Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-03-08

and onions, as green food is essential. Add
small quantity OF salt, and do not over
look the water.
Clingstone peaches sell Just about as well
as freestones if properly handled. They
grow better handle better. ship better,
and are always better favored. After peo-
pie learn how TO get them off the stones,
they prefer them, said E. A. Riehl before
a meeting of the Illinois Horticultural So
ciety.
Those who take pains, work hard and
struggle to secure certain crops that others
will not grow, owing TO the difficulties in
the way, are nearly always sure to secure
good prices for the same. 1t is the work
that pays, and the most proitsble crops
are those that require attention and good
management
There is no advantage in having a COW
that gives a small quantity of very rich
milk. The COW that yields a pound of
butter and gives large quantity of milk
10 produce it is more valuable as q dairy
COW than the one giving the same amount
Of butter from one-half the quantity Of
milk produced by the other.
The liberal use of land plaster in the
stables, in the manure heap and even on
the grass land will be found one OF the
cheapest and best modes of saving manure
and increasing the yield of crops. Plaster
is slightly soluble in water, and affords
lime for plants as soon as applied 10 the
crops. 1t is also an excellent absorbent
and deoderizer.
If your manure heap is low and you
cannot manure all your land, concentrate
your efforts to a small area, or purchase
fertilizers. Never attempt TO make a
small quantity of manure cover a large
space. The free use of manure will save
labor and loss from drought, as the plants
will grow more rapidly at first, send their
roots down deep, and get ahead of the
weeds.
There are some weeds that put in an ap-
pearance early in the season, and take
possession of the land before the seed
planted comes up. To assist in giving
them a chance to grow plow, the land
early, and as soon as the seeds of the weeds
have sprouted go over the field with the
cultiyator, and also harrow the ground,
before planting the crop. This will les
sen the weeds and put the land in better
The house cellar win not be benefited
by warm weather, so far as the decay of
stored vegetables are concerned. The eel
Ter should be kept clean and free from
odors On mild days a current of air
should be allowed to pass through for a
short time. Any signs of decay of the
fruit or vegetables should prompt you to
at once overhaul the bins and clean out
the rotten or diseased potatoes or roots,
and the milk should never be placed in
a cellar that is used for the storage of
crops.
The rot and mildew in grapes can be
kept in check by the use of the Bordeaux
mixture, as has been demonstrated during
the last season. The application must be
made as soon as the buds swell. To make
the mixture slake four pounds of lime
with sufficient boiling water for the pur-
pose, and when cold slowly add stirring
the while) twenty-five gallons Of cold
water in which six pounds of sulphate Of
copper (bluestone) has been previously
dissolved.
The demand for pure milk in cities and
towns is likely to increase faster than the
Multitudes of people are not
vet aware of its value as an article of daily
diet. Milk and bread are far better for
children than the cakes and pies that are
fed to them in such abundance now. As
the laws of health become better known
such things as milk and eggs will have a
better market. They are natural pro-
duets, while cakes, pies and the whole
brood of continental dishes are devices
that decredit good sense more or less.
A new by-product of the dairy is an
nounced 1t is called '1actoserin," and
is a Swedish invention, or the result of
such invention, the same as the separator
and extractor. 1t has been examined by
the editor of the american DdiIpnan,
who appears to think it a success. II is
nothing more nor less than skinned milk
made dry and then baked to yellowish
brown color. 1t is said to have been tested
in the German hospitals where it was not
1nly pronounced wholesome, but to be
good for infants, and to have curative
We await developments.
The most dangerous part of woodchop-
ping is cutting of saplings freshly bent
over by falling trees At the first stroke
they will usually split up, and one portion
flies back or sideways with power sufficient
to knock a horse over or pierce him
through. Choppers have lashed their axes
TO long poles and done the chopping from
a safe distance. Another dangerous opera
tion is to cut down a tree when another
tree leans against it, for it can
seldom be told which way they will fall,
and then the leaning tree is liable to drop
straight down at any moment and catch
the chopper in "deadfall."-New York
Tribune.