Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-21
hedges or straight rows of trees are not [

ueoges or straight rows of trees are not
desirable, group of evergreens will
turn the currents and break the force of
the blast. 1t is well, also, to note that
on the cold side, generally, ofcourse, the
north or west, is the place to set the
very hardest trees. Among them birch,
poplar, and willow rank first. The birch is
the hardest of all our trees, and may be
planted very close as wind-break.
| IHE advantage of preserving the
American buffalo or bison to cross with
our common stock has often been urged.
one farmer in Manitoba has tried it,
but the result, except as regards pictur-
esqueness, is not encouraging. The
progeny are coarse, ill-built animals,
and Tor no ordinary purpose equal to
any OF our common breeds of cattle. Of
course, bufalos are not good mixers:
no wild stock is. Even for beef they
are coarse and poor.
AT the Onondaga County fair, at Syr-
acuse, the prize for the best package
OF not less than twenty pounds of dairy
butter went to that produced at Lake
side Stock Farm, from the milk of Hol-
stein COWS. The butter was Judged
solely upon it's merits, the makers
name being withheld, and very great
surprise was expressed when it was
learned that it was from the Holstein
COWS. The Holstein breeders are quite
1ubllant over the result.
For blowing gardens there is nothing
like swivel-plow. With that, odd fur
rows, bungled last year, can be laid
whichever way they belong without
loss OF time; not saying that botch
can't do poor work with swivel, but a
botch wouldn't be likely to have one,
while really expert plowman will con-
tinue to do fair Job with any pillow.
81 gin him dollar to pillow that little
PATCH" said villager, ssand I VOW I'd
give him two more to level them fur
rows, and shovel in the dirt of them
ragged ends!"
The average farmer, wisely says an
exchange, does too much work. This
may sound strange, and you may doubt
it, yet it is none the less true. Less
work and more planning will make him
richer, healthier and happier. It is fol.
jy for any man to attempt to work four
teen or sixteen hours day without ex,
pectlng to so enfeeble and break down
his constitution that he will be unable
to accomplish as much in two days as
he ought to in one of reasonable length
when full of energy and vitality. Never
let your work drive you, but keep your
self In condition to drive your work.
This can best be done by carefully plan.
ming all the details.
HE Dairy says that sulphurous acid
is most effective antiseptic and anti
ferment, and may be produced by burn
ing sulphur upon live Goals upon a
shovel or bed of Goals carried into a
stable with perfect safety. It will also
be found an excellent method for freeing
dairy rooms and cellars from the spores
of mildew, which have very injurious
effect upon the milk that has been ex.
posed to them. In fact, from constant
prevalence of these spores it might be
useful to make practice of fumigating
diaries occasionally, especially after a
bad damp spell of weather during the
summer season.
A WRITER in the Cultivator and Coun-
try Gentleman is confident that Ne
braska will be the best fruit growing
state in the West. He says: CT find
that four counties in the southeastern
corner of the state produced last season
$50, 900 bushels of apples. To show the
profit OF growing fruit, one instance will
illustrate many others: A farmer of
Pawnee County, in 1871, invested $156
in trees, grapevines and small fruits,
which have been in bearing for some
years. The receipts last year were
For apples, 500; cherries. 5000; grapes,
$3.50 (this was the grape product for the
past seven years.; total. 81 ,O50, without
the small fruits. J. H. Masters, of Ne
braska City, picked 5000 bushels of
Winesap, Jonathan, Ben Davis, and
other standard apples from eight acres;
price received, seventy cents per bushel.
Cherries were not hurt by the past win
ter, and are full of buds. Wilson black
berries (half hardy are all right. Per-
simmons bear well. Young trees six
feet high have not been injured by
twenty-five degrees below Zero"
OUR cultivated potatoes are derived
from Solanum Tuberosum, and We have
new varieties of these by the dozens
every year. The European journals
now announce an entirely new species
of Soalnum with edible tubers, Solanum
| Ohroudi, so named from the person
who discovered it on an uninhabited
island at the mouth of the river La
Plata in South America This new po-
tato has been tried at Brest, in the
North of France, and appears to have
qualities which may be of value whenit
has been improved by careful culture.
Among others, it promises to be hardy,
and, when once established, it will re-
main in the soil from year to year. Tt
remains to be seen if this is desirable
property. Think of q potato becoming
a weed, and forcing its tubers upon us
whether we wish them or not! The
dwarf habit of the vine, not exceeding
foot in height, it's freedom from disease
and its hardness, all make it worthy of
being thoroughly tested. On the other
hand, the difficulty Of roofing it out
where once planted will make our plant
ers cautious of it. should it be intro
duced among us.-AmaeTican Agri-
cIIturist.
The Craze for Matching.