Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-30
FARM AND GARDEN,


TRIM all the borders nicely. and en-
deavor to have the garden neat and at
tractive.
EXAMINE your bushes for insects, and
enoeavor to destroy as many of them as
possible.
| A BED OF parsley a yard square,
though small, is one of the most useful
adJuncts to garden.
CLEAR away the asparagus tops, fork
IN good quantity of MANURE. and
sprinkle salt over the bed.
The entire cost of growing, cultivat-
ing and storing cabbages ought not to
exceed l cent head.
THE little chicks may be allowed the
privilege of the garden provided the
hens are kept on the outside.
If cayenne pepper is sprinkIed plen-
t1tully In the resort of rats, they will
resent the inhospitable treatment and
retire from the premises.
WHILE your celery is growing give it
plenty OF soapsuds. 1t is a special fer
tilHer for celery, and will make good
stalks when other fertilizers have faile d
THE fence corners of a garden, the.
borders of the walk ways, and around
the trees and bushes should be well
hoed II the weeds are expected to be
absent next season.
DO not forget that cabbages cannot
receive too much cultivation. It is a
crop that is not injured by disturbance
OF the roots, and the more it is worked
the better it thrives.
No garden can be expected to give
satisfaction that is not filed With all
the vegetables that may be required.
A small space here and there, when
properly utilized, will give many deli
cacies at times when they are most &C
ceptable.
WHEN plot has been abandoned and
the weeds IN possession, pass a lawn
mower over it, or cut down the weeds.
until you can get an opportunity to
burn them up. After the weeds have
made considerable growth it will re-
quire the hoe.
DUST every squash leaf, as soon as it
appears, with plaster when the dew is
on, or sprinkle with water just before
applying the plaster. If tobacco stems
have been stepped in water it will be
more eficacious. The plaster should
be renewed whenever washed or blown
off.
A GOOD solution for preventing the
depredations of insects, as well as a
good fertilizer, is to mix one pound of
alum, two pounds saltpeter, two
pounds soluble superphosphate and
two pounds muriate of potash intimate
ly together. Put pint of the mixture
in bucket of water and sprinkle
around the plants, but lightly over the
leaves.
The idea that sorrel denotes a sour
condition of the soil because the sorrel
leaf is itself acid, is an old notion long
exploded. Lime and ashes have been
recommended to correct this supposed
acidity. They will often prevent the
sorrel, but they do it by encouraging
the growth of clover, which, with a
good catch, will usually keep down all
annual weeds.
ALL manures deposited by nature are
left on or near the surface. The whole
tendency of manure is to go down into
the soil rather than to rise from it.
There is probably very little if any loss
Of nitrogen from evaporation of manure
unless it is put in piles so as to ferment.
Rains and dews return to the soil as
much ammonia in year as is carried
off in the atmosphere.
A HEAVY rain upon ground freshly
rolled will beat it down so that it will
be difficult to cover the seed even when
it becomes dry. Considerable work
with sharp harrow will be necessary,
and not infrequently the cultivator is
needed to loosen the soil. But If the
harrow follows the roller it will require
hard rain to pack the ground SO solid
ly that harrow will not cover the seed.
ONE advantage of the mangel wurt-
Eel as crop is in the fact that the
seeds are so large that they can be put
in with common grain drill set as to
distribute very thinly. In mellow
field previously marked, three rows
may be drilled at one operation, and
the seed distributed more evenly than
it would be apt to be by hand. With
rows thirty-two inches apart, all the
cultivation, excepting thinning out,
may be done by horse labor.
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to keep is during shearing; then the
owner directing and overseeing opera
ations can cause so be marked such as
are light shearers, aged sheep, in poor
condition without lambs, etc., and in
the ordinary foeks, allowing that one
third be sold, it is more than probable
that the value Of the two-thirds re-
naming, the flock to be kept, will bring
as good an income and be, in reality,
worth as much as if the inferior sheep
remained to lower the standard of the
lot.
THIS is the month when the turnips
should be sown. Use only new crop
seed and allow plenty of seed to the
row, as the fly will thin them out.
Sprinkle few ashes along the row after
the plants are up in order to partly
guard against their attacks. In the
garden the watering pot will be service
able in the way of assisting the plants
to get start when the season is dry.
Keep the rows well hoed, and after all