Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-19
FARM AND GARDEN,

for twenty.
those who want large flow of milk
are now lucky if they have q plenty of
sweet corn for the COWS.
SOME wise ones say you must cut your
timber for posts and poles in August if
you want them desirable. Root sprouts
will not come up if cut now.
Col. KING has sold his cattle ranch
and cattle, near San Antonio, Texas, for
$4,000, 600 to an English syndicate. This
is said to be the largest ranch in the
world.
YoUEG calves which have to be kept
confined should be kept in dark stables,
to keep off the swarms of flies, which
greatly annoy and retard the growth of
calves.
HE American Pathological Society
meets In Philadelphia September 18th,
at which Prof. J. L. Budd will read q
prepared paper on Experimental Hor-
ticulture West of the Lakes.
AN Indianapolis fruit grower plants
twelve moles IN strawberry patch of
five acres to catch the grubs, and he
never has any trouble with his plants by
grubs or moles. We would prefer one
mole nrSt as an experiment..
ONE man near Urbana, ILL.,, this year
raised from clean seed, on clean land,
twelve hundred bushels of winter wheat.
After 1t was threshed he cleaned out of
it 400 bushels of cheat, leaving 800
bushels of poor wheat. A clear case of
spontaneous generation.
WHAT becomes of all the oleomargar-
mo
right along, producing the article; but
not pound Of the output is ever sold
to consumers. ThBt is to say, it is not
sold under the name of oIeomargarine.
That 1t is sold as butter is evident. 49,
NEVER allow net to be cast in your
fish pond. Teach your boys and girls
to take their fish in the correct manner
with rod and line" If the fish in
crease too rapidly, then have a family
picnic; invite your friends and neigh
bors, and have grand, good time cook
ing your fish near the pond, and have
one good days sport beside this best
acre on your farm.
A SUCCESSFUL dairyman says: "The
length of time that ayoung heifer keeps
III milk, after her first calf, is likely to
measure her staying qualities for all
after life. For this reason young heif-
ers should have their first calf Ia the
fall. By good care and ensilage food in
winter, an abundant flow can more east
ly be kept up the next summer. If heif-
ers calve in the spring, they are very
liable to go dry early in the next fall.
ANY one who has noticed how weak,
pale, and puny will be the thistles that
grow up IN a darkened shed can we'll
believe that this weed can be best killed
by smothering. The shade need not be
very dense to greatly help the work of
keeping the shoots below the surface.
After being hoed, crops, like corn and
potatoes, completely shade the surface.
If scattering thistles are carefully re-
moved by hand, they will be completely
destroyed. Too many farmers do the
work early in the season, and finally fail
for lack of a very little labor.
ACCORDING to the census bulletin, the
number of farms in the United States
was 2,660,0O0 in 1870, and 100000 in
1880. Much Of this increase is in the
new territories, some of which were but
sparsely settled ten years ago, but the
fact that Alabama Florida and Texas
have more than doubled the number of
their farms in the time, while Georgia.
Arkansas, South Carolina and North
Carolina have nearly doubled, and Mis-
sissippi, Virginia and Louisiana have in
creased from fifty to seventy per cent.
show that there has been a cutting up
of large plantations into smaller hold
ings.
A GENTLEMAN OF Medina, n Z, evl-
IDENTIFY an enthusiast on the merits of
the Holsteins, has been testing them in
regard to their butter production. He
gives q statement OF the yield of II
COWS forseven days in which one gives 20
pounds, three nineteen and fraction,
two III pounds, and the lowest Il
pounds IL ounces. The daily butter
yield of five COWS was also tested, the
greatest yield being 3 pounds, 4 ounces,
the lowest 2 pounds, 81 ounces. He
up that will rival the best Jersey list,
and that it can be shown that the
Holsteins are the very best for milk,
butter, or beef, or for all combined.
RINGING grape vines is process to
increase size and earliness. It is done
by cutting circle around the old wood,
preventing the return of sap to the root.
If the bark is entirely cut through, an
enlargement of the vine will occur on
the side next the new growth. The vine
is not injured by this process, for only
the parts to be cut away in the fall prun-
ing are subjected to the process of ring
ing. The grapes, however are not as
good in quality as where ripened natur-
ally. 1t is trick of fruit growers to
make the fruit look better than it real
~ is.
The potato beetle is also liable to at
tack the tomato plant, as many garden
ers have found to their cost. The use of
Paris green is not advisable on this fruit,
which, as it grows above the ground, Is
not so certainly freed from the poison as
is the underground potato. When pota-
toes are plenty in the vicinity, few of the
bugs will attack the tomato. It is a
question of interest, however, whether
potato bugs bred on tomato vines would
not inherit the tendency to attack the