The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-05-08
PACIFIC COAST FARMS.
The Au StraIian Salt Bush as a
Forage Plant for
Sheep.
Methods of Destroying Fruit Tree
Pests Which Have Proved
Practicable.

DR.. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Ami
NAL Industry of the Agricultural Depart
ment at Washington, D. c., speaking of
the report that large horse Strengthening
and packing industry had been started in
Portland, Or, says there is no law COM
polling such meats to be labeled as in the
case of oleomargarine when sold as butter
The buyers of beef can distinguish this
kind of meat, as Government inspection of
slaughtered cattle is made, and a Govern
ment stamp is placed on each quarter of
beef DR.. Salmon says that the depart
ment has endeavored to secure legislation
similar to the oleomargarine law, which
will compel dealers in horse meat to have
it labeled so that consumers need not be
deceived.
At Fort Williams, the storage point for
Manitoba, the rate of storage for
wheat is as follows: Elevating, in
Guiding twenty days, storage, ~
cents per bushel or Az cents per ton on
wheat or so cents per ton on barley; stor-
age for each succeeding fifteen days or part
thereof Il cent per bushel or 16H cents per
ton on wheat and 20cents per ton on barley.
Grain on storage for winter takes the win
ter rate only after November Is, and is
charged at the regular rates until it ac-
crues to 40 cents per bushel or 81 33 1-3 per
ton on wheat and 81 362s per ton on barley,
after which there is no further charge up
TO June l. and after the latter date the
charge is u cent per bushel or 81 cents
per ton on wheat and 20 cents per ton on
barley for each fifteen days or part
thereof 1t is not claimed that the rate
of storage at Fort Williams is excessive as
it is about the same as charged at Chicago
and Duluth. To carry wheat in elevator
from, say July l to June following,
costs 81 60 per ton, to carry barley about
% cents per ton more
Mr. Forror, foreman of the Tulare Gull
ture station, has just sent to Berkeley for
the purpose OF analysis a single plant of
the Australia salt bush that was three feet
across and weighed four pounds. This was
a single plant from single root and would
make good dinner for sheep. We have
tens of thousands of acres OF land in this
county that is not now worth paying taxes
on that could be rendered valuable for pas
turage at little cost II the owner had en-
terprise enough to get few handfuls of
the seed and scatter it in dusty places. 1t
does not want to be plowed in or covered
I'D much, for if it is the seed is apt to rot
Ali it requires is to get into the soil, when
it will take root and prosper where nothing
else will. By putting paper under plant
and shaking it vigorously the seed will be
deposited on the paper, and enough for a
starter can be obtained in few moments.
-Tulare Register.
Louis Harris of Yakima, Wash, has
fifty squaws employed in sorting potatoes
on his ranch. He finds that squaws, when
given instructions, do exactly as they are
told, don't jaw back, nor do they have any
theories of their own to advance.
Here is a new way to keep grapes fresh
Meehan's Monthly says grapes are kept in
European countries in the following man
ner: Place long racks in the fruit houses
made to sustain bottles of water: the
grapes are cut with portions of branches
attached and these branches placed in the
bottles. The water prevents, of course,
the evaporation of the juices of the fruit,
and if care is taken to guard against mold.