The record-union., 1894-06-14

doubt, be largely increased soon in Ian-
fornia, as the market appears to have
taken very kindly to it during the past
few years.-California Fruit-Grower
LINE FOR POULTRY.
The Country Gentleman condemns the
advice which has been given by some
writers laying claim to knowledge on the
subject to soak grain in lime before feed
ing il 10 poultry, in order TO furnish them
with the mineral constituents that they
need The best form in which to give
chickens the lime they need is in the
form of bone ash. The waste bones of
the household may be burned in the
kitchen stove and then placed in an open
vessel where the fowl will have ready
access TO it. In this way flock of fifty
hens will consume all the waste OF
good sized family. For large tiocks Il
contract should be made with local
butcher. In this form the lime is digest
ible and the phosphoric acid In the bones
Will also be valuable. 1t is very certain
that 10 inGigestible matter given 10 Il
hen can help her IN any way to make
shells for her eggs, all the material OF
which must necessarily pass through the
blood before ii can reach the Ovary.
1t is common experience among poul-
trymen that rape and hemp seed are USE
ful To the laying hens and increase the
number of eggs. Now both these seeds
are rich in lime, the ash of the former
having II per cent. of it and the latter %
per cent. And III this regard it might be
mentioned that the seed of the esparcet,
which is eaten by fowls with great avid
ity, has more than third of It's ash lime.
Thus the culture of this plant, one of the
leguminosee, may be recommended as
very useful 10 poultry-keepers. 1t il
common crop on the small French farms,
,fo,.i int fAif and
fowls eat the whole plant, which, like all
its family the clover, has great guam
tity of lime in it. Glover itself is thus
useful to fowls as green crop on this ac-
count. This is the only way in which
lime can be given to fowls healthlully.
SOMETHING ABOUT CHICoRY.
From the Scientific american we con-
dense the following regarding chicory:
Chicory or succorv plant is raised prin-
cipally III England, Holland. Belgium,
France and Germany. a small quantity
is raised in the United States, most of
which is grown on a few hundred acres
in California. The plant belongs to the
same family as the dandeiion. 1t has a
long. tleshy and milky tap root. The
palif, when under cultivation, grows TO
the hight of five or six feet 1t grows
very quickly in low temperature, the
plant making about seven inches in about
grown as folder and herbage for cattle.
In some countries. too. it is used as a
substitute for coffee. Other substances
have been tried for the same purpose and
abandoned, not being agreeable or bene-
! ficiai to some constitutions. When mixed
with coffee il adds to it additional color,
bitterness and body. For the preparation
of chicory, the older. stout, white roots
are selected, and after washing they are
sliced up into small pieces and kiln dried.
in this condition It is sold to the chlcOry
rOaster. Coffee is sometimes adulterated
with about per cent of chleory. ChlcOry
is impOI ted to this country i'll 100 10 l50-
pound bags, the average price being about
q cents per pound. Ground chicory
brings about 81 cents per pound. The
annual importation of chicory amounts
to abou 100000 pounds. In San Joa-
quin County, Cal, about forty acres are
raised, furnishing in good years a profit
of about $500 per acre.
THE CoTToNsEED-OIL MONSTER.
Our olive-grOwers. who are striving
against the sale OF cottonseed oil under
the guise of the finer oil of the olive.
should know what a great interest they
have to antagonize and shape their effort
accordingly. The Baltimore Md3lu-
fdcturcrs' record publishes history of
the growth of the cOttonseed oil in
dustry in the South. In 1880 there We're
forty cotLonSeed mills, with an aggregate
capital of 50, 509,000 There are now 800
mills. having combined capital of $780,
000,000. At present about 1.500,0 tons
OF seed are annually used by the mills,
yielding to the farmers about $4,000, 900 a
year for product which until recently
was regarded a. waste material. The
total output is about 100000 barrels or
60, GOO, 900 gallons of oil, 100000 tons of
cottonseed meal, 10000 tons of hulls and
value of which will average about S30,-
000,G0J.