Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-01
FARM AND GARDEN.

OH WOOQcnuCk SCalpS.
COLORADO is expected to market 400
600 wethers and lambs before winter.
MORE than 100000 acres were last
year added to the sugar beet fields of
Germany.
In London toads are a regular article
OF sale. They are bought by gardeners
and florists.
The Michigan Agricultural Farm con-
tains 676 acres, two-thirds of which is
under cultivation.
The average weight of the carcasses
of American cattle is now one-third
more than it was fifty years ago.
THERE are focks of sheep in England
where l20 lambs are raised by every 100
sheep.
AN Indiana farmer reports Lincoln
shire lamb that weighed Is pounds at
birth, 43 pounds when 1 month old, and
s. pounds at the end of the second
month.
The Arab compels his horse to feed
from the ground in order to maintain
the curve of the backbone. This is the
natural way of feeding, and is an argu-
ment for low managers.
IoE-HoUsEs on farms, instead of being
expensive Iuxuries, are becoming
economic necessities in the better pres
ervation of fresh eggs, meats, butter,
and also cooked meats, vegetables, etc,
for table use.
A DAUB of tar On the noses of sheep
is an effective preventive against the
attacks Of annoying grubs. The sheep
grub is not always fatal, bat very disa-
greeable, and doubtless has bad effect
on the general health of he.animal.
GoFFART, the inventor of the ensilage
system, says that he does not hold that
butter made from ensilage is as good as
when fed on fresh maize; but while
winter butter is always inferior to that
made in summer, that from ensilage is
of better quality than that from any
other feed.
A LIGHT seeding of buckwheat, not
more thun one-half per acre, is ample
where a grain crop is desired. The
plants, when standing thinly, spread
more widely, so as to cover the ground
and produce more seed than a greater
number of plants standing so thickly as
to crowd each other.
The depth of setting milk should
vary with the temperature: the lower it
is the deeper milk may he set; the
higher, the shallower it should be. Milk
should never be set shallow in a low
temperature, or deep in high one. Set
ting deep in cold water economies
time, labor and space.
AMONG other curiosities that will ap-
pear in the Dakota exhibit at New
Orleans this winter will be a single
stock of corn grown in Joseph Fox's
garden, Bismark, having on it eight
well formed ears of corn. Another
stalk having six ears on it will be sent
from the same garden.
THERE is no better time to put prod
uce upon the market than when it is
IN It's best condition. The farmer who
holds it for better prices usually loses
more than he gains by so doing, as the
regular dealers usually so foresee the
future state of the rise in price paying
interest, storage and shrinkage.
GROUND cannot well be made too rich
for currants and gooseberries. Plant in
rows four feet apart and three feet apart
in the rows; give thorough culture or
deep mulch over the entire surface, cut
out all wood of three years growth Tor
after each crop is often considered bet
teri, and a good crop is almost certain.
AS distinguishing between fruit and
it may be said that fruit al
ways follows fertilization in the bloom
or blossom. Anything which grows
from the blossom and begins it's growth
after fertilization, is called fruit, while
the vegetable, as the potato or cabbage.
grows without reference TO bloom or
fertilization.
ONE who claims to have tried it saws.
The best thing to drive away rats is the
peppermint plant; the rats cannot bear
the smell of it and disappear. We
place it in the oats, rye, etc., when they
are brought in, and also under the pig
pen. Though we no longer have rats,
we keep on using the plant, lest
strange one might make us a visit
The whole operation of butter making,
from the taking c. the milk to the de-
livery of tbs butter to the consumer, is
mechanical; but it is branch
of mechanics that tolerates no mistakes,
for the least failure to perform the right
operations at the proper time, results in
an inferior article, and perfect butter
only, commands the highest price.
IF one wishes to improve a certain
flower, fruit or vegetable, he must first
decide what kind of product he wishes
to produce. He must have his ideal
always in his mind. He must then Sc
lect seeds from those specimens which
come nearest to his ideal. OF the off
springs he must select in the same way,
and SO continue until perfection is at
tanned.
AN enemy of the grape, in the form
of grape-seed grub. has been discov-
cred. The eggs are deposited by a
small black fly upon the skin of the
grape, and the young grubs work their
way into the immature seeds soon after
The infested fruit usually
shrivels in midsummer. The best
remedy for the pest is to gather and
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