Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

pounds two and half ounces.
AN average temperature of seventy
degrees for ninety consecutive days will
mature com.
SHEEP in La Prairie County, Cana
are suffering from disease which has
deprived some OF them of their heeces.
The highest butter record at present
is twenty-seven pounds and ten ounces
in seven days. 1t was made by Prin-
cess II.
HENS infested with lice pull at their
feathers. Cleanse their rOosts, and rub
them with an ointment made of sulphur
| and lard
IT will be found impossible to make
first-class butter from COWS that feed in
low and wet pastures. Sour feed will
not make good butter.
A New YORK gardener raises 50, 100
worth OF horseradish on an acre of ground.
He grows the roots, CRATES and bottles,
and puts IN the market. The roots re-
turn him FL cents per pound.
A BOX 10x10x10i inches will hold lust
half bushel. Such box may easily
be made, and is very convenient to have
on the farm. 1t is cheaper and just as
good as a more expensive measure.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Scientific
American recommends sowing Hunea-
rian grass around the outer edges of q
wheat or corn field as a protection
against the ravages of the chinchbug.
HE value of the exports of domestic
cattle, wine and sheep, and of beef, pork
and dairy products during the three
months ended March 81, 1884, was $21,-
657, $50, against $21, 205, 100 for the like
period of last year.
MOORE, the ruralist, says horticulture
is the poetry of agriculture. It is rein.
ing in its nature, broadens the mind
creates love for the beautiful, and its
products are the most healthful food Of
man. An Indifferent farmer never made
good horticulturist.
ILLINOIS has 55, 4O5 square miles o.
territory, and Iowa 55. O45. The PENN.
sula of Italy has 99,067 square miles
one-half of which is as mountainous as
Colorado, so that it has no more fertile
acres than Illinois or Iowa, and yet Italy
has 100000 inhabitants.
The fibre OF silk is the longest con
tinuous fibre known. An ordinary co
coon of well-fed silkworm will often
reel 1000 yards, and reliable accounts
are given by Count Dandolo of cocoon
yielding l, 1896 ards, or fibre nearly
three quarters of mile in length.
In 1916 Massachusetts reposted AGO..
600 sheep; now that state has $4,000.
Of A 900 farmers in Massachusetts 35..
900 own dogs. AS most dogs have de-
cided fondness for getting into the sheer
business there may be some connection
between the statistical facts above men.
toned.
The Jerseys can be crossed with Hol.
stems or Durhams with good results. II
will increase the size of the former, and
will about equal them in milk and but
ter. The cross would give sweeter and
better beef than either. As for size, the
majority will be larger than pure
bloods
HERR Hasselman, of Holland, writes
that in all his stables he has not had a
case Of milk fever since they adopted
the plan of feeding the COWS pretty Iiber-
ally on maagels, cut straw and hay, and
on corn meal, for some six weeks before
| calvlng. The disease is very trouble
some one among thoroughbred COWS.
A WESTERN writer says: "Buy small
trees. Small trees, ten chances to one,
will come into bearing sooner than the
larger ones. The larger the trees the
| less fiber there will be upon the roots.
A tree that has plenty of fbrous roots
will live and flourish, while one that
lacks such feeders will langu1sh and per-
haps die.
In some of the experiments tried last
season the Excelsior pea ripened ahead
of the Daniel O'Rourke and American
Wonder. 1t grows to the height of two
feet. The Early Sunrise and American
Racer also proved very early. The later
varieties preferred we're the Dwarf Mar
rowfat, Champion of England and York
shire Hero.
A GOOD dry sandy soil is the best for
fowls, and this fact enables those who
possess poor, thin soils to make poultry
q specially. Fruit, bees and poultry can
be made to pay, when operated together,
on the lghtest of sandy soils, and such
Industries do not demand extended areas,
as no one particular occupation will be
in the way of the other.
IT is stated that sackcloth or canvas
can be made as impervious to moisture
as leather by sleeping it in a decoction
of one pound of oak bark with fourteen
pounds of boiling water, this quantity
being sufficient for eight yards of stuff.
The cloth has to soak twenty-four hours,
when it is taken out, passed through
cunning water and hung up to dry.
Rev. EEL. w. BEEoHER, in his recent
lecture, said he met man last summer
who claimed the COW as the great civil
zer of the wheat region of the North
west. To raise crop of wheat requires
but few moments of each year, and the
remainder of the time the farmer is like
~ to spend away from his farm. But
when he gets a COW, he must stay at
home and look after her, and family
and civilization follow.
A CONTEMPORARY remarks that farm
ers who have families of children cannot
be too careful about the character of the
help employed, both in the house and
out of doors. Most of the. farm laborers
have habits of thought and act that