Year: 1874

without labor. Standing on the street cor
ners and lounging about saloons, eternaly
cursing Cinnamon and those who employ
them, and finding fault with those who are
climbing up the hill of prosperity, will never
raise a man up. If man would win he
should go to work, quit his growing and
keep away from the haun's of stagnation,
where weeds cf dissipation, dissenlion and
disease generate. AS class, these loaiers
who lay about our towns, awaiting to catch
some farmer in pinch, are not TO be de-
pended upon. The best class of labor is al
ready in the field and the shop. lndustri-
Gus, enterprsing men are never found idle.
They work their way into steady employ
ment They drive ahead to win, regard
less of Cinnamon or the rates of labor. The
idea of Chinese becoming their equals and
assuming to supplant white labor in build
ing up this State, never enters their minds.
By perseverance and frugality they become
honored citizens, and if not as successful as
some others in acquiring wealth their use
fulness to society is none the less. Such
men don't leave for town when they receive
their pay, and spend it in drinking and
gambling and dissipation. No!-Erchange


PoTATo BLIGHT. A terrible disease has
made its appearance in the potato fields
along the coast from the Ocean View House
to Half Moon Bay. 1t resembles and is
probably identical with the great potato
blight that caused the famine in Ireland in
the years 1916 and 1S47 Fields that look
healthy in the morning will wear a black or
smoky hue in the afternoon, and probably
next day the vines may be crushed to pow
der in the fingers. Every vestige of moist
ure dries up. The disease extends to the
roots, causing them TO turn black and rot in
a very short. time. Thousands of acres of
early potatoes are now in this condition and
still new fields are being effected. There
has been great deal of speculation as TO
the cause of the blight. One plausible
theory is that the continued propagation OF
potatoes by cuttings of tubers not being
properly reproduction. but an endless di-
vision, at last exhausts the power of the
plant, and it dies, while new varieties
brought from the seed continue to live and
grow. If this theory is correct the Early
Rose potatoes are safe for the present, and
the potato fields in this vicinity will escape.
But it is important that more new varieties
of potatoes should be brought forward, and
seed should from time to time be planted


Wheahald Free Press.


WINE EXHIBIT. "A large consignment Of
the choicest California wines and braudes,
embracing samples of the best productions
of all sections of the State, has been sent to
Washington. This has been done fer the
purpose of giving a practical exhibition of
the importance of the wine trade in Cali
fornia. All the leading San Francisco
houses are represented. The bill Of ading
also calls for lot of California cigars,
made from tobacco cured by the Culp pro-
cess also a case of canned traits and jellies
The exhibition will be given in form of
wine festival to The Washington correspond
ents and invited guests, among whom are
many members Of Congress and officers OF
the Executive Department-SdcrameJdo
Valley Agriculturif


The Petalma argus says that the grape
crop in Sonoma county this season will eX-
ceed that of any former year. There has
been no injury from frost thus far, ard the
only thing to lie feared now IS midew,
which may be produced by damp and fogsy
weather. The prospect for a large yield OF
most other kinds of fruit is unusually good,
apples and pums being exceptionally prom


Using. The curl leaf aillcts few peach
trees in the vicinity of Petaluma, but not
more than one in len appears to be seriously
injured. In some parts of the county,
however, curl leaf is much more common
and will considerably reduce the yield.


CHICKEN L1oE.-There are five hundred
different theories in regard to preventing ver-
min in fowls. In almost every paper we
see accounts of how some theoretical chicken
raiser kept lice away by sprinkmg lime
around the yards. We have seen lime
sprinkled in the nest where the ben was set
ting, and yet the vermn lost none OF their
righteousness. The only sure and speedy
cure we know of is to use sulphur. 1t will
kill the vermn every time, and has no evil
effects on the Matching eggs or the setting
hen. We have seen whole broods Of prom
Using chickens die off in two days after being
Matched, for no other reason than they were
literally eaten up alive. Sprinkle the nests
with sulphur, and also mix little with the
food.-Sac. Valley AgrtcuHrist.


From the Buttes to the Sacramento river,
and from Moons ferry to Meriden and along
the river to Kirksville, says the Suffer Bd5t-
ner, we never saw better crops growing
during our twelve years residence in this
county The farmers are all delighted with
their prospects. Their crops are double
that of any other year. 4 large amount OF
new ground has been cleared and brought
under cultivation along the river, besides
several thousand acres of tule land being
reclaimed.


It is stated that the fibre of the rahe is in
great demand for England, and that if
proper machinery could be procured to strip
it from the plant it would soon rival in i'm
portance th9 trade in cotton, The Direct