Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-20

frequently be grown with profit on the
same field in one season.
One of the most important items in
feeding, and one that is very frequently
overlooked, is regularity. Health and
thrift are both promoted by feeding stock
of all kinds at regular hours. All classes
of stock viii fret if the time passes for
their meal, and they do not receive it, and
whenever they are fretting they are losing.
If farmers would take one good breed of
fowls and carefully study their character
istics they would make double the profit
than if they keep trying to originate some
new breed. 1t sounds nice to hear your
self spoken of as the originator OF some
new and valuable breed, but few succeed in
starting variety Of fowl that amounts to
anything.
The healthy tree is easily distinguished.
The deeper the green color of the leaves
the more thrifty the tree. A yellow color,
no matter how slight, indicates that
something is wrong. Examinations and
comparisons of the trees in the orchard
will enable the grower to easily detect any
lack of vigor in the trees by the shades Of
color of The leaves.
A pound of butter per week for each
COW may make the difference between
profit or loss. This difference depends on
the kind of COW. 1t pays to use only the
best. If your COWS are not up to the re-
quired standard, grade up the herd with
the use of thoroughbred males. Never
| allow a scrub bull on the farm, even if the
scrub COW is given place.
A COW may be worth 500 or she may
be worth only $50, but the low-priced COW
may be the more costly. If a choice arti-
Gle of butter or large yield of milk is Sc
cured from the 500 COW it will be greater
in extent and proportionately, compared
with the cheaper animal. As dairyman
expresses it, if 500 COW gives $50 profit
in one year, $40 COW viii give only $40
profit or perhaps nothing.
In France the poultry industry is recog-
nized by the Government, and it is owing
to this fact that the Houdan fowls have
attained their reputation as the best table
fowls. The French people are great epi-
cures, and they have succeeded in breeding
the Houdans with full, round breasts, with
meat tender and juicy, and these fowls, fol
the same number of pounds, will dress
more than any other breed.
Something more than putting away the
seed is necessary if good crops are ex.
pected next year. The seed potatoes and
the seed corn should be selected and placed
in some location separate from that in.
tended for sale. 1t is by careful selection
that the quality is improved. Many dis
eases of plants might be avoided by select
ing only the healthy tubers and grains fol
seed and rejecting all that in the least
manner give indications of being affected
by rot Or rust. Keep the seed corn in g
dry place and the potatoes in cool bin.
Take ten gallons of apple juice fresh
from the press and suffer it to ferment
fully, which may be in about two weeks OIL
sooner if the weather is warm. Then ado
ten gallons of like juice, new, for producing
a second fermentation. In ten weeks more
add another like new quantity for produc
ing a third fermentation. This third fer.
mentation is material. Now stop the bung
hole with an empty bottle, with the neck
downward, and expose the barrel to the
sun for some time. The acetous, or vine.
gar fermentation, will be promoted by add
ing to the cider at the beginning guam
tity of mother of vinegar. D. not add any
water to the cider The sweeter the cider
the stronger the vinegar.
For both potato-rot and bugs the Bor-
deaux mixture, containing six pounds Of
copper as (blue vitriol) and four pounds Of
lime to twenty two gallons of water, with
one pound of London-purple added to each
100 gallons of the mixture, was used by the
Ohio Experiment Station last year, the
vines being sprayed on May 2Sth, June
Goth, June 10th and July 10th. Blight
appeared about the middle of June
and did serious damage for the next six
weeks on such plants as were not sprayed
The sprayed vines showed much less in
jury, remaining green after the others were
dead, and yielded profitable crop, while
the blighted and unsprayed portion Of the
field was practically failure. The tuber:
on the treated portions were also much
more free from scab.