Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-12
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

CORN, as a rule, planted about May
10th overtakes and surpasses that plant
ed ten days earlier.
Corn is a plant that grows best in a
very warm, most soil, and likes it's fer
tility near the surface.
Corn is plant that luxuriates upon
decaying vegetable matter, which the
sod, lying In the warm sun fresh turned,
quickly furnishes.
CORN will not terminate below So de-
grees, and gr WIS best at temperature
of 95 degrees. The roots of corn do not
grow If the blades do not.
SAVE the SCOT from chinaneys and
stove pipes. A pint of SCOT In a pail of
water will make liquid manure Of great
value for flowers and plants Of all kinds.
WHEN bulbs have been lowered in
water they should be removed and
planted in earth as soon as the flowers
fade, where they will get little nourish-
ment for the future benefit Of the bulbs.
MANY mistakes occur in gardening
through planting all kinds of seed at
nearly the same time without regard to
their natural habits or time of maturity.
Vegetables, like field crops, should be
planted at different times.
MILLET makes good feed for horses,
cattle or sheep if cut green, before the
seeds form. Sow bushel per acre,
broadcast is best. Any good soil that
will produce oats or corn will produce a
good crop of millet, but it is useless to
SOW 1t on poor soil.
IT is immaterial at what time vege-
tables are transplanted, provided they
are not too large and the ground is warm
and mellow; but they should never be
transplanted in a rain-storm, when the
ground is puddly. If transplanted when
it is warm and mellow root action begins
at once.
GRASS and clover seeds are generally
very profitable crops to raise if the bust
ness Is carried on extensively, and the
best machines are employed for doing
the work of harvesting, threshing, and
cleaning. Unless one has these, how
ever, he can not compete with those who
have good facilities.
The practice of thinning potato vines
to two stalks in each hill, when they ex-
ceed that number, is endorsed after
many annual trials by correspondent
of the American cultivator. This is
done at the hoeing time-the superhuous
(weakest) stalks being treated as weeds
The effect is, as may be supposed, an
increase of large handsome tubers.
In increasing horseradish beds from
cuttings, small piece of the top or
crown must be attached to each piece
planted. Set these pieces about foot
or fifteen inches apart each way, and an
inch or two below the surface, and bed
from eight to twelve feet square will
supply an ordinary family with all they
want. A bed VIII last also, indefinitely.
MANGE1-wURzE1s can not be raised
successfully by sowing broadcast like
turnips. The ground must be well-pre-
pared and enriched, and the seed care
fully planted in drills and covered at a
uniform depth, and the crop properly
cultivated afterward if good yield is e1-
pected. More hasty and superficial
management might give moderate or
small crop.
KEEP breeding geese thin in flesh,
they will lay better and their eggs will
hatch better than when kept on full feed
of grain. The best breeders turn out to
pasture as soon as the snow is gone, and
after the grass is well up feed nothing.
After the geese are turned out to pasture
they can get along without shelter, brit
it is good plan to have a shed some
where near the water.
WEEDS are continually appearing on
our lawns and causing trouble. Many
disappear after time, as the constant
cutting prevents seeding, and eventually
causes their destruction. A few, like
the narrow-leaued plantain, it may be
necessary to dig out. This is done conven-
iently with narrow instrument like a
chisel. A pinch of salt placed on ten
acious weed causes it's death.
SoRRE1 has running roots and can
only be killed by ploughing it under
deeply and growing some other crop
that will smother it. If the ground is
too wet to grow grass and clover it
should be drained. AS the ground is
probably well seeded with the sorrel, it
will be necessary to persevere for some
time before it can be wholly cleared of
it. When the ground is well drained a
good application of lime would be useful.
If garden seeds, when planted in the
spring, are firmly pressed when under
the earth by the ball of the foot at the
time the gardeners are putting them into
the ground, they will invariably grow.
drouth or no drouth; and what is still
more important, they will spring up
earlier and grow faster, and mature bet
ter than any other kind which have not
been subjected to this discipline. This
same rule of pressure holds good in re-
gard to transplanting trees, shrubs and
plants.
In few things have the advantages of
an undrained soil shown to better effect
than in oats growing. Light soils are
not favorable to oats, and yet it is the
light soils which are the early ones. On
the other hand, oats require moderate
ly low temperature of at least two
months to perfect its root organization.
1t ought to be one of the earliest crops
sown in spring, but our strong soils on
which it does best are ofteH wet soils and
very unfavorable to early sowing. Those
who have strong soils and yet tolerably
dry, have the very best of oats-land; and
those who have not must watch every