California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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OFFICE: Over flie San Jose Sa^-ing-s B.-ink, 

 BiilliarliN Biitlcliii^r, Santa Cluru. Street, 

 near First, San Jose. 



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EDIIORIAL NOTES. 



Best Fruits to Cultivate.— Next mouth 



we shall give our readers a list of best kiruls 

 and varieties of fruits for a family orchard, 

 also best varieties for shipping East, and for 

 drying etc. Our reliable orchanlists and most 

 experienced fruit-growers will be consulted in 

 this matter for authority. 



What's in a Name?— There is a Santa 

 Clara valley, also a San Jose valley in South- 

 ern California. We don't charge them with 

 stealing the livery of heaven to serve, etc., 

 but with all their boasting they cannot excel 

 in points of soil, climijte and civilization — 

 the places by the same names in Santa Clara 

 county. They can borrow our name but not 

 our fame. 



The People generally demand cheaper 

 postage, not only on transient newspapers, 

 but on all other third-class matter. The Post 

 Office will gain, not lose by a cheaper postage. 

 Express monopolies are the only parties ben- 

 efited by dear postage— they not only want to 

 run a legitimate business, but to run the Gov- 

 ernment in favor of extortion. Cheaper post- 

 age is the peojjle's demand. 



The Russian Grain Harvest is authma- 



tively reported as very .short this season. 

 Great Britain will need about the usual amount 

 as last year, as near as we can approximate, 

 and will call on California for all she can 

 spare, at remunerative prices. Although our 

 prospects for next year's crop is now good; 

 yet we feel safe in predicting a rise in the 

 price for the present crop on hand, and think 

 it .safe to hold for an advance on present 

 prices. 



Our Readers will Notice that our lady 



correspondents and grandfather have promis- 

 ed an unusual feast of good things for indoors 

 this month. It has been said with more 

 truth than flattery that the Camfoenia Agei- 



CtJLTUBIST AND LiVE SlOCK JOURNAL IS the 



best household journal on this coast. We 

 mean that it shall be at any rate, for as we 

 have often said before the best part of any well 

 conducted farm is, or should be, indoors, and 

 the credit belongs to the wives, mothers and 

 daughters who conduct the household depart- 

 ment. 



Peas, as a farm crop where there is stock, 

 particularly hogs, ar(? found to be quite profit- 

 able. Sown with barley or oats, they will 

 ripen about the same time, and will stand up 

 better for the scythe. When cut green for 

 feed, hogs, horses and cows will eat them 

 ravenously. They make good pasturage, 

 also. Sown now, they will be fit for table 

 green very eai-ly. Peas are as easily grown 

 as wheat or barley, but do best in rich, deep 

 soil. Sow some, if only on trial. 



Prepare your Ground for an orchard by 



plowing it thoroughly as deep as you like. 

 We believe in deep plowing of ground where 

 an orchard is to be set. After the trees are 

 three or four years planted, thorough shallow 

 cultivation is all that is required. Drag the 

 soil down as neaidy plane as possible. Work 

 it well. Mark off the laud, sticking a stake 

 in exact line of rows in every place where you 

 are to plant a tree. This preliminary work 

 is necessary to good, even planting, and it is 

 always best to make a job look well. Next 

 mouth we will give more information, with 

 list of best varieties for an orchard. 



For a Vegetable Garden it is well to 



spread manure on the surface heavily and 

 harrow it finely at this season. After the 

 weeds have made a good start, turn them un- 

 der with a plow, harrowing well again. At 

 the end of a week or two plow again and 

 harrow. Another plowing in January, just 

 before planting beets, carrots, turnips, onions 

 etc., will be well and destroy more weeds. 

 Kemember that, with the soil well saturated 

 as it now is, you can easily make a good 

 garden for home use, even on dry upland. 

 Sow cabbage and cauliflower seed for jjlants 

 right away, in a bed away from chickens and 

 where it can be sheltered from frost. 



Plant out Shade and ornamental trees until 

 every public highway and avenue is lined 

 with them. Kemember that the Code enjoins 

 upon County Supervisors to i)romote the 

 planting of trees, and as inducements on the 

 part of owners of land entitles them to a 

 premium of one dollar for every tree set out, 

 when it shall have attained the age of four 

 years. By co-operating together for the pur- 

 pose, every urighburliood and township could 

 bo beautified and made more valuable by the 

 planting of trees in front of every farm. The 

 one dollar per tree will pay the expense of 

 planting and caring for the trees. Every 

 grange and farmers' club should canvas this 

 matter earnestly, to its practical eousummn- 

 tion. 



Our Readers will probably take more in- 

 terest in an annotmcement to the effect that 

 the California Ageiccltukist and Livk Stock 

 Journal is soon to be vastly improved in its 

 appearance. We are employing the best 

 ability on this coast in designing and engrav- 

 ing a new head for our monthly, and have 

 other first-class improvements under way, so 

 that we expect to present to our readers in 

 January a periodical that for real merits can- 

 not be surpassed in America for the money. 

 We shall also start in January with 1,000 lar- 

 ger «irculatiou than a year ago . We want to doub- 

 le the circulation this year and shall do so if 

 possible with the assistance of our present 

 subscribers. We are arranging to offer splen- 

 did inducements to old and new subscribers 

 to work for the California Ageicultueist 

 AND Live Stock Journal, which every reader, 

 old and young, rich and poor, will be pleased 

 to entertain. 



Palace Hotel Squashes and stump-the- 



world beets have become so common in Cali- 

 fornia that it is hardly thought worth while 

 to take the trouble to exhibit them in our 

 agricultural fairs. Now has turned up an enor- 

 mous turnip from San Luis Obispo county, 

 one of the small English variety. Our old 

 friend, Mr. J. F. Halloway, who has just 

 bought a farm adjoining the one on which 

 this candidate for vegetable honors grew, 

 came packing it into our offic? lately, and 

 showed us that this turnip measured two feet 

 four inches in circumference and weighed 

 eight pounds. This turnip was finely formed 

 and proportioned. It grew on messa or up- 

 land, without irrigation. Mr. Holloway has 

 been traveling for some time to find a locality 

 and piece of laud to suit him for a home and 

 he thinks he has found the spot at last. 

 Where such turnips grow is a good place to 

 vegetate. 



Gradually I'sforms are working in civil law 

 and there is need enough for them too. The 

 Grangers' Fee Bill, a bill that the Patrons of 

 Husbandry are about to introduce before the 

 Legislature of this State, is a move in the 

 right direction and should become a law. It 

 is for the purpose of limiting the amount 

 ehargeal-ile iu cases where no special contract 

 IS made, as to fees. We understand this is to 

 apply to lawyers and other professional ser- 

 vices. Lawyers in particular have before thi ii 

 courts, among themselves, almost or quiii' 

 unlimited jiower to make and exact most i \- 

 orbit.ant bills tor services rendered. They ni^' 

 mutually interested to make their services as 

 valuable as possible to tlieni.sclves. We know 

 how it is, and hope to see this ring broken. 

 And we would like to see the pay for all pro- 

 fessional services predicated upon actual val- 

 ues of first-class labor in productive and me- 

 chanical pursuits. If this is drawing the lino 

 too close to suit them, let them take the benefit 

 by going to work and realizing the pay for 

 labor. As to qualifications, it takes just as 

 long and rcquiri'S just as much application of 

 mind and muscle to become a first-class me- 

 chanic or farmer, as it does to reach the high- 

 er rounds in any other calling, and we believe 

 that true justice should more nearly equalizu 

 the jiay for all intelligent services. 



