Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-12-13

given may be lacking in some constituent
element essential to the production of
eggs. Change the food frequently. There
is nothing so good as a variety.
John J. Thomas mentions two good
sized Newtown Pippin trees which were
for some time practically fruitless. The
| ground was dug early in spring around one
for distance, and wagon-load of manure
spread on the stirred surface Result, the
second year this yielded forty bushels of
| fine apples, while the other, not cultivated
nor fortified, had thin, worthless crop.
A person writing in lie Progress Agicole
gives his experience with root gratis on the
grape. As soon as the leaves had fallen
| from his vines he set out 200 plants of one
variety and 100 of another. In June of
the following year he grated all the vines.
OF the first lot 81 per cent. grew and of
the second So per cent. The gratis are
strong and healthy and throw out no roots,
and an entire year is saved.
| Each farm needs special system of
I farming to certain extent, as the lay of
the land, the texture of the soil, the com
position of the soil and the climate are
! points to be considered but no farmer is
correct in adhering too closely to old meth
DDS. Tests and experiments should be
made each year in order to determine the
full capacity of the farm for producing
those crops that will prove most profitable
if grown upon it.
One-half the amount of care required to
earn $50 tilling some crop will produce
that amount for the farmer if bestowed
upon his flock of fowls If you propose to
him to persistently neglect his best COW
from one end of the year to the other lie
will set you down as a candidate for
lunatic asylum, yet a common-sized flock
of fowls such as are kept at most farm
steads, will yield as much as frst-rate
COW.
The frost is a powerful agent in reduc-
ing the soil. Heavy land, when turned
up to the action of the frost, is pulverized
by the contraction and expansion of heat
and cold. \ lump Of earth that is soaked,
and then becomes frozen, is pulverized to
fine powder. If lime is spread on fall
plowed land the soil will become not only
fine by the effects of the frost, but the lime
also assists in compelling chemical changes,
which add more soluble plant food for the
use Of crops.
Pure charcoal, or the charred wood
from the stove, when fresh, is an excel
lent aid in arresting bowel complaints,
and Is both simple and harmless. Where
the hens have not had variety, parched
! grain, nearly burnt, affords an agreeable
change and serves nearly the same pur-
pose as charcoal. Oats, corn, wheat, or
even bran, will be readily eaten by hens
when they have been regularly fed on a
sameness of diet, and such food will
greatly aid in arresting diarrhoea or other
bowel disorders.
1t appears to some farmers that the
stocking with pure breeds is expensive,
and for that reason they are slow to use
something better than the stock they have;
but it is not expensive to grade up the
stock, as single male may improve an en-
tire herd or flock. Improvement adds size
and productiveness, and it is loss TO him
who fails to make his young stock superior
to the old ones. By aiming for something
better it will be but few years before the
entire herd is changed in characteristics,
and will possess greater value as well as
give a larger profit.
According to an English authority
there Is one measurement in cattle which
Is the key TO all other measurements OF
the animal This is the length of the
/ head. In a well.ssoportioned beast he