The record-union., 1899-08-25

will be of general interest:
FRUIT SHIPMENTS.
Mountain Democrat: These are very
busy days at the fruit depot and every
body is on the move piling boxes and
jabbing tally sheets. The quality of
fruit is excellent and the quantity is
equally as great as that of last year.
A large quantity of fruit, principally
peaches, plums and pears, has already
been shipped, but as it left in broken
bulk to the local trade, it is impossible
to state just how many carloads have
been shipped from this city
The first full carload of pears will
leave the city to-day for Eastern mar
kets and from this time up to the latter
part of September the shipments will
be immense.
ALFALFA VALUABLE.
Inyo Independent: The chemical de-
partment of the Kansas Experiment
station has completed the analyses upon
one of a series of digestive experiments
with alfalfa In this experiment hay
was used which was cut when in full
bloom and fed to- a three-year-old grade
Hereford steer. The result of the analy-
seS show that the air dried hay con-
tanned digestible nutrients as follow:
Crude protean, 10.43 per cent Consist
ing of albumoids, 1856 per cent; amids,
2.57 per cent?; fat O.69 per cent; crude
fiber, 1899 per cent; CARBOHYDRATES, 2S.lS
per cent; total digestible nutrimentss
contained in some of our most common
feeds used for dry roughage. Millet
contains $40 per cent; oat hay, o..
per cent; orchard grass hay, 49, per
cent; timothy hay, 4S; prairie hay, 46.i
per cent; sorghum hay, a. per cent;
red clover hay, 43.9 per cent; oat straw,
43.9 per cent wheat straw, 39.2 per
cent, and corn fodder. 35.S per cent. We
find that only one of the ten feeds
named is equal to or exceeds alfalfa IN
it's total content of digestible nutrients,
while the larger part of them are far
below it. This is not a fair measure
of it's feeding value. however, unless
we take into count the composition of
these nutrients. AS a rule it costs
much more to produce feeds rich in
protean than it does those rich in car
bohydrates, and consequently OF two
feeds containing an equal amount OF
digestible nutrients, the one containing
the most protean is the most valuable.
Comparing alfalfa in this respect with
the above named feeds we find that
it ranks far ahead of them. One hum
dred pounds of alfalfa hay contains lib
pounds more digestible matter than the
same amount of red clover hay and
| 112 times as much protean. 1t contains
only 2.3 pounds less of total digestible
nutrients that the same amount of mill
let hay and almost 212 times as much
digestible protean. 1t contains 2H2
! times as much digestible protean as cat
hay, 3 times as much as prairie hay,
more than times as much as sorghum
| hay, ) times as much as corn fodder,
! 61a times as much as Oat straw and IL
! times as much as wheat straw. In
feeding value alfalfa hay not only
ranks high, above all other feeds used
! for roughage, but it is we'll up among
the more concentrated feeds. One hun
dred pounds of it contain 3.3 pounds
more of digestible nutrients than wheat
bran and aim ost as much protean. 1t
is richer in digestible protean than
wheat, corn, oats. rye. barley, ~Kaffir
| corn or sorghum seed. It's digestible
nutrients have a nutritive ratio of 1
| to A. There are only a few feeds,
such as wheat bran, linseed meal, cot
| ton seed meal and soy beans that fur
nish as narrow a nutritive ratio as this
| Alfalfa hay, therefore, is an ideal hay
to use in balanced rations and is es-
| pecially valuable to combine with corn
as a ration for fattening steers, since
| it furnishes all the roughage necessary
and is also cheap source of protean.
! 1t is an ideal dairy feed, furnishing al
most the exact nutritive ratio required
! for the highest yield of milk. It's value
as a feed for hogs has been shown in
results previously published by the
! Kansas station.
| FRUIT PITS IN DEMAND.
Riverside Press: The brisk demand
| for fruit pits this year caused our fruit
men to look into the basis for such de-
mand. Heretofore the pits have been
used mostly for fuel purposes, selling
generally for about So to So per ton.
| but this year there has been a 4reat
demand from San Francisco and else
where for the pits.
Now it transpires that the kernel in
the pit is being used for several pur-
poses by English and American firms
Don't be surprised when you buy that
fine French nut candy to find the al
1
than a highly prepared apricot kernel
Or the cinnamon, nutmegs, allsoice,
etc, which you are assured are abso-
lutely pure or money back" is like
wise made of the same material
| 1t is claimed that prussic acid is also
made from the kernel, and that highly
perfumed toilet soap is made from the
oil which is extracted from the same
insignificant kernel
Surely this is a great age We are iiv-
ing in when the ingenuity of man will
bring into play such small thing to
accomplish such results.
This year the price has increased and
now the pit owner is as cautious about
selling as the man who owns a GUAM
tity of apricots or peaches The price
of the pits run from IS to $40 rer ton
OLIVE PICKING.
| Oroville Mercury: The olive picking
plant of the Ehmann Olive Company is
in process Of erection. force of men
are at work on the building which is
going up under the direction of Charles
| w. Bolles, Secretary of the company,
! who is a contractor and builder of
Oakland The building will be 7Sx65
! feet, fronting on the railroad track It
| is of wood. the sides and back to be of
rough lumber battened, and the front
of rustic, built above the gables. Four
| parallel gable roofs will cover the
| structure, the top of the roofs being
about % feet from the ground The
| front will be of rustic and will have
painted across the top the name of the
company The greater part of the in