Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-04-14
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

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swine.
WooD ashes are one of the best fertiliz-
ers for grass, and are excellent to make
vigorous and thick covering of grass to
the lawn.
The chinch bug, 80 destructive to the
wheat crop, and the bed bug both be-
long to the same order. yet one has wings
and the other is wingless.
REDUCING all the milk and cheese sold,
together with butter, to butter stand
ard, the average product of all COWS in
the country is less than 70a pounds per
cow.
GENUINE Kentucky blue grass is ap-
pearing as a volunteer in Oglethorpe
county, Ga. Some farms are being COW
cred with it, and it is roofing out the
Bermuda grass.
LUCEaNE, or Alfalfa, is deemed profit
able in Canada, according to the Ottawa
(Canada) School of Agriculture, having
a season from April to October. We
shall be pleased to know under what cir
cumstances it was grown.
DIR. BOILER, the chemist of the Agri-
cultural department, says Illinois can
supply the United States with sugar by
raising sorghum, the secret of the crys-
talization of that plant lying simply in
the time to gather the plant.
BARON LIEB1G says: "The only
method by which you can advance and
develop agriculture is by experiments;
that is the only plan; for there is no
branch of industry SO completely built
up by experiments as agriculture.
AMMONIA escapes rapidly in vapor
from hot dung heaps. It's presence may
be shown by waving bit of cloth wet
with muriatic acid in the vapor. when if
ammonia is present dense white clouds
will be formed.
PROF. BEAL, of Michigan, says: Ashes
are good for the peach and for the peach
tree, at any season of the year, summer,
winter, spring or fall. Potash, the
principal ingredient Of ashes, is good for
all fruit trees inside and out.
In France butter is sent unsalted to
market, since in this condition it's flavor
and aroma can be best tested. Salt
hides many faults in butter. The whole
sale dealers salt and barrel it up imme-
diately for expectation to England and
Brazil.
THE condition of the public roads is
the measure of the civilization Of the in
habitants. Good roads facilitate trade
intercourse, promote comfort and conven-
fence, increase the value of real estate,
add attractiveness to the neighborhood
and stimulate individual improvement.
ONE of the quickest and best remedies
for lice in the poultry house is said to be
kerosene oil, injected from a common
squirt can into every nook and crevice.
Two or three applications will suffice to
clean the house, and soon the fowls will
be found free from the pests.
KEEP the stables clean. Clean out
the manure every morning and scrape Or
card off all filth from the animals. The
stable should be made so warm that the
manure will not freeze at night. A
lower temperature will either demand q
larger amount of food or the animal will
fall off in condition.
THERE is no doubt of the hurtful
character of corn smut, and the cattle
should be prevented from devouring
stalks affected with it. Where the cattle
are worth more than the labor of saving
them, this may be done by throwing out
smutty stalks by themselves and burning
them.
LAYING hens need good deal of lime
in order that the eggs may have the
proper thinness of shell. Nothing better
can be given than raw bone, crushed
fine. They are of special value on ac-
count of the fatty matter contained in
their cells. Bought bone meal is, how
ever, to be avoided, as it is apt to con-
tain putrid matter which will sicken the
hens.
THERE are farmers who toll all day
and almost every day in the field, when
a daily half hour spent about the house
and garden in making home attractive
would add more to their real happiness
than all their toll. For, after all, home
is the true source of lasting joys. For
tunate are they who have happy homes
blessed are they who make them
happy.
ENUMERATION is fully recognized
now, and new varieties are produced as
well as from seed. Botanists, however,
continue to record examples, the latest
of which is Fritz Muller, who, writing
from Brazil, says that a banana, which
for years produced reddish fruit, one
season sent up stem which bore yellow
fruit; and he asks whether all the varie-
ties Of bananas may not have originated
in this way? This is the general belief,
as they do not perfect seeds. All the
varieties of sweet potatoes in America
are produced by bud variation-the
plant not Towering under culture.
HELP for the season should be secured
without further delay, unless one ex-
poets to do his own work. The best
men are nearly always engaged early,
indeed, really frst-class men are rarely
out of work. If you have good man
now, don't let him laave on account of
difference of dollar or two per month.
A careless, thoughtless man will waste in
many ways more than the difference in
wages. There are differences in men
which it is difficult to figure out by
dollar and cent rule. Some men can't
drive through agate without hitting both
posts. One of the most valuable traits
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