Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-09-18
Agricultural Items.

Agricultural Items.
The Wayne County advocate, West
Virginia paper, warns people in the
north against buying lands in that state.
which some sharpers are offering at ex-
traordlnary low rates. The title of land
so offered is not good. f 81.
According to circular published by
the secretary of state, Nebraska, the
land of that state under cultivation, is
given at 2,35S,555 acres; population,
13,740; value of all property, $74, 463, :
500: number Of horses, 13O,2S5; cattle,
434, O15; sheep, sc, 226; swine, 4O7, O5S.
The report of the department Of ag-
riculture of Georgia, Aug. 8, places the
prospective decrease in corn at Is per
cent; the condition Of cotton is still as
high us SO, or II per cent. less than an
average. Complaints Of rust are very
general in those sections which have
suffered from drouth.
The London Times asserts that Amer
lean potatoes threaten to drive the home
raised article out of the market. The
Am erlcanpOtatOesar not only imported
for seed but in large quantities for con-
sumption. The Times finds III the fact
evidence of the remarkable productive
powers Of American farming.
In Cyprus the manner in which bees
are kept is curious, and deserves no.
tice. Walls formed entirely Of earthen
cylinders, each about three feet long,
are placed one above the other hori-
zontally, and closed at their extremities
with mortar. This wall is then covered
with shred, and upward of one hun
dred swarms may be maintained within
very small compass.
The Baraboo Republic says: "Wiscon-
sins hay crop of 1878 will be the largest
yield, per acre, ever grown IN the state.
The most reliable information does not
concede over about 50 per cent. of last
years production. There are not over
twenty-five hundred bales Of all growths
in the state at the present moment.
The new crop, as far as can be learned,
will open at about fifteen or twenty
cents.
A correspondent Of the Poultry Yard
writing from Massachusetts, says a
common dung-hill foul, if allowed to
raise one or two brOods of chickens,
will lay about one hundred and ten
eggs annually, which at an average of
twenty-five cents per dozen, will amount
to $3.50 These figures will not be
borne out by the present price Of
eggs, which will reduce the profit Of egg
selling far below the writer's estimate
The northern portion of Warren
county, Illinois, is emphatically a land
flowing with milk and honey. The
bees have taken possession of the
churches and school houses. and have
laid up store sufficient to ward off the
cravings of famine and pestilence.
They have taken complete possession
Of the North Henderson Presbyterian
church, and have literally plastered it
with honey They have now COM
menced bombardment of the schoo,
houses, and have defed the attacks Of
the youngsters, with all their pluck and
knowledge. ..r. .. .a
The Catalpa Tree, says the German
town Telegraph, has suddenly loomed up
and taken its place at the head Of all
our timber trees for rapidly Of growth,
hardness and durability. If this good
name can be maintained for it, every
railroad should raise its own ties, and
farmers should grow the trees for all
purposes that timber is used upon the
premises. It will grow anywhere. We
have it here-or rather them, for there
are two varieties it is to be seen
almost anywhere when it blossoms,
which it does profusely, and its flowers
produce a pleasant fragrance, which
can easily be inhaled fifty yards off.
President Powell, of the Chatham
Farmers Club, says he does not spread
grass to be dried in the old-fashioned
way, but rather lets it cure in heaps,
and as much as possible in the shade.
Mr. Robinson gave thirty acres Of clover
from four to six hours sun, and then
let it stand in cock for three days, and
put it into NOV. at proved to be very
fine" Mr.. Percy suggests that III
grass is to be cut for market, it would
be a good idea to let it get very ripe
so that it will bring but very small
price, and the farmer be discouraged
from selling off his crop. But if tor
feeding, cut early, when the nourish-
ment in the grass is in a soluble condl,
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