California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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S. HAREIS HEEKING & CO., 



Editors and Publishers. ^ 



OFFICE: Over the San Jose Savings Bank, 

 IJalbacU's Biiildinsf, Santa Clara btreet, 

 near First, San Jose. 





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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



The State Short-Horn Convention will 



meet iu reynlar Semi Annual Convention, on 

 AVednesday the 22d of the present month 

 (September) during the week of the State 

 Fair. There will be no public auction sales 

 of stock under the auspices of the Society, 

 but wo le.irn that several breeders are in- 

 tending to make sales on their own account. 

 The general impression among breeders of 

 fine stock is that the spring is a better time 

 for making sales than the fall of the year. 



Saving Straw for Stock has finally got 



to be the rule as it should bo on grain farms, 

 instead of the wasting and burning it as was 

 so generally done a few years since. The 

 value of a good straw stack for stock, when 

 feed is short, is being appreciated. 



Now the question is, the most convenient 

 and economical way of saving. Undoubtedly 

 an elevator attached to a separator for stack- 

 ing straw is a great improvement. It saves 

 much time and labor, and will soon be con- 

 sidersd au indisponsible attachment to all 

 California separators. 



Some farmers are thinking of building 

 largo sheds, or roofs, iu convenient parts of 

 grain fields, where stock can be fed handily, 

 for sheltering straw every season ; and they 

 wiU then stack the grain along side so that 

 the straw elevator will deposit the straw un- 

 der cover directly from the threshing ma- 

 chine. 



Those who have tried this method of saving 

 straw, could not be induced to go back to the 

 old way. Wo commend this idea to such of 

 cur readers as may feel interested in tho 

 matter. 



Many Subscribers have asked us how 



they shall remit money. While the matter 

 of remitting a small suljscription for a paper 

 should be the easiest thing in the world to do 

 and everybody should know just how to do 

 it, it still is a matter of considerable moment 

 to many who wish to pay for their papers ; 

 and it is of some concern to publishers who 

 need these small amounts which aggregate so 

 much when counted upon the books, and 

 without which crumbs a poor publisher would 

 starve. Were currency as good as gold, as 

 it should be, a post ofiice order would be 

 preferable to anything else. Now, if you 

 buy a $1.50 post office order with coin, it is 

 payable to us only in greenbacks, and we 

 loose about 15 cents, which we cannot afford 

 to do while we have to pre-pay that much 

 postage on the AoBicnLTURisT. But $1.50 

 in coin will bring about $1.68 in currency 

 and this will buy a post office order payable to 

 us in like amount, which will bo satisfactory 

 to us, and is really the most convenient way 

 of sending small amounts through tho mail. 

 An order will cost 5 cents, postage 3 cents 

 more. 



Sometimes money comes to ns through 

 Wells Fargo Express, costing the sender or 

 us 25 to 50 cents for $1.50. This is paying 

 rather dear for the whistle, although we be- 

 lieve a m.in better do that than not take the 

 Ageicdltukist and Live Stock JonKNAL, and 

 pay for it too. Another good and convenient 

 way is to send a check on a San Jose or S.in 

 Francisco bank. The merchant, where you 

 purchase your family sitpplies, would most 

 Ukely furnish you with a check for the 

 money which we could easily get the money 

 on. We advise this as another most con- 

 venient way of sending money. The check, 

 which can only be paid to us or our order, 

 can bo sent as an ordinary letter with but 

 three cents postage. Be sure and send in 

 same letter your full address, name and 

 post office plainly written. Please do mot 

 forget, however, that whatever way you do 

 send it, the most important part of the 

 transaction to the pubUsher is to get his dues, 

 and one year in advance. 



We are asked what are our lowest sub- 

 scription rates to Patrons of Ilusliandry. 

 We would like to be able to aft'ord the 

 Agkicultcrist and Liak Stock Jodknal for 

 half-price to evervbody, and give a good farm 

 for a premium besides ; but the truth is, iffl.uO 

 a year is as low as we can publish it, with- 

 out sever.'vl thousand more subscribers ; and 

 If every one who takes it doesn't have a bet- 

 ter farm, by doing something to make it 

 better, either we do not make a paper worth 

 taking or he does not read as carefully as ho 

 might, or else does not practice as well as he 

 should. We believe in tho co-oporativo 

 principle, and if publishing a paper for every- 

 body at a low price does not como near 

 practicing the principle on our part, we 

 would like to know how to better it. A little 

 more co-operation on the part of some of our 

 subscribers in the small matter of paying up 

 promptly, would bo appreciated and help 

 matters wonderfully. We shall expect all 

 good Patrons to lie willing to co-operate 

 with us, for we arc trying to make just such 



a cheap Monthly Journal as every farmer on 

 the Pacific Coast ought, and can afi'ord to 

 have ; iu fact, cannot afford to do without. 



To our Correspondents or about them 

 we have said very little through the columns 

 of our Monthly, but we feel under many 

 obligations to them and know they have 

 done very much to make the Aokicultubist 

 AND Live Stock Journaz. interesting to all 

 readers. And this our readers will attest to, 

 and for our readers we say thanks to you 

 all, and may you never cease to favor our 

 columns. We wish that aU farmers and 

 farmer's wives and daughters would feel it 

 a duty and privilege to write something of 

 their ex-perience and ideas upon subjects 

 which interest all. It is yimr paper and you 

 who like to read it should write for it. 



By tho way, " Uncle Ben " has been able 

 to give a Boys and Girls department en- 

 tirely original this month, thanks to the 

 young folks. We want you all to write. 

 The Domestic department is also original 

 and good too. We have another "Chat"' 

 from "Jewell" on hand for next month, also 

 two other of her articles: "how to dress 

 babies " and " two ways of feeding babies " — 

 both invaluable to mothers who have the 

 care and responsibility of the most precious 

 live stock raised on the farm. These will 

 appear, one next month and the other the 

 following. 



It is always most convenient to publishers 

 to have articles come in early, but better late 

 than not at all. 



A Recent Ramble through John Rock's 

 nursery discovered to us mauy things inter- 

 esting. Within two years Mr. Rock has 

 added greenhouse culture to his other branches 

 of that business. Among tho many novel- 

 ties seen, we will notice his collection of 

 choice palm-trees. At great expense he sent 

 to Central America and Mexico for seeds of 

 the finest varieties of palms, and has been 

 successful in starting over five thousand trees 

 which are growing finely. This is a valuable 

 acquisition to CaUfsrnia. It is just what wo 

 want to see. Mr. Rock can probably come 

 as near filling any order for choice plants and 

 trees of all kinds, as any nurseryman iu Cal- 

 ifornia. 



Our Lompoc Correspondence will be 



found very interesting. Some of our ex- 

 changes which cater to the powerful liquor 

 interest, characterize the proceeiUngs of the 

 temperance women at Lompoc as a disgrace- 

 ful mob, and say they had better try and cover 

 up their drunkards' shame. We say good, 

 bravo, glory to the women of Lompoc 1 Un- 

 cover the demon alcohol wherever you can 

 find him. Beat him down and outr-with 

 law or without law. Give it no rest amongst 

 you. Never hesitate .about the means, but 

 do quickly what you find to do, and fail not, 

 falter not iu well-doing. 



A FAKMKB complains that a hook and lad- 

 der company has been organized in his neigh- 

 borhood, ilo states that the ladder is used 

 after dark for climbing into his hen-house, 

 after which the hooking is done. 



