Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-30
FARM AND GARDEN.

ORCHARD PLANTING is an important
work this month. Bear in mind that
trees are not to be s'set;". posts are set,
but trees should be ''planted."
OUR statesmen should bear in mind
that with continued destruction of our
forests the time will come when there
will be no woods to take to.-Boston
Post.
CAUTION is necessary, III using COM
mercial fertilizers in the garden, that 1t
is not brought in direct contact with the
seed. Thorough mixing with the soil is
the only absolute safety at all times.
TUE Kansas State Agricultural Socie-
ty agrees upon the following distances
apart to plant trees; Apple trees, 80 feet
each way is none too much; pear, stand
ards, 16 feet; dwarfs, 10 feet; peach, 20
feet; plum, 10 feet; cherry, 20 feet.
ALWAYS have on hand paper of COP
per rivets of assorted sizes and piece of
oiled leather for cutting strings to keep
the harness mended with; then breaks
can be readily mended, or those threat
ened in tugs, lines, straps, etc., either
by riveting or sewing with the stout
leather string.
AT the meeting of the Fruit Growers
of Western New York, DIR. Sturtevant
said that he had received collections of
apples from Halifax. Maine, Massachu-
sets, Western New York and Michigan.
and that in flavor they were found in the
order named; and while the quality dim
inished, as they went west the size in
creased.
AS to the question how shall the hor-
ticulturist maintain the fertility of his
soil, DIR. Kedzie recommends green ma
nuring as the easiest way of accumula-
ting humus in the soil and enriching the
orchard. Red clover stands at the head
of all plants for this purpose. It should
be sown between the rows, and when
full grown turned under.
EVERY ice-broken tree furnishes brush
to pick up this year, and the question
arises whether we shall burn it out of
the way at once or save big, tidy pile
handy by the garden to touch off and
raise wind on frosty night? Thirty
years ago farmers were SO frugal that all
such brush was chopped small for kind
lings. Coal makes the difference.
AN agricultural writer has found salt
sprinkled on a manure heap an excellent
application both for summer and winter.
He says: In warm weather it attracts
moisture and keeps the manure from
fire-fanging or burning from excessive
fermentation. In winter it keeps the
heap from freezing solid, and at any sea-
son it makes the manure more soluble.
WHEN popcorn is gradually heated,
and so hot that the oil inside the kern els
turns to gas, this gas can not escape
through the hall of the kernels, but
when, the interior pressure gets strong
enough it bursts the grain. and the ex-
plosion is SO violent that it skaters il in
the most curious manner, and in much
| less time than it takes to tell how it is
done.
BE as careful in selecting the swarms
to rear your drones from as you are the
queens, for the drone is the male bee and
the progeny will take after them as they
were lndolent or energetic, and we want
good stock on both sides. Get good
queen of some good breeder to keep your
stock to the standard, and do not allow
so much ln-and-in breeding as has been
heretofore.
CAPT. JORDAN, of the Bremen County
Live Stock Association, Waverly, Ia,
is of the opinion that eventually the
American horse-breeder must come to
the position now held by the British
breeder, namely, breeding special ami
mails for special purposes. One kind of
horse, he holds, is needed for a draft
horse, one for roadster and another for
a riding horse.
AN Australian paper says: A lamb.
dropped at Woorvoma, province of
Victoria, in April, and shorn on the 18th
of September, gave 6 pounds of very
fine wool, bell trimmings not included
His girth behind the shoulders was 391
inches; he measured 49, inches from
the top of the head behind the horns to
the butt of the tail. He pulled the scale
down to 100 pounds.
A CORRESPONDENT says that young
horses should never have shoes imposed
upon them until it is we'll proved that
they cannot do without them. He pre-
| diets that the day is not far off when
| some humane benefactor of his kind and
horse-kind will produce breed of horses
having such firm, tough feet, in addition
to all other good qualities, that shooting
Will be unnecessary.
HE Rural New Yorker warmly advo-
Gates oats and peas as an excellent green
food for mich COWS. For this purpose
one and one-half bushels of peas and
two and one-half bushels of oats are
sown. AS peas are not easily covered
by harrow, excepting the Acme, which
covers them perfectly, the seed should
be sown on the narrowed ground and
covered by the cultivator or plowed in.
The Dominion Cattle Company, which
has now nearly 81, 900 cattle on,the 284..
900 acres of the Cherokee reservation.
which is leased for two cents an acre
from the United States government, has
thus far proved decided success. Last
year its capital stock, amounting to al
most $3.50, 900. brought a net profit of
$3.50, 900, out of which dividend of 20
per cent. has been declared. $500
A WRITER on the subject of the diet of
the farmer says that mutton and lamb
of his own raising should be SO common
on his table as to make unnecessary the
continued use of sailed roeat orr re +lo