Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-12

mtiGH Oh IdTultI. II lHclS - any ACSSo-
sity ior starving anything let the farmer
starve himself, and not his helpless ami
mails. He will then know how IL feels.
The cellar of the house is the danger
spot. Typhoid fever, diphtheria and
other ailments may often be traced to de-
caying matter in the cellnr, assisted by
the well that has not been cleaned for
several years. Every well, no matter
how clear and sparkling the water, should
be cleaned out at least once year.
At the American Horticultural meeting
at Austin, Texas, Mrs. S. E. Sherman of
Salado, Texas, read paper on "The
Honey Bee showing its usefulness to the
horticulturist and the value of the honey
it gathered, even if used only as a pre-
server of the fruit the horticulturist raises.
The paper was well received.
For a lawn SOW at the rate of three
bushels of blue grass per acre. This viii
cost SO, or 50 per bushel for excellent seed
weighing fourteen pounds to the bushel.
There is nothing better for lawn. Redtop
comes next. For moist soil ii is better.
The price is but S125 per bushel of four
pounds, or IS per 100 pounds.-Rurdt New
Yorker.
Never grow trees of different kinds to-
gether until satisfied that one does not
iniure the other, as is frequently the case
when plums are grown near peaches, thus
inducing the curculio to sometimes attack
the latter. A single wild cherry tree near
an apple tree will provide a harboring
place for caterpillars, which finally injure
the apple orchard.
If you buy small roses in the spring my
advice is that you plant them in pots or
cans, and set these in shallow box of
earth, having the earth to come up to the
top of the pots These YOU can easily
keep moist sufficiently, and they will BE-
in fine condition for transplanting to their
final resting place by August. You will
be having blooms all the summer, too, and
with but little trouble.-Rural Home.
Ii may be possible to give nearly per-
feet ration for an animal, but it is not
always advisable to use such ration. 1t
is possible that in some seasons or in some
sections the cost of an element in that
ration would make it unadvisable to feed.
We must feed, to some extent, according
to circumstances, always keeping in mind
that it never pays to feed what will abso-
lutely injure the animal, however cheap
it may be.
Food values and analyses are well
enough, but the farmer who keeps a sharp
eye on his stock, and notes the appetite of
each auimal, will know more about how to
feed and what to give them than all the
learned professors" in the country. We
do not mean to infer that the tables OF
feeding values are useless or that the
efforts Of scientists are futile, but animals
differ in characteristics, and the only way
to know is by practical observation.
J. II. Hale, the introducer of the Ear
hart everbearing raspberry, says that a
Limited quantity of fruit out of season
will sell at very high prices, but there is
no demand for very large supply hence
he has never recommended the Earhart as
a market variety; but as novelty for the
garden it has no equal, and will give many
meal of delicious berries long after every
thing else Of the kind is gone. No fruit
garden is complete without the Earhart."
We cannot too often repeat to inquirers
after the best COW food. says the Jersey
Bulletin, that no one food known will
either bring or keep COW up to her best
work in butter-making. Short, fine, nutri-
tious grass is as good or better than any
other one thing, but the best of grass needs
to be re enforced by more or less of grain.
So the very best conceivable ration OF
grain needs to be re-enforced by grass or
some other succulent food, such as good
corn silage.
good compost for pot plants or any,
thing else can be made as follows: Skim
of slices of sods, mix with fine brush and
weeds, let get dry, and turn the whole
mass. Mix this well with some leaf mold,
well decomposed manure (cow dung being
best), one-third sand. This compost will
grow anything in the ordinary line to per-
lection. If prepared in the fall, store out
OF the reach of frost and turn occasionally.
By spring it will be in admirable order.
Cultivate less land if your manure heap
is small. There is just as much lack of
judgment in endeavoring to cover ten
acres with the manure that should 90 on
one acre as in using lump of butter on
ten slices of bread when it will only an
swer for one. Besides this, it takes more
labor to spread the manure on ten acres
than on one. Concentite your labor, con-
centrate your manure, and you may con-
centrate your crops without lessening the
quantity.
There Is no argument we can possibly
use in favor of fooling away valuable time
and wasting your energies in keeping COM
mon dung-hill fowls. 1t costs no more to
rear good birds than bad ones. If you
rear a lot of scrubs you can sell neither
eggs nor poultry at any price. You will
take more pride in good poultry than poor
stock, and viii be much more apt to make
the business a success if you are proud of
your birds and delight to show them off to
visitors or fanciers. BY all means keep
pure stock.
A correspondent to the Farmers Club
Journal says he filled an old basket, with
the bottom partly out, with scraps from
the meat market, and hung it up in his
coop where the youngest chickens were
confined. The blewflies had a regular
barbecue over it, and in twelve hours from
the time the basket was hung up the little
maggots were dropping from the bottom in
a small shower. The chickens feast on
them and will eat hardly anything else,
and grow as chickens never grow on boiled
rice or cornmeal"
Miser Durand's Fortune
a rather remarkable miser named Du-
rand has just departed this life in the
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