Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-08
FARM AND GARDEN,

IHE Germantown Telegraph says 1t is
help to keeping cisterns pure to have
the supply pipe run to the bottom of the
cistern.
A PINT of white hellebore mixed with
peck of sifted coal ashes will kill the
currant worm if scattered over the
bushes.
CABBAGEs are grown in some parts of
England as forage crop, and are con-
sidered one of the best green feeds to
stimulate milk production.
PENNSYLVANIA is to have a state ex-
perimental farm, the appropriation for
that purpose having passed both houses
and been signed by the governor.
PARIS green should be used more
sparingly on squashes, cucumbers and
melons than on potatoes. A teaspoon
full is sufficient for pail of water.
ONE hundred and forty varieties of
corn have been planted at the New York
state experimental farm, under varying
conditions. The results cannot fail to
be of great value.
REMOVE the seed shoots of the rhu-
barb plant as fast as they appear. AL
lowing them to mature greatly weakens
the plant, which shows itself in subse-
quent years by the slender stalk.
Do not allow plants to be robbed of
both food and moisture by worthless
weeds, and more of them can be de-
stroyed in one day, when they are small,
than in ten after they are well rooted and
cover the ground.
DIR. MAXWELL It. MASTERS writes the
| New York Tribune that be has often
seen the experiment tried OF thinning
potato tops by pulling out all the small
er stems, leaving only two, or at most
three, of the stronger ones to the hill,
and never knew an instance where the
result was not larger tubers and fre-
quently heavier total crop.
The prospects for the hop crop in
Ontario are poor, and the yield will
probably be far below the average. The
cause lies III the ravages of the small
green flies, which have almost stripped
some of the weaker yards. The average
this year has considerably increased, but
the aggregate yield will be small.
The Kansas state board of agriculture
have issued pamphlet on ''Kansas: It's
| Resources and Capabilities, Its Position,
|
full of valuable information for those
seeking homes or investments in the
west, and is printed in English, Ger
man, Swedish and Danish. 4 copy
will be sent free to any address desired.
THE Boston American Cultivator rec
ommends the use of salt on the manure
heaps "both for summer and winter.
In warm weather it attracts moisture
and keeps the manure from fre-fanglng
or burning from excessive fermentation.
In winter it keeps the heap from freez-
ing solid, and at any season it makes the
manure more soluble"
Col. T. D. CURTIS writes the New
York Tribune that he has ''tried all
kinds of experiments in killing Canada
thistles. Seeding heavily with clover
and moving it, is one of the best. The
poorest way to kill them, and the best
way to spread them, is 10 put the land
in hoed crops. Every little broken
joint makes a new thistle and starts a
new bed. Hence the less they are dis
turbed the better, unless the ground is
plowed SO frequently that they can not
grow at all, and this extra labor is SO
out of joint with ones inclination that
1T 1s seldom done.
a CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gazette tells how he has succeeded in
keeping clover hay in stacks: "Make
good long ricks, widening all the way
from the ground to as high as you want
to build. Then fill the center up until
the sides slope just like the rafters of a
house. The rick can be rooted over,
Ike shinglng house, by beginning at
the caves, with old hay, straw, corn
fodder, or by freshly cut timothy
When the rick has been carefully
widened from the ground up to the
caves, and then carefully covered over
in the manner mentioned, clover hay
will keep nicely for any length of time"
The production of sugar cane is in
creasing in Mexico. The climate and
soil are reported as well adapted to it.
It is stated that there is nothing in the
| form of sugar cane in Louisiana which
can compare with the luxuriant growth
| to be found In Mexico. Many of the
| largest sugar districts in Mexico have
abundant water, which can be utilized
for machine power as well as for irriga-
| ton. As for facilities for transporta-
ton, Mexican sugars are put up in small
packages Of conical shape, which are
easily transported by pack animals to
any distance required. The molasses is
converted into rum, and finds a home
market.
In removing hay from the field, says
an eastern exchange, that portion known
as rakings should be allowed to remain,
for two reasons-one is that it will not
pay for gathering it up; the other, that
it does pay, and twice over, IN being
scattered over the field and acting as a
mulch to the exposed roots Of the stub
BILE. These rakings keep the roots cool
and moist, and will add largely to next
years yield of timothy or orchard grass,
as the case may be- Many frst-class
farmers pursue this method at all times.
but there are SO many who do not that
we regard it worth while to remind them
of the advantages of it, and ask them to
give it trial.
MR.. ROBERT HALL, an Ohio butter
inspector, says that where butter is
! al 90 4,