Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
FARM AND GARDEN.


ONE facotry IN Maine put up, last sea-
son, 10000 cans of pumpkins. The
season has been good one for this crop.
By canning or drying, pumpkin pies
may be had the year through.
PROF. SANBoRN, of the Missouri Agri-
cultural College, claims to have proven
by long practice that corn fodder has
a practical feeding value of two thirds to
three quarters that Of good hay.
AN experienced stockman says: Cat
tie drinking shale water are not subject
to the blackleg, while cattle drinking
surface water from creeks or pools are
at any time liable to take the disease.
Snow should not be allowed to &C
cumulate on evergreens. IF so, and it
partly thaws and then freezes, it cannot
be removed, but will catch the snow and
wind, often to the entire destruction of
the tree.
IT was very possibly good policy for
many western farmers to SOW wheat
among standing corn, and leave the
stalks to fall down for protection against
| severe winds, which are more destruc-
tive than we are opt to think.
A FROST proof vegetable house is de-
scribed as made with walls Is inches
thick, double boarded, the space be-
tween the boards being filed with saw
dust The ceiling is also boarded, with
about ten inches OF saWdust between the
boards.
DURING severe cold weather COWS will
often refuse to drink as much water as
they should if it is filed with ice and is
nearly down to the freezing temperature.
1t is really better that the water be slight
ly tepid and the cows be induced to drink
more of it by making a thin mash with
bran and meal.
IF pigs are kept from the wet and al
lowed plenty of straw they Will see to it
that no serious injury results from cold.
The one thingtbat hog will not endure
IS wet bed in cold weather. Yet this
is mistake often made by farmers,
though not so commonly now as was the
case formerly.
AT recent bee-keepers' convention,
every member agreed that there was
most profit in small packages of honey,
one pound In section or trife over.
Such parcels, it was said, sold better
than larger packages, but offerings
smaller than one pound each were OBJ
Jected to by consumers.
EXPERIMENTS made by the Danish
government with the centrifugal sepa-
rator show that more cream was OBJ
tanned than by any other method.
There were differences Of opinion, how
ever, IN regard to the flavor of the but
ter as compared with that made from
cream separated from the milk in the
natural way.
ONE of the most successful Illinois
dalrymen keeps 100 COWS. but never
raises a pound of hay. He feeds his
cattle on corn fodder, cut when In bios
som, bound and set up till cured, or till
winter, when it is removed to the barn.
he gets seven tons of this dry fodder TO
the acre, and claims it is worth as much
as the best of hay.
The following remarks from the Mark
Lane (Londop) Express seem queer to
people in this country: ''For people
troubled with q liver-and every one
seems 70 be conscious of possessing that
rebellious organ noWadays-the free
consumption of tomatoes, raw or,
cooked, is better than all the doctors
stuff IN the world"
CRIBS for corn may be made rat proof
by setting the building on posts with
tin pan shelving out on every side from
the top. Of course the crib should be
detached from all other buildings. and
not touched by any fence. By clearing
out all the corn once q year in such
building, neither rats nor mice will be-
come very numerous.
ENOUGH bedding should be provided
for sheep kept IN warm Easements, so
that when lying down their wool will not
come in contact with masses of their
own excrement. Not only does it soil
the wool, but the heat which is thus en-
gendered is hurtful. The pile of ma
nure should be cleaned out several
times during the winter.
SOME small-frUit growers think that
they can destroy the rust on blackber-
ries and raspberries by liberal use of
potash. Experiments are needed in this
direction. In many places where the |
rust is prevalent growers undertake to
grow only three or four crops Of berries
before the briars are rooted up, and a
plantation made IN new spot
AN exchange suggests, if farmers
WC04o ~ W OilC1I SdIu I'll % HOU (4tI dAu
spend their time in making an caves
trough for the barn or stable, and there
by carry away the drip which would |
otherwise fall on the manure pile, |
causing waste of the elements of plant |
food contained therein, they will make |
more money that day than they could
any fine day in the field.
THE report of the chief inspector of
stock of New South Wales, made from
the reports of 35 sr1b-inspeetors, shows !
that in fourteen days they made 200 in
spections, and found over 1000, 900 |
acres infested with rabbits, which 21O |
men are employed to destroy. Nearly
ST., 100000 has been spent by the gov
eminent of three colonies, and immense
sums by private persons, but little
Roadway seems to be made.
On the subject of sulphur to remedy /
the rot in potatoes, correspondent Of
the EInnira On. " Husbandman says:
sA Vermont farmer rolled his potato |
cuts in fine -four of sulphur, at planting,
and. again. he busted the shoots as thew