Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-11-07
FARM AND GARDEN.

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HEN houses should always be sunny
and dry.
THERE has been less hog cholera this
year than for many previous ones.
REPAIRS of fences, barns, cribs and
stock shelter should now be attended to.
BUILD you an ice house at once if
you intend to make dairying business.
@. M. CLAY, of Kentucky, puts in a
good word for the crows, which, he says,
saved his crop from devastation by grass
hoppers. 81. I'LL.
/, j, BEFORE you begin to store your fruits
and vegetables. In the cellar, give it
thorough cleaningout and airing, ending
up with good white-washing.
. SORGHUM, after being cut, deteriorates
very rapidly. It should not be allowed
to remain more than one day before
being worked, and less than that is pref
cradle. H.e~.uyF ..,
s. IT is estimated that the state of Maine
has forty nine cheese factories, with an
average of 107 COWS to the factory, go
being the lowest, and 500 the highest
number.
IT is estimated that there are now in
the United States Is, 900, 900 milch COWS,
and that there are made annually ,3OO,-
100000 pounds of butter, and 45O, OOO,-
600 pounds of cheese.
In gathering apples, besides handling
them carefully, assert them according to
quality rather than dump them into bar
rels or piles. Fineapples, we'll handled,
always bring good prices.
FIELDS that are in poor order because
of poor fences, bad drainage, neglected
corners, and grubs or sprouts roots,
stumps and stone occupying the ground,
should now be put III good order while
the weather and ground favor.
A ROSE farm is new Georgia indus
try. Two gardeners in the vicinity of
Savannah planted three acres in rose
trees. This year they have sold %, 900
trees to parties In the north, and had
orders for 10000 which they could not
fill.
THIS is a favorable time for improv-
ing the appearance of groves and wood
lands, by removing dead and fallen tim
Der. It can be made into stove wood
and the refuse brush and logs burned,
and the bare spots sowed with grass
seeds.
FULLER In his "Small Fruit Cultur-
list, says: [ do not believe that there
is one acre of strawberries in thousand
cultivated in this country, that yields
over one-half what it would if the
ground was properly prepared before
planting"
Save some good, vigorous stocky po-
tatoes for next years seed. Many far
mers prefer to save the small pig or I'M
marketable potatoes, but it does not pay.
Next spring grow row of potatoes from
each kind of seeds under like conditions,
and notice the difference.
A New YORK farmer declares that the
wheat, oats and barley which he dragged
last spring, in some doubt as to whether
he was not doing more harm than good,
yielded thirty-three per cent. more
grain than that not dragged, though the
latter was not the richest and best
ground.
A PROMINENT Californian, who has
fifty acres in the raisin grape, says when
ever grapes become improbable for
ralslns he can make money by feeding
them to hogs. He contends that grapes
will fatten hogs faster than any other
known food-from two to three pounds
per day.
BEANS are not eaten whole by any
kind of stock excepting sheep. But by
grinding and mixing with corn or oat-
meal, beans unfit for sale may be profit
ably fed to cattle, horses and pigs. They
are very strong food, and as stock be-
come used to them the proportion of
bean-meal may be increased.
THE Ayrshire, says the N. Y. Herald,
is a peculiar, heavy, long mixer, giving
five times her own weight per season.
The milk is somewhat low in specific
gravity and per cent. of cream, but it is
over the average of cheese production.
The Ayrshire grade is not improved in
any respect except in duration of milk
ing season.
A WRITER i'll the Country Gentleman
recommends the soaking of the wood
composing q summer-house in crude
petroleum, saying it Will make any COM
mon wood nearly or about as durable as
cedar, imparting to IL a rich brown col
or. 1t would be an excellent idea to
apply the same preservative to trellises,
etc., on lawns.
APPLES are among the most nourish-
ing and healthful of all vegetable foods.
Besides containing large amount of
sugar and other carbohydrates, they
contain vegetable acids and certain aro-
motto qualities which act powerfully in
the capacity of tonics, antiseptic and re-
frigerants of cooling foods. When mel
low they prevent debility and indiges-
ton.
The strawberry is hardy, says the
Gardeners Monthly. The roots will 1--we
through the ,severest winter, but it is
generally believed that if the leaves, ere
preserved through the season green I'M
til spring it is better for the crop that is
to follow. Hence a light covering of
straw is benefit, where the winter is
severe enough to destroy the fully ex-
posed leaves. 49,.
The Germantown Telegraph reports
that at q recent meeting of the farmers
of Peapack, N. j., an agreement was
signed binding themselves to prosecute
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