. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. This month has added another new corres- psndent to the Household and Domestic col- umns of our journal. We wish the farmers would take as much interest in other depart- ments as the wives and daughters do in theirs —or at least were as good at corresponding. But we (ire glad the ladies are bound to have a good paper, and we are determined to en- courage them, for the best part of every farm is, or should be, in and about the house. The late rain did more injury


. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. This month has added another new corres- psndent to the Household and Domestic col- umns of our journal. We wish the farmers would take as much interest in other depart- ments as the wives and daughters do in theirs —or at least were as good at corresponding. But we (ire glad the ladies are bound to have a good paper, and we are determined to en- courage them, for the best part of every farm is, or should be, in and about the house. The late rain did more injury to the dry feed in stubble fields and pastures than to grain and hay. The dry feed in our climate is of as much importance as are the green pastures of the Atlantic States. Grass dried up very early this season, and the two ' rain dissolved away much of the gum and and sugar, the soluble portion of the feed,but it did not rot the feed as badly as a long con- tinued rain would have done. Another rain would set the stock to hunting for something to eat. And now politics run high. The popular and reform ideas of the jjeople find expression through "; Whether politicians will continue to delude the people, as they have always done, by reiterating the for reform; or whether the people, as they should do, will throw politicians overboard, and vote only for modest, good and 2)ure men, irrespective of party, remains to bo seen. You have the tables sjjread before you, and can swallow the whole bills of fare or take your choice of the dishes. It is your own stomach, not our, that you must consult. An Act Concerning Koads and Highways in Santa Clara County—a 19-page pamphlet —contains much that will be found interesting to the public. It can be found on our table by those wishing to see it. We quote the fol- lowing: No stock of any kind whatever shall bo al- lowed to pasture upon any highway. Any person or persons who shall wilfully cut down or inju


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