Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-20
FARM AND GARDEN.
PEARS thrive best in strong soil,


SORGHUM culture is increasing rapidly.
DRAUGHTs in poultry houses cause
roup.
COOP buildings indicate thrifty farm
ers.
MORNING milk is richer than evening.
The value of butter sent to New York
City last year was 500, 627, 579.
THERE is not wooden. mill in New
Mexico, through it has IL, 900, 900 sheep.
MICHIGAN annually markets over 49,
100000 pounds of wool from it's 2,000,-
900 sheep.
IT is said that tobacco stems laid in
the first fork of the trees will protect
fruit trees from rabbits.
REMEMBER that all fowls relish both
skinned and buttermilk, also that it is
good for them.
The total value of brick and tile,
made in the United States last@ayear is
estimated at 1914, 900, 900.
The butter exports of France amount
ed to $16,O0O,O00 annually, of cheese
somewhat less.
IT is estimated that the value of the
garden products of Massachusetts, ex-
elusive of potatoes and beans raised on
the farms, equaled IS, 900, 900 last year.
WHEAT worth nearly dollar bushel
in Chicago brought Dakota farmers from
65 to rs cents.
The Clydesdale Horse Association of
Great Britain is prosecuting several cases
of alleged forgeries of pedigrees.
REALLY good butter is sometimes
ruined by the use of inferior salt. The
economy of purchasing mean salt is
sheer waste.
REMOVE and burn diseased peach trees,
Do not plant others III the same place, or
they will most likely be effected in the
same manner.
The cherry tree makes a pleasant
shade and the wonder is why farmers do
not grow cherry trees more generally in
place of shade trees.
A FOREST mathematician has figured
out that there are enough pine trees
growing in the South to furnish the
whole count try with lumber for $50 years
to come.
BUCKwHEAT should not precede either
corn or wheat. 1t makes the soil too
light and porous for wheat, and expe-
rience shows that corn never does we'll
after buckwheat.
The black knot on plum trees is
easily keptin subsection if properly cut
off when it first appears. This seems
the only efficient remedy, and it is GER
tainly simple and easy one.
THE want of pure and fresh water &C
counts In many instances for the lack of
eggs during the winter season. Fowls
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without it will not lay.
A MICHIGAN grape grower found that
one full-grown Concord vine produced
more and better fruit when occupying
fifty feet of trellis than the vines of the
same loDgth of trellis planted eight feet
apart.
A New JERSEY farmer writes to the
New York Herald that he gave a dress
ing of salt eight bushels to the acre. to
land badly infested with white grubs,
and for three years after raised good
crops of corn, which was impossible
previous to this application.
The New York Herald says that in
using carbolic acid for disinfectants or
insect killers in the poultry house it is
not well to mix it with whitewash The
towels may peck the whitewash for lime,
to use In their system for shells, and
thus poison themselves with the carbolic
acid inwardly.
AS rule, cows best work is done
from her third to her tenth year, says
the American Dairyman. After the
eighth year you had better become sus-
picious of her, and, unless she is
is an extra good one, let her go far
row and feed her heavily, and let
the butcher or the beef fattener have her
at his own figures.
HoRTICULTURIsTs are coming to re-
gard the curculio as less their enemy
than of old. The "little Turk so Trims
the fruit that the trees do not die from
over-bearing as they are apt to do when
the crop is not thinned, and it is easy to
restrict its ravages by the Earring pro-
cess, which seems to be the only means
of dealing with it.
The American Dairyman remarks:
We believe with some of our contempo-
raries that fall calves can be with prop
er housing raised with greater care than
those that are dropped IN spring or sum-
mer. If kept dry and we'll bedded they
do not mind cold weather, and they are
just the right age to turn on grass in
the spring.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says farmers who adopt the
practice of grazing pigs in summer
upon clover or grass, and then finishing
them off in the fall for couple of weeks
on corn, can stand lower market than
those who feed their pigs in the pen all
the year round. Grazing makes the
cheapest of pork.
AS showing the longevity of the apple
tree under favorable circumstances, we
are cited the Hotchkiss apple tree at
Cheshire, Conn, which is supposed to
be $50 years old, being the last survivor
of the orchard planted by the first set
tiers of the neighborhood. The owner
afirms he has picked 1876 bushels of
sound fruit from it in a year.
The American Agriculturist truly
says that in enumerating the crops of
the country it should be borne in mind