Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-20

when the bulb is we'll formed and the
leaves fully grown.
AT q meeting of the Ontario Fruit
Growers Association, the president
stated that he had been perfectly sue
cessful in grating the grape, and in one
caso where he took up o Brighton vine
grated on one of Rogers hybrids, the
union was SO perfect t0at he could
scarcely discern where it was. The
secret of success, he said, lay in the one
essential requisite of lifting the vine be-
fore grating, and when the operation is
performed to set it back again. This
checks the flow of sap which otherwise
browns the graft. He stated that every
scion he put in last year not only grew
but did well. He would prefer cutting
with one good eye than with two poor
ones.
MosT persons, no doubt, have seen
hogs eating hay during the winter
months, in but small quantities, it is
true, but still eating it. If clover is cut
when in fullest bloom, well cured and
stored away, the hay becomes a valuable
food tor hogs, especially when fed but
little else than corn. To utilize it, cut
it in cutting box, a half to three-fourths
of an inch long, mixed with bran, shorts
or cornmeal, and moisteu it with swill,
or even water; If made scalding hot the
better. Then let it stand for q few hours
before feedingit out. Any of the grasses,
If cut in bloom and made into hay, will
answer good purpose, but clover is pre-
ferable. Besides. being valuable as food,
hay thus fed is preventive of disease in
hogs full fed on corn.
CUCUMBERs are probably the most
common pickles made by the farmers,
and quite as good as any. But their
cultivation is difficult on account of the
insect enemies that destroy the tender
leaves, They should be picked when
small, and be quickly grown for pickles.
Caulltiower is tender and Of pleasant
taste,,is easily raised and easily preserved.
Many prefer it to cucumbers. There is
also variety of small white onions,
which, when picked in colorless vinegar,
present an attractive appearance on the
table. Their use is not yet very general
in this country. String beans, green
tomatoes, unripe melons, artichokes,
and the martynia make excellent pickles.
A few nasturtiums and small red peppers
should be put in the jar to give a
havoring.
81. FL. w." sends the New York
Times the following concerning branch
ing corn: "Some time since [ received
from e. Thompson Gale some seeds of
branching corn, and presented them to
friend on Long Island. The following
report of it, think, may be interesting:
Il wish you could see the branching
corn. H had about an eighth of an
acre planted with the seed from last
year. It is at the bottom of the second
lot from the house where the drouth has
had little effect. 1t is on the edge of
the rest of the corn, above which it
towers. 1t averages five stalks and ten
that HIS cane does not reach within six
inches of the blossom, though he is
about six feet high and stretches the
cane as high as he can. >"
In treating COWS for horn brittleness a
stock-raiser III Austria found no good in
feeding bone meal, when the water used
from spring was perfectly soft-that is
without mineral matter. But on chang
ing them to the water of another spring
containing carbonate, salphate and phos-
plate of lime, and chlorate of magnesia
in small quantities, the effects were as
follows: l. The animals drank half as
much again as before. g. The COWS
gave more and better milk than before.
3. The worst diseased COWS at once be-
gan to get better, and this was the first
case in which any of them got better
without removal. 4. The oxen showed
far better condition than could be pre-
viously attained on the best of food and
with the most careful attention. 5. No
fresh cases occurred as soon as the
change of water was introduced.