Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-11-22

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The Importance OF beginning the winter
with clean cellar cannot well be over
looked. The health of the family de-
ponds on how the cellar is kept.
Now that the frost has put in an appear
ance, there will soon be an accumulation
of dry grass and other rubbish. All such
refuse should be raked up into piles and
burnt.
Linseed meal comes in cooked state.
1t is a safe and reliable medicine and a
nutritious food. 1t will soon make
rough hide smooth, and promote the thrift
of the animal.
Old bones that cannot be conveniently
broken. leather scraps, dead animals, ETC.,
should be buried near large grape vines,
which is an excellent mode of putting
them to good use.
Wood ashes seem dry, but President
Smith, OF the Wisconsin Horticultural So
ciety, says his experience is that IN dry
seasons there is no fertilizer that pro-
duces better results on potatoes or straw
berries.
Experiments show that when hogs are
given a proportion of ashes and bone meat
they have larger bone, grow faster, and
produce greater weight in proportion to
food allowed. Ashes also assist digestion
and promotes health.
The fowls may now have the run Of the
orchard and fields, as no harm can be done
anything by them; but if eggs are desired
the hens must be given a mess of grain in
addition to that picked up, and in very
severe weather must be fed morning and
night.
Just as soon as variety of potatoes APP
pear to "run out" which is often the case,
a new variety should take its place; but as
some varieties do better in some sections
than in others, no variety should be used
extensively until it has been thoroughly
tested on the farm.
1t is estimated that the surface of an
acre of ground, one foot deep, contains
about 1000 pounds Of phosphoric acid,
5000 pounds of potash and 10000 pounds
of nitrogen. Much of this, however, may
be beyond the reach of plants by not being
in an available form.
Hogs are probably the most difficult to
keep from getting filthy, and when it is
known that disease is a probable result of
filth, or at least filthy hogs are soonest at
tackled, steps should be taken in time to
see that the hogs are kept and fed in as
clean places as possible.
Freshly slaked lime applied on the as
paragus beds, and another application
made early in the spring, is one of the best
remedies for the asparagus beetle. When
the plants are up, next spring, dust lime
ovar . bap, alec Tho frr,,b w kilIa1
by lime in its caustic state.
Skinned milk is now being recon-
mended for colts. Something depends on
how it is given Nothing is so injurious
as drink of ice-cold milk to young ami
NAL in the winter. Togive milk to calves,
colts or pigs is no doubt an advantage, but
it must be fresh, and warmed before the
animals are allowed to drink it.
The Massachusetts, Ploughman says:
"Grass is about the last of all crops suit
able for a fruit orchard. The countless
millions of grass roots leave little moist
ure for the trees in dry season, and
usually they need all they can get. But the
idea that grass is suitable for an orchard
is hard to kill-harder, indeed, than the
trees are"
Cut flowers have frequently been re-
stored to freshness, even when every petal
is dropping, by placing the stems in cup
of boiling hot water, leaving them until
the petals have become quite smooth, then
cutting off the cooked ends and placing in
lukewarm water. For this purpose rain
water is thought preferable.
If an animal is "stunted' in its young
days, no amount of feeding in its old days
will make good the loss sustained. In the
case of beef animals, they should be fed
on the best of feed from birth, and this
to the time of butchering which should be
done while the animal is very young.
An eminent breeder of dairy cattle gives
it as his experience that a COW with bag
milking down, to feel like rag" when
the milk is out, is not one to produce
great butter yield. On the contrary, his
observation has been that the greatest
butter producers never show this tendency
of collapsed bag after being MIXED, but
rather the opposite.
This year new industry sprang up, viz:
saving and selling peach pits. The de-
mand was chiefly from the East, where
they were planted SO rs to secure young
peach trees for replanting. The Gamers
found in the trade more profit than burn
ing the pits for fuel. It is said that as
high as three cents a pound was paid for
pits from the better varieties.
A Russian paper says that Russia owns
nearly 50,000,O00 ordinary sheep and l5,-
100000 Merinos. European Russia has
100000, of which 3S000,000 are ordi-
nary sheep and 100000 Merinos. The
Caucasus has 100000, of which 10000
600 are ordinary sheep and 100000 are
MeTinos. Sheep are met with in nearly
every province of Russia, though they are
far more numerous in the southern prov
inces than in those of the north.
1t is possible to grow double the guam
tity Of wheat in this country that is now
produced The time will come when
smaller area of land will be used and
larger crops grown per acre. As the farm
becomes restricted in area more appropri-
ate fertilizers will be applied. Farmers
are rapidly learning the fact that different
kinds of crops require different foods, and
the saving of expense by the use of special
crop fertilizers will be another source Of
gain.
1t requires skill to be a successful farmer,
A knowledge of the facts relating to the |
manner of The feeding of stock, supplying |
the proper fertilizer :" ~
most suitable breeds and varieties for profit |
will more than compensate for deficiency |
of capital. knowledge is power in farm
ing as we'll as in everything else, and the
educated farmer has great advantage
over one who holds to old usages and relics
solely upon his experience of the past,
though experience is an excellent teacher.
Cheese in the United States is made en-
tirely from the milk of cows, and that of
other animals is not used, but in many
countries in Europe the milk of goats and
sheep is extensively consumed for this pur-