Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-14
FARM AND GARDEN.

A MIXTURE of sulphur and lard is a
safe and harmless remedy for the exter-
mination of lice on cattle. Rub it along
the back and brisket, and anoint parts
here and there wherever necessary.
PRUNING a fruit tree while dormant
will tend more to promote a growth of
wood than the production of fruit.
Pruning after the tree has come in full
foliage promotes fruitfulness, by giving
q check to the growth, just as root-prun-
ing does.
Usage orange leaves, when fed to the
silk worms, produce silk of the very
finest Guality-so fine, indeed, as to
challenge the applause of the foreign
silk buyers and silk experts of Lyons,
France-which is the center of the
world for silk.
NOTHING is more susceptible to for
eign matter than bad butter. If a
farmer be not sure of this let him place
| q pound or SO of butter near o piece of
ordinary soap, or a few onions, and ex-
clude the air for a few days, and he will
be Convinced.
Col. +. ID. CURTIS says that the fancy
dairymen, by allowing their cream to
sour too much before churning, have
made their product simply Limitation
oleomargarine." "They have" he says,
''invited the public palate especially
| in the cities-with their rich-nade but
termilk-havored butter, and created O.
market for oleomargarine. compounds.
and now they ere running a neck-and-
neck race with the oleomargarine manu-
faoturers."
SHEEP are profitable in several ways,
says the Farmers Gall: First, from
wool; second, from mutton, and third,
from manure. The gain from the last
source is not susceptible of change,
whether the price of wool and mutton
be high or low. A sheep gives returns
in these items for its keeping, and in
balancing the returns the gains from the
accumulation of manure should be con-
| sidered as well as the weight of fleece
and carcass.
MOST Western corn-growers fully un-
derstand why the crop failed last year
late planting, poor seed, seed grown in
wrong latitude, and early frosts. They
cannot hasten the advent of spring, or
put off autumn frosts, but they will be
likely to see to the seed part of the bust
ness this year. It will take at least
| three or four good corn crops to render
them again careless in this matter after
that the forgetful may again look out
for corn failure.
THE largest producers of tobacco are
the states of Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee. The quantity
produced during 1882 was 513, O77, 583
pounds, grows on 671, 500 acres, or
about 1,00U square miles, and valued at
$43, 189,951. The average value was
2-5 cents pound, or S64.32 per acre.
This is more profitable than wheat or
corn growing would be in the same dis
tricts. In 1883 this country exported
tobacco to the value of $22, 095, 229, and
imported to the value of 81, TVS, 595, or
over so per cent. of our exports.
The Department of Agriculture of
South Carolina has recently issued a
volume on the agricultural productions
and resources of that state that is
credit to the "New South" None of
our emigrant-inviting Western states
have placed within the reach Of inquir-
ers the information they seek as fully as
does this book. Accompanying it is q
large geographical, geological and topo-
graphical map. This work cannot fail
to attract the attention of agriculturists
aud capitalists to the splendid natural
advantages of South Carolina.
IT has been proved that it takes eight
teen pounds of good hay per day to
keep alive a steer weighing 1000
pounds. A 1000 pounds steer will
take Sc pounds to keep him alive and
from shrinking; or in other words to
furnish heat, and repair the waste of
tissue that is constantly occurring in
the animal economy. It will be seen
that the longer the animal is kept, the
larger the per cent. of it's food which
goes to furnish merely the food of sup
port. It is also evident the per cent.
diminishes as the days of existence are
lessened.
WHILE we do not wish to lay straw
in the way of progress in fine dairy COW
breeders, and while we admit the ex.
cellence of Jersey, Ayrshire and Holstein,
we do protest against the constant re-
v1lement of our native COWS. No ami
NAL on the farm is treated worse.
Struggling among ragweeds in almost
erassless pastures, furnishing blood for
flies IN the blazing heat of midsummer,
the effect of wrath, hail, snow, sleet,
rain and polar winds, she still survives,
ever patient and returning good for
evil. If our abused native cow was
treated half so well as her foreign cous-
ms, perhaps abe would be as famous as
they.-Fdrna and FEres5de.
Mr.. W. d. PH1BRIcK says that as
early cabbages need the most stimulat-
ing manure of any garden crop, it is
customary to pillow under very heavy
dressing Of horse manure, about twenty
cords per acre, and in addition give
dressing of eight to ten loads per acre of
night-soil, each load measuring about
eight cubic feet. But last year he had
piece of land ready for cabbage all but
the land-soil. He ordered six loads of
this, but only two came. Spreading this
as far as it would go, on the remainder
he used bag of XII phosphate, applied
in the drill. 1t cost HIM less than half
the price of the night-soil, and the cab
orn rYraru aY11 hoo1oI f,,1I oc x~,on