Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

The demand is now for leaner pork.
SEE that every farming utensil is
housed.
SALT will prevent frefanging in the
manure pile.
SALT is proper seasoning of cooked
food for poultry.
A HORSE should not have rackful of
hay always before him.
The low price of cane sugar has
closed all the glucose mills.
NOTHING will help grape vines as
much as bones buried near them.
RASPBERRY bushes can not live when
their roots are in standing water.
FLAX is very successful crop in
South Dakota, where it has O wide
acreage.
ALFALFA is slowly but surely proving
to the satisfaction of all that as feed
for horses it has no superior.
The unsatisfactory condition ofmany
focBs of sheep, says the Sheep Breeder,
is due to lack of salt for food.
A TEAsPooNFUL of saltpeter dissolved
IN gallon OF water has been recon-
n1ended for killing rose bugs on grape
vines.
The increase in the area of tobacco
in Kentucky has been effected in many
cases at the expense of the area in
hemp.
The Champaign Sugar-works raised
500 acres of sorghum this year. They
are grinding it at the rate of 200 tons
per day.
KANSAS boasts of 4 year-old heifer
that stands 6 feet 5 inches in height,
and weighs 2,700 pounds. The breed
is not stated.
TOMATOES raised on poor, light soil
will have less growth than those raised
on rich soil, but the tomatoes will ripen
a week or ten days sooner.
WEAN the spring colts before winter,
that they may become used to the change
of food while the weather is warm and
there is green food to be had.
SLICED carrots and oats figure largely
in the food given to sheep in Vermont.
The sheep of that state are said to eat
more of oats than any other grain.
The unprecedented yield Of thirty
two pounds two ounces of butter is
credited to the Jersey COW, Ida, owned
in Hamilton, Ont It was an official
test, and is probably reliable.
EXPERIMENTS are to be made in Kan
sas in raising horses on the plains in a
similar manner to that in which cattle
are raised at present. It looks as if the
idea might prove profitable one.
The most perishable wood will last
many years as fence posts, says an old
farmer if the portion of the post under
ground be boiled in tar few minutes
and then sprinkled with wood ashes or
lime.
IN France, eggs are sorted and sized
by passing them through ring. The
average sized ones must enter ring
four centimetres in diameter; the small
ones must enter ring three cent?
metres.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New Haven
Mirror thinks that cions can best be
preserved in sawdust, which keeps them
moist and green. He keeps them in
the cellar, but dampens them when they
are dry.
GEO. w. WALZ writes to the Fruit
Recorder that he has boiled leaves and
stems of tomato plants until the juice
is all extracted, and finds the liquor
deadly to caterpillars, lice and many
other enemies of vegetation.
AN exchange remarks that the proper
time to gather the apples is when the
stem loosens readily from the limb, and
potatoes should be gathered when the
tubers loosen readily from the stalk,
which may not be until some time after
the tops are dry and dead.
The Guinea fowl is a great destroyer
of noxious insects and their larvae.
They are of avery rambling disposition,
hence their eggs should be placed I'M
der hens for Matching. The young
ones feather very rapidly, and conse-
quently should be fed often.
IN 1883 Great Britain imported 494,
100000 pounds of sleeps wool, grew
128,250,0O0 pounds, and imported al
paca, mohair, ETC., to the amount of
over 100, 100000 pounds. The product
of 296, 100000 pounds, or about 4O1 per
cent. of all this, was imported.
SOMETIMES surplus milk may be
proftably fed to COWS, though it is not
easy to teach an old COW to drink it, ex-
cept those old COWS, always extra milk
ers, that never refuse any kind of food.
The milk fed to COWS should not be
soured, as it viii affect what they are
producing.
ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Mich, now
claims to grow more peppermint than
any other locality in the world. It re-
quires moist, mucky, soil, but one
that does not retain stagnant water.
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oil, it is very profitable crop on land
not considered fit for grain growing.
MANY of the most desirable qualities
of animals have been made inherent by
in-breeding, yet, unless practiced by
very experienced breeder, in-breeding
should be avoided. It is not necessary,
however, to cross different breeds in
order to mingle blood dissimilar, but re-
sort may be had to several families of
the same breed.