Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-01-09

beauty. 1t makes home attractive,
its exterior more respectable, our
lives happier, our dispositions sweeter,
and Our social and domestic intercourse
more refined. By all means plant some
little thing of grace to temper the rug
ged surroundings of the front yard. It's
silent, though eloquent language, will
speak to the visitor or the passer-by q
word of eulogy for you. The least
flower or shrub will be some attraction;
acurved path winding between trees to
the house, a mound of stones and shells
with the ivy trailing over them, the
Towering shrub or the turf of fern-all
such things are attractive and form
pleasing object for the eye of even the
most indifferent beholder.-Rawul Mes
sender.
WHAT FARMERS MAY LEARN.-They
can learn the names, nature and office
of the different parts of flower or
plant, as easily as the different parts of
speech and their uses in grammar;
they can as readily learn the different
elements and ingredients of air, earth
and water with their proportions as
they can the numbers and fractions of
arithmetic; they can as easily learn
what are the constituents and their pro-
portions Of the different grains and
fruits as they can the different qualities
of all kinds of bread and pies, if their
minds and memories are frequently re-
minded of what they are; boys can as
easily learn the techni alities and mean
ing of science as of games and sports,
if you once interest them in the sub
iect; and girls will as readily learn the
terms and uses Of facts in botany and
domestic economy as in croquet and
dancing, or of reading and writing, if
you make them regularly q part Of their
daily thought and study, as you can.
There is nothing more forbidding or
difficult to learn IN what are called sci
ences than in other branches usually
taught, when once the young mind
thinks so; and children can as easily
learn to remember the names and
terms Of the sO-called sciences as of
trees, nuts, and fruits, if you will only
enlist and interest them in the subjects
and this we'll skilled and earnest teach
ers can do. And for our primary or
country schools, we should have this
kind-and this kind only-of teachers.
There is nothing forbidding in science;
it is only the truths of nature and the
knowledge Of them, as they are all the
time, more or less, exhibited before us :;
all have their uses, and those uses may
be learned; the names Of all may be
! learned.
We should have teachers in our pri-
mary schools who understand these
things, who love the knowledge of them,
and who take delight in making the
young, enquiring mind acquainted with
these important, and beautiful truths
Maryland Farmer
THREE THINGS TO Do.-He is said to
be benefactor to his race who causes
two blades of grass to grow where but
one grew BEFORE" this being true, there
are several ways by which farmers Sc
cure a tenfold production where meagre
nutritious vegetation now appears.
Many ditch banks are now unsightly
from tangled briars and weeds: let these
be dug up and thrown ten or twelve
yards into the field and there burned
then let the bank of the ditch be thrown
as far as convenient with hoe and shovel
towards the burnt mass, and the next
crop, with good cultivation. will amply
repay the labor, and leave, for years to
come, garden spot of decided beauty
verdure, and fertility up to the ditch's
edge.
Is there hillside wash defacine
your field, fill it with decaying logs
bark, leaves and straw, and over all a
layer Of soil; then for water vent, dig a
trench, placing the dirt compactly or
the lower side, descending the hill WITH
as gradual a slope as possible, after
which SO arrange your rows as to allow
the waters to pass off through this
trench with as little descent as may be
In a little time the decaying debris vii
make a CHASTITY chasm cheering view
of golden grain Or snowy cotton, while
the conquering farmer will feel that he
has not only enhanced the value of, but
beautified his landscape and eurbed the
fierce torrents to his will.
Is there dense forest bordering your
farm, whose searching roots eat out the
fertility of your fields far inland? Cut
a trench spades width and two feet
deep, bordering your fence-thus cut
ting the roots-and next year and years
afterwards the growing crops, abundant
and thrifty, will look defiance at the
forest and it's shade
Now is good time to do these things
and the reward III every instance will
be sure.-American Farmer.
ENRICH THE ORCHARD.-There would
seem to be no good reason why, if we
wish to raise good orchard fruits, we
should not manure our trees. People
often look at trees growing on rocky
hill-sides, and argue therefore that trees
can grow without manure. They know
that potatoes and other vegetables must
have manure Or they will not thrive
but they regard trees as different order
Of vegetation, something that can thrive
and flourish where nothing else would.
But, in the case of trees on rocky hill
sides, the land is often anything but
poor. The rocks themselves frequently
contain valuable mineral matter, which
as the rock decays, is presented in form
that plants can feed upon. Then what