The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-12-25

ton have on examination been found due
to entirely different causes, easily RENE
died
No less important than the establish
ment of rational relations between soils,
crops and fertilizers has been the influence
of science upon the agricultural manufac-
turing industries. The manufacture of
sugar from beets is wholly a creation of
scientific investigation, largely of the most
reconcile and seemingly impractical kind.
The establishment of rational feeding
rations for stock under different conditions
and with different objects in view has rev.
olutionlzed the methods of feeding and
enables the farmer to use his feed to better
advantage and with definite object.
In the practice of dairying particularly,
not only the exact determination of
the best feeds as to kind and amount, but
also the ready testing OF the quality of the
milk for the making of butter and cheese,
has wrought most important changes,
giving the careful dairymau his rights as
against the slipshod farmer, and rendering
possible the production of more and better
butter and cheese by the study of the
precise conditions under which the best
products and particular kinds of the same
are obtained. The centrifugal creamer, by
which the cream is separated from the
milk within few minutes instead of the
protracted and laborious old "setting"
process, is the application of a rather
reconcile principle of physics.
In brewing and wine-making the old
rule-of- thumb modes of procedure, which
foil I'D RI Ia
in different climates, are being revolution
lied by the application of principles that
apply everywhere, ana by the observance
of which the best product possible under
existing natural conditions may with Ger
tainty be obtained. Thus a very much
larger proportion of good wines are OBJ
tanned in France and Germany than for
merly; and in Algeria, where the same CHI
| matte conditions aud difficulties that ex-
ist in California are met, the very pro-
cesses and remedies long ago suggested
and published by the California station are
being recommended and put in operation
by the French Government, resulting in
great improvement of the quality of Alge-
rian wines.
The benefits arising from the scientific
Sluuy VI plduL QIScdS6S anu lUSeCG pests
and their remedies are too familiar to the
public to require more than mention. The
sprayinaof orchards, the fumigating tent,
the saving of the orange industry from
destruction by the introduction of the
Vedalia, have become matters OF daily ex-
perience and comment. The discovery of
the necessity of cross-fertilization for GER
tain varieties of orchard and other fruits
has rendered productive vast numbers of
trees supposed to be intrinsically unfruit-
full. The systematic production of new
varieties upon definite principles offers
prospects of untold usefulness in the fu-
ture as in the past.
That in a new country like California,
where the farmer works largely under con-
dltions never before thoroughly investi-
gated, the aid of science is particularly
needful in preventing costly mistakes at
the very outset, is manifest. Hence the
education OF the farmers of the future for
their particular pursuit is with US matter
of greater Importance than even in the old
countries; fact whereof the multitude
of demands upon the University Expert
ment Station for information, almost
swapping the regular work, furnishes elo-
quent proof.