Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-22
FARM AND GARDEN,

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ground.
SORGHUM, after being cut, deterior-
ates very rapidly. It should not be al
lowed to remain more than one day be-
fore being worked, and less than that is
preferable.
PROF. FAILYER, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, proposes sparrow on
toast F" as way Of utilizing and exter-
minating the pest few years since i'm
ported from England.
The Rural New Yorker advises the
planting of plum trees in poultry yards
as the only way, except tarring the trees,
by which we can have sound plums
where the curculio abounds.
EXPERIMENTS carried on at the Michi-
gan Agricultural College on the use of
lime, plaster, ETC., thrown over apple
trees as a preventive of the attacks of
codling moths, resulted in failure.
THIsTLEs and weeds among grain not
only decrease the yield, but also make
its curing more difficult. Much of the
loss from heating grain would be avoid
ed by having the land free from weeds.
/. D. G. NELSON, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, speaks of having utilized to great
advantage a convenient strawstack by
placing it's contents in alternate layers
In NOW with clover harvested rather
green.
ALBERT PITCHER, a GreenvilIe GIL
farmer, spread some chloride of lime
over land that he was about to pillow.
Three valuable COWS managed to get
into the lot and two of them died from
eating. the lime.
A DRESSING of salt scattered over
potato ground at this season will add
much to the thriftiness of the vines.
One barrel per acre is sufficient if spread
broadcast, and a less quantity will an
swer if thrown on the hill.
WILLOWS near Champaign, ILL.,, hare
recovered from the sleet disaster of Feb
ruary, and their trunks present mass
of living green, showing these soft
wooded trees to be the most valuable
and desirable of their kind.
A PRACTICAL farmer has discovered
that chamberlye applied to peach trees
is preventive of the yellows, and he
believes cure for it when taken in time.
He has used it for years on trees near
the house and never fails of good crop
of peaches.
A SHIPMENT of 800 bushels of red-oak
acorns has been made to Germany for
planting on untillable lands and hill
sides. This tree is found to do well in
Europe, and its wood is valuable. The
acorns were gathered in Missouri at an
average cost of 81 bushel
The apple crop in the territory tribu-
tary to St. Louis is unusually light, and
prices are better than usual at this stage
of the season. The finest fruit coming
to st. Louis now, and for some time past,
is that grown in Southern Illinois, some
of it selling at So so per barrel.
IT is said that tomato plants can be
raised from slips or cuttings as easily as
many of our house plants. If so, the
farmers wife can take few slips in the
fail, and furnish the kitchen garden with
plants IN the spring, even farther adj
vanced than the seedlings grown in hot
beds.
A SUCCESSFUL melon grower has
learned that picking off the first formed
fruit causes the later setting to grow
much larger. This is the method adopt
ed in growing the enormous specimens
sent from the south, and which every
farmers boy has at one time or another
unsuccessfully tried to emulate. It is a
good plan to pick off the first formed
fruit of any kind of vine to increase it's
productiveness.
THE way to grow horseradish is from
the little roots four or five inches in
length. These will produce good radish
fit for use in one seasons growth. Plant
top will be two inches under the soil. It
can remain in the ground very late in
the autumn and be pitted, or can remain
In the ground until spring. It constant
ly increases, and there is danger that it
will spread too fast and become trouble
some.
The new wheat buIb-worm which
Prof, Forbes has been studying and of
| which he some time since sent out a cir
cular account, turns out to be an old
enemy. It was proved by breeding to
be the American Meromyza (Meromyza
Americana-Fitch) originally described
by the late DIR. Fitch, and more fully
treated of and figured by Prof. Riley,
in his first Missouri report, in 1868. It's
work at the base of the stalk has been
overlooked, as it is more commonly
found at the base of the top joint.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says: GA heavy crop of clo-
yer is sure death to daisies. They seem
to be smothered by the ranker growth
of clover, and fail to mature their seeds.
In field where there is a growth of
daisies a generous use of fertilizers, es-
pecially of barnyard manure, and keep
ing the field seeded to clover, using an
extra quantity of seed for the purpose,
and breaking up every two years, cult
waiting for awhile and again seeding to
clover thickly, will finally eradicate the
daisies"
AN English gardener says he does not
agree with those who say that one good
wedding is worth two hoeings. He
says: "Never weed crop in which a
hoe can be used, not SO much for the
sake. of destroying weeds, which must
be the case If the hoeing be well done.
E., H.