. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California AoRicuLTURist and Live Stock Journal. poor economy to buy what can be better produced at home. Ho has given little attention to any speeial breed of hogs, but prefers the Essex and Berkshires to any others for his own use. When he wants meat ha always has a fat , steer, or some kind of poultry at hand, which cost but little to produce. He has also a family (?) ORCHAED, VINEYARD AND GARDEN, which supplies the principle portion of his fruit and
. California agriculturist and live stock journal. Agriculture -- California; Livestock -- California; Animal industry -- California. California AoRicuLTURist and Live Stock Journal. poor economy to buy what can be better produced at home. Ho has given little attention to any speeial breed of hogs, but prefers the Essex and Berkshires to any others for his own use. When he wants meat ha always has a fat , steer, or some kind of poultry at hand, which cost but little to produce. He has also a family (?) ORCHAED, VINEYARD AND GARDEN, which supplies the principle portion of his fruit and vegetables. Owing to the dryness of his soil, it is not protitablo nor convenient to produce all sorts of vege- tables without irrigation. For this pur- pose, and to supply WATER FOR HIS STOCK, a wooden pipe runs back some two miles to the hills. Large tanks, holding many thousand gallons of water, are jirovided as a reserve. From these, iron pipes run to the several yards and stables, where are ample watering troughs conveniently situated. A LARGE BARN shelters several hundred tons of excellent hay. Long sheds are winged on either side to stable the stock; also L's at one end for stock, arranged into separate stalls. In large corrls are IMMENSE STACKS OP STRAW. Every season all the straw produced on the farm is carefully stacked for the stock to feed upon whenever the feed in pas- tures is short and when Winter storms make the soil soft and easily poached. We saw a portion of a straw stack ten years old. Mr. Emerson says that the straw improves with age. The cattle, horses, and sheep like it best. It seems to be easier masticated and digested after it remains in stack a few years. Instead of scattering his straw in the pastures he lets the stock run to the stack and help themselves. What straw is trampled un- der feet makes EXCELLENT MANURE with the droppings of the animals. This is applied to the surface in the hay fields. This (last) season the Emerson farm pro- duced 400 t
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