Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-05-03
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

| In June, when the sap is active and the
leaves will protect the sores made by the
saw from the heat of the sun.
Coal OIL is very destructive to in
sects, but it should not be used as o
wash for trees, as it often kills them.
Peach trees are very sensitive to it's eff
fects.
In setting out apple trees keep them
away from the wells, as the apple tree
will push it's roots q long distance to get
water and seems to delight whenever
possible in sending an extra root down
well.
SUCCESS in raising pigs depends upon
feeding literally till the pigs are three
or four months old. Let them have the
run of grass or clover pasture, and af-
ter the harvest they will do well on the
wheat stubble.
AETER peach trees begin to bear there
is no MANURE SO well adapted to them as
that from the privy. It is a special fer
tilizer for peach trees, and the effect of
one application can be noticed for sue
| cess1ve seasons.
IT is lamentable that so few farms have
supply of small fruits. Many farmers
never have berry of their own raising,
while that most hardy and generally re-
liable fruit, the common red cherry, is
net at all plenty.
EVERY farmer should select por-
ton of rich soil, clear from weeds,
which should be devoted to roots, such
as beets, t1rnips, rutabagas or carrots
for feeding cattle or hogs. They are
good starters for fall feeding.
| OUR farmers can raise one hundred
loads of pumpkins with very little trou-
BILE. Put the seeds into the corn planter
with corn and there is no trouble to get
crop enough to feed all the cattle on the
farm during the fall months. Try it.
In the management of live stock it is
safer and better to give water before
feeding than after. In the latter case
the feed is liable to be washed out of the
stomach prematurely, while in an i'm
perfectly digested state, and thus oc-
casion intestinal irritation and disease.
Pres narrowed in May will do better
than those that come IN earlier, unless
the early pigs are sheltered and kept
warm. When once a pig is stunted by
cold and neglect it is apt to remain back
ward. Young pigs should never be
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set in.
THERE is no better and surer way of
killing young trees than to expose the
roots to the wind, which dries them out
very rapidly. Make note of this, and
If you have any trees to transport, be
sure to have the roots thoroughly covered
with blankets or something as effectual.
This precaution may save the life of
scores of trees.
TEST your onion seeds by placing a
little in moist sand, cotton, or moss in q
warmish room. If fresh, it will soon Gin
about three days. sprout. Onion seed
should not be more than one year old,
End the difference in the crop from new
and old seed is such that all onion Gull
turists should test their own seeds be-
sowing. Rural NeaU Yorker.
TEE farmer should GO over everything
on the farm-in-doors and out-regular-
ly onee week, to see what Is out of or
der, what needs attention, and make
minutes of everything ca the spot for his
memorandum book. A card in his vest
pocket, where it could be quickly
reached, viii prevent any item from be-
ing forgotten till he can transfer it to his
more permanent book.
THE perfect gem squash is certainly
an important addition to the list of
squashes. Where the garden space is
limited, and only one variety can be
grown, one cannot do better than choose
this. 1t is excellent, both as a summer
and winter squash, having the useful
properties of both classes. 1t is very
productive and is an excellent keeper.
The fruit is from five to six inches in
| diameter, with a smooth, thin skin.
TOBACCO stems are spoken of as a
most excellent manure for potatoes. The
use of cut stalks in the hill has long
been favorite practice with potato
| planters in tobacco growing districts.
| We saw a South Windsor farmer cut
ting stems (the mid-nih of the leaf, of
which immense quantities go from to-
bacco factories in bales1 fine in a hay
cutter and spr1nkling them as manure
upon his meadow Tobacco may help
kill insects.
MR. WOODS, of New Hampshire,
fences, saying that In a moist soil it will
grow eight feet high, and the tops will
/ bend over SO as to make beautiful ap-
/ pCSt1duCS. LII 10 k9AI0hAy dtieA WILL ooA We
we'll for orchards and fruit gardens, as
the boys could not climb over it, and
they would not attempt more than once
to go through it. Fneed not be guarded
from cattle, as they do not care for it as
am article of diet.
The rhubarb bed should be attended
to as early as possible. It is the first
fruit of the garden. and making its adj
vent thus early it is very acceptable fo1
pies or sauce. The beds can be increased
and indeed it is the best way-by
dividing the roots, each piece having 8
little of the crown; and it will begin to
yield supply the following year. The
new beds, can be prepared and set out
say three feet apart each way, as early
as the ground is fit to work.
The Germantown penn. j Telegraph
says: "Judge Miller, of Missouri, be-
ing on visit some time ago, mentioned
to US a fact discovered by himself IL
which full week can be gained in get
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