Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-17
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Farm.

COVERING the floor of a henhouse
and yard with six inches or 50 with tan
bark viii eiIectually Keep all hen lice
or other insects from the premises.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country
Gentleman says that even where land
was too poor to grow clover to amount
to anything, blowing under two crops
of rye brought the land IN good con
dition for clover. and this, plowed I'M
der, put the land in good order for
other crops.
A MASSACHUSETTS, doctor claims that
carbolate of lime is fully as destructive
as hellebore to the currant worm, and
1T the same time more agreeable, less
costly and perfectly safe. Apply soon
as the pest appears, bringing it well in
contact with the leaves when the dew
is on, and repeat as often as necessa-
~.
A WRITER in the Poulty Bulletin says
he puts a small quantity of carbohc
soap IN solution under the wings and
on the breast OF the hen as soon as she
comes off with her brood, and repeats
the application once a week, and thus
prevents gapes, which disease, he
chlims, is caused by the larger species
of the louise which lays its young IN
the chickens mouth.
An English farmer had a water
meadow which was overgrown with
PUSHES He caused it to be thoroughly
drained and laid down in grass.
Thereafter he was able to cut from it
annually four crops of green fodder of
- : II. e Ell
in this country are susceptible of SINH
lar improvements.
IT has been estimated, says X. A.
Willard, that, one year with another,
a third more feed is obtained from the
land in Herkimer county by Iudicious
use of gypsum. 1t is, at least, certain
that pastures are kept fresher and
greener by the application of plaster,
and a failure to apply it for any con
siderable time IS made apparent in the
milk pail and decrease of the cheese
product.
Mr. RUFUS PEET, of Wyoming coun
ty, n. Y, communicates the following
remedy for bugs upon vegetation: u
have tried the following prescription
against bugs, which has proved ef1ica-
cious with me: G Take fine, dry dust
from a common road, sift it through a
fine riddle so rs to remove small stones
and Jumps, and apply freely with the
hand when the dew is on the plants.
1t was with me a perfect success last
year. No bug was seen upon squash,
melon, cucumber or pumpkin.
The PLow11AN thinks highly of Hun
garian grass in general, but especially
at time like the present, when III
consequence of a hard winter, followed
by a spring drouth, " 1t is impossible
to form very correct judgment of the
probable yield of hay till rather late in
the season" 1T may be sown after the
hurry of planting is over, say the mid
die of June, or even later its growth
is rapid if helped with little manure
at the start, it will yield from one to
two tons of good hay per acre, and if
pastures are short, 1t offers one of the
best green forage plants, less exhaus-
tive, it is thought, than fodder corn,
and equally or probably more nutrItive
and milk producing as food for COWS.
Ii stands drouth equal to an Egyptian
mummy If everything else about it
dries up, the growth of Hungarian
grass may be arrested, but it cliDgs to
life, and the first rain revives it almost
as If nothing had happened. A dry,
warm soil of q fair quality, or what
would be called by farmers good corn
land, is just what it needs Fourteen
quarts of seed to the acre is the GUAM
tity commonly recommended, and, il
fresh and good, that is enough. Those
who wish to leave some margin fol
possible drawbacks may make it half a
bushel