The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-06-30

into play in milking are soon of little
service One particularly bad case has
come under his notice. It Is that OF Q
man named Allen. The clutching OF
the hand first became manifest at night
when he was asleep, and he found very
often that his face would be raw and
bleeding in the morning from scratch
ing it with the affected hand during
the night Sometimes the man would
-unconsciously grip his wffe's arm while
he was asleep, causing her to cry out
with pain and leaving black and blue
marks where his fingers pressed the
flesh. AT that time the power of his
grip was immense, but the disease
progressed until he has nearly lost the
use of the arm The doctor says that
absolute rest from milking is neces-
sary. and some other form. of exercise
for the affected muscles must be re-
sorted to TO bring them back to their
normal state.
COOPERATIVE FARMING.
Placer County Leader: We have had
some little experience at the East In
starting cooperative associations OF
farmers to market their own produce
(milk), and we would advise our fruit
growers to be very careful to select
square" men for officials, from the
highest to the lowest. Beware of
sharp" men who have q. record OF
tricky dealings. Having a just cause
and honest leaders who will deal just
ly though firmly even with your OPP
ponsnts, stand by them through thick
and thin, knowing that you have big
fight on your hands. Don't expect
walkover, but put the same vim into
your actions that our California boys
at Manila show and you must win.
SOME GOOD YIELDS.
Salinas Index: Benz Graves ranch OF
200 acres northwest of town and be-
yond the Castroville road is wholly
given up to chevalier barley. A few
acres has been cut to hay and the re-
mainder will average twenty five sacks
to the acre.
Charles Graves expects to harvest at
least 6,O00 centals of chevalier barley
from 100 acres.
Bullene Bros, north of the Catholic
Cemetery, expect twenty-five sacks or
Od+S-1
Arthur Hebron, who farms H. S.
Balls 800 acres, has go acres of oats,
200 acres common barley and 400 acres
chevalier and wheat. A conservative
estimate places the yield at twenty
sacks to the acre.
Stanley Sherwood farms 300 acres in
the same locality-15O acres oats and
$50 acres chevalier and common bar
ley-which will average twenty sacks
to the acre.
Thomas Connolly farms the Mrs.
James F. Breen ranch of 600 acres-1OO
acres oats and the rest chevalier bar
ley. The yield will be large.
Sim Graves has seventy five acres of
wheat and chevalier barley that will
average twenty-five sacks to the acre.
The late rain made the crops mem
toned in this report. Much of the
grain would otherwise have been cut
for hay 1t is expected that the quail
usual this year.
PLANTsEOMETHIN
San Jose Mercury: Thefruit grower
imagineS that he has more to contend
against than any other man on earth,
but he fails to reflect that every bust
ness has its drawbacks and discourage
ments, and that in the matter Of indie
pendence, for which everybody longs,
he is far and away ahead of the mer-
chant, the lawyer, the physician, the
editor, or any person who is engaged in
a business or profession that confines
him to a store, an office or desk. The
farmer and the fruit grower, in spite
of their many worries and troubles, are
the most independent people in the
world. The cultivation of the soil is
the noblest Of occupations. The man
who grows. something. is always sure
of living. provided he is sufficiently
intelligent to know what to grow and
how to grow it.
No man can expect to succeed as a
merchant unless he has learned the
principles and the details of the mer-
camille business. Nobody can become
a physician unless he has studied medi-
cine. But there are thousands of peo-
pie who believe that anybody can be-
come a, successful farmer or fruit grow
er without having given single day
to the theory or the practice of grow
ing cereals or fruits or raising stock
Ills ID q Gel iOo-S iiiiStdhc, anu Lie sui
ferers from it are not only those who
attempt farming without knowing what
farming is, but also those who are
really adopts in the calling, but who
unavoidabiy are brought into COMPETE
tion, to certain extent, with the ig-
norant farmers who are trying to do
something without knowing how
Nevertheless. everybody who can lay
by enough to purchase few acres of
land should do so, and he should plant
something. In this direction lies inde-
pendence. But he should remember
that no man can successfully grow
cereals, or fruits, or vegetables without
knowledge of how to do it any more
than he can run an engine, with TO
knowledge of machinery, or conduct a
drug store without knowing anything
about the nature or nomenclature of
drugs. But the man who will use as
much intelligence in agriculture as he
would expect to exercise in a trade or
a profession is sure to succeed. There
is always demand for the products
of the SOIL although that demand may
vary. Prices may be up one year and
down the next, but taking the average
there Is money in growing fruit. This
season, for example, cherries are bring
ing high price; apricots are in de-
mand, green, at from $40 to $50 a ton;
from $50 to $40 a ton is being paid for