Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

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Wisconsin is estimated to be worth a
million and half Of dollars.
JAMES NIPE, Wisconsin beeKeeper,
says that for this season his bees have
stored over 10, 900 pounds of honey.
DAIRYING In Minnesota is increasing.
the number of creameries in the state
having doubled during the last year.
BEEKEEPING is an occupation in which
profit and pleasure are happily COM
bined. 1t is we'll calculated tostrengthen
and develop the mind.
In figuring up the cost of keeping
poultry, the valne of the dropping8 for
fertilizing purposes is an item which
should not be overlooked.
BUCKwHEAT, which has been injured
by the frost, should be plowed under;
it's effects on next years crops will, in
all probability, pay for theloss sustained
this year.
A RED-PoL1ED bull exhibited at q
recent cattle show in Norfolk, England,
measured eight feet and three inches in
glrth, and was appropriately named
"Falstaff.
Texas farmers sold last year $50, OOO,-
600 worth of cotton, $53, 900, 900 worth
of cattle, 81, 100000 worth of wool and
mutton, and $1,000, 900 worth of horses
and hides.
The advantage of a heavy clay soil is
that it is not easily exhausted. If
cropped too severely nature interposes
her protest by locking its fertility in
cods until the land receives better
treatment.
The roofs of barns should be steep.
and if of wood the surface either painted
or the shingles dipped in lime water, to
make them more durable. Straw and
DIRT collect under hat-roofed shingles
and cause rapid decay.
CRYsTAuIzED carbolic acid dissolved
and fed to hogs with bran STOP is found
by Nebraska farmers a sure cure for the
hog cholera. 1t has been tried several
years and with uniform success. The
pure article resembles camphor gum.
AN unknown disease, thought by some
to be bloody murrain, has broken out
among the COWS In Newburg, N. Y.
One dairyman, Mr.. Samuel J. Hewitt,
of that place, had thirteen COWS. All
were attacked and all died within half a
day.
In some experiments year ago it was
found that lands top dressed with ma
nure produced much better wheat than
where an equal amount had been plowed
under. The clover catch is also much
heavier on the portions of the field top
dressed.
AFTER preparing wheat ground thor
oughly 1t is a good plan to roll it down
once more to make the seed bed more
compact. For winter grain the roller
is more important than the harrow or
cultivator, which loosen rather than
compact the soil.
THE selection of potatoes for seed
should be made in the field when dug.
Select the fairest, smoothest potatoes,
with good eyes; put them in a cool
place, and on no account part with them
before planting time if you would insure
a good crop next year.
MICH is said about the development
of the country by opening new lands to
cultivation, IL the far west. But that
this is not all clear gain is evidenced by
the decrease in cultivated lands in some
of the older states and the lessened pro-
ductiOn of what is titled.
IT is quite common and very good
practice to cause food for animals to be
slightly soured before feeding, to in
crease its digestibility. Yet that ensil-
aging green forage does this is reckoned
one of the disadvantages of that system
by its over-zealous critics.
A PROMINENT Californian who has fifty
acres In the raisin grape, says whenever
grapes become improbable for raisins,
he can make money by feeding them to
hogs, He contends that grapes will
fatten faster than any other known food
from two to three pounds per day.
THERE is great advantage in seeding
pastures with different kinds of grass in
order to make a perfect covering Of the
surface. If the grass is to be mown the
seed should be limited to varieties that
are ready for cutting at the same time,
but for pasture this is not important.
THE hop fly, which produces the louise
that infests hop-yards, is an importa-
ton from England. It works it's worst
late in the season, and hence the earlier
varieties of hops are less liable to injury.
Since the introduction of this pest the
season for hop picking is much shorter
than formerly.
In irst-prize English farm of $50
acres, 100 acres are in permanent grass.
The proportion of the best land in Eng
land under cultivation has long been de-
creasing, and it is this which gives the
bitterest point to the complaints of Eng
lish stock breeders of American competi-
ton in cattle and dressed beef.
CALLED and sore shoulders in horses
are often caused by the name working
under the collar while pulling. This
can be avoided by plating the name and
tying it up in such manner that it can
lot touch the collar. It not only in
jures the shoulder. but the name also.
which is one of the beauties of the
horse.
TT is hardly possible that many Eng
lish people are honestly afraid of import
ing foot and mouth disease from this
country. We have none of it, but it be-
hooves all importers of cattle to be very
careful. In England this disease attack
ed more than one hundred thousand
cattle within the six months ending J11na