Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-04
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

fetal.
DARK stables are injurious to the
eyes of horses.
1T is said that pullet's first eggs are
not SO good as those laid later.
The bulbs of the tuberose never bloom
but once. They require sandy soil.
GIVE the boys chance, and the girls
also, to have gardens of their own this
year.
REFUSE salt and brine from the pickle
barrels should be sown broadcast under
fruit trees.
NEVER overload team or discourage
it by too heavy pull at first starting:
nor start from bad place, if possible to
avoid it.
WHERE wood ashes can be purchased
cheaply enough it will pay to procure q
quantity and scatter literally under the
fruit trees.
LIZ bone-dust be applied now theresult
will be greater after two years than they
will be the first season. It does not
operate quickly.
DEcAYED grain of any kind is highly
injurious to stock. It has a paralyzing
effect upon the animal fed with it, often
times causing death.
Fowls seldom tire of milk. They
may eat too much grain or meat for
health, but milk in any fern is both
palatable and healthy.
Fowls seldom tire of milk. They
may eat too much grain or meat for
health, but milk in any form is both
palatable and healthy.
ONE Of the most deleterious systems of
gardening, says the London Chronicle,
IS to space about foot deep, while the
subsoll remains untouched
FLAX is crop which would follow a
clean-cultivated crop of sugar beets or
mangels. It can only be grown to adj
vantage Oh we'll -fertilized lands.
LIME is an excellent fertilizer on clay
soils, on account of it's power to render
soluble many of the component parts of
the clay, and also to make it more
porous.
AxLE-GREAsE and lard, well mixed in
equal proportions, and rubbed on young
trees, will protect them from rabbits.
Very little need be used, as only the
scent is necessary.
Pres that have been raised on millet
grass, clover, tubers and roots until
they weigh 100 or 200 pounds are gen
orally healthy. They are then in good
condition to fatten.
SINGLE horse or a pair will draw far
more and easier after getting up to their
work than when first starting. Never
draw the check-rain tight in heavy pull
ing or IN driving a fast gait.
Do not undertake to keep sheep on
low, undrained land. They will surely
contract disease, and sick sheep is
about as mean thing as we know of,
not excepting sick chicken.
KNOTS on plum trees are caused by a
fungus and should be cut away as soon
as discovered. Cut off and burn badly
infected branches. Scatter couple of
quarts of salt on the ground under each
tree.
The prevalent idea that shallow plow-
ing is sufficient for grass seed in an err
roneous one. Unlike corn, the roots of
which keep near the surface and require
heat, the roots of grass require depth,
moisture and colder soil.
POTASH, says a writer, is absolutely
necessary to successful potato growing.
The easiest and best mode of supplying
it is in the form of wood ashes. It is
furnished also in soft coal ashes and
wel-rotted yard or stable manure.
A New YORK farmer says that potato
tops make the best mulch for strawber-
ries. They are free from weed seeds.
heavy enough not to be blown off and
will pack and smother the plant as straw
or hay will sometimes do. In spring
they are SO well rotted as not to need re-
moval.
The most successful fruit growers,
east and west, have decided that there is
no better remedy for the codling moth
than to pasture hogs in the orchard, to
eat the 'wormy apples and the worms
therein. If the orchards are too large
for the number of hogs kept, sheep are
turned in.
'sW. So asks if cutting potatoes to
one or two eyes in hill would be too
small to produce good results. The
best crop Of potatoes we ever saw was
from potatoes cut to one eye and plant
ed one piece in hill. There is a great
waste of seed potatoes every year in our
country through ignorance Neao York
Herald.
A COMPOST heap should be perma-
nent institution i'll every garden, and it
will be found surprising how much fer
tilizing matter can be accumulated dur
ing year. Such structure need not
present an unsightly or Objectionable
appearance; it may be built behind some
hedge, OF in fence corner, and protect
ed from sight by few evergreens.
THERE is said to be no cure for the
disease in calves knows as black leg or
carbuncular erysipelas, when the swell
ings on the tanks and legs have appear
ed. In fact, cure may be said to be i'm
possible at any stage, but prevention is
easy. To prevent danger give each one
one ounce Of inseed oil daily for three
days, and do not let the calves overfeed
themselves.
Too many farmers manifest degree
of contempt for The smaller products of
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