Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27

straw. The total pounds of grain per
acre was COS for the red-rust proof, 600
for the Washington aud $40 Tor the Chi
nese hulless.
MANY complain that their tomatoes are
sour. Ali tomatoes are sour, Ii we may
Judge from our own experience, thai are
grown in rich soil We wait d maxi
mum of fruit and minimum Of leaves
ard stems, If we would have sweet to-
matoes-by which is meant not sweet
literally, but less acidity. Tomatoes
raised in light, rather poor soil in
sheltered or warm situation are always
sweet in favorable seasons-whiie those
raised in rich soil or III partial shade are
always sour. A rank growth OF foliage
shades the fruit densely and interferes
with the development of the sacchariue
principle.
SEEDING to grass should be done as
early as practicable, that it may have a
good start before winter Timothy seed
among wheat may make strong growth
and reduce the grain crop next season,
but the value of the grass will be greater
than the loss of the grain. Grass seed
sown early in September On clean
ground, with no other crop, will afford "a
good crop OF hay next summer, or from
one-half to two-thIrds of o full and heavy
return the year afterwards When the
winters are not severe with cutting
winds, early sown clover viii survive, but
1t Is safest to SOW it early in spring III
cold regions.
A WRITER in the National Farmer,
A ho1F mi Of c71JAop,oy.
given to horse with his other feed, each
morning and night, will keep him i'll
better health and better spirited than he
will be without it, while his hair will be
brighter. When saddle horse is re-
qulred to be particularly sprightly he
may be given pint of sunhower seed
with his oats at night, and half as much
In the morning; he will be found more
antic and sprightly through the day, and
consequently be more pleasant to the
rider. [ have seen this course pursued
with horses to make them antic, that
were to go Old parade, on occasions of
town and country trainings in early
times. Aftvr a little use horses become
very fond of eating sunfower seed"
AN Illinois gardener has kept squash
III prime condition from the time of
gathering until year from the follow
ing January. He keeps them in dry,
well-venGilated house at uniform tenn
perature of AZ degrees. He places them
on shelves two deep, is careful In hand
ling them, examines them occasionally
after they have been kept some time,
and If an occasional one shows signs of
decay, at once removes it. In this way
he is able to take advantage of the mar
ket here or ats the east, and gets won
derfully remunerative prices. He has
sold a carload in Chicago, as high as
$50 per ton. His average for the 1880
crop from forty acres was about $40 per
ton. His land is ordinary dark prairie
soil. He manures in the hill and gets
large crops.
The New England Farmer gives the
following good advice concerning stock
ing corn: "We have been quite sahs-
fed with large stocks built around
shocking horse, and well bound at the
top with wilted corn stalks or rye straw.
If bound Immediately after cutting,
straw will be needed, but after one days
whiting, stalks answer very good pur-
pose. The larger the stocks are made,
the brighter the fodder will be. as there
will be less exposure to the weather.
We described last year method of har-
vesting corn, which has a good deal of
merit IN it, and is liked well by those.
who have given it fair trial. Instead
of leaving the stocks In the field till late
autumn, for the ears to become entirely
dry, they are taken down and the ears
picked off without husking, and stored
in quite large piles In some.out-building
or on the upper floor of the barn. 1t is
found that corn ears will keep in much
larger piles with the husks on than if
husked. After picking off the ears the
slower is bound in as large bundles as
can be taken up on fork. 1t may then
be put into medium sized stacks, or if
sufficiently cured, stored away IN the
barn. If packed in alternate layers with
rye orwheat straw, both Will be improved
as fodder"