The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-16

dividing each layer, SO that they may
travel long distance, and are as perfect
when they arrive in this market as when
they come off the trees. We hope to see
an improvement in the packing of Cali
tornia pears"
ALWAYS GOOD ADVICE.
Some of our contemporaries are using
much space III their columns to urge fruit
growers TO cultivate small areas espec-
tally for exhibition at the Worlds Fair.
This Is good advice certainly, but while
1t is good for special occasion, it is good
Tor all times and all circumstances. III
short, it always pays best to cultivate
pest. by cultivation we mean doing all
that is needtul in the way OF tillage, fer
tillzing, thinning fruit, ETC., that may be
required To reach the best results. Our
fruit farms are probably yet too large.
1t IS by no means unlikely that by be-
slowing the same labor and expense on
ten acres, which we now accord to twenty
acres, the result would be more salts
factory. Intensive fruit culture along
scientific lines is the future horticulture
of California.-Ca California Fruit-Grower.
sMoKE-HoUsEs.
A smoke-house is now almost an obso-
lete affair, and on but few farms, except
through the Southern States, can it be
found, or, at least, found in USE No
selling their pigs and buying what ham
or other smoked meats they use from the
stores. In many cases this is best, aside
from the fact that it is not an economical
method, for there are few who really
know how to properly cure meats. Even
those who do SO seldom have any recipe,
or follow any set formula, but go mostly
by guess, the result being they have
luck" with their meats one year, and
are 'unluckyp other years
There are some curers OF meats as well
as farmers, who. in smoking their meats,
use Liquid smoke" or pyroligneous acid
wood vinegar, by applying one or two
coats Of it, diluted. to the meat.
This gives it rich brown color and im-
parts the taste and smell of smoke. 1t is
dangerous if used improperly, and we
would not advocate its use. We like tho
old-faShioned smoke-house, which any
farmer can erect himself from the stone
found on his fields, and ia which he can
smoke his meats to suit his taste. Many
OF the Southern farmers keep their meats
hung up in the SmOke-hOuSe ali the year
round, and to prevent the flies from ever
troubling the meats a smoke is made in
1t every few dayS-luSt a little, so as to
smoke the meat as little as possible at
time, but enough To drive oil or keep off
the flies. This is done only during the
hy season, and at other times no smoke
II h6EDl up olllCT tilG meat mas once GGGl
thoroughly smoked TO the desired color,
ordinary chips being used as fuel.-New
England Farmer.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
The fowls need more roost room in
summer than i'll winter, that they may
not be compelled to crowd together.
Hens too fat in hot weather are in Il
dangerous condition. The best way 10
save them is to kill and send to market
The practice of whitewashing trees is
not injurious, but commepdable. 1t de-
stroys eggs OF insects ami insects them
selves which the bark harbors.
Longmont Colorado, has canned
goods factory with capacity of 30, 900
cans of vegetables per day. It's output
tor this year Is estimated at l, 49,, 900 cans.
Kate Field accuses prohibitionists of
manufacturing alcohol in their own stom-
achs by the fermentation of the sugar they
eat. rather than take it from the small
end OF bottle in the good old way.
About 20,000000 acres are cultivated in
cotton in the United States. producing
some S,U00,050 bales, of 500 pounds each,
worth altogether, perhaps $500, U30, 0J0, and
yet the individual producer profits very
little by the crop.
Remove the harness from the work
horses at noon. 1t is a great relief to the
W
Ii Is little more trouble, but "a humane
farmer never thinks of that when he can
render his team more comforta bic.
One of the ways in which floors of
poultry houses may be made rat proof
is to take about twenty-five bushels OF
coal ashes and mix with one bushel OF
thinly Stacked lime. Spread this colu-
binaGion over the floors and pound it
down hard.
1t is alleged that tomato vines grown
near or among lruit trees will have the
effect to clear the orchard of injurious in
sects. While the practice lacks the pres.
ent sanction of high authority. it is easily
tried, and in some instances might sue
coed. The tomato vine, as is well known,
is mo geranium'' III point of odor.
Ventilation of the cellar is problem.
In the summer the windows may be kept
open, but liz building a barn or house
with cellar underneath ventilation in
winter must be considered. OF all meth
DDS that have been tried that ola chimney
with an open fireplace has been found the
best, as fire not only permits of Kidding
the cellar of a portion OF the moisture,
but creates a draught which carries all
foul air upward.
A crop of carrots viii be found of great
value as food for stock, and the main
crop may be seeded in as late as July.
SdTTOlS are TcliSli6Q ny nOGSGS ana COWS
more than any other kind oil roots, and
they will greatly aid in keeping horses in
condition, as well as assist III giving
beautiful yellow color to butter. Pars-
nips and beets may also be grown late,
and every farmer should endeavor to
grow them, il only but 4 few.
a writer in a turf journal gives the
following rule to estimate the hight a
colt will grow to: fake a colt at any
time between six weeks old and one year,
stand him on d level surface, so that he
will stand naturally, then measure the
distance from the hair OF the hoof to the
knee joint, and for every inch or fraction
thereon he will be hands high when ma
tured. If he measures fifteen inches, he
will grow to be fifteen hands high; if
fifteen and one-half inches, he Will be
nfteen and one-half hands high. and
SO on.
The garden everywhere is a promoter
of economy and health. In it nature
pours forth her choicest and most whole
some gifts for the mere cost of seed and
care. a home garden, well attended, is
the most powerful foe of the Sheriff and
the doctor. In the tarmer'S garden the
family have the vegetable, fruit and
flower garden at their very door. The
supplies offered are precisely those they
want, exactly of the quality they desire,
and in the freshest ana most wholesome
condition, all at the mere cost of produc-
tion.-American Garden.
Slater at Turner Hall.
At Turner Hall tomorrow evening
John Slater viii appear. lie is we'll
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