Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-28
FARM AND GARDEN.

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VENTILATE the dairy early in the
morning when the air is coolest.
A MINNESOTA town has purchased
$25 worth of poison for blackbirds.
BEETs and carrots can be safely sown
as soon as the frost is out of the
ground.
THOSE breeds of fowl that are the
largest layers have a great appetite for
animal food.
The Tribune and Farmer says blue
grass and clover makes the best past
ure for hogs.
Hoes in the Chicago markets are
from 81 to So per cwt. lower than last
spring at this time.
There are farmers who claim that it
is more profitable to feed clover to
hogs than to cattle.
OHIO fock-masters estimate that
three sheep per acre can be main
tanned in that state.
A NOTED agriculturist says he always
knows good farmer by the way he
cares for his manure.
AN old horseman says if rock salt is
kept in horses manger for six days
| he will be freed from worms.
A QUART of oatmeal in pail of water
will freshen horse after hard driving
and prepare his stomach for more solid
food.
IT is said that horse nettles may be
destroyed by pouring kerosene on the
stalks and letting it run down into the
roots.
SOME of the best dairymen milk their
COWS three or four times q day, and
claim they get more and richer milk
from the frequent milkings.
MARL is valuable as a fertilizer on
| light sandy soils that are presumably
| deficient in potash, but for heavy soils
it is of comparatively little value.
LIMA beans are grown more success
fully if planted in rows, seed six inches
apart, than if planted in hills. The
rows should be about three feet apart.
PROF. STEWART states that ten pounds
of turnips, with one and half pounds
of corn, will fatten young sheep or
lamb faster than three pounds of corn
alone.
ENGLIsHMEN carry melon seed in
their pockets some days before plant
ing them, thinking the heat communi-
Gated by them from the body helps to
perfect them.
ENGLISH wheat prospects are report
ed good. The price of home grown
wheat is about five shiilings per quar-
ter, or IA cents per bushel less than
last year at this time.
The color of eggs for sale in the markets
of the country, being now darker than
twenty years ago, simply proves that
Aslatlc blood has been largely intro
duced through the country and that it
has It's effect on eggs.
SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN, of the Ohio
Agricultural Board, recommends the
use of glazed tiles for under-drainage.
They will last much longer than the
unglazed, and the water enters the
drains mostly at the joints.
The Ohio State Board of Agriculture
has purchased additional land to add
to the new fair grounds to give them
more frontage and better shape.
These fair grounds now consist of SO
acres. Plans for new buildings are be-
ing prepared.
AGRICULTURAL exhibitions are quite
as expensive institutions in England as
in the United States. The outlay for
the Royal Show at York last year
amounted to nearly $4,000. Still the
treasury of the society was enriched
by more than $4,000.
TN 1902 Ho1iForpio cen
900 pounds of dried fruits, besides 1885,
900 boxes of raisins, 20 pounds to the
box, 100000 pounds of almonds, and
100000 pounds of walnuts. The fruits
were apples, peaches, pears, apricots,
nectarines, plums, and French prunes.
COTTON seed bulls are now utilized
for packing journal boxes of railway
ears-another profitable use for the
products obtained from the parent
plant. Hulls are found to answer well
this new use, and effect a saving of
fully one-half the cost of cotton waste.
OFFICIAL reports from Ohio say
blowing is further advanced than usual.
The probable total bushels of wheat.
with fair season based on an average
of the last five years, Will be "a, 531 1872.
The condition of other crops is as fol-
lows: Rye 90; barley 81; moving
lands 90; pastures Sc.
THIRTY-FIvE per cent. of the cattle
of Illinois are classed as "high grade"
by the Department of Agriculture. By
high grade is meant those having more
than half blood of some of the recoe-
nized pure breeds. The Commissioner
estimates the increase of value from
this source alone at $20,OOO,OOO.
WHEN nursery tree is taken up it is
deprived of half or more of it's roofs.
The full top is left, because the nursery
man knows that the inexperienced buy
or will judge of the tree by the size
of the top, It is important that each
branch be cut back to diminish the de-
mands upon the roots before the plant
ing is done.
HENRY WARD BEEoHER says the way
to get rid of the Canada thistle is to
plant it as regular crop for profit,
when it will soon be found that worms
will gnaw it, bugs will bite it, beetles