Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-10-10
FARM AND GARDEN.

1HERB is no UeUG0r 1000 Tor chickens
than skim milk.
The buckwheat crop in the eastern
states is reported light.
DRY weather in Central Illinois is re-
tarding the fall blowing.
The best authorities assert that cows
should go dry at least six weeks before
calving.
DEAD meat is now shipped to Eng
land from Russia as well as Australia
and America. ...,.
A WRITER in the Prairie Farmer, after
EXTENDED experiments, is convinced that
wheat is generally sown too deep.
GREASE is said to be sure remedy
for apple tree bark lice. It should be
applied cautiously, however, for it in
jures the twigs.
HE advantages of having early ma
turing corn have never been SO well de-
monstrated as this year. Bear it in mind
In saving seed for next year. .....
The exhibits at the fairs in the north
western states this year are reported as
fuller and better than in previous years,
The attendance has also been good
THE potato crop nearly all over the
country is reported to be unusually fine.
In eastern Pennsylvania some pbenome-
nal yields are reported. In Bucks Conn
ty many fields produce 300 bushels and
more per acre. ..,..
| DEALERS in wool state that the nuno-
Der of sheep that are washed before
shearing diminishes every year. The
practice Is regarded as cruel by most
shepherds. and as unsatisfactory to both
sellers and buyers of wool.
The twentieth annual exhibition of
the New England Agricultural Society
was held this year at Manchester, N. II.
The agricultural exhibition, as a whole.
was very even in all departments, very
credItable, and an excellent representa-
ton OF the fine stock of New England.
A DELEGATION of Irish members of
parliament represent that large uuan-
tlty of the butter which passes through
| the Cork market is "grossly adulter.
ated, and combination of spectators
Is held responsible. Earl Spencer plain
ly states that unless the corporation of
the city undertakes to carry out needed
reforms the government will take the
matter ia hand.
The price of apples, dried in evapo-
rators and bleached, is so much higher
than that of the best dried by the old
process, that the latter cannot be profit
ably followed. In some large fruit
growing localities nearly every farmer
has an evaporation, and there should be
at least one IN every neighborhood. The
" evaporated fruit" commands double
the price of the suu-dried.
The Gardeners Chronicle relates an
instance where apples and pears were
planted IN heavy clay, which had been
trenched down to can iron hard pan. ~
The trees made no growth, and moss and
Ilchens grew on them. The orchard was
then thoroughly drained. In six months
the lichens began to disappear, and the
next year q fue growth was made. The
soil had been warmed by the drainage,
and the fertility had been made accessi-
bic to the growing roots.
IT is time and money lost to raise COM
mon geese when there are breeds that
are vastly more profitable. Emden and
Toulouse are the most popular breeds.
A poulterer, In one of our exchanges SAYS
that the produce of Emden geese crossed
by Toulouse gander lays on sound
flesh rapidly. GosGngs may be put to
fatten at five or six weeks old; then sew
en- weeks should bring them to perfec-
ton if properly fed. Wheat and barley
grain and barley meal with brewers
grain are good fattening food.
An eastern editor described a second
crop of clover on a farm where pasturing
has been entirely abandoned for the last
four years. He says if farmers will quit
pasturing their tillage land entirely and
adopt the solling system, their farms will
III ten years double their present pro-
ductive capacity. The field of clover
was 40 per cent. better than any other
seen since harvest, and was better be-
cause it had not been pastured for a
number of years. The corn and other
crops are also good, and the fertility and
productiveness, are almost entirely ow-
ing to the soiling system as practiced by
the owner.
The power in the corn kernel to re-
terminate after drying enables us to
plant more shallow than is sometimes
required for the securing of permanent
moisture to the seed in the spring.
While some corn seed used have the
power to push up through eight inches
of heavy clay soil, yet our results last
year showed a quicker vegetation, and,
as we imagined, a better stand from seed
planted one-foIlrth of an inch deep than
deeper. Hence it seems quite reason
able to reason that the compactipg of a
fine soil about the seed is of more lin
portance than merely the depth Of plant
ing. Dr.. Sto1~tev03at.
A WESTERN newspaper says: "For
the last two years couple of buck
mountain sheep have been running with
Mr.. Balley's flock in Bnll Run Basin,
Nevada, and there are now between
twenty and thirty half-breed lambs in
the lot. They are mostly covered with
hair, although there is some wool inter-
spersed with it. They carry their heads
like the wild sheep, but are as easily
herded as their half brothers and sisters
of pure domestic breed. They are of
no account for shearing, but are said to,
make excellent mutton. This is the
only instance of which VIC have eveD
hozrI Of tho OF IL