Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-12
FARM AND GARDEN.
WEEDS love the lazy man.

1T is said now that Oleomarqarine con-
stitutes q prominent element in ice
cream.
A DELAWARE COUNTY On. Y farmer,
cut thirty three tons of clover from a
seven-acre field.
The dead leaves on SQUASH vines
should be carefully removed and burned.
They are usually infested with eggs of
the squash bug.
HE American demand for draft horses
has increased the price in Scotland and
France until there is now no profit in
their importation.
The largest fleece of wool reported for
this year was taken from a French Meri-
Do ram owned at Los Angeles, Cal. It
weighed 624 pounds.
| COLONEL E. d. CURTIS keeps his COWS
In cool and dark stable during the hot
days, giving them green fodder, and let
ting them run In the pasture at night.
EXPERIMENTS have proved that musty
meal IS not wholesome food for any of
the domestic animals. Disease and
death have been directly traced to it's
use. -. -s
AN exchange says that New York
farmer runs 100 bushels of wheat
through a tanning mill to get eighteen
bushels OF the largest and plumpest
kernels for seed.
SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN, of The Ohio
Agricultural Board, says he knows of in
stances where the yielding capacity of
wheat lands has been doubled by thor
Ough under-drainage.
A JERSEY COW, owned in Baltimore,
Nd, recently gave 1927 pounds of milk
III seven days, from which % pounds
and q ounces of butter were made. She
cost her owner 81, 900.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Gazette says his wife and four children
the eldest child being Is and the
youngest make from 5000 to $500
each season from silk worms.
AN eastern horticulturist wraps his
apple trees with tarred paper as a pro
lection from borers. AS the borer lays
its eggs in June Or the first halfof July,
they can be unwrapped after that.
MUCH of the corn in Illinois, grown
from seed brought from Kansas and
Missouri, is showing great development
of stalk, but will probably fail to ma
ture unless there is an exceptionally
favorable autumn.
VERMONT sheep breeders are reaping
their reward for their attention to the
breeding of the Spanish merino. John
Hay, the Australian, who owns $4,000
sheep in that country, paid the Yer
monters $50, 900 for 173 sheep.
A YATES County correspondent of the
New York Tribune reports that ounce
bush grated on common thorn and with
out being cultivated has borne regular
crops of fruit for over forty years. He
thinks that this points moral to nur-
serymen, as the ounce upon its own roots
is uncertain and short-lived.
A PENNSYLVANIA girl thinks the adver-
tisement of agricultural societies are the
best commentaries on the management
of their fairs. "Look at the premiums,
she says, " for the fastest trotting
horse, $50; for the next fastest, $25; for
the best team of work horses, SIS; for the
best loaf of bread, 50 cents.
THE Prairie Farmer says clay soils are
generally better for wheat than sandy
ones, because they are not subject to
such sudden extremes of temperature
and moisture, and are more tenacious in
their character. Timber land is better
than prairie land, because the decaying
roots. are pretty sure to effect under
drainage; magnesia and lime and silica
are more abundant, and nitrogen is less
abundant, and such land, being more
rolling, is better drained and dryer.
AN experiementer has found by ex-
pertinent that the poisonous effects of
Paris green on vegetation are entirely
destroyed after a rain, and in two or
three weeks after the dryest weather, as
wind blows it off. But it should not be
used on cabbages after they begin to
head, and with great caution at any pre-
yious time, lest some should be hidden
in the folds of the leaves On fruit four
or five weeks before picking the poison
is entirely harmless.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the Country Gen
tleman, writing of poultry, says that
" there is perhaps no better flesh than
that Of game fowl. This breed natures
early, is extremely hard when young,
and will soon grow to fair size. They
will be ready for market fully three
weeks before any other, when Matched
at the same time. But they are pugna.
cious, great scratchers, and impatient of
any 1Oou40l14Us AnO c4O F41ld$SC1
dislike them, for they give much trouble,
while the regular poultryman likes them
both as layers and sitters. &c., ~.
DR.. STURTEvANT has tested many of
the alleged .exterminators of the cabbage
worms. The most satisfactory one con-
sisted of mixture of one-half pound
each of lard and soap and kerosene oil in
three gallons of water. This was ap-
piled August 26th. On examination the
following day showed many, if not all,
the worms destroyed. The growing
cabbage presents such mass OF leaves
in which the caterpillars may be con-
ceale4 that it is hardly possible to reach
all the worms at one application. 1t is
of Importance, therefore, to repeat the
use of any remedy at frequent intervals.
GREAT strides are making in the con-
quest of frontier lands. A correspond
ent says that Colorado has added 1885,
n00 anrna To bor fnrtila farritorv for