Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-10

The bed is now ready for seeding. The
variety of seed recommended is yellow
Oronoco. The quantity sown should be
one and half tablespoonful to every
one hundred square yards. Great care
should be taken to SOW the seed as regu-
larly as possible, SO as to prevent some
spots from being too thin, and, what is
worse, other spots from being too thick.
To do so the seed should be carefully
measured and then thoroughly mixed in
convenient quantity Of dry ashes. and
the mixture divided into two equal parts.
The bed should be marked off into con-
venient sowing breadths by lines four feet
apart, and sowed entirely over With one
half the seed in one direction ana then
over again with the other half in the op-
posite direction, the sower retracing his
steps. The seed should be left upon the
surface, and neither hoed nor raked into
the soil, but trodden in with the foot or
pressed in with the back of a weeding-hoe,
or, better still, by passing light roller
over the bed. To prevent drifting or pud-
ding of the seed by washing rains. where
the ground is rolling, trenches slightly in
cl;ned, and two inches deep and four feet
apart, should be made with the mattock
across the bed. Where the ground is fat
and subject to being sobbed, it should be
thoroughly drained, as nothing browns
more easily than the tobacco plant.
YOUNG FRUIT TREES.
Much depends upon how the young trees
are managed the first year after they are
planted. Severe cutting back is beneficial
to the peach tree, and cases are known in
which old trees have been induced to make
new growth and continue bearing, even
when nearly gone, by cutting all of the old
wood away above the trunk. Low, stocky
trees stand the winds better, and the fruit
is easily picked, but the cultivator cannot
be used to advantage as among tall trees.
The failure to cut back severely the first
year, however, often results in but little
new wood and poor start for the young
tree, which should be guarded against, as
the future of the tree depends upon its
progress during the first season.
THE WORK OF THE ROOTS.
The greater the work done by the roots
the more rapid the growth of the tree
but there is such a thing as giving the
roots more than can be done. By cutting
back the young tree at the time of setting
it out, and allowing but few shoots to grow,
the power of the roots will be thrown into
| them, and as the roots will not be over
taxed, the tree will begin at once to grow,
and grow rapidly, each shoot pushing for
ward as if to excel the others; but when
too much top is left ON, each shoot of the
many will draw upon the roots and the re-
suit will be that but little growth will be
made, while the tree will be slow in COM
ing into bearing later on. By securing as
much growth as possible the first year the
future shape and trimming of the tree can
be done to better advantage, and this is
effected only when the young tree is al
lowed to grow from a limited number OF
shoots, and when it is cut back SO as not to
impose too much duty on the roots.
FERTILIZERS AND CULTIVATION.
The young orchard should be kept clean
the first year, and the more frequently it
IS cultivated the better. Grass should not
be allowed in peach orchard at any time,
though on rich soils grass is sometimes
grown in pear and apple orchards, but
| only after the first year. Unrotted manure
is too heating for young trees, and the best
manure is that which has been COM
posted. What is better, however, is an
application of wood ashes every spring,
applied literally, after the first year, with
100 pounds of superphosphates in the fall.
Young trees so treated will thrive, pro-
vided the very important work of destroy
ing insects of all kinds is carefully at
tended to.-Philadelpaa Record
GREAT EXPECTATIONS OF A cow.
Daniel f. Appleton, of New York,
proprietor of the Appleton farm, in Ip-
switch, has cow which, it is believed,
will beat the butter-making record of the
country. The years trial will be COM
pleted this week. At the end of the fifty
first week the record was 9313 pounds of
butter. The highest previous record in
this country was by a Kentucky COW, which
yielded 936 pounds in ifty-two weeks
Quincy Ledger.
FARM NOTES.
The old and long-established Chester
| white hog still holds leading position
among the white breeds of hogs.
Soak your seed-corn for forty-eight
hours in a solution made by dissoivine a
| pound of bluestone (-nlphate of copper
in one gallon of water, as preventive Of
| rust.
The value of any kind of fodder Is not
in its quantity, but in the amount that
is digestible. The quality largely depends
on the degree Of growth when it is cut and
cured
Now that the teams will be busy it is
| important that the harness fits the horse
Calls and sores on the horse may be
avoided by giving some attention to the
harness.
Small patches of wheat have been
grown which produced at the rate of 100
bushels per acre, yet the average yield Of
wheat in this country does not exceed II
bushels.
Do not work the horses too steadily at
first. A horse that has stood in the stable
all through the winter, doing but little
| work, is in no condition for doing heavy
days labor.
If you cannot keep the number of ami
| mails you have on your farm do not try
to get more land, but sell off portion of
the stock. 0vercrowding is as injurious
as too much room.
Dry soils should receive fiat cultiva-
ton and damp soils should be ridged.
The object, in the first place, is to save as
much OF the moisture as possible, and, in
the second, to get rid of the excess.
Alfalfa grows rapidly and should be cut
as soon as the blue flowers appear. 1t
thrives better when cut, and becomes
thicker. 1t is fully the equal of red clover
for stock, and contains larger proportion
of nutriment.
A correspondent of the Mirror states how
to avoid rot and scab in potatoes: aRoll
the land, and when the potatoes are four
| inches high sow on a mixture of fifteen
parts Of plaster, three parts slaked lime
and one part of fine salt.a
Variation of the food promotes appetite.
All animals become disguised with the
sameness OF food. When food is refused
tempt the animal with something else. In
4 this manner sickness end tfse ~ I'll -.