Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-04
FARM AND GARDEN.

Do not set ounce trees on low, wet
land. They will not thrive with wet
feet.
FISH may be scaled much easier by
first dipping them into boiling water
for minute.
DoN'T forget that a good field of
clover is one of the best things you can
have on the farm.
BEETs and carrots are very hardy,
and may be sown as soon as the frost
is out of the ground.
STICK to the corn crop. Fodder is
good and corn will keep till you want
it. We can all raise it.
VENTILATION in the dairy should be
done at night or early in the morning,
| when the air is the coolest.
IT is estimated that Ohio fock-mas-
ters are able to maintain as a limit
about three sheep per acre.
The wages of good shepherds in Aus.
tralia average from $175 to 1926 per
year, with board and lodging.
THERE are 200 known varieties of
cherries, sixty of apricots, 239 OF
peaches, 1,O97 of plums.
HE early rose potato has gained
the highest prices all the season in
Boston, where this variety is favorite
WHATEVER is new should be tested
on a small scale, and only when found
advantageous adopted in a wider field
A POULTRY fancier says that barren
ness in eggs is more frequently caused
by lack of green food than anything
else.
EVERY farm should have root crop
as part of rotation. A root crop
cleans the land of weeds and furnishes
an abundance of food for farm animals.
A BRITISH medical journal says that
COWS drink filthy water for it's saline
taste, and proposes an antidote in the
shape of rock salt, kept always in reach
of the COWS.
AMONG the other remedies for lice
on live stock which are going the
rounds Of the press, it is claimed that
the water in which potatoes have been
boiled is quite efficacious.
A REMEDY for baiky horses, which
works well, is to put small stone or
sand in the horses ear. Generally the
horse will start off at once at lively
gait, unless he balks from fatigue.
j. M. STEVENS, La Prairie, ILL.,, re-
ports to the Western Agriculturist that
he cured his Cotswold sheep of chol-
era by the use of pine tar, putting it
on the nose and in the mouth literally.
IT is well to have part of the cur
rant bushes III partial shade. The crop
will last longer, and the currants are
apt to grow very large and fine in the
shade, which, however, must not be
dense.
In the cultivation of beans, an i'm
pIement that will not throw the earth
upon the beans and pods is to be pre-
ferred. Level culture with beans is
altogether preferable to hill or ridge
culture.
The most favorable reports are re-
ceived of the manner in which bees
have passed through the winter. It is
believed that more attention will be
paid to bee culture this season than dur
ing any past year.
DON'T suppose that you can jam the
roots of fruit trees into small holes of
poor. soil, and have them DO well. I'm
less you are willing to do the work
thoroughly, and give them a fertile
soil, better not plant fruit trees all.
WHEN it is considered that beets re-
quire only about seventy days in which
to mature from the seed, radishes fifty
days, tomatoes fifty five days, lettuce
forty-fve days, ETC., it will be seen that
fertilizers to help these crops must be
very soluble
IT is said that those who have tried
it that dressing of gypsum spread
over frost-bitten plants will do much
to prevent injury by changing the frost
to fine dew. The gypsum will at
least shield the plant from burning in
the morning sun.
AN Ontario, N. Y, farmer had twelve
acres of land which was so wet that ex-
cept upon knolls it would not produce
wheat. He laid drains two and half
feet deep and thirty-six feet apart at a
cost of $50 per acre. and ploughed deep.
He could then raise forty bushels per
acre.
NOTHING which is applied to seed
corn in planting will protect it gainst
the attacks of cut worms. This pest
does not disturb the seed but eats off
the stalk at or just below the surface of
the ground. To soak the seed in a
strong solution of tobacco will help re-
pei the wire-worm.
The following remedy for hog cholera
is said to be an excellent one: Sui
phur, 2 pounds; copperas, 2 pounds
2 pounds; black anthony,
pound; saltpetre, pound; arsenic, 2
ounces. The quantity is sufficient for
100 hogs, and is mixed with slop enough
for few doses all around--a pint to
each hog.
IT is surprising what an invigorating
effect results from throwing the slops
of the wash-tub upon plants in the sum
mer season. An ordinary flower gar
den may be kept in the most thrifty
condition by this means alone; and so.
too, may the products of the vegetable
garden be made to flourish by weekly
from the wash-tub,