| Show fine fin e IF flavor livor of gi grapes r apes from digior diggers S I 1 bones i one of the most fertile spon spots of soil I 1 in n the foo foothills t hill 8 of yuba tuba cou county n t is moneys garden garde at empire ranch ge the soil is bla bia black k and add loose and watered by perennial springs theme there grow the largest and best flavored d black hamburg grapes which we ie have seen in the state there ripen the most lucious figs there swell above ground and turn green in the the sun the most mealy tubers but the blackest and richest portion of this garden is i a slight knoll near the bathhouse bath house bouse A grape vine which springs from it and em bowers thih the house oluse olase named dears bears fruit of a peculiar and decided decidedly lk superior flavor after eating to repletion from other vines the grapes that grow on this though of the same one to gluttony by their additional sweetness and delicacy trying r ry ing to account for this we discover that the soil whence this fine fruit grev grew is is formed chiefly of decomposed granite and wa we fancy th that at the potash thus set free has his b been een drawn b by y the chemistry of vegetation at into the translucent oval lumps of lusciousness which just betrayed us into ln intemperance temperance and aud and made them superior to their congeners conveners cong eners in in jibe sibe the alluvial bottom but this is not the whole secret happening in to turn about aboul we see OIL on the ground the tha bl blackened a and crumbling remnant of a humain hundall bone which a slight pressure of the foot flat tens into powder this circumstance elicits from a companion the strange information that on this knoll the indians once burne d their dead that instantly accounts for the oily lamp am 1 blackness I of the soil and for the super superior or flavor of the grapes the kimp simple e mger diggers have unwittingly enriched the earth and made a delicious fruit truit more delici delicious oual by their ancient rite of cremation the ammonia and potassium and phosphates in the dead bones of their kindred freed by fire and dissolved by rain have hive gone into the sap of the grape vine and into the jucy pulp of its fruit and by nicer combination than the chemist discerns in his laboratory have produced the flavor which tickles the palates of human creatures whose living organism is made up of a different combination ol 01 the same elements thus W work rk eternally through all forms of life ilfe the mysterious laws of production decay and reproduction thus human reason is tau taught C lit tit the mutability yet the indestructibility of things and faith may isay derive assurance kofl of immortality 1 m mort lity while those who seek less lofty meanings in the operations of nature have confirmed to them the f act fact that bones burnt or are the best fertilizers for grapes while saying this we advise nobody to violate public prejudice by burning his friends to enrich his vineyard there are good arguments in favor of cremation as against interment and it might seem capital to use foi for fertilizing purposes the ashes of some fellow who was of no value when alive and tread hig lainily over the dust of his dead betters the ammoniates ammonia tes and phosphates from his bis body and bones would probably make just as good god grapes as the same elements from the resolved orga organize zm ofa ota of a saint or hero but society has its prejudices and what was classic blassic and beautiful with the intellectual greeks and is still practised practiced by the poor 0 or diggers as a loving and ab holy oly rite would be e thought barbarous and shocking by refined americans so our grape growers will have to resort to the bones of less noble and squeamish animals than man if they want to improve the quality of their fruit they must gather the broken up fragments of 0 the genus bovine ovine and porcine and plant them whether burnt or about the roots of their vines lines this is a timely hint for the season is near at hand when those who contemplate planting grape vines at all will be at it and may their name be legion thus bendeth our prosy preachment marys ville ille appeal english horses Hor sesA A writer in the london renew complains that the noble breed of useful english horses is beco becoming m in ruined he iii says our country once fazed famed for the best bast breed breed of saddle horses in the world is becoming overrun with a lot of worthless weedy refuse racing stock which by many inexperienced perien ced farmers and bleeders breeders bre eders are gradually being crossed with and thus deteriorating the breed of our short legged deep bodied wide hipped strong saddle horses the lineage of which in a few instances we still trace by their compact forms to the breed ot of race horses encouraged by our forefathers who bred horses for useful purposes to carry men long distances and not the spindle shank ed velocipedes velocipede 3 bred by our turkmen of the present day that break breakdown down after running a f few tew ew f furlongs with a baby on their backs how to keep eggs A correspondent a Goodwins ville N J has had bad good success iii iri keeping eggs in the following manner with an int ini h and a half auer au auger 0 er h hoies boles were bored in shelves which were put up in a coal cellar protected from frost the e eggs gs as fast as 29 collected were set in these toles holes with the little end downward some were used in three months some in six months and the balance in a little over a year from the time of storing stori rg and all were reported as perfectly good the cellar in which eggs were kept so well wel must we think have been very dry and cool lc would be well for those making thi s experiment to try a small quantity at first they might not keep as well under all circumstances as in the c case as e a above bove to clean pork rork barrels it is recommended to clean tainted beef or pork barrels by filling them with fresh earth bury them in the ground and let them remain some time the earth will absorb the taint in extreme cases repeat the operation op oration once or twice |
