Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-09
FARM AND GARDEN.

THE premiums of the Royal Agricul-
tural Society of England are SIT, 800
SEE that all live stock have easy &C
cess to good water during the winter.
The Rural World says no feed for
sheep will make as tender mutton as
turnipe. "
In many parts of Germany there are
above 900 colonies of bees kept to che
square mile.
ALL provident ranchmen now keep
enough hay in store for few weeks of
severe weather. .g +. ..--- ..I .a
1T is feared that fall wheat has been
injured in Central Illinois by the dry
and warm autumn. a. "ea.
o. 1T costs less to transport wool from an
Australian seaportto England than from
the Missouri River to the Atlantic.
. b PLEURo PNEUMONIA has broken out in
Holland, and Germany has prohibited
the importation of cattle from there.
b TUSCALOOSA Herald reports the results
of recent experiments to be that sor-
ghum is equal in feeding value to sound
corn. .. ..
RICHARD KING is having d pasture en-
closed on the gulf coast and lower Rio
Grande, in Texas, that requires eighty
three miles of wire fence for two sides.
, IT is believed that spectators have
stored away millions of eggs which they
will be obliged to sell for less than cost.
The eastern states are importing eggs
from Europe. s '..
The Princess of Wales spends hours
together In the dairy room at Sandring-
ham assisting in making up the but.
ter with her own fair hands" as an Eng
lish paper puts it. 's.'
WHEN horses are compelled to remain
exposed to storms at this season the use
OF rubber blanket, with flannel lining,
will be of valuable assistance in the pre-
vention of colds and lung diseases.
THERE is vast difference in the flavor
of eggs. Hens fed on clean, sound grain
and having good, clean grass runs, pro
duce hneI-havOred eggs than those hay
and eating all kinds Of filthy food.
The Holstein COW, Echo, owned by
Fred @. Stephens, of Attica, n. Y, has
just completed years milk record,
which makes showing of Is, 1907
pounds. This is IL pounds more than
that Of the famous COW Aggie Echo
is 10 years old and weighs 1,6l0 pounds.
The best soil for currants is a good
strong loan, quite deep and rather
moist, but not wet; but sandy soil will
do, it made rich and cultivated deep.
Bearing bushes on sandy land should
have annually a good dressing of old
manure worked IN about the roots in
spring. II - .l q
A PHILADELPHIA florist has paid S3,.
$50 for the exclusive privilege of grow
ing the new rose named the William
Francis Bennett IN America. One con-
dition of the contract is that no cuttings
are to he sold during the first four
years, the florist depending upon sales
of blossoms alone for his profit.
AN Indiana fruit-grower says he put
five moles Ii his strawberry patch of five
acres to catch grubs, and they did the
work so effectively that he had not a
dozen plants injured by the grubs and
none hurt by the moles. Perhaps if the
experiment was tried more generally the
results would be found fully as salts
factory.
PHILIP SNYDER, VIneland, N. j.,
thinks that poultry will not protect
fruit trees from the attacks Of curculio.
He has tried to induce his hens to eat
the curculio, but even when the latter
were temptlngly displayed on clean white
plates the aesthetic fowls disdainfully re.
fused to have aught to d. with the little
curled-up pests.
DEIos HoTCHKIss, of Cheshire, Conn.,,
has on his land an apple tree which is
reckoned TO be 1856 years old. Mr..
Hotchkiss, who is Sugars old, says he
has picked up and measured 125 bushels
of good, sound apples for one years
that it has borne from 10000 to 1900
bushels up to this date.
IF l kept sheep IN different pasture,
writes correspondent, I would protect
them from foxes by poison, which may
be rubbed inside the bullock's head.
Nothing but fox, wolf or similar ami
NAL will then get at it. A few grains of
strychnine rubbed into the interior of
fresh beef's head Or sleeps head will do
more to protect a flock from wild animals
than any law or any shepherd dog.
IT sometimes happens that valuable
brood SOW acquires such bad habits as
lifting gates or breaking fences. A cou-
pie of rings in the nose of such an ami
NAL will put hero n good behavior the
most efectually of anything ever tried.
So also SOW that is vicious or cross to
other hogs; a good ring in her nose will
prove to be wonderful tanner. A stock
boar, if inclined to be unruly, should be
treated the same way.
The Germantown Telegraph makes
suggestion which will probably seem to
many old farmers novel If not unwar.
ranted, when it says that in arranging
farm buildings it will pay we'll to look
almost as much to the preservation of
the manure as of the hay or grass, and
those whose buildings have no provision
for this purpose cannot spend $25 or $50
better than in putting up shed under
which the manGre-heap may be pro-
tected against these adverse Influences.
ONE of the most annoying pests with
which growers of plants have to contend
is the green-fy. On geraniums, cycla-
men. and prinulas IL does not often an