The herald., 1897-03-26
age. etc. has made the sIloed pulp cost
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Little Landmarks

sumers of insects, and are the farmers
friends.
If we breed poultry from weak and
sickly stock we must expect weak and
sickly chicks.
Farmers who believe In promoting
home industry can aid by asking for
California beet sugar.
Pyrethrum is a valuable insecticide.
used either as a dry powder or COM
bined with kerosene emulsion.
The orange shipments from Highlands
this year amounted to 249 carloads.
Last seasons shipments, 240 cars.
1t is the extreme of heat and cold that
kills. 1t is the relative distribution
of heat over the season that counts.
The Bordeaux mixture will kill the
pear scab. 1t will not entirely cure, un-
less every portion of the tree Is reached
Some mistakes may be corrected or
overcome, but planting an orchard of
poor trees in unsuitable soil Is not one
of them.
There is now a law against the sale
of aduiterated honey in California, and
dealers should see that they have none in
their possession.
An exchange gives the following es-
innate of the acreage seeded to grain in
Riverside county. Barley, 7O,S77 acres;
wheat, 81, ,4S1 acres.
A company of eastern capitalists has
purchased a tract of 10000 acres at Ri
alto, and men are now employed in
planting 1000 acres to canaigre.
If your poultry is not doing WELL it is
probably due to cold, damp quarters,
impure or stagnant water, poor or IN
sufficient food or lack of cleanliness.
The rule of guess should never be ap-
piled in a dairy The salt should he
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account kept with every department.
The Lime cake" by-product of the
sugar beet factory. is largely composed
of the carbonate of lime and is valuable
fertilizer for use on heavy clay soils,
which it serves to tighten.
Thirteen cities in the United States have
adopted the Pingree potato patch pan
for the relief of the poor apd unem-
ployed. and the end is not yet. The farm
is the basis of all wealth. after all.
The yerba santa, which grows so plen-
tifully in California. is widely known
for its medicinal value in diseases ar
fecting the mucous membranes, as IN
chronic coughs, catarrh and consump-
ton.
The early Matched and vigorous pull
let's are the ones that commence laying
in November and continue to lay
through the winter, when eggs are
scarce. Winter eggs bring in the
money.
Russia has imposed a prohibitive tar
iff on the import of currants, which fact
will. no doubt, affect the American rails
in interests slightly, Notwithstanding
the increased tariff rates recently
adopted.
The protection of fruit from the raw
ages of birds by putting out water pois-
oned with strychnine is far from the
best method. as mockingbirds. yellow
hammers. robins and other birds are also
thus destroyed.
The agricultural product of India
amounts to but $S per inhabitant. While
that of the United States is worth S5f
per capita. Intelligence applied to ma
chinery and methods largely accounts
for the difference.
Scientists connected with the agri-
cultural department claim that herba
loca. better known as rattleweed is not
poisonous. Not one of them. however,
can explain what is the matter with a
horse.
The San Francisco Council of Indus
tries has been discussing frauds in i'm
ported foods from the standpoint OF
health. OF equal Importance to Califor-
MIA would be measures forbidding adul-
teration OF California products, such as
olive oil and honey.
Study the peculiarities of section
before you plant trees. Costly mistakes
are often made that might easily have
been avoided. The soil is so diversified
in Southern California that a tree which
thrives upon one farm may not thrive
upon the farm adjoining.
Bamboo grows very thriftily in bottom
lands. and is very useful plant. The
seed of many species resembles rice, ani
is almost as valuable for food. The stalk
NAV be used in the building of bridges
fences and barns, and in the manufac-
ture of water pipes, furniture and boxes
For roadside planting in Southern
California the pepper tree is a prime
favorlte. It does not require as much
moisture as the eucalyptus. and is tar
more beautiful. The California fan
palm looks even more stately, and their
roots do not reach out very far on either
side.
Hazel nuts are each year imported
into the United States from Spain and
England to the amount Of $50 COO BUSH
els. The natural habitat of the hazel
nut in California is along the Coast
range from Monterey county to oregon.
The eastern hazel nut could probably be
introduced with profit.
The report of Chemist Wenzelf to the
San francisco DOdrU ol Hedilit Sho"S"
that of thirty-three samples of currant
Jelly secured for analysis nine were
pure. ten were adulterated. fourteen
contained no currants at all. and one
was decayed. Such frauds greatly IN
jure our fruit interests.
There Is a great opportunity to estap-
lish in Southern California farm Tor
the culture of flowers and vegetables ex-
clusively for seed. The long season here
insures perfect ripening, and the ab-
sence of rain in summer permits the seen
To be dried in the sun, and thresned,
cleaned and sacked under the most IA
vorable conditions.
The cost of producing tea in India as
based upon the operation of forty COM
panies. is Is cents per pound. Tne tea
was sold at an average price OF l9H
cents per pound, affording the growers
profit Of Az cents per pound. 1t couli
not be grown and prepared for market
so cheaply in Southern California, be-
cause of the greater cost of labor here.
DR.. Setchell. professor of botany in
the University of California, ADVISES
the public to look with suspicion on every
mushroom Perfectly white toadEtools,
he said, were poisonous; also those
whose meat, when cut open ard exposed
turned from white to red or blue. Inc
variety from which a milky fluid exudes
is dangerous, and those with DUBIOUS
roots.
Cinnamon apparently aim to make
all they can, as soon as they can, out
OF garden land, and then lock for other
,aoJ Italiap yepeta ble growers usually