Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-16
FARM AND GARDEN,

Drink out little, but need TO drink often.
Do not let the cattle prune the or
chard. They always were bunglers at
such business.
Mr.. P. r. SYMMEs, of Carbondale
Kansas, writes that fall wheat is looking
fine in that region.
If grapes are to be bagged the proper
time to do 1t IS when they are about as
large as small peas.
AN experienced poulterer says that the
best way to break hens of egg eating is
to. break their necks.
IT is stated that two bushels of beans
from France, Germany and Italy were
sold III the New York market last year to
every one of our home production.
UNGRoUND grain should be fed to
fowls at night, because it slowly di-
gests and fills up the long interval be-
tween sunset and morning better than
soft food.
Colt breaking should begin at the
birth of the colt, because he then in
stinctively shows his fear or timidity of
man, which should be then completely
d1sslpated.
HE process of condensmg milk is
really very simple, and consists in heat
ing the milk in vacuum pan kept ex-
hausted by an air pump until it is re-
duced One-fourth.
JOHN B. MOORE, of the Massachusetts
Horticultural Society, thinks the grape
the most certain of fruit crops. He pre-
fers the vines trained on trellises rather
than stakes, but cultivates in both
ways.
The Indiana Farmer says that the
statute in reference to the sale of adul-
terated milk is violated in Indianapolis
not less than 500 times a day. and that
the fines, If collected, would amount to
$25, 600 per day.
DAIRYMEN say that COW should be
capable of producing 200 pounds of but
ter annually, in order to be profitable.
Lit Is believed, however, that the aver
age yield per annum of mich COWS does
not exceed $50 pounds.
HE granary should be entirely
cleansed at least once a year, or it may
breed weevil in the old grain. The
wheat needed for flour for family use
should be ground during some warm day
IN spring and kept in barrels IN a cool
place during summer.
IHE dlrt-scraper can be profitably
used III making open bitches through
low lands. IT properly managed the
ditch will have such sloping banks that
wagon or reaper can pass over it. The
earth spread over adjacent land is worth
as manure all that the latter will cost.
ALL the smaller fruit can be grown
from cuttings, and if you can not have
| oG %
could wish, little care of them and in
propagating cuttings will in short time
give you all the plants needed on the
farm, and II you are c0ntented to wait
the outlay need not be very great.
GOOD farmers remember and poor
farmers forget, or do not know. that
exclusive devotion of the soil to any
one crop generally results in loss. In the
first place, it exhausts the land uneven
| ly, removing some elements of fertility
more rapidly than others, until in a few
years the crop can not be grown. A sec
ond objection is that such cropping
breeds insect enemies, that compel a
change, as has been the case where too
much wheat growing has bred the weevil
and Hessian fly.
T. b. TERRY, ~ the Country Gentle
man, reminds farmers that 80 stitch in
time " saves labor in looking after DO
tato beetles as well as in any other bust
ness. By picking off the first beetles
that appear the second crop viii be large
ly diminished. For those who escape.
and there are always some, he uses a
pan with q handle and long paddle.
With these implements man need not
| stoop, and can gather from two rows at
| once, the tops are not injured, and there
is no danger of poison.
RAPE is plant that is but little known
here, but Is extensively cultivated in
England, both for forage and the seed,
from which is manufactured rape seed
oil. The seeds are also much used as
food for canary birds. It is also some
times used as a salad plant like mustard.
AS forage plant the yield is abundant,
and fed green it is very nutritious, and
nearly all animals are very fond of it.
Sow in May, either broadcast or in drills;
if the former, ten pounds, and if the lat
ter, four pounds per acre.
A CORRESPONDENT of the N. Y. Tri-
bune says: ''Of all men engaged in
business, farmers are most W&steful
The waste of fertilizing material
amounts to 20 per cent, and in many
ways a great deal more. Then there
is waste in labor. Farming will not
pay If pursued in the old way, but i'm
proved methods as they are proved must
be adopted. These are wonderful
times, and all improvements which are
made are at once adopted, and farmers,
like manufacturers, must be abreast of
the times.'
We are in no measure opposed to a
iudicious use of commercial fertilizers.
Under certain conditions and circum-
stances they are almost necessity.
Nevertheless, on long run the farmer
had a great deal better expend his money
for bran or meal to feed his stock, and
by their increased growth or milk yields
let them pay for the additional feed, and
then the extra amount of manure made
would be already paid for. Barnyard
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