The record-union., 1894-10-02


into pastures Tor dairy COWS; it Will pay
you. Every butter-fnaker who follows
daIrylng alone Is out Of debt in this
county. The foreclosure of a mortgage
on dairy farm in Plumas is never heard
OF. Dairying III Yolo, Yuba and Sutter
pays double what wheat growing does.
\ olo has about 5000 COWS. Yuba, with q
smaller territory and less people has more
COWS than Butte. Placer has more cows,
while Plumas has almost as many as we.
We have but half as many as Alameda,
third as many as Hum boldt and only
one-eIghth as many as Marin. Twenty
i've counties have more cows than Butte.
There Is no need of butter making at
home. Let three or four adobe farmers
quit wheat and turn to dairying. Have
central creamery ana haul the milk to il.
In twelve minutes you can see your milk
and cream separated and in one minute
more you can have your butter weighed
and get the skim milk 10 take home to
your hens and cows.
The big dairies OF Vermont average 500
pounds per COW, the average for this
whole State is only It's pounds per COW.
We need the best bred dairy COWS; they
will pay better than the best bred
trotters OF which California boasts.> a
full blood Jersey COW in Tulare County
returned her owner Sll5 in a year. a
Swiss COW in Plttsneld, Mass, paid her
owner Sl66 56 in year. Her butter
record was GIL pounds. Il. W. Steel of
San Luis Obispo County has one of the
finest herds OF Holstein COWS in the State
and fourteen OF these average u 446
pounds OF milk in ten months. This
would be equal to about 500 pounds of
butter. lftwenty cents per pound only
were realized the returns would be Sl60
for single cow. In Yuba County Il. b.
Hall gets from i've to seven cents per
pound above the ordinary price of butter
by putting up frst-class article OF
creamery make.
Our valley lands yield excellent native
grasses and grow immense crops of al
talfa. We import into the State hun
dreds of tons of butter and pay for it in
wheat at from seventy-tive cents to 81
hundred. No wonder the farmers find it
hard TO keep even. The farmers in one
part OF Illinois were mOrtgaged nearly to
death from growing grain They quit it
and began dairying and that section is
now one of the most prosperous in the
whole country. There are dollars in
dairying where there were dimes in
wheat-growing.- g.-Oroville Register.
PRESERVING APPLES.
a writer in the AmeTicdn CuLtiUdto7
tells how he has preserved apples and
kept them fresh and fair for eighteen to
twenty months. He takes the apples ripe
and fresh from the trees, at this season of
the year, and covers them up with dry
fine coal ashes, to depth of fourteen TO
eighteen inches. He has apples that have
passed two winters thus preserved, out
of-doors. exposed to rain and frost and
yet the fruit came out fresh and fair
How much longer the apples would keep
under these circumstances he does not
know. Possibly pears, eggs, and some
other perishable articles, he thinks,
might be kept by this simple and mex
pensive process much longer than by
present methods.
PLANTING TREES.
If trees are to be planted in the fall,
the earlier it is done the better, provided,
OF course, the wood is thoroughly ma
tured. The tree may be taken up even
before the frost has stripped it of it's
leaves, provided this work is done by
hand. II planted out in September, while
the soil is still warm, new roots will put
forth, and the tree will become well estab-
lished for winter. 1t will not do to strip
the leaves from trees tnat are not to be
transplanted, as it will start the buds
at their base, which ought not to grow
until next spring. But the check of trans
planting prevents any danger of this,
and in late fall may be an advantage. as
1t prevents the premature swelling of
buds that often makes the tree winter Kill.
HOW THE HORSE SLEEPS.
When the horse sleeps it is said that
one ear is directed forward, why is not
known. A writer in the English Me-
chdmic thinks this is to guard against
danger, being a survival of their origi-
nally wild habits. He says: Watch a
horse asleep through the window of his
stable and make a faint noise to the front.
That ear will be all attention, and prob
ably the other will fly round sharply to
assist. Now let him go to sleep again,
and make the Same noise to the left. The
forward ear still will keep guard, with
possibly lightning flick round, only to
resume its former position"
PRESERVING EGGS.
NJ. Bournouf recommends in a French
journal the following method of preserv-
ing eggs: Dissolve in two thirds of
warm olive oil, one-third of beeswax and
cover each egg completely with thin
layer of this Donade with the end of the
finger. The egg shell by degrees absorbs
the oil, and each of the pores becomes
filled with the wax, which dramatically
seals them. NJ. Bournouf affirms that be
has eaten eggs kept two years i'll this
manner, in place not exposed to too
great extremes Of temperature. He
thinks also that the germ may in this
manner be preserved for a considerable
time.
HEDGE PLANTS.
Hedge plants that were set out last
spring should not be cut down the COM
ing season, but be allowed to grow for
another year just as they like, if a strong
and vigorous hedge be desired. The
plants cut back when two or three wears
old Will then sprout vigorously the next
season. and during the summer following
may be trimmed TO the shape desired 1t
must not be forgotten that trimming in
a measure, weakens the roots. By let
fVyr TFf
as they will we get these roots strong be-
tore the weakening process of trimming
is resorted to.
CANADIAN WOOL.
One of the results of free wool has been
the importation into Rochester, Y. Y. of
between 10000 and $1,000 pounds of
Canadian wool. 1t is coarse, long wool,
which used to be an exclusively Canadian
product but which is now grown in
many places by New York sheep men.
The fine Merino wool has never been
much grown in Canada, as it could not be
produced cheap enough to compete in the
English market. Now, however. it is
probable that Merino sheep will be in de-
mand in Canada, and wool from there
will soon be brought into competition
with that of United States wool-growers,
GOOD PRICES FOR SHEEP.
At recent sale of Shropshire sheen in
England some very good prices were OBJ
tanned. a shearing ram sold for 200
guineas-more than 81 600. Another sold
for 90 guineas. The average price OBJ
tanned for forty-one rams was $50 lis I'D,
or nearly Sl55, showing that, though the
bottom may be out of the wool market,
there are those who still have faith in
mutton. The best price obtained for
eve was about $50. Average price for
fifty-eight ewes, 81 IS 9d-about $50.
CpTTPGE PgCEpnTON