Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-26
FARM HINTS.

GIVE the potato ashes, lime, super
phosphate, bone -four or plaster.
CHOPPED onions, with little ginger
mixed in, is said to be sure cure for
chicken cholera.
BOTH in chemical and mechanical
properties the soil from old pastures is
best for pottinp plants.
AMERICAN honey in the comb has
become popular article of diet in
England, and very large shipments are
mads.
Mr.. WILLIAM AFRICA, of Hunting.
don, Penn, has in his garden a vine
that has produced 700 pounds of pump
kins.
A RADIsH two feet in circumference
and thirty inches in length has been
raised by Mr.. Terrell, at Exton, Chester
Valley, Penn.
BLACKBERRY and raspberry bushes
should be planted in the fall, as they
make such an early start in the spring
that the shoots may get broken.
The quickest way to expel foul air
from well is to heat a bar of iron red
hot and lower down it into the water.
The sudden formation of steam is effect
ual.
A correspondent of the Ploughman, in
writing from Watertown, Mass, states
that he has been successful in curing
warts on the teats of COWS by simply
bathing with water in which beans have
been boiled.
MILK cans not kept clean are liable to
impart to the milk dangerous fermen-
tive poison. Several cases of sickness
have been traced to this cause. Skim
milk or watered milk is a virtue COM
pared to putting it in dirty cans.
There is one matter that most farmers
neglect, viz: to have large quantity of
coarse pure sand in their cellars or out
houses where roots, etc, are wintered.
There is not root or fruit that we know
of that will not keep better in saud than
out of it.
Mr.. DANIEL WEISS, of Heidelberg,
Penn, had hen disappear some time
ago, and when she returned five weeks
later she had under her care six young
chicks aud twenty diminutive auails.
The whole flock seem to appreciate her
protection and follow wherever she
goes"
MANY farmers are now purchasing
cattle for winter feeding. There are
few farmere who do not find this profta-
BILE. The stock brings remunerative
prices in the spring and summer, and
rich manure for the land has also accu-
mulated.
A CORRI sPONDENT Of the american
Cutiuator says that pear trees need
great deal of water. He has watered
some of the pear trees in his garden with
liquid manure every day this summer
and fall, and it is surprising to see how
tbs fruit has increased in size and
quality.
THE best way 10 winter geraniums is
to cut of every leaf and bud and set the
plants into box of sand, or sandy loan
in the cellar. If put into pure sand an
occasional watering afterward may be
needed If loan is used the watering
given when first put in will do for the
winter.
WICK says in his Monthly, that the
trailing arbdtus will grow almost any
where if tlansplanted at the proper time,
which is from October to the beginning
of December, when the flower buds are
formed. In the greenhouse or fernery
it will bloom, of course, earlier than out
of doors.
THE first year sleeps front teeth are
eight in number, and are all of equal
size. The second year the two middle
shed out and are replaced by two much
larger than the others. The third year
two very small teeth appear, one either
side of the eight. At the end of the
fourth year shere are six large teeth.
The fifth year all the front teeth are
large. The sixth year all begin to show
signs of wear.
The Hartford (Ky.,) Neus says that
in the garden or Mrs. Caleb Crow, at
that place, a peach tree is bearing full
grown pumpkin. The paper says
" This tree bore none of its natural fruit
this season; but, nevertheless, there
hangs the healthy growing pumpkin,
Just IS it had grown from the blossom to
its present size, which is considerably
larger than mans head" lis
WHEN once you have determined to
fstten an animal for beef, let the process
10 do \ uISh DO kTJScAOAOs my cGAhe III
feeding at such times will tend to make
the meat tough and dry. Stalled
animals will fatten more readily than
others, and young animals require richer
food than older ones. In winter fatten-
ing do not forget that much depends up
on the warmth of the stable. The warm
er the cattle are kept the less food will
be needed.
A FARMER can not work his farm
safely without knowing all about his
soil. Every field should be studied as
to the effects of certain methods of
fertilizers upon it. Then the owner can
act with reasonable certainty. The plan
of experimenting with fertilizers should
be followed up in successive years, until
the character of each field is known.
This is the best season to experiment
upon fall crops, and no time should be
lost if it is to be done; year will thus be
saved.
WE have never had the best of success
in storinp cabbage for winter. The plans