than
those of any more remote ancestors. The
offspring resembles the parent much more
frequently than it does some more remote
ancestor.
1t seems singular that this country, the
greatest producer oil bresdstuffs in the
world, should be an importer of breadstuffs
at the same time Yet we do import this
class of products to a limited extent, al
though the fact that we do may be news to
many people. In the first nine months of
the current year We imported breadstuffS
to the value Of S3,310,147.
A poultry yard can properly be the
dumping ground for great deal of vege-
table rubbish, to give the occupants exer-
else in scratching and to convert the rub
Dish into manure or mulch. A ton of
weeds, straw, leaves, salt or bog hay, sea-
weed or cornstalks will soon be scratched
fine in populous poultry-yard. The
weather assists, Of course.
If you cannot procure meat for your
fowls, buy them some cotton-seed meal
If fed daily, one pint to mess of soft
food for 200 hens is sufficient Milk is
also an excellent substitute FOX meat, and
in fact, is considered preferable by some
anced their ration may be, change it often.
A variety Of food gives zest to the appetite
and stimulates digestion.
There is much more nutriment in the
seed of sorghum than there is in broom
corn seed, which in its habit of growth it
so much resembles. Sorghum seed is really
a valuable grain, and in China and India
il constitutes much more of human food
than any other grain. Wheat and rice
are considered extra delicacies, while sor-
ghum grain is the staple Of the poorer and
working classes. 1t really makes better
griddle-cakes when ground than any other
grain excepting buckwheat, and for poul-
try 1t is considered better than corn
There are two classes of insecticides,
those that are used as internal poisons,
and those that kill by contact. OF the
former we have Paris green, London purple
and white arsenic, which are diluted by
lime, plaster, -four or finely sifted ashes,
and busted upon plants, the leaves of which
are consumed by the depredsry insects. OF
the latter there are helIebore, pyrethrum,
csrbolic acid, tobacco, bisulphate of carbon,
benzine, gasoline, coal tar and kerosene
emulsion. Lime and plaster are also et-
fectual in some cases in repelling insects.
One would think that every dairyman
would strive to produce butter which the
consumer would take off his hands at a
profit. Such is not the case. WesterH
dairymen are waking up to progressive
methods of butter making. Their market
for choice creamery butter is broadening
year by year. Not only does the Western
dairyman send his fine products TO the
Atlantic cities, but also to the Pacific
slope In the first ten days in October
Los Angeles alone received five carloads
of Eastern butter. She has imported 227,
600 pounds of butter in the past six
months. California depends on Iowa and
Wisconsin for her choice butter.-Americas
CHltludtor.
You can easily stop horse or COW from
jumping fences when out at pasture in this
way: Put a strap, with a ring on it, around
the near foreleg, above the knee, and a
sursingle or belt with ring around the