Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-10
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

BEANS for picking may be sown at the
| beginning of this month.
ALCOHOL, slightly diluted, will kill
mealy bugs, scale and other pests that
fest house plants.
COOP shotes with proper care from
birth, will weigh as many pounds at
butchering as they are days old.
SInIcATE of potash is recommended in
France as manure for asparagus, "great-
~ increasing the size of the shoots"
IT is said, with how much truth we do
not know, that the free use of butter
milk will kill lice on all kinds of stock.
YOUNG cucumbers, for pickles, should
be picked each day-allowing no fruit to
go to seed, and thus exhaust the vines.
To cure fowls of the trick of gg-eating
the feeding of clear tallow is recon-
mended by Country Gentleman writer.
A GLOVER field is the place to pasture
hogs. They come up in the fall in good
prime condition for getting hardened in
with corn.
Fowls have fancy for tender grass,
hence, with a good chance, they will
speedily ruin a newly-seeded lawn or
grass-plot
EARLY pears require greater care than
apples. Pick them as soon as the seeds
show them to be mature and before they
are mellow.
How many farmers know how much
stable manure they can proftably apply
to an acre? And yet that is something
they ought to know.
An orchard should never be planted in
clay soil unless the latter is under
drained, after which it becomes one of
the best soils for apples and pears.
A NET that costs but small sum will
keep off most of the flies, and prevent
one Of the most serioas annoyances to
the working horse at this season of the
year.
CUT worms are very poor climbers,
and much of the damage they do to to-
mato plants may be avoided by making a
compact mound about the plants as large
as an inverted tea cup.
SUGAR beets and mangel- wurzel plants
can be transplanted with success. Take
out surplus plants, make hole with a
| dibble in vacant spots, insert the roots
and press the ground firmly around the
stem.
ONIONS are known to be ready to har-
vest by majority of the tops bending
and falling over. Pull and leave the
bulbs upon the ground for few days to
cure, after which gather and store in
cool, airy place.
The root crops, mangels and beets,
and field cabbages, need frequent cult
walton during this month, and until
leaves cover the ground. If weeds are
allowed to grow, and the soil is left I'M
stirred the crop will be small.
A MISSOURI sheep breeder says that
chamber I've, sprinkled on sheep twice a
week, will not only keep dogs from kill
ing them, but will insure them against
such diseases az rot, scaD, ticks, hoof-all,
etc.
WEEDS or small brush set up before
the entrances to hives will prove consid-
cradle of a barrier against robbers, as
they dislike very much to approach the
entrance by winding passages. For
very bad cases of robbing, a wet cloth
hung over the entrance and kept drip
ping is generally very effective.
NEVER leave an excess of fruit to ma
ture upon tree under the impression
that byso doing you can hope to increase
the yield either in quantity or quality.
An excessive crop is always secured at
the expense of quality, with loss of value,
and not frequently at the expense OF the
health and even ultimately of the life of
the tree.
PURsLANE is weed which everyone is
DESTROYS to get rid of. and at the same
time it is one of the most nutritive
plants raised, either on farm or in a
garden. When once started it is most
rapid grower, crowding out everything
else, and it is most prolific of seeds;
few plants, however, are so rich In
gelatine. It is an excellent feed for
swine.
POTATOES should be harvested SO soon
| as thew are riDe otherwise the tubers