Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-06
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

TURKEYS are very useful III destroying
insects, and of great service in orchards
in devouring windfalis and preventing
the growth of worm-eaten fruit.
CRUDE unfermented manure and much
moisture tends to produce a soft, rapid
growth in young trees that continues
late in the season, rendering them liable
to injury from severe cold.
A LIBERAL dressing of wood ashes will
renovate an unthrifty orchard most
wonderfully. Bone dust and crushed
oyster shells can also be applied and
beneficial results will soon become ap-
parent.
AN exchange says: We had calf
which refused to take milk or water. In
pailful of water we fput handful of
bran and a bit of sugar. The calf drank
the Cocktail " and licked the pail. 1t
grew very fast.
IF young fruit trees recently trans
planted blossom, they should not be al
lowed to bear fruit, as it will injure them.
They need all their energies for growth
of wood and should not be allowed to
waste them on growth of fruit.
THE theory that variety of potato is
limited to about fourteen years is not
new, as some suppose, but may be found
mentioned on page ffty-seven of the
" Transactions of the London Horticul-
tural Society," as far back as 1907.
One great mistake made in pig breed
ing is in having the breeding stock too
young-in breeding the sows too young
before they have become well-grown
and matured, and also in buying young
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ones.
GIVE each fruit tree in the garden at
least a few shovelfuls of manure, and If
the same treatment is extended to the
orchard, good return will be made.
The way to obtain abundant crops Of
fruit every year is to manure the trees
yearly.
ONE of the best remedies for the cur
rant and gooseberry worm is to sprin kle
the bushes with strong solution OF
copperas water, using a gallon of water
to quarter of pound of copperas, and
applying it from q watering-pot, a single
application killing the worms as "dead
as door-nail. -
HENS should not be allowed to disturb
the settlers by laying in their nests.
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suit. If the setting hen cannot be iso-
lated in any way, cover her with an
empty coop, basket or box, being care
full to have her come off every day for
feed, water, exercise and dust bath.
AN exchange says: ''People that have
currant bushes and are troubled with
worms will be glad to learn that COM
mon buckwheat -four sp1inkled over the
bushes in the morning while the dew is
yet on, with very fine sieve, will prove
a certain remedy against the ravages Of
the pests, and will cause them to disap-
pear"
STRAWBERRY plants cannot be multi
piled from the seed, as there is nothing
Gel tain about it. Acres might be sowed
with the seed, and not berry be obtain
ed worth cultivating, but in good rich
soil plant Will put out runners so that
fifty good thrifty plants may be obtained
the first season after planting, and
twenty-five hundred the second year.
ALL keepers and feeders of COWS
should bear this in mind, that a COW
cannot make cud when fed on shorts or
meal alone. These must be naked with
longer feed, either in their Manager or in
the animals stomach. 1t is not nee
essary to mix these substances before
feeding, as the motion Of the stomach
will mix them sufficiently to form cud.
I-Amer5ca1a CultiUator.
Cows are now in the full flow of milk.
and as July butter is highly priced for
winter use, great care should be taken
with with all the dairy operations.
Among the essentials are pure water,
good food for the COWS, and clean man.
agement of the milk and cream in every
process, from the time of drawing the
milk from the udder until the butter is
packed.
A New YORK farmer writes that he
planted eight acres of low, mucky land
with red kidney beans. On the twen-
tieth of July, after cultivating the beans
for the last time, purple top strap leaf
turnips were sown between the rows
with hand drill. The beans Welded
twenty-one bushels to the acre. and the
turnips were splendid crop. This,
being his first crop of turnips, is very
encouraging experience.
An Indiana farmer tried four different
fertilizers for melons-poultry Drop
pings, well-rotted COW manure, BARNARD
manure, and old bones gathered upon
the farm and reduced by placing them in
alternate layers with ashes the previous
year, mixing all literally in the diff
ferent hills, which were eight feet apart
each way, and he says: "Such a CROP
of melons as came from the hills that
had the bone dust never saw before. !"
A LONDON gardener planted straw
berry bed four feet wide across his gar
den, on one side of which potatoes were
planted. These were dug up about the
end of June, the ground leveled and
raked smooth, SO that the runners estab-
ished themselves and formed a new
bed. The next season similar process
was pursued, and thus a movable straw
berry bed was created. At the end of
three years the original plants were ex-
hausted and dug up, though the bed
annually grows wider without renewal or