Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-25
gardeners "lest the public should feel

gardeners, 'flest the public should feel
prejudice against the poison" Mix III
a wooden vessel one quarter ounce OF
corrosive sublimate, with four gallons OF
water, and pour sufficient into each hole
with the plant to saturate the ground.
Use tea cup to apply the stuff and let
no iron come In contact with 1t, or the
effect will be neutralized. (How about
a ferruginous soil y The Canadian
writer says he has &C used this poison all
his life without injury or accident" 1t
looks as if our common people were fore
ordained to become familiar with poison
as an every day matter. A little moral
training at home as well as smattering
of chemistry in common schools might
help in distressing the drugs carefully.
Those trees that have split in the
forks, should have the branches sprung
together and tied, then bore hole d.
rectly through both branches above the
fork two or three inches, large enough
to take three-eighths bolt; screw it up
the wound will heal over. Young apple
or other trees with acute forks, liable to
split apart, can be made permanently
safe by bringing branch from each
fork, and giving them one turn around
each other and allowing them to grow in
that shape.
SoUAsHEs are of tropical origin, and,
therefore, it is useless to plant, them
until the soil is quite warm and all
danger of frost and cold nights is over.
Again, as they make very rapid
growth, there is no necessity of haste in
getting the seeds into the ground.
Squashes are good feeders, liking a rich
soil. It is best to manure in the hill.
In sowing place dozen seeds in each
hill, and when danger from bugs is over
pull up all but three or four. A mellow.
warm soil is the best. For bush sorts
make hills three or four feet apart, and
for running kinds twice that distance.
All winter squashes should be ripened
thoroughly or they are watery, lacking
sweetness and richness, also lacking
keeping properties.
The best butter-maker in the world
will fail to get first quality of butter if
the COWS are MIXED in a dirty stable.
It is not long ago that New Jersey
farmer asked me how he could best
market his butter, which he said was ex-
ceedingly good. He enlarged upon his
high-grade Attorneys and the quality of
his pastures and water. Afterwards I
went out to see COW I wanted to buy,
and he sat down at milking time to let
me- Judge of her flow. I certainly never
saw dirtier pail of milk. Specks of
dirt, dust, Gandruff, hairs, etc., pepper
ed the top and swashed about on the
bottom as the pail was emptied. He
got only eighteen or twenty cents for his
butter, and I think it was worth no more.
Does not this filth flavor the milk, the
cream and the butter Most assuredly
it does. This is only obvious filth; the
invisible and more potent volatile ex-
halations from the manure and the urine
saturated floors and all the mal-odorous
surroundings of most cow-stables usual
~ have greater influence. When milk
is once contaminated nothing can be
done which will entirely do away with
the effect. Part of the evil may be re-
moved by thorough airing of the milk as
it is cooled before setting. Shallow set
ting no doubtfavors the removal of these
odors, and @ration during churning has
an important effect But here, as in
many other things, the fountain head is
the spot at which reform should be COM
menced