Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-10
struction. He has bagged fourteen
bushels in seven hours.

bushels in seven hours.
MANY farmers, where apples are
profitable crop, says an Eastern ex
change, are utilizing the roadside by
planting some near or on the road line.
The roots, of course, extend to the road,
get the wash from the droppings of
horses driven thereon, and otherwise
fare much better than trees planted in
fields kept in grass Or grain. Another
| advantage the apple tree by the roadside
has is plenty of room to spread it's
branches and ample sunlight to color
and give flavor to It's fruit.
PYRETHRUM is well spoken of as an in
| sect powder. It is cheap, said to be
poisonous only to insects, and very
efectual. At the experiment. station at
Amherst, they mix tablespoonful of
the insect powder in pailful of equal
parts of water and buttermilk, and
sprinkle 1t on currants, potatoes or
other plants infested with bugs or
worms. The buttermilk makes the
powder stick to the plant, and in
about half an hour the insects get
mouthful Of it, curl, drop to the ground
and die.
W. GETTY says in the Southern Live
Stock Journal that the merino if easily
fenced, herds well, stays in large focks,
and is, either in it's purity or crossed
on the native or other sheep, better
adapted to the Southern climate and
grasses than any other, doing well on
scanty, rough pastures where the
heavier breeds would go down, thriving
equally well among the mountains
and valleys Of East Tennessee or on
the level lands of the lake region of the
South, whose wool, known as "lake
WOOL" has become famous.
THE Thompson Cattle Company, in
the southern part of Colorado, will be
one of the mammoth concerns of the
New West. An item says that Mr.
George ". Thompson, the protector,
has lately returned to Trinidad, from
the East, where he has been to mature
arrangements for importing in the near
future 1000 thoroughbred bulls from
Europe. That seems to be rather a
large number of bulls for rancho hav-
ing only 1890 cattle, including fair
number of Hereford and other bulls, on
hand. Perhaps 100 bulls is meant.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New England
Farmer says that New York farmer
observed that some of his apple trees
that had been dressed with unleached
wood ashes bore apples which kept all
winter without rotting, while the rest of
his fruit rotted badly. His trees were
infested with apple-tree blight. He
finally applied wood ashes, at the rate
of 200 bushels to the acre, to his
orchard, and washed the bodies of the
trees with lye. The orchard recovered
from the blight, and the apples would
then keep well in al ordinary cellar
all winter.
AN Illinois correspondent of the Bos-
ton Globe writes: "Last summer I
was induced to try packing eggs for
winter use. had in seasons previous
lined them, but lined egg is not
altogether to my taste. Last summer I
took sweet, clean kegs, set them in
cool, dry place, with barrel of pow
dered dried earth near at hand. In the
kegs I placed layer of this earth, then
layer of eggs, small end down, then
| layer of earth, and so on until the kegs
are filed. These kegs were quite good
six months after packing down. By
placing the small end down the yolk is
prevented from dropping down On the
end and settling on the shell, while the
dry, fine earth keeps them from the
air. I suppose that ashes or bran or
any other fine, dry substance is as
good as the baked earth, but I write
only of what I have actually expert
mented with"