Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

er, but corn may be planted when the
ground IS moist.
Corn is thought to grow better if the
rows run north and south, so that 5he
sun will shine equally on each side of the
stalk.
FENCES that have been blown down or
displaced by the winter storms should
be rebuilt as soon as the ground will
permit.
AN ounce and quarter of salt to the
pound Is too much. If you want to get
fancy price for butter, keep one half of
the salt out of it.-Ercb0nqe.
MANURE can now be drawn out and
either put in small heaps orspread even
~ over the ground. 1t makes no differ
ence whether the frost is out OF the
ground or not.
SEEDS, for few early hills of summer
crookneck squashes may be sown on
sods as directed for cucumbers: but the
main sowing must not be made until
warm weather.
ANY COW that is out of condition will
need the best of care now. Warm bran
slop, with little ginger, is excellent.
II the animal is poor and weak, there is
danger largely of rich food
THE best heat for the hot bed is fresh
horse dung from stable where some ten
or more horses are kept, so that load of
1T can be taken cut hot and fresh before
it has had time TO burn by excessive
heating.
CLOVER seed may be sown this month.
A more even cast can be obtained by
sowing upon light fall of snow. AS
the snow melts the seed is carried down
to the ground, and finds good conditions
for terminating and growth.
VIGOROUS preparations should now be
made to prepare for On abundant crop Of
vegetables and fruits on every farm.
These two speciaities are luxuries that be-
long to the farm; they are blessings of
health and rural wealth That every far
, mer's home should enjoy.
AS soon as lamb gets large enough.
1T should be encouraged to eat food for
itself. For this purpose a low trough
should be placed where the Lambs can
get to it, and eat without disturbance.
They will soon eat enough to assist very
materially, IN their growth.
WHERE it is intended to make use of
a cultivator IN the garden, plant the
turning ground at both ends with winter
squashes, as these are planted so late
and at such distance apart, that they
Will not seriously hinder the turning of
steady horse with a careful driver.
LAYERING consists simply in bending
down branch and keeping it in contact
with or buried to a small depth in the
soil, until roots are formed. The con-
nectlon with the parent plant may then
be severed. Many plants can be far
more easily propagated thus than by
cuttings.
To take off warts on cows teats:
Touch each wart daily with a sharply
polnted'stlck which has been dipped IN
nitric acid (aquafortis), being careful
that the little drop GA the point of the
stick vets nothing but the wart. Do
this for u week, and repeat in four weeks
If any are left.
A GREAT assistance in growing Irish
potatoes is leaves from the woods.
These, when put in the furrow with the
potatoes, not only furnish the nutriment
for their sustenauce, but retain the wa
ter from rams and counterfeit the injury
of dry weather. If leaves cannot be had,
straw is the next best thing for this pur-
pose.
If new currant bushes are to be set,
let them be four feet apart. II old
bushes we're not pruned last fall, do it
at once, before the leaves start. Thin
out the old wood, and shorten back the
growth of last season at least q third.
By manuring, the size of the fruit may
no T1onnh InnraNun1 4
cutturaSt.
ALL tue varieties of beets succeed best
on deep, rich, sandy loan. For early
beets, SOW as soon as the ground will
admit, in drills fourteen inches apart,
and thin to six inches in the row. For
winter, SOW about the middle of spring.
Soak the seed twenty-four hours in luke
warm water before planting, anG SOW in
freshly prepared ground.
MUCH OF the potato stock held Dy west
ern farmers has been frosted, and will
prove of little value except for immediate
use. A frosted potato, if only slightly
touched, can be kept in good condition
till time for planting; it Is, in fact, CT no
value for seed. In sections where the
thermometer has run down 80 or 40
degrees below zero it is next to impossible
to save such perishable property as po-
tatoes.
If you have an old field grown up in
sedge grass, turn your cattle and hogs in
on it as soon as the new grass begins to
grow and pasture it as closely as posi-
BILE throughout the year. There is a
good deal of nutriment in the new sedge
grass and cattle eat it greedily. It will
make yellow butter and by pasturing it
closely and not permitting it to seed, in
two or three years it will disappear and
other growth will make it's appearance.
HORSES should come through the win
ter in good flesh, and be in fine trim for
the hard work of spring. Horses feet
need special care at this time of slush
and mud. When the horses are brought
in from work, they should be rubbed
down, and the feet and legs thoroughly
dried. If left covered with mud, the
skin may soon become diseased, and
cracked heels or foot fever may result.
Look well to the horses feet.-Amera-
can AgracuItus'6st.