Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-17

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of Arab horses, gives it as his opinion,
that the Arab belongs to the original wild
races of Africa rather than of Asia, and
was introduced to southern Arabia by the
way of Abyssinia, whence ii is historical
that he spread northward He was not
known in Europe before the Mohammedan
conquest, but since then his blood has
spread through all lands visited by COM
munication with Mecca, through the
pilgrimage The Barb Of North Africa,
the Andalusian horse OF Spain, the Turk,
the Persian and the Turcoman have been
all largely infused for centuries with Arab
blood The first Arab blood in England
was probably brought through Spain and
France, and later from Palestine, by the
crusaders.-Neu York Times.
BOOSTS.
The best roosts for poultry house are
strips, four inches wide, and one inch
comfort to the feet. Thay should have a
clear space of one foot between them and
should all be on one level, and not more
than one foot from the floor. When they
are made like ladder, the fowls fight to
crowd to the top; and when they are high,
the hens are sometimes hurt by coming
heavily on the floor, when flying down.
Young fowls should not roost until they
are fully grown. 1t is best TO leave these
stay in the coop when the hen leaves
them. or is taken from them, and they will
stay there comfortably until the weather
gets too cold, or they are ready for sale.
1t is best to have a yard for the chicks
and the hens which are in coops, so that
they can be fed without trouble from the
other fowls.
EGG FOOD.
Here is recipe for good egg food: Ten
pounds best ground beef scrap, five pounds
fine ground bone, two pounds granulated
charcoal or powdered charcoal, one pound
sulphur, two ounces cayenne pepper, four
ounces salt. One quart Of this mixture tc
every 100 fowls given in soft food will pro.
duce most excellent results. This recipe
has never before been published, and could
not not have been bought from the author
1t is far superior to many of the manu-
features of egg foods on the market that
sell for high price. 1t is the recipe used
by James Rankin, one of the most sue
cessful, if not the most successful, of poul
try growers in the United States.
HENS EATING THEIR EGGS.
This Objectionable habit is generally de
veloped in fowls which do not have enough
variety in their food, especially when con
fined in small yard, where they cannot
scratch Broken oyster shells, bole meal
and variety of food should be given.
nest may be so arranged that the egg
when laid, rolls at once out of sight anc
reach Of the hen but, unless the bird i.
of special value, the surest and most expe-
ditious way to stop her from eating hel
eggs is to kill her.
FARM NOTES.
Packing eggs for Matching should b,
done In a way that safe arrival can b.
guaranteed. A neat chip of willow baske
should be used-the best you can obtain
Each egg should be covered with cottor
and over that wrapping of tissue paper
Fine hay or excelsior is excellent materia
to use in packing. If you have carefully
placed the eggs and packing about them
they will carry almost any distance with
out injury.
Many old apple trees are constantly sur
rounded by young sprouts that spring
forth where the trunk is injured by work
ing around it. These should be cut, closely
as possible to the trunk, and as fast as new
shoots start, as they will when the tree
gets in leaf, they should be rubbed off
They not only disfgure the tree, but diver
from it much of the sap, which, if sent NJ
through the trunk, would go to the pro
duction of fruit
Sometimes when a heavy coating o.
manure has been turned under in the gar.
den the best thing to be done is to replow
it, thus thoroughly mixing the manure
with the soil, as it can not well be done
otherwise. By this repeated turning of the
soil in warm weather, more warmth i:
given to the lower strata at the bottom Of
the furrow. The manure also is much
more effective than when left in one place
as the more particles Of soil come in con.
tact with it, the wider its fertilizing effect:
extend.
A little oil meal, mixed with other feed
is especially valuable in spring for both
cattle and horses. 1t promotes digestion
and helps loosen the old coat of hair, a:
well as to make the new one come on
glossy and beautiful. Il is often said that
fattening food must not ne given to horses
at work, but oil meal is strength giving as
well as fattening. Mixed with oat meal
it is better ration than the one common
ly given of corn and oats, but it is not ad.
visable to feed so large ration of it as is
often given of corn when that is fed with
oats.
Consul Fay, of Stettin, Germany, in a
communication to the United States De.
partment of Agriculture, states thai the
potato crop is one of the best paving in
Prussia, and the products therefrom, dex.
trine, potato flour, starch, ETC., shipped to
the United States from the port of Stettin
alone during the last three months
amounted to $4,000. German manufact.
urers are at loss to understand why we
purchase these products abroad when we
have such immense crops of corn, and espe-
cially when it is realized that the percent
age Of dextrine in corn is 80 per cent.more
than in potatoes.
A farm roller is most important and
valuable implement for those who exer-
else good judgment as to when it is to be
used. 1t Is Just what IS needed to press
winter grain firmly in the ground after
the surface is dried sufficiently. 1t is also
excellent on clover in spring, to press
down small stones that might be in the
way of close cutting with the mower. But
it should not be used on spring grain until
the latter is up three or four inches, nor
on corn ground at any season, if the soil
be at all heavy. Corn ground needs ia he
light as possible, and it must be made
mellow bv narrowing up, not by rolling
down.
The first early strawberries come from
plants two or more years old; hence it is
often well to have an old patch somewhere
to furnish the first family supply. But, Of
course, the largest and finest fruit come:
from the new bed of younger and more
thrifty plants. In testing new varieties Of
strawberries for earliness, We always plant
at the same time several of the old
e.apdar1s for cou1 ma risen Fariy SI1rame,