Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-10
FARM AND GARDEN.

The demand for good road horses is
steadily increasing.
The wool clip in Illinois is about 10
per cent. less this year than in 1888.
AN Iowa farmer who has tried both,
prefers blue grass to clover for young
pigs.
The Cultivator says there is little
nutrition in corn fodder before it bios
sons
CANADA thistles are quite quite COM
mon on the vacant lots in and about
Chicago.
| AT the first appearance of the web
worm cut away the twig and destroy
the worms.
The Massachusetts Ploughman thinks
it more economical to stack hay than to
build barns expressly to store it.
| WASHING the trunks of fruit trees
with mixture of soap and kerosene is
said to prevent the attacks of borers.
TOBACCO dust is recommended by a
Virginia dockmaster for ticks Oh lambs.
1t can be procured of any tobacco man
ufacturer for trife.
THERE are only about 1890 head of
pure Aberdeen-Angus cattle. Two
thousand five hundred of these are in
Scotland and 1900 in the United States.
MR.. CHARLES A. DANA, of the New
York Sun, has mushroom cave which
yields enough for his own table, and a
surplus Tor sale which pays interest on
the investment.
A HORSE is never vicious or intracta-
BILE without direct cause. IL horse
is FESTIVE or tlmorous, you may be sure
that these faults arise from defects in
his education; he has been treated
either awkwardly Or brutslly.
j. Ell. PEARSON, of Oregon, Washing
ton County, Ia, drained wet piece of
land on his farm in the spring of 1888.
It was planted with corn, and the differ
ence in yield between that and sur
rounding corn-felds was sufficient to
pay for the improvement.
THE Hon. John Dillon, member of
Parliament for Tipperary, will invest in
cattle in Colorado. The animals will be
grazed on the Western Slope, from
whence Mr.. Dillon has just returned.
The gentleman is positive i'll his convic-
tons of the great wealth of our Western
feeding grounds.
BEN. EATON, the most extensive cult
vator of the soil in Colorado, whose vast
fields of waving grain are in Weld
County, will become feeder" in the
future. The next season he proposes to
plant 5000 acres of alfalfa, the product
of which he will feed to cattle and sheep
| for the winter market,
AT the Wisconsin Agricultural Col
lege they have been experimenting with
fences for a bull pasture. A thoroughly
built six-stranded barb-wire fence, posts
eight feet apart, was found the most
satisfactory. The bull made no at
tempt to break itdown, although other
attic were in adjoining pastures.
IT is asserted that the large cattle
dealers of Texas will leave the state if
they are required to pay fair sum for
the grass, say 25 or so cents per acre,
but it is an assertion that will scare no
one. They have no place to go, and if
they did go the place they left would
soon be taken up by actual settlers.
PEARS grated on apples usually thrive
wonderfully for few years. The gratis
are short-ived, however, and only two
or three limbs of an apple top should,
therefore, be set to pears. Pears thus
grown are commonly very large. It is
the practice of some fruit growers to
raise pears in this manner for fairs.
AS an experiment A. Ell. Elliott. q
farmer of Garrettsville, Otsego County,
Ill, before planting his potatoes last
| Il
has prevented the bugs from touching
the vines. All around his patch potato
vines are covered with bugs, yet inves-
tigation fails to reveal any in Mr.. Eli
otis field.
AT the coming Colorado exposition
the Wyoming Hereford Association will
show their great white-face Rudolph"
whose ponderous form turns the beam
at more than $500 pounds, while Mr..
A. Mathews will present his famed
Polled Angus brute-said to be the
finest in the world-that also tips the
beam at $500.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Fruit Record
er says he has boiled the leaves and
stems of tomato plants until the Juice
was all extracted, and finds the liquor
deadly to caterpillars, lice, and many
other enemies of vegetation. It does
not iniure the growth of plants and the
odor remains long time to disgust in
sect marauders.
FEARFUL fatality is reported among
cattle in Wasco County, Ore. Great
numbers have died and many more are
affected. The disease appears to be
what is known as blackleg," and defes
the skill of the best veterinary surgeons.
It continues to spread, and stockmen G..
that region are much alarmed at the
malignity of the disease.
A LITTLE time can at this time be
proftably devoted to examining the
apple trees to see if any borers have
found their way into the trees during
the summer; if so, they can be very
easily removed with the point of a
knife, as they are only just under the
outer bark. Ifremoved now ne injury
will Lo done tn tho troo ovooro% ~ 1ooro