Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-01-11

| for something that pays We have it in
| the goose. But it is not fashionable now
for farmers wives and daughters to pick
geese. 1t is hard to find any fancy work
that pays much. Any smart girl can
make muscle and money raising geese"
Late tomatoes may be kept long after
the frosts have destroyed the vines and
the ripe fruit has disappeared from the
market, by picking the green tomatoes
as late as possible and packing them in
dry sand, putting them away where they
will not freeze. A few days before wanted
take out layer from the sand, place
them in sunny window or in warm
room, where they will ripen and be as
nice as though fresh from the vines.
Plenty of salt is great preventive of
disease, says the Sheep Breeder and Wool
GrOWer. Witness the health of focks
grazing on the salt grasses of the South
Atlantic and Gulf coasts, the lowland
villa Tsp robolisssdiroides) of Utah, and the
salt brush" of Arizona. Though they
may be slightly injured at first by the ex-
cess of salt in this class of vegetation, ulti-
mately they cease to be affected by it, and
thenceforth they are measurably proof
against most diseases which assail their
kind.
Horticulturists are now endeavoring to
breed out the troublesome core from
apples. We quote from the New York
Tribune: 1.-TWO cases lately put on record
of seedless sorts of apple-one OF them rep
resented as large and good winter vari-
ety-come directly in clash with Professor
Claypole's proposition to breed out the
troublesome core from the best of our
fruits 1t is worthy of attention, espec-
tally as the trees are much more exhausted
by the production of seeds than by that of
their development, and usually more seeds,
less eatable pulp and the harsher its quail.
ity."
The cattle of Canada have all along
been accorded better treatment in the
markets of Great Britain than those
from the United States. There is moth
ing strange about this when the relation
of Canada to the mother country is con-
sidered. 1t has been proposed, though
lately, by some Canadian statesman, that
cattle from the United States should be
admitted into that country without re-
striction. The agricultural press opposes
his measure, on the ground that it would
result in Canadian expectation being sur
rounded with the same difficulties which
now attend the export trade of the United
States. 1t is not at at all likely that this
restriction will be removed.
For ornamenting large farm there
are few trees or shrubs that will COM
pare with the common wild crab-apple
Few blossoms are more beautiful or fra
grant than those it produces in profusion
The foliage of the tree is fine, and its
fruit is ornamental as well as useful
Better jelly, marmalade and cider are
made from them than from any variety
of the apple. The trees are as hardy as
hazel bushes or Canadian thistles, and
will grow in almost any situation. They
can be raised from seed with very little
trouble in the places where it is desired
to have them stand. 1t is often desira-
bic to do this, as the trees are difficult
to transplant The Virginia crab-apple i.
one of the most desirable of orchard
trees. 1t bears generously and make.
most luscious cider-the highest priced il
market.