Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-04-05

The use of celery in various WAYS is
growing very general, and indeed there is
no more healthful vegetable. be it eaten
raw or cooked. To prepare it for the
table in a cooked state, Gu; the stalks into
small cross sections, using nearly the en-
tire stalk and roots and rejecting only the
very green parts. Cook it in but little
water, so that, when the celery is very
tender, the water will have boiled nearly
away; then add milk enough for nice
gravy, season TO taste with salt and pep
per, rub butter and -four 10 a smooth paste
and add sufficient to make it of creamy
consistence. When the sauce hollis it is
doue.
FARM NOTES.
The pig loves little early grass as we'll
as the other animals, and should have a
share.
Cut out ali of the old wood from cur
rants and gooseberries and put good
shovelful of manure around the roots OF
each BUSH
Cut back the rose bushes. The roses
are borne on the new wood. Give plenty
of manure and make the soil around the
bushes rich.
Cattle already infested with lice should
be thoroughly carded and washed with
warm soap water in which little kerosene
has been added.
Do not turn the sheep or any other kind
of stock upon the pasture too early. Give
it chance to get start. The early grass
is not very nutritious, either.
If undeveloped eggs are laid they tell
the story of over-stimulation. These are
very apt to follow the regular use of cay
enne pepper or many of the concentrated
egg foods.
If one farmer does not feel able to pur-
chase and keep thoroughbred boar him
self, in many cases it will pay to combine
with three or four of his neighbors and
secure good animal rather than continue
to breed to a scrub.
Stiff clay soils are benefited by the ap-
plication of lime and potash every year.
Such land should be turned over late in
the fall or early in the spring, SO as to al
low the frost to pulverize it. Thorough
drainage is also beneficial.
Keep your breeding pure, whatever it is.
Do not mix blood unless you do it intelli-
gently for a special purpose. If you make
cross, do not make it with bloods so wide
apart that they cannot readily coalesce.
You want harmony, not antagonlsm, in
breeding.
A proper selection Of COWS for your herd
is very important consideration, but, i'm
portant as it is, it will not in the end prove
of half the consequence that the proper
selection of bull will. On the blood YOU
breed from depends the success of your
future herd.
Odors in the stable indicate that the air
therein is impure. The use of absorbents,
with due regard to keeping the stalls clean,
is very important. Once week the sta
BILE should be sprinkled with solution
made of one pound of copperas in two gal
Ions of soft water.
Half tablespoonful of fresh white he'll
lebore to a common wooden pail of water
is about the right proportions for currant
worms. This sprinkled upon the bushes
when worms first appear will make short
work of the worms. An ordinary watering
pot will do good work.
Feeding an animal on only one indi-
vidual food is very unwise, for it is bound
to be food not well balanced A mixed
ration not only supplies better balanced
food, but is much more appetizing, and
what is better relished, is very apt to give
better results as food.
DR.. Collier, of the New York Expert
ment Station, is authority for the state
ment that saving of one cent day upon
the dairy cows of New York is over Sc, 000,-
900 year. This shows the Importance of
economy in feeding. The waste on farms
is the heaviest loss in agriculture.
Some varieties of peaches will not thrive
on sandy soil, while others do not thrive
well on heavy SOIL The early varieties
do not seem to be as reliable as the later
kinds. One of the hardest and best va
rieties is Stump the World, which has
been tested in New Jersey with satisfactory
results.
Poultry houses are not usually infested
with lice in winter unless a number of
hens are Matching, and if the nests are not
kept very clean the pest from the bodies
of the hens will be very favorable to the
increase. 1t is from the setting hens, as a
rule, that poultry houses become stocked
with lice.
If you want paying dairy do not breed
everything. If you do you will accom-
plish about as much as the man who fires
at random expecting to'kill all the game.
When you breed breed for something.
Aim at some idea of excellence, using
proper means, and you will be pretty sure
of improvement.
Weeds will come up sooner than the
CROP The damage from weeds is done
early in the season, as they crowd out the
Ill nd ,Nlo,
food Much labor can be saved by work
ing the plowed land over with a cultiyator
and harrow before planting if the weeds
have made start.
The rapid growth of an animal when it
is young will be an advantage to it later
on in life. The greatest proportionate
gain with animals is during the first year.
If the young stock is kept in thrifty,
growing condition the first two years the
greater proportion of work required to
secure profit will have been performed.
The Mirror and Farmer says: "Dairying
means seven days work every week, but
possibly the seventh may be done by a
substitute or drafted man." Yes, but
the substitute or drafted man usually
thinks the same way, and we found, as a
rule, that Sunday was the hardest day
of all In the milk business The lat
ter business approaches slavery very
closely.
Where trees are pruned In winter con-
siderable time must elapse before the
wounds made begin to heal over. During
this time the combined action of the
frost and sun are injurious to the newly
cut and exposed wood and bark, and 1t
will take longer time to heal over than
if the wound was made at the time when
the tree was beginning to make new
growth.
1t was found at the Wisconsin Station
that pigs fed corn alone began at the end
of thirteen weeks feeding to fail in appe-
tite. These pigs were ten weeks old when
the feeding commenced. On this ration