Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-20
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

KEEP goslings and young ducks away
from ponds until they are hedged. ~
A FOUL suggestion feed your
prove their constitutions. N
A CALIFORNIA man says: Bore hole
in tree, fill it with quicksilver, stop it
with putty, and it will clear the tree of
all worms and insects.
He is dull farmer who let's bis men
use dull hoes in the garden OF cornfeld.
Fifteen minutes at the grindstone will
save an hour in the field.
THERE are three classes of Yorkshires
the large, middle and small. They
are all good, and are long established
breeds, pure white in color.
AN orchard should never be planted in
CLAW soil unless the latter is under
drained, after which it becomes one of
the best soils for apples and pears.
WHY do millions live on their farms
year after year, raising weeds and bram-
bles. and few of the cOarser vegetables,
when the choicest fruits would grow al
most as readily.
A GEORGIA gentleman says that when
he has had his first crop of melons he
clips the vines six inches from the root
New sprouts grow, and there is a second
crop finer than the first.
The following is said to an antidote for
blight in pear trees: One quart of
Stacked lime, one quart of bone phos-
phate and one ounce of sulphur
sprinkled under each tree.
A FARMER who has experimental with
poultry, well rotted cow manure, barn
manure and bone dust for melons, re-
ports that the best yield was obtained
when the bone dust was applied.
The greatest blessings come in dis
guise. A Mississippi planter had ten
acres of poor cotton washed away, and
the water cut into hill and revealed an
old churn with $4,000 in gold in it. +
GIVE the currant worm dose of helle-
bore this year, and you will have few to
trouble you next year. Dissolve one
ounce in pint of hot water and add ii
to a pailful of cold water. Apply with a
whisk broom.
POTATOES, or any other root crops,
may be grown in young orchard. 1t
would not do any injury to grow corn,
but grain crops should not be attempted
They take from the soil the very ele-
ments which the trees require. Il. +
POTATOES, or any other root crops,
may be grown in a young orchard. 1t
would not do any injury to grow corn,
but grain crops should not be attempted.
They take from the soil the very
elements which the trees require.
PULvERIzED fresh lime is recommend
ed for driving earth worms from lawns
and killing the moss which sometimes
takes the place of and prevents the
growth of grass. Mix the lime with it's
bulk of fine soil There is no doubt of
its efficiency in those respects.
POTASH is an excellent fertilizer for
the grape vine. Fork in around the
roots few pecks of wood ashes. Cow
dung contains a large portion of potash
and but comparatively small amount of
nitrogen, consequently it is a better
fertilizer than horse manure for the
grape vine. ....s.
A MoNGRE1 sire of any kind of stock
should never be used. IF farmer is
not able to purchase a thoroughbred
alone, he should get others to unite with
him and make joint purchase, dividing
purchase price and cost Of keeping.
When that is done no neighborhood
need be without such sire.
! IT is said and we see no reason to
doubt it, that if a cucumber vine is
trained to run up stake on which a
| few stubs of limbs have been left along
it's whole length, the crop will be enor-
nous. By this plan the vines not only
/ 1oc,o I'D
portunity to follow their natural habit of
climbing up instead OF running on the
ground.
NIX a little sulphur with salt and
feed occasionally to sheep. It will eff
fectually destroy sheep ticks. The same
remedy applied to cattle troubled with
lice will soon rid them Of vermin. The
use of sulphur with salt well repays the
trouble of keeping supply for cattle
and sheep. If a mixture of one part OF
sulphur with seven of salt be freely ap-
piled there will be no trouble with YER
min.
The most profitable method of rearing
cattle is to give them all the food they
can digest we'll from their birth up to
the day of their slaughter, If reared fo1
bullocks. But if for making oxen and
bulls and COWS for breeding, then feed
no more than to keep them in prime
working and breeding condition. An OK
may be too fat or too poor for good work
and SO may a bull to get first rate off
spring or a COW to do well in the dairy
or as breeder.
In reply to an inquiry as to how to
! prevent a SOW from eating her Young. 8
correspondent of the Country Gentle.
man recommends giving them essay hall
a pound of pork or scraps from the
packing houses or blood and waste from
the butchers two or three times before
and on the day they farrow. Since
have adopted this plan I never lose any.
Last spring mynlan neglected one OF the
sows and she ate up twelve pigs. This
spring she he's ten, and is one Of the
quietest and kindest of all the mothers.