SEMI-TROPIC CALIFORNIA. 
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BARLEY. 
AGRICULTURAL NOTES. 
farmer’s Hcparftncn* I 
1 rp ■ , :i - - _ __ —- — r : I Singular as it may appear the United T he Hall brothers, of Now Mexico, have 
fffoist horses ! States import barlev very largely fiom «eM n ranch and 25,000 head of ('.11110103 
_ ’ foreign countries. Figures compiled from j Scot eh company for $400,000. 
The bora. b» Ibf.,„.lk.l Moin.rl, in official «»rcn. sbo» tl.stll.o tnt.l i.nporM T , o| . fi 
four quarts •»/ oats and the »«lna that goes ’ ,nst " 11 C **P .V* -I ‘rn aggregate . .. . . e 1 u; * .- 
foto the stomach with it. Homm are gen-| babels l >unng the six mouths ender , j j ,.|,, vcrl „ m „ihs and three^bivir 
eralN orm fed and m.t fed often an. ..eh ! • «eei»tnber ill, lf*SM, there were imported;,., , ,,", 0 V- ’ 
IZ'VZn'. iewte "»* -is ^Hbotrmn Canada, Tin,?; l bushels of bar W «be gave b.rth to twin*, both 
eight quart* nt bruised U .Ud eight j U*y malt, and the importsJur nine tiseal ■•^sUctubcr „ J^hyjr^jrth^ 
ten pounds of fine hay n day rswHicicnt. 
BUTTER MAKING. 
milk, 
This should be fed in nt least three meals 
and i« better if fed in four. 
A boron's digestion is Tory rapid, and 
therefore he get* hungry sooner thmi a 
man. When he is hungry he is ineffective, 
and wears out, very rapidly. Water tills 
the stomach, lowers the temperature nud 
dilute* the gastric .juice, Iherefnsu 11 horse 
should not drink immediately before eating. 
Neither should lie lie watered immediately 
after eating, because be nil I drink too 
<ontfnts nt ei K' ll ' V pounds id malt, 
the stomach into the largo intestine, u Inch 
will cause scouring. 
Give only « moderate drink of Water to 
u horse. A largo drink of cold water tic- 
fore being driven will have a very quirt mg 
* fleet on a nervous horse. A ntcf-lmrsn 
alwaya runs on an empty Btriinach. Diges¬ 
tion pmgrwMes moderately during oxer 
eiae, if the exercise Is not. so rinfent us to 
exhauat the power* iff the horse. 1 eon 
aider bruised oats ..r barley worth twenty 
per cent more than whole. They arc in..re 
wuiplntrly digested. Prefer oaU 1 ■ uu> 
other grain fur horse.'., (’rucked corn i'? 
very guild under some cireurmfcn. cs, but 
wouldn’t uie meal or abort*. The disease 
called big head is roused by feeding cm. 
« Imn a liunto come* in hot, f would give 
a mudemte feed immediately. I f the h, n 
i" too tired to eat would take his f.,,«j 
a»»y. A bratod body is a reason against 
watering, and for feeding, for the system o 
then just in condition to begin digcii.,,,. 
A home will not founder if fed mtuTc.t. Iv 
when hut | prefer dry lord unless u horse 
ha** *wuie diacsBU of the throat nr lung-. I 
»lway* feed hay from the floor, then tlm 
tiorara do m.t get particles in their eyv - 
.■l<W,c* hfort Mu*. For,,, ( 
If Jiawai * thal.'Nj Uctuher ?. 
vrars, last past, were ff,cilo,?CI bushels itrip'ots, two males and one female, making 
from th- Mime country. Malt .* borlrv tPri 0ftlv " H ’1 ihri’c ycsrayf.ve month* and 
which has Her., made i., gmninnto |.~ v ^. 'ity-nue days. he calves have all ben. 
moisture and warmth, and afterwards dried, ^ healthy and handsome, and 
by which the vitality of the need is de Nv « bwrt raised on Hie farm. 
r, 'n"t S 'r r T' lliar " i,r " A New York dealer, tit a ommh.r to 
genous principle, called diastase, is pro-' 
duend. Although this does not constitute p* 81 J nle, -> ""V* that the oleomargarine is 
more than 1-300th part of the malt, it plenty, good and cheap, and adds that in 
serves U. affect the conversion of starch of order to compete with imitation butter and 
the Boe.l into dextrine and grape sugar. Itm weslerr , nwiira , butter, dairymen 
■me hundred pounds of barmy yield about 
ASama Ola n a farmer «ay* ; A calf at 
three montlis of ag« is worth $ 1 ), „t twnlv,. 
iiKHit.iB old, $12, at two years |8() in $ -1 
at three yearn, a young cow, with . calf at 
,1 8 !‘ 1 ®’ Wl,r fh from ?;r. to j„i J; | 
X :JT u^XSZ; 
traitor and cheese. 1 
A BtrwitKn of universal drought, followed 
V ‘ V '!" ter ""pruccdenicd for «now, have 
shown tin* present mode of raising „u, ck H1 
Uulorado to be a t»ilure. Tha | ( *,,.. ... 
w w‘ l Wl , nle i bh *v* 4,1,1 c 0ttle will 
'" U ' ~ h *'‘ 
| “Make a full flavored butter, and sell it 
fresh enough to keep it out of the company 
~—— common stock. The tnilk must bn set 
A successful Ki nosha, \Yi.-, butter-1 at a tmHaniilr low teinperatiira mid kept 
maker gives ln» method as follow*. Our them, «o ns 'to get all the flavor into lira 
as drawn Irom the row, islereaiu. Tim cream must then be soured 
placed in a doiiblc ohuifnel pau, with uohl though to draw the flavor, but net stand 
water miming under the pan till the milk long enough to got bitter or whey, and the 
lh r, ‘ ,ll,, ( ' r| t, -‘ ''ll ' Icinperatme; tempera- butter after it is cornu must not'have the 
lure of room <i.i ; held till it brglns to I flj»\ or worked out of it, or washed out of it. 
tnicRcn; cream tdlo-n nil with one fourth To keep up the color in the spring butter, 
ua mut-h lin k M cream. Churn in barrel Iff the strong, easterly light fall on tlm 
cl.unis until thr first afipearauco of butfir- blitter, worker w hi^ wo.king it in the 
HOIK; tin'll Ouu one pailful of weak brine, 1 moming, and trv to get 11 delicate, natural 
at a temperature of 1 ^; th. ,. rl.un. till illj^or. Then with the market supplied 
comes tn the s„,r of wheat; then add more I with a full flavored, brittle-grained butter, 
brim*, nl the buttermilk is thinned ao that fresh from the chum, tie who mns-n. H v 
.r'lnM ‘ !1 "" y r l 0 "' lUl \ ba,tcr Ulave. read .he difference between it and «nv imi- 
th. butter upon the worker, work care- ftion whatever." 
fully, rinse with water till aolld, then add 
salt- Jo mice to one pound buttor—lei n 
stand nil the next, morning; work over and 
puck. 
It makes (in tdiservaiil resident of Ihi^ 
■ ‘iv mad t„ stop at m.r green grocers and 
mm- th,.,,. Mb , u/b | oa ,| rd wilh fn .,|, liwn 
• abforiim y.getablpB. In the .nid.tof IIA 
tine an ugm.-ultural region 86 ,l, f; Mln 
' v, " re ,l “’ "“"I* tinkled with „ |„ J( , 
lauglis II bounti-ou* flat Vest of as line veg. 
grow in the temp, rat.- m„e; 
•' cesary lor tl M iir planting, 
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'tables 1 ___ 
with all dial ii 
If I remember right. Dr. Horn aome- 
Wh.ie stated that them is no way of ex- 
prlliiig hot* from 11 horan I have been in 
the habit of giving human u strong docnc- 
fieri of sage, well Hvveettmcd, which had the 
i-fl' t of expelling the hots. It was *np- 
pusi- I, when I was n boy, (but Huge lea 
id' 'I Hi a cathartic, and that the huts were 
fOml of nwed, and would let go to take a 
sip ' I t. «, and while nipping ten would be 
carried along the intestinal canal and the 
horse would be relieved. A few ashes help 
tin rn along. I write front experience: mi 
, flu* 4 "* k about it.— Cvnfttnum 
_ 11 Routt Funnvr. 
’’reajiunilrrx't' /1, 
cam and culUwtbra m had for HraT.S 
of praparmg them, we import cablwgei. 
eelerv, him,,.,,,, Iiut,nearly every v.-g,.|*. 1 
bJ.ii that w,|| bear tr»..sportatio D from («|i. j 
l 1 ' , 1,1111 wuiic practical Kivic years ago (b-m,any produced but 
market garddm, will 8oou dinaov.,.,- that t'f bed *„ K ar. In 1K80-HI 
them are m Wall, 
people with taste 
pOM 
Walla 
uity 1 
✓ - 4,01)0 
and appotiu-s like those 
- . • , «f other pUc * 
lh» ..me ...., «nJ lh„ t,, 
palates of fhi. nunL 1 " 
the 
WiU.ioxs of aroiv wiirnia have unpeared 
j m the Sacramento Valley ’ P ' 
augur. 
kle produced 330,1X10 tons. 
Kbouth have destroyed the peach crop 
and aeriously duinnged the wheat lields of 
Kansaa. 
At, Atl.glijM.jr llwy tii.it l„. ,„ me J hi, 
atnl.lc goat ( lleomaigcrine, because he is a 
bad butter. 
