The record-union., 1899-04-29
Agriculture
and
Horticulture,

Horace Greeley used to say that the
surest way to learn farming news was
to read the weekly newspapers pup
lished in the farming sections of a gwen
country. The following clippings from
California newspapers will give hhe
idea of what is new in the great grow
ing areas of the State:
A LIVELY WOOL MARKET.
Red Bluff News: There was con-
tinuation of the sales of wool on Mon
day, when something like 100 sacks OF
wool were added to the 600 bags sold
Saturday last. Some of the big grow
ers got rid of their fleeces Monday
among them being l.. L. Mccoy, MIS-
Jane Stanford, Mrs. Mitchell, A. John-
son estate, Mandus Johnson, and Han
& Stevens. The prices ranged from o%l
to Z cents for fall clips, and IL to l.
cents for the spring clips, only very
small quantity selling at the top price
the prevailing price being ll12- MT
Mccoy sold two spring clips and one
of last fall, while others sold two OF
more clips. This sale cleans up, Win
what was sold Saturday, about ONE
half of the wool to come to this mar
ket and in the next week, if not sooner,
the entire spring clip for this vicinity
should be in.
INCREASE THE EGG PRODUCT
Poultry Herald: How can we produce
hens that will lay 200 eggs per an
mum? BY scientific breeding, as for
good butter COW or a COW mixer, as
for good trotter or high jumping
horse Experiments have been made
to increase the number of rows of corn
on the cob with success The same
method is applicable to poultry breed
ing. We will start with a hen that
lays 120 eggs. Some of her chicks will
lay 100 per year. From these we will
pick out layers, and so on until 200 OF
better are the result. At the same time
1T is just as essential to breed out OF
males from prolific layers as it is the
females; in fact, it is more so. If we
look after the breeding of the females
only we will introduce on the male side
blood which is lacking in proficiency
and thus check every attempt in pro-
gress. It is just as essential that the
male should be from the hen which
lays TO eggs and from a male that was
bred from a hen that layed 175 eggs,
LUMBER INDUSTRY THRIvES.
Humboldt Standard Superintendent
Charles E. Falk of the Elk River Mill
and Lumber Company announced to-
day that the companys mill at Elk
River would start up next Thursday
morning, April 9th, instead of May
LIST, as previously announced. The woods
crew have already been at work over a
week, and the urgency of the orders on
hand requires that the mill should be
started at the earliest moment. Super
intendent Falk says that there are or
derS enough ahead to keep the mill
busy all summer, and that the outlook
for the lumber industry at present is
brighter than for years. so much so
that his company has decided to in
crease the wages of its employees with
the commencement of this season. The
increase will average about So per man
per month.
CALIFORNIA SEEDS.
Santa Cruz Surf: For the first time
the big annual contract for Government
seeds has been secured by a California
grower. The bid of Charles Parker, ar
extensive grower of Santa Clara, has
just been accepted by Disbursins
Agent Evans of the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington, and Parker
was informed of the action yesterday
The successful bid was S64. 800, but the
entire appropriation, $13O,OGO will be
expended, the successful bidder securing
the remainder upon the same basis as
his bid. The seed to be forwarded to
Washington will te twenty-five car
- L.
each of the various kinds of garden
vegetables, beets, beans, cabbage, let
tuce, etc, and several carloads of the
famous California sweet peas and other
flower seeds. After the seed reaches
Washington 1t will be reduced from
carload lots to spoonful lots, which will
be placed in small envelopes by about
200 women and girls About 1000
t00 Of these envelopes will be appor-
toned among the various Senators and
Congressman for gratuitous distribu-
ton all over the country
MANY USES FOR EUCALYPTUS.
Santa Barbara News: A gentleman
who lives in the upper part of town in
forms US that his place was infested
with mice, which had become a verit-
able nuisance. He gathered a load of
fresh eucalyptus leaves and spread
them over his basement. The mice de-
parted and not a trace of the vermin
remained. And more, there are no fieas
and no moths on the premises. AS he
has water tank, it was supposed he
would be troubled more or less with
mosquitoes. But it is not so. Mos
quitoes do not love the eucalyptus any
1Ora n Il 3
1t is computed that a ten-acre lot OF
average land planted to eucalyptus will
after ten years. furnish all the fuel an
average family would use. BY begin
ming al the edge of the tract and con-
tinuing to the other side, when the ex-
treme limit was reached the land could
be gone over again and again and SC
en- indefinitely.
II Is claimed that the eucalyptus trees
planted by Elwood Cooper's own hands
some twenty years ago are to-day worth
half as much as the land on which they
grew. We cannot vouch for this. but
we do not discredit the claim at all.
AS a kindling nothing is better thar
a small handful of dry eucalyptus
leaves, and the wood makes one of the
best and most perfect fuels for this part
of the world
We dislike to see one of the big trees
felled. and are always glad to see new
ones planted.
We have thousands of acres al
through the country that ought to be
planted to this tree or one of its varie-
lies. 1t is one of the best business ven.
lures we know of. A grove of euca-
hoe
reasonable precaution this should not