Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-06-05

the above well known vegetables. For
egg plant the soil, if fresh, can not be
either too warm or too rich. The
plants, except under warm ATTITUDES, re-
qulre to be started in het-bed, and
somewhat difficult to transplant, and
care must be taken to remove ball OF
earth with each one when that Job OF
work is done. They should not be put
out before the ground has got pretty
thoroughly warmed, say from the 25th
OF May to the LIST of June in the latitude
OF Louisville. They are more sensitive
to cold than the sweet potato, and are
equally eXigent of warm, sandy, but
rich soil, not too strong in humus. On
first starting they should be refresh ed
daily with water heated to 100 degrees,
and that kept up till the plants obtain a
good catch and send-off: They will be-
GIN to furnish fruit about the middle or
10th ofAugust under latitude 80 degrees,
and continue till the frost season. They
may be used after they have attained q
diameter of from three to four inches.
They are generally cooked by slicing
half an inch thick and frying in butter,
ora batter. The taste for them, like
that for some other vegetables and
fruits, is an acquired one, but when &C
CURED holds on the individual with the
greater ngth.-Hon,e and Farm.
CARE OF HIGH-C oNDTrIoNED Cows
At this season it is timely to warn the
owners of COWS in high condition, or of
heavy mixers, to guard carefully against
plethora and suppression of the natural
secretions just after calving. Many of
the best cattle in the land, those on
which the hope of the improvement of
our herds must mainly rest, are lost to
their owners and to the country for
want Of a little care at this critical pc
Rod. If a fully developed COW is feshy,
full of blood, and thriving at the period
of calving, and ifshe passes through the
ordeal easily, with little expenditure of
effort or of blood, she should be placed
on the barest possible feeding for a week
after parturitiOn; and it were we'll if the
same restriction should be maintained
for five or six days before that act as
well. A very limited supply of hay,
sprinkled Or scalded, may be given dur
ing this period, but all grain and roots
should be withheld If the COW is al
ready at grass. she should be taken up
until six days after calving. If the
bowels are not already really loose, a
pound of Glauber salts should be given
as soon as the act of parturition has
been accomplished, and the udder
should be stripped clean three times a
day during the next critical week. The
COW should be alike protected from ex-
cessive heat of the sun, by shady cor
ners, and from cold, chilling draughts
winds, and rains; also from damp bed.
and from close, impure air. BY the end
of the first week the danger is virtually
over, and the COW may be gradually
put upon the most nourishing diet, and
the secretion of milk stimulated as far
as may be desired. -NaionM Live Stock
Journal.
RENEWING GRASS LANDs-I have late
ly received many inquiries on different
subjects, among which is the best way
to renew old sod without breaking it up,
to make good grass grow. This ques-
ton am not able to answer, for my eX-
perience teaches me to turn it over, and
give thorough good mixing of manure
composted one shovelfull of loan to one
of dung, the whole mixed with salt
The field is then reseeded with good
orchard grass seed and clover, at the
rate of about twelve pounds of the
latter, and 2! or 3 bushels OF
the former, to the acre. Let the
land be thoroughly rolled before the
seed is sOwn, and afterwards narrowed
thoroughly with fine tooth harrow I'm.
til it is we'll covered. l would not ad-
wise sowing any grain. with it. If fol
pasture, it should have a mixture OF
different kinds of grass seed, but if fol
moving [ do not think it should have
anything except the orchard grass and
clover, as the clover and orchard grass
viii! come in early in June for cutting
and in the fall will make fine feed tC
: turn cattle on. A great many persons
will say it is wrong to feed off the after
grass, but my experience is that the
more you feed orchard grass, the more
it will start out and become thick and
matted. The question has been asked
what to do in a case where there is moi
the dung or compost. [ certainly say
that have experienced the very best
results from blood guano made into a
compost and spread on before rair
storm. May 9Th [ used 8, 400 pounds Of
it in this way, and I find where the
blood guano is used on pasture, the cat
tie like it much better, and will cal
much closer where it is put. suppose
it is the bone or salts of the blood guanc
which it contains. l can say that any
one using it just at this season, on the
pasture or moving land, will be bounti
fully repaid for it before fall.-IV. Gro
aier, IN Country Gentleman.
An Aged Turtle on His Travels.