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California Agriculturist and Live Stock Journal. 



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S. HARRIS HERRING, Editor. 



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EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Messrs. Field, Combs & Kendall, 



of San Jiise, iii-o cerliiiu)y ilcaei vin^' of s])ccuil 

 mention for doing fine marble worjj, as every 

 one wlio examines will attest. Tliey en]i)loy 

 a Lufje force ol men, and display work tliat 

 for ele-rance and finish cannot be surpassed 

 in til is filale. 



One number of a journal like this can 

 not conuiin aiticjea npon every snbjectof gen- 

 eral interest. Next month sevei-al depart- 

 nients not found in this issue will be given. 

 Now is a very busy season with the most of 

 our ri-aders and correspondents. If you can- 

 not write long articles, send ns something 

 slioit and spicy, but don't negleit us. 



Another New Fruit-Dryer.— Our 



f.llow tuwiiKiuan, Mr. Win. Aiam, has Be 

 cun-d a patent for a new fruit-dryer. His in- 

 vention consists, first, of a basement where 

 beat is generated in a furnace; second, a large 

 room above divided into apartments by mov- 

 able parlitionsi third, the manner of letting 

 the beat into either or all of these at will; 

 fourth, the movable racks for the screens 

 which licdd the fruit to he dried, and fifth, the 

 manner of introducing and remeving the raclis 

 containing the fruit. Mr. A. says that he can 

 buihl one of a ca]iaiuly to .by aoi) boxes of 

 apples or pears per day for IS 100. We have 

 examined the drawings, and can see many 

 piactical points about the apparatus which we 

 lliink must bring it into strong competition 

 Willi 11,0 Alden and otlicrs. Mr. Bird, of San 

 •Josu, will run one this season, and thinks it 

 isjust about as near the thing as any yet in- 



Artificial Stone. — The AsbesHan 

 Stone Company, of San Jose, is now actively 

 engaged in making many beautiful designs of 

 work. They are laying down pavements for 

 garden walks, making steps, cemetery work, 

 vases, and a variety of solid and ornamental 

 work. This stone is worked in a jilastic con- 

 dition, and it is claimed that it can be cheaply 

 wrought into beau'iful forms, and on harden- 

 ing will endure a long time. J. W. Combs, 

 the noted marble cutter, is president, and 

 Alex. Murgotten secretary, and Wm. Elm 

 Superintendent. 



A Matter of Policy.— Cal. Agm- 



I'ULTUuiisT Pun. Co.: "Six Months Among 

 the Bees," in May number, Is a libel on the 

 country, undoubtedly, and was written, I 

 presume, by some one when be bad the blues. 

 It is a bad policy to republish anything ol 

 the kind with resard to any portion of the 

 State. Suppose all the papers in the different 

 localities should republish the growling arti- 

 cles with regard to all other localities, — you 

 see it would tend to prevent immigration 

 from the East, and lengthen the time of our 

 enforced employment of the heathen. 



Yours, truly, O. L. Abbott. 



.Santa Barbara, May 17th, 1867. 



To publish either the glowing or the "blue" 

 side only, would be unfair. AVithin the past 

 two years, we have given a great deal of 

 matter flattering to the bee interests in San 

 Diego. We desire our readers to see every 

 side of the question, that they may be better 

 able to form an impartial opinion. (_)n gen- 

 eral principles, our newspapers, by ]aiblish 

 ing only the glowing side of the country, flat- 

 tering to each locality, deceive the people 

 East, and they come here to be disappointed, 

 and curse the country and people they find so 

 very dirterent from what they were misled to 

 believe. Much might, with justice, be said 

 upon this question. We have often felt like 

 denouncing the over-drawn and one-sided 

 representations sent abroad. We want immi- 

 gration, but not such as is induced by false 

 advice. To do as we would be done by in 

 this as other things, must he about right. 



A look about our immediate locality 

 and surroundings shows a season of business 

 that promises liberal returns. 



Enright is running a lat-ge force oti his tJO 

 new thresher engines and repairing of several 

 others. His place looks like a large locomo 

 five depot at first glance. 



McKenzie's foundry has just turned out the 

 largest iron quicksilver furnace ever made 

 for the New Almaden mines, and will soon 

 commence another ono. 



At the Alameda Foundry, Watkius »Sc Co. 

 are turning out several new engines, .a now 

 thresher, and doing a variety of othei work. 



In Ibis connection we will mention the new 

 patent mamnioth horse-rako manufactured 

 by Mr. Balbach, at Ins .sho]) on Fountain and 

 Second streets. It is constructed something 

 on the principle of the spring wire-tooth rake, 

 but the teeth of this are very heavy and 

 strong, and two horses and two men are re- 

 quired to handle it. It is mounted on wheels 

 and worked with levers, the men riding. 

 Several have already been made, all to order, 

 and give splendid satisfaction. It is no toy 

 arrangement, but is made to do work "and 

 no fooUshuess." 



Our wagon shops are running full hands. 

 Probably the best wagons, as well as the 

 handsomest made on this Coast, are now 

 turned out in San Jose. 



All classes of industrial business seem to be 

 rushing at ju-esent, in harmony with the pros- 

 jiects of big crops and productive success gen- 

 erally. New houses are. going up all over 

 town. New orchards have been planted, and 



our nurserymen are all enlarging their 

 grounds and business. 



Another new canning factory has been 

 erected, and the old firm of Dawson & Co. 

 have greatly enlarged their factory and ca- 

 pacity for putting up fruit and vegetables. 

 Their reputation is deserved, for they put up 

 the best fruit in the best manner, and no trick- 

 ery or deceit. 



Farmers are cutting one of the best crops of 

 hay ever gathered. 



The late frosts have damaged early-planted 

 tomatoes and squashes, but the damage is not 

 irreparable, as it is not too late to replant. 

 Mr. Chas. Carue's twenty acres of early to- 

 matoes are not injured, but are branching out 

 beautifully. He expehts to get 2.j tons to 

 the acre. 



Fruit prospects are good, although str.aw- 

 berries are a partial failure in some spots, 

 from the effect of worms at the roots of the 

 l)lant8. Twenty bushels or so of salt to the 

 acre, at one dose, would probably straighten 

 them out and convert them into fertilizers. 



The Mount Hamilton observatory road will 

 be finished within a month. New enterprises 

 are seen on every hand. If energy will in- 

 sure success in town and country, surely our 

 people should prosper. Our exchanges over 

 the State all speak of full crops and fine busi- 

 ness prospects generally. If we deserve the 

 blessing.s we receive, our happiness may be 

 real. 



Medical Inquisition.— The doctors 



who live upon the medicines others eat are 

 successful— if not in saving lives, at least in 

 making a law that gives them a monopoly. 

 They were not satisfied vrith keeping their 

 patients in the dark with Latin prescriptions 

 that put 25 per cent, of all drug money paid 

 to druggists into their own pockets, besides 

 exorbitant fees for services pretended; not 

 satisfied with a tair showing of their "science" 

 against so-called "quackery" and common 

 sense, but they must be "protected," that is, 

 must condemn as criminals, whoever differs 

 from their schools of practice. Whoever 

 practices now must hold diplomas from their 

 school of colleges— must pass examinations at 

 their board of inquisition. What does this 

 mean ? That the women practitioners who 

 have been debarred from the benefits of a 

 class of medical schools and have been gradu- 

 ated from others, must not attend to their own 

 sex in times of need. These monopoly-diplo- 

 mad men doctors must have all such delicate 

 cases. There is profit and prestige in it that 

 they cannot all'ord to lose. It means that 

 liberal ideas upon heatih subjects must be 

 crushed out and made dishonorable. The 

 medical priest cratt must be honored and pat- 

 ronized. It means that this same class of 

 privileged dictators want a clear field, so that 

 they can, with even greater impunity, destroy 

 the sensitiveness and modesty of daughters, 

 the purity of wives, and the honor of hus- 

 bands and iatherB. They have in this act 

 thrown down the gauntlet which they will 

 find some not too cowardly to pick up. We 

 expect, law or no law, to employ wliocver 

 we please, if we need medical aiil in our fam- 

 ily, but it will never be one who is inside of 

 this iniiiuitoHs inquisition ring. 



The Mechanics' Institute will hold 



the clcM;lith Industrial K.vhilullon ill San 

 Francisco this season. Application for space 

 is now in order. Goods will be re- 

 ceived July 25tli. Exhibition opens .Vugust 

 Stii. This fair will lie called the California 

 Centennial Exhibition, and every arrange- 

 uieiit is making for a grand fair. 



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HINTS FOR THE MONTH. 



■A-Ull illustratiou for this deiiartment 

 1~\ this month is a beautiful aquarium 

 IW' and fountain suitable for iu-doors, 

 'rjJ a hall or conservatory, or for a 

 ■;5? small yard, or a retreat in a large 

 one. Our city florist, Mr. Mitchell, can 

 fill orders for such. 



The care of an aquarium properly 

 comes under the head of City Gardening 

 as the plants it contains should not be 

 the least attractive portion, and are quite 

 essential to the health of the fishes, by 

 absorbing the efiete matter and supplying 

 fresh oxygen to the water. Many beau- 

 tiful plants will grow quite as well rooted 

 in the sand at the bottom and rising , 

 above the water. Besides, "there is 

 scarcely a weed to be found in any brook 

 but may be safely transplanted to it — a i 

 little washing and trimming being neces- ! 

 sary to remove decaying matter," Want 

 of space this month, only, prevents us 

 from giving quite full directions how to 

 proceed. X well-stocked aquarium is 

 certainly a most beautiful and compan- I 

 iouable object. 



In her "Familiar Talks," this month, 

 our practical correspondent, "Snip," 

 wants to know how to have good success 

 in growing moss .and ferns in open air. ' 

 The conditions most favorable will com- 

 prise these essentials: X composted soil 

 rich with vegetable mould; shade from 

 the direct sun during the greater part of 

 the daj'; a quiet atmosphere — wind is 

 injurious to them; plenty of moisture — 

 in fact, they should be completely satu- 

 rated once a day, cither by plunging into 

 water or by other means; the evener the 

 temperature the better. In-doors, near 

 a closed window, where the morning sun 

 strikes them an hour or two, is the most 

 favorable place. Our moss kept fresh 

 as long us the bath was attended to reg- 

 ularly, nearly two years, and the ferns 

 did not grow stunted unti' the third year 

 — and then we think only through ne- 

 glect, while our family was away. A 

 a little ammonia occasionally with the 

 water, or the leeching of stable manure, 

 should bo given to keep up the fertility , 

 of the soil — or a portion of the soil may 

 be removed from the stand or basket and 

 fresh compost put in its place. 



A large warden case, where the moss , 

 and ferns grow secluded from the change i 

 of air, and are uniformly moist under tlic 

 glass, of course, is still a better place for 

 this class of plants. But the rules given 

 above will prove quite successful with 

 our ordinary hardy mosses and ferns, 

 and nearly as satisfactory. 



As to the white mold upon rose buds 

 and bushes, it is a cryptogamic growth, 

 a sort of }ilaut-infusoria that is very bad 

 in moist situations. We notice that rosi s 

 growing in the full sunlight during tlu' 

 entire day are less troubled than tin 

 same varieties which grow where parti.'il 

 ly shaded. We ki;it>w of no absoliitr 

 remedy against this white mould. Jack- 

 son Lewis, of San Juse, who has Ihr 

 finest collection of flowers in the State, 

 has paid a good deal of attention to this 

 blight, and tried numerous experiments, 

 but finds that dusting often with the . 

 flour of suljihur is as good as anything 

 ho can do. The Giant of Battles seems 

 to be worse infested than any other vari- 

 ety. 



The green aphis is a very annoying 

 pest in a flower garden. A thorough 

 dusting of the trees or ))lants infested 

 with dry slacked lime, as often as the 

 aphides make their aijpearunce, seems to 



