Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-02-01

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time and order. and thus turn out poor
article.
Every animal needs plenty of water
Water Pushes out the organs through
which it passes, thus aiding to carry off
the effete matter. Water, then, when
given to the COW, besides aiding her in
milk production, performs the other Of
flee Western Rural
Minnesota has passed an Act to prevent
the practice of fraud by tree peddlers in
the sale of nursery stock. Peddlers from
other States before being allowed to sell
must file an affidavit with the Secretary of
State of Minnesota that they are all right
and enter into $4,000 bonds to the same
effect.
1t is neither electricity nor thunder, nor
yet heat that sours milk. But the condi-
tons during a time of thunder storms are
favorable to the development of bacteria,
and these change the milk sugar to Tactic
acid, which causes the milk 10 sour.
This is according to the latest light
thrown on the subiect.-New Hampshire
Mirror.
Not for minute should smoking be al
use tobacco in the butter-room is not a
1T man to employ, and the sooner you
learn this the better it will be for you.
No creamery will be successful unless it is
kept clean, and those that are interested
in the success of the creamery should bear
this in mind.
The strongest wood in the United
States, according to Professor Sargent, is
that of the nutmeg hickory Of the Arkan-
sas region, and the weakest is the West
Indian birch. The most elastic is the
tamarack. the white or shellbark hickory
ranking far below it. The wood having
the highest specific gravity is the blue
wood of Texas.
A good practical farmer says: ''When-
ever we feed a pig much beyond eight or
nine months old, we are needlessly throw
ing away profit. We are very slow to
learn this, Notwithstanding that it has
been so often demonstrated. Perhaps we
know it, but are too lazy to get out of the
ruts in which we have been travelling for
years.-Aichigan Farmer.
Chicken feathers, if properly treated,
will make pillows which are almost as
light as those of geese. Use only the
downy, entire feather, stripping all of the
others from their shafts To kill the ran
cid odor, wash through warm water to
which you have added chloride of lime
a spoonful to gallon OF water-and dry in
an open oven.-Rur1l Ne,g Yorker
The cattle, horse, sheep and swine
raisers are unanimous in the assertion that
warmth is one of the essentials to success
full stock-raising in winter. The same is
equally true with poultry; in fact, it is one
of the branches of stockraising, and their
comfort should be looked after and guard
ed as carefully as that of the larger and
more costly animals. There is money in a
comfortable poultry-house.
From a log two feet or more in diameter
saw block two and half or three feet
long. Stand it on end and bore, gouge or
burn out of the top hollow space, into
which salt or grain can be put for stock to
lick. The advantages of this arrangement
are that horses and cattle cannot upset it,
hogs and poultry cannot reach it, and it
will not be used for other purposes and
left out of place,-Farm and Fweside.
In feeding and fattening hogs it is i'm
portant to have a lot as near of the same
size, weight and quality as possible; it will
sell for better price than lot of various
sizes and weights. If when fatted there
are few small ones, or one of extra size,
the lot will sell for more in the average if
you take these out and kill for home use
or dress for near market, or sell when a
shipment is being made of hogs that aver
age with them.
An exchange speaks thus highly of the
Brazilian -four corn: Each grain produces
from three to six stalks, and each stalk
from one to three ears, often making if
teen good ears to a hill, besides an i'm
mense quantity of excellent fodder. The
stalks are so soft and sweet that the hogs
and other stock eat them up clean. The
grain is very sweet and as white as snow,
makes the best of roasting ears, and as
good -four as wheat, when ground and
bolted.
The estimates of the Bureau of Stats
tics place the value of the poultry products
OF last year at S209OO0,0OO. With this
enormous value of products there were 81,
100000 worth of eggs imported, and for
the last four years this sum represents
about the average value Of the imports,
which ranged in price from IS to Is cents
per dozen. These figures would seem to
show to thinking mind that there is yet
a chance for ambitious poultrymen to in
dulge their tastes at profit.
How did it ever come to pass that all
men must sit on the right side of the COW
to milk? 1t has been suggested that the
hind sections of the udder contain nearly
as much milk again as the front sections,
and as the man is much stronger in his
tight hand than his left, he should sit at
the COW with his right hand next to these
large sections. This looks like sense, and
if we were Just starting into the milking
question there might be some heed given
to this argument; but as it is, the practice
of locating the mixer on the starboard side
of the COW has come to stay, and it would
take something much stronger than a logi-
cal argument to dislodge the mixers of
the country and unlearn the COWS that have
become accustomed to be MIXED from this
side-AmericdR DdiignldR.
MR.. srRAUs' PAPER.
vIcH SAME BAPER DITEET BAY.