Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-19
FARM AND GARDEN,


ones, and bring better prices.
APPLE-BLossoM honey is considered
the finest which bees can make.
WHETHER we buy asparagus sets or
SOW the seeds makes just about one
years difference as to the time of cut
ting shoots.
THE best cider is made in cool
weather, when fermentation can go on
slowly. If for vinegar it can be made
at any time.
| MAINE grew one million bushels of
corn last season, which is one nineteen
hundredth part Of all the corn raised in
this country.
The Wilton, n. H., farmers have large
crops of apples this year, and they are
selling them to shippers for $1.25 for
No. rs and 81 for No. Us.
SEED sof wild seedlings will, as art1le,
produce fruit very similar to that plant
ed, but few of the cultivated sorts will
reproduce themselves from seed.
MAINE has full apple crop this year,
and so has New Hampshire. Massachu-
setts has more than an average crop.
Michigan has only 81 per cent. of an
average crop.
TOBACCO is a filthy weed" but its
production has increased in this coun-
try from 1877 100000 pounds to nearly
700, 100000 III twenty years, the crop
being worth $5O,OOO,OOO.
Iowa has $50 creameries, Illinois 40,
Wisconsin 43O and Minnesota 139, MAX
ing total of 1859 in four of the North
or b.
production of butter.
Do you know that it is no easy matter
to find a perfect tomato? It must not
only be Seamless" but firm, smooth,
without a crack or biemish, and ripened
evenly in every part.
The best potato as to real value, is
the one containing the largest percent
age of solid nutriment, that is, starch
and albumen. It is the starch that
makes potato cook dry and meaiy.
AN apple twelve inches in circumfer-
ence and weighing one pound was
| picked from tree in the orchard Of a
Loveland (Col) ranchman, good evil
dence of that being fine section for
fruit.
THOSE who have blight-struck peach
trees would do we'll to try the expert
ment of spreading from five to ten
pounds of salt around each and chop
ping it in before they decide to destroy
| the trees.
To save oat straw when grown with
alfalfa care must be exercised in cutting
soon enough and not leaving the
shocks on the field too long, SIS in the
latter case the lower part of the straw
will turn black.
BANTAM fowls are not of much use to
a farmer, yet for children, Or as an orna-
ment to lawn, what can be more
sprightly and beautiful than flock of
laced or game bantams, or even any of
the other varieties?
THE right kind of agriculture is going
to be more profitable in the future than
it has ever been. It will require more
capital and more brains, but it is evil
dent that capital is yearly becoming
cheaper and brains more abundant.
MANY sheep will go into winter very
thin. Now is the time to feed well, and
be prepared for a cold winter or bleak
March. Stick to the good sheep and
take good care of them, and let the
poor ones go to the butcher for NUT
ton.
The agent of the Agricultural De-
partment in Washington says that the
European wheat crop, though above an
average in product, will be less than
the aggregate of 1882, and that Europe
will need to be supplied with 180,0OO,OOO
bushels of wheat.
IT is estimated that the shortage of
the wool clip in Australia this year, in
consequence of the drouth destroying
many millions of sheep, and greatly in
juriDg many others, will cut down the
yield of Australian wool possibly 8O,0OO,-
900 pounds, or quantity equal to all
the wool imported into the United
States. e
IT should not be supposed that be-
cause fruit can be successfully cultivated
in portions of Colorado that no difficult
ty will be found IN growing it in all
parts of the state. On some ranches
fruit culture is impossible. Ali attempts
to cultivate will prove futile. Trees
may be induced to grow for time, but
they will yield but little, and in most
instances finally die out.
Mr.. MASON, of South Carolina, has
invented a cotton picking machine
which he claims viii pick bale an hour
at a saving of IS per bale, requiring only
one hand and pair of mules to do the
work of fifty hands. Great things are
expected from the use of this machine
in developing Southern wealth and re-
sources. It is reported that Mr.. Mason
has refused 100000 for his patent.
A PRACTICAL man says that the prac-
tice of buying cattle in the fall and fat
tening them on the farms as means of
enlargening the manure supply. is every
year on the increase in the eastern part
of the country. It is found that in the
average season the animals can be fatted
to good profit, and much feed which
otherwise would have been marketed is
kept on the farm in the shape of ma
nure, just as it ought to be.