The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-01
OF INTEREST TO FARMERS
San Luis Obispo County Famous
for Big Growths of
Vegetables.
An Estimate of the Bean Crop of Santa
Barbara and Ven
tura.

The county of San LUIS Obispo has long
been famous for its big vegetable growths.
A seed firm in Philadelphia having offered
prizes for different classes of vegeta bles
the farmers in the vicinity OF Arroyo
Grande, in the above-named county, have
entered the lists with some world beaters,
consisting OF head of cabbage weighing
Ga pounds; three yellow Denver onions,
IL pounds; three Wethersheld onions, 6
pounds; a green cucum Der, 16 inches in
length; white spine cucumber, weighing
81 pounds, and the championship pump
kin of Arroyo Grande Valley, which
weighs 219 pounds.
Breeding gives a profit, as is shown in
cattle for beef. a Galloway and shorthorn
steer, recently raised in Scotland, at years
and IL months old weighed 2016 pounds on
the hoof. He was raised on pasture (no
grain}, with turnips and straw in winter.
| The weight could have been increased by
high feeding. At present prices of beef in
this country the steer would have sold for
$75 or perhaps more, according to quality.
The discussion as to the relative merits
of large and small hives, which has long
been going on in the bee journals, seems
as far from settlem ent as ever. No doubt
much depends upon the locality and the
kind of honey produced. In regions OF
great honey flow, and especially in case
extracted honey is produced exclusively,
large hives will be most in favor; while in
working for comb honey, especially in re-
gions of light flow, small hives will doubt
less give the best satisfaction.-S. B.
Review.
Every beekeeper should understand how
to detect the loss of the queen. The fol-
lowing morning after loss of this kind
has occurred and occasionally in the even
ing, the bees may be seen running to and
fro in wild CONSERVATION. Toward the
middle of the day the confusion will be
less marked, but the next morning will be
again enacted, and, after the third or
fourth day, will cease entirely, and appar-
emily they become reconciled to their
labors, although they do not manifest the
energy or agility seen in a prosperous
colony.
Compared with corn, there is more pro-
| tein in oats and less of the carbohydrates
| than in corn. Oats contain about 9.25 per
| cent of protein and corn about 100, while
| corn contains about 81 per cent of carbo-
| hydrates and oats As per cent. Thus for
| fattening purposes, corn is superior to oats,
| but for animals that produce milk or are
! growing oats should be fed. Corn is
| usually cheaper than oats, which brings it
into more general use, but it is more eco
nomical to feed oats to work horses, grow
| ing stock, COWS giving milk, and laying
! hens than to use corn.
Santa Barbara independents: CONNER
| cial Agent Simpson of the Southern Pa
cific estimates the bean crop of Santa Bar
! bara and Ventura counties at 1000 cars.
Of that number 300 or 400 cars will come
! from this part of Santa Barbara County.
In order that some idea of the immensely
| of the yield can be obtained it is only
necessary to do a little Figuring" to arrive
at the total number of pounds of beans
raised in the two counties. Twelve tons to
each car makes $4,000 tons or 4S, 900 900
| pounds. There is no danger OF the Bos-
tonians starving this year. The crop repre-
sents an income of over 81, 900 Co., at low
| estimate.
In answering the query of a California
correspondent, the New York Tribune said
recently: "Hot water would not kill the
weevil without destroying the terminating
property of the beans" M. M. Murphy of
Ripley, Ohio, takes exception to that state
ment, thus: "In this we think you are in
error. We know by experience of several
years that the Weevil can be killed with
| hot water without iniuring the germs OF
| the beans. Our method is as follows:
After the beans are gathered and dry,
place one plnt, or quart, OF Deans IN pan,
/ pour boiling water on them. Let the
beans stay in the boiling water exactly
one minute; take them out, spread to dry
and weevil will never show in the beans.
and every bean will grow. We have never
| tried 1t except on pole beans, especially
| Kentucky wonders 1t is the common
practice here and the beans all grow.n
George Stewart of Crows Landing is
looking into the matter of sorghum. rails
ing, says the Newman Tribune. This
year he sowed ten acres to sorghum seed,
and taking into consideration the fact that
it was an experiment with him ana fur
ther that no especial cultivation or care
was given it, raised fairly good crop.
This year he will cut the sorghum for
| stock feed. Since the sorghum mill at Dos
Palos has started up Mr. Stewart has be-
come interested in the matter and will in
vestigate the working of the mill at that
place. Should he be able to induce some
of his neighbors to raise this product he