Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-25

compete with one another Ia the cultlva-
ton OF one acre of corn each. The lad
who produces the largest crop Of corn
on his acre is to receive five bushels of
corn from each of the other members of
the club. Each selects his own acre
and manures and cultivates it to suit
himself. Suppose there are twenty
members III the club; the lucky one will
receive ninety-fve bushels of corn,
which will be a handsome premium.
Every member Will be benefited by an
increased yield, and the practical expe-
rience of all secured by the contest.
Why not get up such clubs elsewhere,
and let fathers know what their sons can
DO. Come, boys.
HE following is recommended by
correspondent of the Rural World: CT
have found hogs TO fatten faster when
turned into field of corn than in any
other way. You should turn in with the
large hogs enough pigs to eat any corn
the large hogs may leave. The pigs
will not break down the corn stalks, but
will gather up what corn is left by the
large hogs, so that there is but little, If
any, corn lost. Give the hogs plenty Of
salt and ashes. Plant with your corn
plenty of pumpkins and stock peas.
The hogs will gather them to suit them
selves. They will eat the peas first.
Plant fields Of proper size to fatten young
hogs. BY this method all the time,
labor and expense of picking and hand
ling the corn and penning your hogs is
saved. Pork can be made cheaper by
this method than by any other.
A CORRESPONDENT OF the Toledo Blade
recommends the following method to rid
the garden of moles: Take handful of
yellow dent-corn and soak il in hot
water until the thin skin of the kernel
can be loosened; then take each kernel
and prick the skin over the sprout just
enough to admit some arsenic or paris
green. l use of the latter mite as big
as the head of a pin; then let the skin
lie back oversthe hole and dry. Second,
take small stick and push it down in
the dirt directly over their hole Che sure
not to go deep, then drop in kernel or
two of corn. The moles will discover
the corn and eat the sprout,
A GREAT many farmers, says Col. T.
D. Curtis III the Country Gentleman,
comfort themselves with the notion that
If they change seed with some other
farmer they are doing big thing. This
is mistaken idea. Seed should be inn
proved and taken from the farm where
it is grown, and to which it has adapted
itself. at home j. the place for I'M
provement. The idea that the little
germ of seed can carry the good quail
tiles Of good farm with it is ridiculous;
but it can carry with it peculiarities in
Its nature Growth and maturity ac-
CURED in one place. which will be I'M
suited to another. He therefore advises
farmers to improve the seed on their
own land by careful selection Of the best
ears for planting.
IT costs, says a contributor in the New
York Tribune, to feed flock of Sleeper
lambs through winter in proportion as
they are ticky. After shearing, while
the wool is short on the sheared sheep,
the ticks go on to the lambs, then again
on to the older ones when the wool be
comes longer. A ticky lot of lambs go
ing into winter never hold their own IN
flesh, and seldom in number, until
spring. So it is profitable after shearing
to dip the lambs III some solution that
will not lnlure them, but kill the ticks.
For this purpose [ know of nothing bet
ter than boiled tobacco water. Twenty
five cents worth of stems procured from
a tobacconist will make wash enough
for thirty lambs. A convenient way to
dip them is to place an OLD washboiler
in the upper end of an elevated wide
trough, or, what is better, an old sor-
ghum or naples irup pan. Dip the lambs
IN the boiler and stand them IN the
trough or vat to drain.