Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-05
FARM AND GARDEN.


PLANTS to be potted should be taken
up in time to be established before
cold weather.
The best test of good farming is
when each years crop is superior to
the one preceding it,
SOME people can easily notice the
flavor and odor of plants upon which
COW feeds in the milk.
The wheat crop in the Red River
Valley is nearly all thrashed, and the
yield proven satisfactory.
Dig sweet potatoes as soon as frost
touches the vines. Handle carefully,
and store in barrels or boxes.
IRRIGATION will not take the place of
manure on land. Soil we'll fertilized
richly repays the labor expended.
EGGS packed in we'll dried ashes and
so as not to touch each other, have been
kept perfectly sweet for twelve months.
A GENERAL cleaning up around the
barns and outbuildings is now in order,
and should be made before winter sets
in.
IT is said that wheat is cheaper in
England now than it has been before
since 1880, a hundred and four years
ago.
A PROMINENT poultry raiser says that
5000 hens cared for in the proper man
ner will show an annual profit of $2,-
900.
EARLY lambs, to those who have the
| facilities for raising them are always
profitable. Plan now for lambs to come
in March.
AS soon as frosts put in an appear
| ance the beets should be harvested, Sc
cure the carrots next and follow with
the turnips.
DUST from the public highway with
woods dirt may be proftably stored now
for winter use in the pig pen, privy and
| chicken house.
GREED corn stalks touched by frost
should be shocked as soon as possible.
The bleaching process will 60 on rapid
ly if left exposed.
GET the hogs in good condition early.
Do not wait until cold weather to fetten
under adverse circumstances and at in
creased cost.
OF sixty different varieties of grapes
fruited in the vineyards of the Kansas
Agricultural College, Moore's early gave
the first ripe fruit.
A GARDENER recommends sowing on
ion seeds in the fall. Over the beds place
some mulch for protection. Early on
ions may be thus secured.
FROM March l to September Is Chi
cago packers slaughtered l ,45l 900 hogs,
being one thousand less than for the
corresponding period a year ago.
CIDER apples are not injured by light
frosts. Placed in heaps, the fruit loses
water and the juice becomes richer. Cool
weather is best for cider making.
ONE of the hardest of all crops to
"raise," in the financial sense, is mort
gage, hut it is easy to plant. The less
one plants of mortgages the better.
KEEP the horses in the stables at
night. The season is too far advanced
for night pasturing. A cold storm
might do exposed horses much harm.
The great problem in modern dairy
ing seems to be how to make the live
COW compete with the dead hog. So
far, the hog is about two lengths ahead.
IT is said that hog-cholera is causing
great havoc in Saline County, Mo-, hun
dreds of swine dying from this disease.
| One farmer lost about 120 head in 10
days.
The barren nature of soil containing
much tannin is due to the fact that it
precipitates in an insoluble form the
constituents which are most necessary
| for plant life.
The Mississippi Valley produces 1885,
| 900 tons of cotton seed, one-fourth of
| which is marketed at Memphis, much
of it being shipped in crude state from
that point to Italy.
THE Farm Journal puts it in this
way: eff the fair is fair, attend and
help build it up. If it is gambling
concern in any form, stay away and
! help break it down."
In Shawnee, Johnson County, Kas.,
several cattle died recently with what is
thought to be Texas fever. Thomas
Douglas is said to have lost fourteen
steers from this cause.
EVERY month is harvest season for
some section of the world, though the
udEN0Sb OOcS LOU always COuSlSJ VI Lay
or grain. There is fruit harvest as
well as wheat harvest, and harvests
also of other products.
KANSAS has 2, 238, 795 cattle, or SOO,51
more than in 1880. The estimated
value of these cattle is $67 100000 In
Montana there are 663, $500 cattle, repre-
senting an increase since 1880 of 491,-
$40. Montana's cattle are worth near
$2O,OOO,O00.
IN Canada the price of mutton is u.s.
ually as high as beef, owing to the fact
that farmers there pay more attention
to raising superior mutton than far
mers do here. Wool is here considered
of prime Importance as compared with
quality of carcass
ONE corporation has fenced 100000
acres of the Cherokee strip as pasture.
Each member puts his cattle into the
pasture and dividend is made upon the
ratio of the number of cattle owned by
each member to the entire number
owned by the corporation.
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