The record-union., 1892-11-23

ever is worth doing at all is worth doing
welP and You can do nothing well with
out attention. Ii you like your profess
sion, to labor at it is a pleasure, and there
Is no human calling which more abounds
in rational and pleasing variety than that
Of good farmer. An industrious,
healthy farmer, when located and set
Tied. IS sure Of good living for self and
family, and this the worker i'll no other
vocation can realize without constant, in
telligent practice, which demands eX-
haustiVe draughts on mind and body.
Farming is not the business of mere
clown in these days, whatever it may
have been when subjects were classified
as gentry and villains Beside, statis
ties demonstrate that far larger proper
ton of merchants and spectators fail
III their attempts to obtain wealth than
our farmers. The American farmer who
persists steadily in his life choice, with a
fair share of discretion, is as sure of sue
cess IN life as any other citizen, whether
his object be wealth or happiness" Gin
cinnati Commercial Gazette.
NEW USES FOR GRAssHoPPERs.
1t is the chemist after all that gets right
down into the mysteries OF things, and
often turns trump card when least eX-
pected. Take the case of grasshoppers.
i-ACCpJ " QGSlIOJ CIODS anu ldlLGAl
Thank sgiying turkeys in June, no great
economic use for them has hitherto been
found. But it is different now. Some
fellow in Iowa scOoped up half a dozen
hatiuls Of "hoppers" from his wheat field,
put them under his cheese press and sat
down upon it to rest and mop his brow.
AS a result, he was able to send to Pro-
lessor kedzie at the Kansas Agricultural
College, Manhattan, about two quarts OF
the nectar de grasshOpper" The Pro-
lessor made a complete analysis of the
liquid, and by distiliing it with sulphuric
acid obtained a colorless solution of formic
acid worth sixty cents an ounce. This
substance has hitherto been extracted
from red ants, but The new possibilities Of
utilizing grasshopper pests is said to have
greatly excited the farmers Of the prairie
States. Let the good work go on. Cali
lornla can be relied upon to make up any
deficiency that may occur in the Eastern
crop Of hOpperss - California Fruit
Grower.
GIVE YOUR TREES A FAIR CHANCE.
Many orchardists, in their natural
eagerness to receive paying dividends for
the labor and anxiety in bringing their
orchards to a productive state, allow their
young trees TO overbear. Caution should
be used in this regard, for nothing eX-
hadsts the vitality of the tree SO much as
early oVer-prOductlOn. Especially is it a
tax upon the resources OF the tree to ma
ture the seed natures only care in fruit
productionl, AMI it follows therefore that
vigorous thinning, or, indeed, the re-
moyal OF very large proportion of tine
iruit irom trees III their early struggles of
prod uctlOn, is most judiclOus. A few
specimens only should be allowed to
adOrn the tree in its first efforts, no mat
ter how high the market price for fruit
may be at the time.-California Fruit
Grower.
THE BUSY BEE.
The work done by bees is simply won
deriul-lIke everything else about these
interesting insects, says the lHeTjcuA Bee
JOH,rtGj. In order to collect a single
pound of clover honey it has been esti-
mated that they must deprive 62, ,0JO clover
blossoms OF their nectar. To do this the
$1,000 flowers must be visited by an aggre-
gate OF ., 10000 bees; or, in other words.
10 collect this pound of honey one bee
must make 8 l5O,9 900 trips from and to the
hive. AS bees are known to fly for miles
III quest of suitable fields of operation, it
Is clear that single ounce of honey many
represent millions of miles Of travel.
\ GENEROUS MAN.
One way to win farmers over to the side
Of keeping better poultry is that prac-
ticed all through his neighborhood by a
New Jersey gentlemen. He keeps choice
farm in the locality, 50 he matches a great
many full-blood chicks of useful and
beautiful breeds, including Plymouth
Rock and Black Langshan, and ex-
changes them in pairs and trios for the
scrub stock about him, selling the latter
or using them upon his table 1t is sur
prising to note the enthusiasm on inn
proved poultry that has sprung up in the
place III two years.
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Many persons in Southern California
have advocated the planting of sour or
wild orange trees along the stree.s, as
shade trees. While the wild orange is
used in some places in Florida for that
purpose we note that at Palatka, where
they were largely planted many years
ago, the town authorities propose to re-
place them with the graceful umbrella
tree.
ONION SEED.
Onion seed production is becoming
promising industry in Ventura County
California. one man is said to have lately
harvested crop OF $4,000 worth of this
seed which he took to market at one
wagon load.
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