Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-23
FARM AND GARDEN.

M1LLET is gross feeder, says a con-
temporary, but not SO exhausting as
oats.
SIX half-Hereford bulls recently sold
for $4,000 to go on ranch on the
Platte.
IT is reported that California has a
grape vine that produces over three
tons of grapes per annum.
Mr.. @. M. CLAY tells the National
Stockman that he has fed green sor-
ghum to mules with better results than
any other forage.
Mr.. B. s. SMITH, after fifteen years
experience with strawberries in Kansas,
prefers Wilson for shipment and Down
ing for home use.
Two members of the Warsaw (Ill.)
Horticultural Society disapprove of
hogs in orchards; "they sometimes kill
the trees by rubbing them"
A HOG dead of "splenic apoplexy"
was cut open by man who scratched
his arm during the operation and died
of the disease thus communicated.
MR.. SAMUEL MILLER says in the Ru-
raj World that during his forty years
with strawberries he "never saw any
thing to match the James Wick for pro-
ductiveness."
MINES oTA farmers, in the co-opera-
tive effort to render themselves, 80 far
as practicable, independent of railroad
monopoly, have already raised money
enough to build eleven elevators.
SoAPsUDs is a valuable fertilizer for
all forms of vegetation, especially serv-
iceable for small fruits, and in the
fruit garden proper will never be
wasted.
AT the exposition to be held in Den
yer next fall the show of cattle will be
large. There will be Shorthorns and
Shorthorn grades, Holstein and Hol-
stein grades, and Polled Angus and
Galloways in great abundance.
A CITIZEN of Iowa estimates that
there is enough consumed by the dogs
of that state to feed 100000 persons,
and, with the damage done the sheep
interest, cost more than the sum re-
CURED annually for educational pur-
poses.
In answer to question as to what is
the best grain food for mich COWS,
Prof. Arnold recommends four parts of
bran, two parts of cornmeal and one
part of inseed meal as having given
the best results in proportion to cost of
any dry food he had ever used.
In the Western New York Agricul-
tural Society it was recently stated that
the planting of new vineyards was never
so generally undertaken as at the pres
ent time. People are learning how to
use grapes, and finding out, too, how
health-promoting is their free use.
THE director of the Iowa Agricultur-
al College values the various milk-pro-
ducing foods as follows: Corn, per 100
pounds, 80 cents; oats, go cents; barley,
55 cents; wheat, So cents; bran, 70 cents ;
oil meal, SLAB; clover hay, 80 cents;
timothy, 80 cents; potatoes, 10 cents.
IT is good plan not to leave two
strong water or muskmelon plants in a
hill, no matter how far the hills are
apart. It is also wise to pinch off the
ends of the leading vines, so as to in
duce more vigorous lateral growth.
Then you may hope for splendid mel
ons.
A NEW livestock and poultry associa-
ton was formed at Port Allen, La, re-
Gently. The South is certainly waking
up on the subject of raising live stock
and will doubtless find an ample reward
for SO doing, for it has many advantages,
in climate and food, over more northern
regions.
THE most critical period with corn
is when the seed is maturing or filing,
and it is then that the roots should have
appropriate matter within reach, for the
nourishment of the crop. A little fer
tilizer when the corn is in tassel, gives
it new life, and the increase in the yield
pays well for the extra care.
A GOOD remedy for scours in calves
is said to be raw eggs. Give each calf
three eggs twice day for two or three
days, and nothing else but grass and
water. Throw the calf, have some one
to hold him perfectly quiet, and, open
ing it's mouth, break the eggs inside
and he will swallow them without much
trouble.
J. B. LAWS, the great English farmer,
says that an acre of roots judiciously
used Will produce far more milk or meat
than an acre of ensilage food, and to
the objection of the cost of raising roots,
he argues that the necessary working
they need makes them the land cleaning
crop for which virtue they should be
credited.
For mutton. Prof. Brown of the
Guelph Agricultural College, says in
his experience Leicesters are ahead of
all others in putting on flesh In the
shortest time. In early maturing he
gives the following as the results of
personal observation: Leicesters, South
down, Southdown cross, Cotswold
being the slowest.
The United States raised forty-eigh
bushels of grain per head of it's popula
ton, and consumes forty-one bushels
per head In both cases it takes the
lead of all other nations. Italy con-
sumes but 9.62 bushels per head, Aus
tria 1857, Spain and Russia II each,
Denmark 1888, France 24.02, and Can
ada 38.11 bushels per capita.