Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-08-30

consume, and thereby convert into meat
butter and milk the foods which are bes
salable in those forms. To retain some
thing that does not produce him profit
is to incur an expense, and to be content
with the produce of one-half of the tlock
or herd, instead of demanding the full
quota from all, is to compel the profitable
stock to support that which is unprofit
able, which doubles the expense to the
farmer and also reduces his profits to that
/ extent.
As the summer passes away and the cold
season begins, it must be kept in view that
each animal must consume greater pro-
! portion of food, and the reduction of ex-
pense must be made by reducing the num-
Der of animals, culling out all that do not
| give prospect of immediate profit. Ex-
penses may be reduced also by blowing the
land and hauling out manure at such sea-
sons when it can be done advantageously,
instead of waiting until pressing work is
in the way; and expenses may be reduced
by seeding down unoceupied land with rye.
to be plowed under in the spring. There
is no economy in dispensing with the neces-
sary stock or tools, or emitting labor that
should be applied, but everything for winter
may be made ready in advance with view
to have all expenses reduced to maxi
mum, and in every direction.
FRUIT TREES IN GRASS.
Meadows and sowed grain crops are es-
pecially hurtful to newly set fruit trees,
and clean and mellow broadcast eultiva-
ton is best. But young trees, for few of
their first years, if not practicable to have
clean and mellow surrounding of SOIL
should have the grass kept constantly short,
like the grazing of sheep or the close cut
ting of the lawn mower, with an added
broadcast heavy top-dressing of barn man
ure annually. The amount of this man.
ure must depend on the previous fertility
of the soil-sufhcient to cause an annual
growth Of / or feet. This treatment,
however, is better adapted to older bear
ing trees, the young trees which have for
several years the benefit of cultivated,
pulverized ground succeeding best.-Coun-
tly Gentleman.
FARM NOTES.
Experiment stations ought to show the
world before long what are the best modes
for wintering apples, says an exchange.
The New York Tribune says: planting
young trees to grow into living fence
posts is making the posts dig their own
holes and set themselves"
Sprinkle currant bushes well with water,
says the New York Tribune, and then dust
thoroughly with fine coal ashes. This
drives off the currant worm.
Pine tar is harmless and costs but little.
Apply it to the troughs from which sheep
drink. A small quantity of it on the
noses of sheep will defend them against
the CAD fly.
Parchment paper is the right thing for
wrapping butter in. 1t will not stick, is
air-proof, waterproof, tasteless and odor-
less, besides being cheaper and cleaner
than cloth.
Leave patch of turnips in the ground
for supply of spring greens. If covered
with straw and cornstalks the turnips will
keep in the ground all winter and begin
growth early in the spring.
Currant bushes should be hoed, which
not only cleans out the weeds and grass,
but renders the new growth more vigor
GUS A shovefnl of well-rotted manure,
worked into the soil, will prove beneficial.
Fruits that propagate from suckers
should always be planted where the grower
can get all around them-never against
fence or in garden corner Neglect of
this precaution will soon insure thicket,
says writer.
Stagnant water kills great many fruit
trees, and still they need great deal of
water, says an exchange. A well-drained
SOIL through which an excess of water
readily passes, is the best, undoubtedly, if
well cultivated.
Use up all the old straw before begin
ming on the new. Cut it up fine with the
fodder-cutter and make bedding Of it,
and when it is added to the manure heap
it will decompose easily and also assist in
absorbing liquids.
To prevent insects from depositing their
eggs upon plants when in flower, spray the |
latter with solution of one part OF vine |
gar to ten parts of water. This treatment |
has given excellent results at the School of |
Arboricul,ure at Lyons.
Ripening cream does not mean rotting !
it. Cream that stands until the whey be- |
gins to separate is simply rotten cream,
and butter made from it is spoiled before |
hand, and of course has neither quality nor
life. A word to the wise is sufficient.
The enterprising fruit-grower will visit
other orchards than his own as opportu-
nifty offers, says a writer. When he finds
things better than at home it inspires him
to greater effort; when his own orchard |
appears the best it makes him feel salts
fed and contented.
Buttermilk is given but little value on
an ordinary dairy farms, and where there
are pigs they are allowed the whole of the
buttermilk. 1t is very nourishing drink
in the summer for the farm help, and is
also excellent as an addition to the food of
poultry of all kinds.
Samuel B. Green, in Farm and Fireside,
says this upon the subject of mulching
orchards: "The best mulch is loose top
SOIL Any material spread over the sur
face induces the small roots to come to the
top, stimulates to late fall growth, and
damages the next crop"
Kerosene is fatal to all kinds of insects,
preventive of damage by the cabbage
worm. An objection to its use is that the
kerosene impregnates the cabbage with its
odor The remedy is as obnoxious as the
work of the cabbage-worm.
Remove all surplus honey at the close
of the honey season if intended for market.
Comb honey will become solid if left on
the hives during the summer. The upper
stories or surplus chambers should be left
on the hives throughout the hot weather
and until feeding is done in the fall.
A crop of weeds removes from the soil
as much of the elements of fertility as a
crop of grain, and exhausts the land just
as quickly. Do not grow weeds. Plow
them under as soon as they take possession
81 .ha land hv which nrocess they are re-