Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-14
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.

oHEEP require pure water, They
drink but little, but need to drink often.
Do not let the cattle prune the orch
ard. They always were bunglers at such
business.
70 grow grape vines, let them run un-
pruned. To grow grapes, prune the
vines and let the roots run.
POULTRY products sell for cash, and
can be sold at any tlme-two important
points In favor of the business.
IL possible, have the truck garden so
arranged that the vegetables will be
planted in the order in which they ripen.
WITH your work always keep ahead,
and the grass won't grow behind you.
If the work is behindhand the grass is
beforehand.
EVERY old COW, or young one either,
that is not either an extra breeder or
mixer should be dried up as soon as
possible and fatted.
IT is good plan to select and order
seeds early and test the vitality of each
kind, then it can be ascertained whether
1t will pay to plant them or try another
seedman.
CoLT breaking should begin at the
birth OF the colt, because he then in
stinctively shows his fear or timld1ty of
man, which should be then completely
dissipated.
BEETs are among the hardest vegeta-
bles, and wherever the frost is out of the
ground they may be sown. The Egyp-
tlan is the best, butt the BassanO is little
earlier. Sow in drills 15 inches apart.
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bic, without being tied up to the
manger. Pain and WEAKNESS from
continued position induce bad habits,
and cause swollen feet and other dis
orders.
BLACKBERRIEs should be set out very
early. Six feet apart each way isa good
distance. Setsa stake six feet high to
each. See that plants that are to bear
this year are well tied to their stakes
american AgrjcuJteriSt.
HERE is a hint for potato growers. A
man used a quart of sawdust in each
hill of potatoes in one plot and none in
another. The sawduBt hills yielded
nearly twice as much as the others and
the tubers were larger and smoother.
d. X. SHAUER, in a letter to the Iowa
Homestead. says that a simple sure and
easily-applied cure for lice on animals is
to give few slices of onions In their
feed. They eat them readily, and one
or two feeds does tue business effect
ually.
SEE to it that the canker-worms do
not get ahead of you. Whenever thaw
comes the slugs will ascend, therefore
keep your tree-b bands we'll tarred, or If
you have the zinc treughs around your
trees, see that they are filled with kero-
sene oil and do not leak
An Iowa farmer says that horses may
be prevented from cribbing by mailing a
portion of sheep skin, the wool side up
permost on the manger. Another uses
WOODEN cloth instead of sheepskin, but
sprinkles 1t with red pepper. A third
simply smears the manger with kero-
sene.
The best time for shipping bees any
considerable distance IS In April or quite
early May, before the combs are too
heavy with brood, though with proper
care in preparing them and ordinary use
in handling, they can be shipped at any
time III comparative safety, except In
quite cold weather.
WHEN the snow goes off the mulching
which was put over the strawberries
last fall, from it's long continued
wet condition may become packed
so solid as to smother the plants.
Everything alive has to breathe. If the
mulching is packed down solid, loosen
it up little, and let in the air.
A DAIRYMAN of experience writes: 81
find, without a single exception, animals
with dark Cleaning to Yellow skin pro-
duce richer milk than the light with
tendency to blue) skin. A dark colored
COW, sheep or horse, with yellow hide,
gives richer milk than one of light color,
especially when accompanied with blue
skin"
WHEN the season for tree planting ar
rives remember that trees that afford
beauty, shade, nuts, timber, and valu-
able fuel occupy no more land than
those that afford none Of them. It may
cost little more D obtain them, and it
will take longer for them to attain a
considerable size, but they will be of
much greater value when they are
growEs
Satisfy, and scorzonera, or black
SalslIy, may DE SOWn now or later; we
prefer early sowing. IF to be worked
with the cultivator, SOW in rows at cor
distance; if by hand, Is
inches apart. The soil should be deeply
and richly MANFRED, and the seed of last
years growth used. Drop two seeds to
each inch of row, and thin to six inches.
Am. AgT6cuZt1r&st.
Broccoli is a species of cabbage, near
~ allied to the caulifower. Sow thinly
in seed beds about the middle of spring,
and transplant and cultivate like winter
cabbages. The plants in the seed bed
are very apt to run up tall and slender
unless they are thinned and kept free
from weeds. When they begin to flower
break the large leaves over the heads, to
protect them from the sun, and gather
them before they begin running to seed.
ONE-HALF of the care and labor re-
quired to earn $50 tilling some crop will
produce that amount for the farmer if
bestowed upon his flock of fowls. IF you
propose to him to pereistently neglect |
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