The herald., 1897-04-09
Little Landmarks

! If there are no odors around the mix
there will be no odors in the milk.
| A prime requisite to success in feed
ing any kind of stock is regularity.
| In order to thrive chickens must a,
least occasionally have greenwood.
IT is not only necessary to know how
to grow crops, but how to market them.
Orange trees will grow and bear on
wet, heavy adobe, but they don twant to.
| The income Of a farm may always BE-
increased by increasing the water sup
ply
| If YOU want your boy to remain on the
farm. don't bear down too hard on the
grindstone.
There is no set of dairy rules that will
apply to each member of the herd with
equal force
The farmer who reads most closely
the agricultural journals is usually the
most successful.
Burn up old nest material, and after
you have thoroughly kerosened the box
put in clean straw.
Every farmer should know exactly
what product succeeds best upon each
sort of soil on the farm.
Give the hen house a good cleaning and
whitewashing occasionally and plow or
spade the poultry yard.
Many farmer spends more time'in re-
pairing old fences and bridges than
would be required TO build new ones.
The best absorbents for COW stalls are
clean, dry straw, peat. spent tan bark,
saw dust, forest leaves and dry sand.
Diarrhoea in hens usually results from
an insufficient supply of hard food, such
as grain. Boiled rice will sometimes
cure 1t.
When a man becomes too hgh-toned
to give his stock personal attention his
stock becomes too low-toned to give him
any profit.
Japanese laborers in the vicinity of
Watsonville held a meeting and decided
not to care for and cultivate sugar beets
for less than 81 per acre.
BY carefully preserving all books,
pamphlets. and papers on agriculture
and horticulture. a valuable collection
may be gathered in a few years.
At the Minewawa creamery. at Fres-
no. Miss Eshleman's great and success
salt is used to pound of butter.
Some point inland. from twenty to
forty miles from the coast, is always
better for bees than a location within
range of cold and chilly sea winds.
,. Sheep will not thrive long on low. wet
soil. Disease is almost sure to appear
and make such pasturage Improbable.
They do better on large ranges of open
foothills.
Increasing the water supply usually
increases the supply of stock feed. The
increase OF pasturage or food tends to
increase the stock supply, which, in
turn. increases the income.
1t is we'll established fact that the
application of barn yard manure in
excessive quantities TO orange trees
causes the fruit to be coarse, thick
skinned, and of inferior flavor.
Don't you wish you had planted that
bare land with eucalyptii several yeavs
ago so that you could now have good
supply of wood for fuel near at hand :?
Why not plant some this year for future
use?
Plenty of nitrogen in the form of dried
meat. blood. fish or guano, will make peas
and beans run freely. If nitrogenous
fertilizers are omitted, and potash used,
the vines will show a tendency to become
Gwarfed.
The small portion of the world which
lies within the limit of vision from any
one farm is not all of it, by any means.
One must keep in touch with the rest
of the world by constant reading, or fall
behind in the procession.
If a farmer feels that he must mort
gage his farm it is sometimes possible
to secure a sum sufficient for present
needs by mortgaging a portion of his
farm instead of all of it, Such a course
occasionally proves very wise.
The removal of virus from stables is
promoted by the Introduction of plenty
of fresh air and the removal of filth and
manure. a good disinfectant for sta
bles may be made by mixing five ounces
of chloride of lime with gallon of wal r.
Whitewash is not in itself of suffi-
cent strength to destroy tubercle bac-
| ILL., but by imprisoning and incrustine
them on the walls of stables, they are
often made harmless. 1t tends to health
| funess anyway to whitewash all barns
| poultry houses and other outbuildings
Give the boy the use OF small tract
OF land that he may farm for himself
and see what use he will make of 1t
! Give a tract to lhe wife and to each
member of the family, and see If the
| total income within the next five years
is not greater than it was in the pas
| FIVE.
Along the sloughs of Southern Texa.
there may be found a very choice sort
Of edible turtle There are sections ir
| Southern California where they would
| thrive as we'll as in Texas. and their in
PRODUCTION might be made to add largely
tc the income of farmers who have
sloughs and peaty soils.
Louis Tomasini, manager of the Cali
fornia Dairymen's union, states that tht
average cost of producing and market
! irg a pound of butter in California is Il
cents. At this rate number of cream
! cries in Southern California are nov
| losing money, as very good creamer,
butter is now being sold in Los Angelo:
| for Is cents per pound at retail, while
| gilt-edged sells for from II to 20 cents.
Farmers may find great pleasure ant
no little profit by supplying themselves