The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-05-31
PIGMENTS are exposed to rains and damp

In Scotland the practice Of feeding dur
ing the pasture season prevails extern
slEely. Large quantities Of cabbages and
turnips are grown, and when the pasture
begins to get short these are fed in addi-
ton.
Sending up shoots from the roots will
prevent the growth of young trees, and
especially of the pear. Keep down all
shoots, and occasionally rub off the extra
buds from the trunk, so as not to oYertax
the trees.
Driveways suggest shade trees. But
l.. z. Powell says one may drive fifty
miles anywhere outside of towns and not
lind mile of good shade for pedestrians
ana almost none for carriages. Our viii
lagos are better supplied, but the trees are
badly selected.
Two crops may be grown on the same
land, but no farmer should attempt to do
so unless he is willing to double the
amount Of manure applied. Land can
not produce something from nothing. 1t
must be fed or it will soon become ex-
hausted OF fertility.
Eighteen dairy lectures in one county
OF Scotland were attended by over 600
people. No less than $50 people COM
peted IN the examinations for prizes, and
the Royal Northern Agricultural Society
claimed that no work undertaken for
many years previously had done so much
good.
Canadian eggs are culled before being
shipped TO England, and the smaller ones
kept to be sold in the Canadian and
American cities, as English buyers will
not pay enough for them to pay for ship
ment unless they are large. This is an
other point in favor of selling eggs by
weight.
Too much killing up around the plants
IS not an advantage. Nearly all expert
ments made to determine the effects of
| milling and level culture are favorable TO
level cultivation of nearly all kinds of
plants, not even excepting squashes,
cucumDers and melons, especially on
sandy soils.
An ounce of crude carbolic acid to
gallon OF water, 1t Is said, makes an eX-
cellent solution with which to sprinkle
the moor, porches and the whole interior
OF your poultry houses and yards. Use
1t frequently. 1t is a safeguard against
disease. An ounce Of prevention is worth
Whole loads of cure.
For protecting cucumbers, squashes
and melons from the common and
troublesome striped bug, the Ohio Elk
pertinent Station last year had good sue
cess by the use of tobacco powder, the
refuse Of the cigar factories. Aside from
lis value as an lnsecticide, the tobacco
acts as mulch and fertilizer.
Brood hens must not be disturbed by
other hens laying in their nests. Eggs
are often thus broken and sometimes
eggs are wasted. If eggs get broken in a
| brooder's nest the whole batch must be
taken out and washed in tepiI water, and
returned after being dried. The evening
is the best time to attend to this.
Both blue grass and orchard grass have
values which can not be ignored by the
farmer. Clover and timothy may be
leaders OF the grasses. There are many
farms where either one Of these would
thrive less successfully than orchard or
blue grass. Not few have been pre-
JUDGED against orchard grass until re-
Gently.
/ On the great fruit ranch of Brown d
Sons, Delaware, there are two miles of
grape fence. The fence is formed by the
planting OF row Of apple trees. thirty
/ feet apart, and between each one OF these
a grapevine IS planted. Posts are then
set and smooth wire stretched on a line
with the trees. This makes a very unique
ana profitable fence.
! Streaky butter comes from the dissoly-
ing salt, after the butter has been printed
and packed, says the I'ruI. IL Fu3laer.
! Sailing with brine in the churn, while the
! butter is in the granular torn obviates
I tie dInlculty III some degree, but il is not
! possible 10 avoid the streaky condition
:
pCnSIng with the second working.
/ Marbled pork thatis alternately streaks
/ OF lat ana lean, IS produced at less cost
/ than solid tat pork and brings a more
ready sale at better prices. Nice, young
/ thrifty hogs, such aS clover pasture,
/ wheat bran and natural exercise will
make, not highly fattened ones, are what
/ eplcures demand, ana pork-eaters in
! general are beginning to look for.
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! bull, always make it point to know
! where lie IS, and what he is doing. Either
make hIm recognize you as his master at
! ali times, or keep where YOU have a safe
/ place TO retreat to. 1t is folly to trust TO a
bull on account of gentaeness. The
! greater part of injuries received from
! bulls are done by the so-called gentle
! kind. just as it is that the gun not loaded
| is the one that kills.
The old practice OF washing sheep to
| clean out the accumulated dirt from their
! wool IS going out Of fashion. Il was I'M
! healthy alike for the workman and fO.
/ the sheep. The wool has ALWAYS to be
secured after it goes from the farmers
/ hands, and the dirt taken out by wash
! ing on the sleeps back is the easiest cot
| RID OF IN the securing process. Where
! sheep take cold by being washed the
quality OF the wool IS injured, as what is
called cold Is really fever, making the
skin parched and dry, and injuriug what
. ever grows from it.
| George y. McFetridge of Center Mo-
riches, Long Island, has Matched over
10000 ducl<lings this season. The duck
lings are Matched by the use of incubators
| ana are raised i'll Breeders. He makes a
! speciality OF ducks, keeping but a few
! hens, and the breed selected is the Pekin.
! Although the adult ducks have the priyi-
! lege of the water for swimming, the
ducklings for market are not allowed
near ponds or streams, but are given all
! the water desired for drink in troughs.
| The ducklings are sold at the weight of
! from four TO five pounds, which they
reach before they are ten weeks old.