Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

REPORTS OF premature apple dropping
continue to come from many sections of
| the country.
THERE is no loss in feeding cattle well
| upon a variety of materials for the sake
of manure alone. .v
ANALYSIS of green rye shows it to be
nearly equal to clover for fodder, and
| better than grass in blossom.
As soon as the tops are cleared. rake
| onions from the ground, and when dried
remove to the farm loft or garrett. J..
In some instances "gprinkling lawns
with carbol1c acid and water has been
practiced with good effect against the
army worm in Connecticut.
BEE moths can easily be killed in
large numbers by setting pan of grease.
in which Is a floating ignited wick, near
the hives after dark. The moths will
fly into the light and fall into the grease.
IT pays to have dry and comfortable
walks from the house to the barn, to the
woodshed and about the yard. At leisure
time look to these matters, and your wife
Will not sigh for the comforts of her old
home.
A GOOD many farmers in different parts
of the country have, by loss of animals
during the season, had the fact impressed
on their minds that Paris green is a
deadly poison, the use of which cannot
be too carefully guarded.
THERE is no wisdom in working thir-
ty-acre field year after year to get five
bushels of wheat or ten bushels of corn
to the acre, when with the same expense
for fertilizers you could raise fifteen
bushels of wheat and thirty bushels of
corn to the acre.
A MIXTURE of red and white clover
with timothy and blue grass, constitutes
a very good sheep pasture Subdivide
the pasture into smaller fields, and give
frequent change during the entire graz
ing season. Provide them with mix
ture of salt, sulphur, and ashes.
MANY people have an idea that rad
ishes are vegetables only suitable for the
table in early spring, and they never
SOW them at times when they will be in
good condition to eat at other seasons Of
the year. The fact is, they are desira-
BILE during all the months of the year,
and should be sown every two weeks
during the growing season..
In the anxiety to secure the largest
yield of fodder corn and other ensilaga-
BILE products there is danger that guam
tity shall be gained at the expense of
| quality. Twenty to forty tons per acre
can not be grown as rich lin nutritive
value per ton as when the yield is small
er. In aralny season as the present has
SO far been, any forage grown must be
proportionately less nutritious than
where more sunlight prevails.
HERBS for winter use should be gath
cred when the plants are in flower; Just
as the flowers begin to fade is considered
| to be the best time to harvest them.
The herb garden was formerly of greater
| domestic Importance than it is in these
| days of patent medicines, but whether
! this change Is an advantage to health
may well be questioned. To dry herbs,
it is best to tie them in small bundles
and hang them up In an airy shed.
A CAVITY in a grindstone may be re-
paired as follows: Take piece of old
grindstone and pound it up quite fine, or
procure some fine, sharp sand and sift
out the coarsest, using only the fine;
make this into paste with third the
bulk of hydraulic lime or cement and
sufficient water gloss; undercut the cav
ity in the grindstone or drill keyholes in
it and fill 1t with the cement as above
made. 1t will harden very rapidly.
THERE are few requisites for packing
! butter safely for winter use. The but
ter must be good; the saltmust be pure;
the packages must be clean and air
tight, and perfectly well closed, and the
place of storage must be cool, clean,
| airy, free from moldiness and not too
dry. A clean we'll aired cellar with
cemented floor, and in which vegetables
are not stored, is as good a place as any
for the storage of butter for winter use.
Pure air Is very important.
1T is said that foot-rot and other dis
eases to which sheep are subject, occur
much less often among hocks which are
pastured on rather rough ground, and
particularly where they have to climb
hills to get their grazing. In Scotland,
the great sheep country of Europe, the
sheep are always found in great num-
bers among the mountain ranges. The
famous Southdowns also have a rough
country to pasture on, upon the steep,
rugged chalk hills of the south Of Eng
land.
In the best apple-growing regions of
western New York well-managed apple
orchards decline at about 60 years of
age-some live longer, and many not so
long. At meeting of the Illinois Hor-
ticultural Society, A. Bryant placed the
average age in that state at 90 years and
Mr.. Nelson at Is years. Others know
of some orchards much older. Trees
grow rapidly in Illinois, and it was gen
orally admitted that it was better to cut
them down at 20, and plant on new
ground. w
A VERY bad weed of the mustard fam
lily, and commonly called charlock, or
wild mustard, is very prevalent in many
fields of spring grain. When once it
gets possession it's yellow blossoms quite
overcome the green heritage of the
grain, and it makes the growing of spring
grains quite impossible. It is annual,
and if carefully watched in time can
easily be kept in check, but every spear
should be pulled and burned. If thrown
on the ground, many of the plants will
ripen their seed.