Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-14
FARM AND GARDEN.


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TIP plants of raspberries should be
set out in the spring.
BEFORE cold weather stock barns
should be made wind proof.
MANURE applied to pear trees in the
spring is liable to produce blight.
The best of honey is said to be made
from the flower of the catnip plant.
SoUKs in sheep may be cured by lit
tie llnseed meal mixed with their food.
IT is said to be more difficult to breed
white turkeys than those of any other
color. ..
AN Ohio dairyman estimates that 100
pounds of skim milk will make three
POUNDS of pork. ....
THERE is no cure for the sheep killing
habit in dogs that have once tasted the
kidney fat of sheep.
FIFTY thousand people are employed
In rice culture in Louisiana. Before the
war but little rice was grown there.
AN Eastern farmer makes the state
ment that plantain dies out if kept from
going to seed two years in succession.
SPADED in among the roots of trees
wood ashes will kill the insect eggs that
harbor there. 1t is also an excellent fer
tiIizer.
d. D. T. MOORE says that the best
grape vines he ever saw were supplied
with the blood of chickens and hogs
slaughtered for family use.
CONNECTICUT has O stringent law
against farmers allowing wild carrots to
grow by the roadside. There have been
several prosecutions this season tor VIC
lation of the law.
WITH straw that cannot be otherwise
made into manure it is sometimes advis-
able to burn to make the ashes readily
available. This is particularly the case
| If the straw contains the seeds of weeds.
Burning on plowed land before sowing
wheat is found to increase the yield.
Burning the stubbleis less advantageous,
as that is turned to the bottom of the
furrOw.
1T is found that seeds from native ap.
pies produce more vigorous fruit trees
than from the finer varieties of cultivat
ed fruits. In the latter, the excess of
eatable fruit, which makes it valuable,
SO encloses the seed as to greatly dimin-
iSh its productive vigor. Nursery men
usually obtain their apple seeds from
cider-mill pomace, where only the small
er fruit is used
The frequent failures of grain and
cultivated crops in any section are an
admonition to farmers that the land
needs rest, or changed rotation. More
clover and other crops to be fed on the
farm, more sheep and dairy products,
and less sales of wheat, corn and pota-
toes, will, in the long run, be more
profitable wherever grain crops are not
certainty every year.
IN almost every dairy herd there are
one or more COWS whose product does
not pay cost of keeping and expenses.
Ii the milk Is sold or taken to q cream
cry these Improbable COWS are quickly
discovered and weeded from the herd;
but IN ordinary farming, where the milk
is mixed with that of other COWS, it is
not easy to decide which animals are
profitable and which are not.
A KENTUCKY paper says that the
breeding of fast horses has been much
condemned, but it has done immense
good to agricultural interests. 1t has
turned the farmers pot-bellied, bang
headed, stumbling, staggering plug into
smart, bright, Understanding horse
that can do twice the amount of work
his predecessor was capable of, and trot
off TO market or TO church in quarter
OF the time. .... #..- ....
A BULL aud COW on Hiram Houck's
farm, in Warwick township, Chester
County, Pa, recently fought, locked
horns, became separated from the herd,
and were not found for five days, during
which time they remained united by
their horns. The bull was almost
starved, but the COW, being able to eat
grass, was risky and fat. It was neces-
sary to saw off the horns of one of the
animals to get them apart.
In single county of California (Obis-
POI there is one ranch of more than So
600 acres, four of more than 100000,
two containing over 30, 600 and less than
40, 600 acres, four between 10000 and
30, 600, and nine between TO- 900 and
20, 600. In some counties there are
tracts of 100, 900 acres in the possession
of sheep herders who live in a 6x1O
shanty, without book or newspaper,
little above the sheep in intellect.
ONE bushel of medium sized wheat
per acre gives uIG00n grams TO every
square foot. Two bushels to the acre,
the quantity most frequently sown, gives
thirty grains. It is evident that much
of this seed as ordinarily sown does not
grow. With shrunken wheat the num-
Der of grains per acre is greatly IN
creased. It is worth while to test wheat
before sowing to find how large pro-
portion of the seed will terminate.
THREE hundred and fifty acres of
onions are grown annually on the onion
meadows IN Orange County, n. Y,
tract of land that thirty years ago was a
bog and supposed not to be worth any
thing. The crop this year will be 200
barrels per acre, and it is expected that
they. will bring $500, a remarkable in
come from any farm land. It is worth
while for farmers everywhere to try ex-
periments with their apparently worth
less land. 5000 ~
The Pittsburg Stockman saws:
There is no excuse sor decency in hay
ing filthy pig-sty. This should and
can be as clean and neat as the abode of
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