The record-union., 1899-09-04

sary site for house, barn, etc, should
be devoted to alfalfa, berries and veg
etables On such a farm there is
plenty of work to keep family busy
the year round, and there is not q
month in the year but that some cash
returns are coming in from the sale OF
products. The ten-acre farm has come
to stay.
FERTILIZING WHEAT LANDS.
Biggs Argus: The Argus" lis in
formed by VIM Grant that Balfour,
Guthrie & Co. will this year experiment
with nitrates, phosphate and other pot
ash necessary to supply TO exhausted
soil plant food properties upon their
land lying about eight miles west OF
Biggs, in view of renewing the pro-
ductiveness of the soil by fertilization.
They will also use the new product
called tankage, which is manufactured
from the offal of the slaughter-houses.
That the wheat lands of Butte Coun-
ty have been impaired to a consider
able degree by many years of wheat
growing is no longer questioned, and
the intelligent farmer admits the neces-
sity of supplying the soil with that
which has been exhausted by repeated
SAOPS VI l41S O<a1llG NCi cal IVA AAaS NA@o
past thirty or more years. Scientific
investigation and analytical tests have
demonstrated beyond successful dis
pute that productive soil must contain
a certain percentage of potash, SODA
phosphate, ETC., and that these ele-
ments become exhausted by repeated
crops of one kind of product, and
whether the rains fall in season or not.
fertilization is necessary in order to
obtain good yields year after year.
YUBA'S FRUIT.
Marysville Democrat: Editor Boyn-
ton of the Oroville Register has been
taking notes in this vicinity, and he
says on Monday last he visited the
home of Gavin w. Hutchins, seven
miles north of Marysville and in Yuba
County. Some years ago Mr. Hutchins
had good orchard on the low bottom
lands along Feather River. The gen
eral filling of the river caused, the death
of many of his trees and he then set
about testing fruit on the dry upland
There was not another orchard on this
land between Honcut Creek and
Marysville, and there is not another
one to this day, yet for the past eight
years it has been demonstrated that
trees would thrive there well.
The trees have not been irrigated but
have been carefully cultivated He is
satisfied that up to eight years old the
trees make as rank growth bear as
heavy and do as we'll as in the moister
bottom lands. After they are eight
they will need to be irrigated to bear
as heavily and do as we'll as those tn
the bottoms.
He has on upland and in the bottom
old and young trees. eighty acres in
fruit Two years ago he picked 70
tons, last year 125 tons and this year
200 tons is his estimated crop
He has 1000 Muir peaches 800 early
Crawfords, 800 Orange Clings, 300 Nc
Dewitt Clings, 800 Phillips in a young
orchard In an older orchard he has
33333 Orange Clings. 400 early and late
Crawfords 200 Muirs. 900 French
prunes, 500 Royal apricots, 100 Lewis
Clings and other varieties of fruit in
both old and young orchard. His fruit
is large, ripens in good season and has
delicious flavor. His success points
out the fact that large tracts of land
now only used for pasturage or for
wheat growing, will raise first-class
fruit
FRUIT SALES.
Napa Register: The study A. j. Pills
bury is giving the markets of the Mis-
sissippi Valley States must open the
eyes of fruit growing readers of the
Register" He says if dealers would
sell our fruit at 30 cents, instead of
40 and 30 cents per 4-pound basket,
the demand for it would be practically
unlimited, that there would be no COM
plant of over production in California
nor under consumption in the prairie
States. Orchardists will do we'll to act
upon that sort of a hint Seven cents a
pound TO the Eastern consumer ought
to leave liberal margin for the grower
after paying transportation charges
and a reasonable commission to the