Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-07

A BusHEL of white clover seed weighs
sixty-fye pounds, numbering $4,000
seeds per ounce.
NESTS must occasionly be renewed
and kept clean, Straw is bet ter than
hay. Tobacco stems covered with straw
are an excellent prevention of insect
breeding, especially when the hens are
sitting.
AN old gardener says, with regard to
cultivating onions, that if care is taken
to draw away the earth gradually from
| the bulbs until they are quite uncovered,
and only tire ibrous roots are in the
earth, you will never have scullions, but
very large, sound onions.
WILLOWS and alders cut close by the
roots now may give room for hay-crop
next season. A light mattock, a two
hand bill-hook, grass-scythe, for sur
rounding weeds and grass, and a keen
Ratchet or axe for trimming, are the
handy tools for the business.
MATTED strawberry rows on fat land
need to have the ground rugged little
by the cultivator. The rear cultivator
tooth, brushing along, serves to kill
small weeds, gather struggling runners
and cover them, making slight ridge
to prevent standing water and ice in
winter.
MnLET and Hungarian grass should be
cut when young, just after they have
for feeding. When young and tender
cattle will eat it greedily and thrive
upon it, but If left till nearly ripe the
stalks become woody and are of little
more value than oat or rye straw.
To destroy wire worms there is moth
ing better than to chop up some pota-
toes fine and mix sugar or lead or paris
green with them, so that each piece is
lightly covered with the poison. When
the ground is furrowed for the corn,
these pieces are dropped in the rows or
scattered on the ground where the wire
worms will find it. These worms are es-
pecially fond of potatoes.
GEN. HARDING, speaking for Tennessee,
considered Hungarian grass to be the
best forerunner of timothy. He recon-
mends that this be sown in summer and
harvested in August Or early in Septem-
Der; and that timothy be sown upon the
stubble and narrowed in. The Hunga-
rian grass, he thinks, destroys all weeds
and gives certain compactness to the
soil necessary to secure a good stand OF
timothy.
COMPLAINTS are made all over the
west, particularly in Kansas, Nebraska
and Iowa, that wire fences attract light
ming, which often results in the killing
of stock. The stock imagine that the
fence affords protection from the storm
and according huddle close up to it.
One instance is given where IS head OF
sheep were killed in Nebraska at single
stroke, and another were 10 head of cat
tie were killed.
The Rural New Yorker is fully con.
vinced that the tomato rot is caused by
the tomato worm. This green, reptile
| looking pest often turns from the leaves
to the young tomatoes, eating a part Of
| the flesh and then returning to the
| leaves. The injured portion of the
| tomato soon turns black and rot com
| mences. Every instance of rot among
our tomatoes, the present season at any
rate, has been thus caused.
CAPT. THos. T. Turner of Normandy
Mo-, the well-known breeder of Jersey
cattle, sowed number of acres il
sorghum the past spring solely for fee6
for his stock. He is highly pleased with
it. He is cutting it with moving
machine, letting it cure and putting i
away for future use. He says his stocl
relish it very highly, eating it all. he
sowed corn at the same time for the
same purpose, but finds sorgo mucl
preferable to corn.
The average corn-crib is not what i
ought to be, either In size or security
from ver1nin. Much of the labor of the
year may go for nothing, save to feed {
swarm of mice, Ii precautions are no
taken to keep these little pests from tn,
corn crib. At this season when the Grill
is usually empty, means should be takel
to clear it of mice, and then, if possible
cut off their access to the grain that i
soon to be harvested. If there are an,
repairs to be made in the roof, siding, O.
floor, they should be made now, that al
may be snug in the courthouse, vhel
snugness is of the utmost Importance
american Agr5cuJtuwist.
Sow from the wind sidewise, and whe1
turning round to come back, instead O
walking back without sowing agains
the wind, change hands. For nearl,
fifty years I have always sowed with M,
left hand as well as my right. Sowing
grain with both hands at once was GUS
tomary in my native land If the wine
blows from the west, walk north ant
south, and throw to the east with tn
left hand when going north, and use TIN
right hand when going south. lean SOY
much wider, and thus save much walk
ing when the wind is high. and I Away
prefer to have brisk, blowing day. -
throw the seed right up, as fast as [ Cal
walk, the hand going regularly with tn
step in one uniform, swinging gait
Farmer.
| THESE dry days and fierce ''Ay time
heats sorely try all young trees whicl
| harza not baa1a 1alo1ltad l0nero1 Ii On On