Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-23
FARM AND GARDEN.

SECURE your farm help for the season
early.
PEANUTS are raised in Kansas for feed
for stock.
CHICAGO has become the first sheep
market in the country.
SORGHUM seed is being shipped to
Russia from this country.
PROF. ARNOLD says Canadian
cheese is the best in the world.
A GOOD sheep requires no more food
than a poor one, ana it costs no more to
shear it.
a CAMEL will usually shear twenty
pounds of hair, which sells for So. so per
pound.
THERE is horse in the stables of the
Staten Island Almhouse that is known
to be As years old.
PROF. Fox, of Wisconsin, thinks q
good windmill can be made to do the
work of a man the year through.
THERE areabout five times the number
of sheep in Montana now than there were
three years ago, from the natural in
| crease.
| The best soil for plums, says J. B.
Moore, is one that is stony and heavy.
The plum is hardy tree, and requires
the same method of pruning as peaches.
Never cut off the small branches until
they die, as it is on the small branches
that most of the fruit grows.
A FARMER who last year grew 300
bushels of mangels (says a New England
paper remarked the other day that he
would grow 1000 bushels the coming
year. He grew them for his COWS, but
finds them excellent for sheep, horses
and pigs, as q change from dry or con-
centrated food. There is considerable
amount of sugar in mangels, and they
possess the advantage over other beets
of being in good condition for feeding
till late III the winter.
AN exchange states that Htwo fields,
| lying side by side, were sown in wheat.
One was plowed and narrowed in the
usual way, while the other was narrowed
five times. The result was that the lat
ter gave seven bushels more to the acre
than the former" This reminds us that
it is about time for the spring narrowing
| of winter wheat-a practice which is ben
efcial and becoming quite common in
the best wheat growing districts of West
ern New York.
IF cistern water has acquired foul
odor, says DIR. Kedzie, in the New York
Tribune, it may be deodorized by some
oxidizing agent, such as chloride of soda,
or Labarraque's chlorinated soda. This
can be found at any good druggists, put
up IN quart bottles for use. To get the
best results the material should be
poured into the bottom of the cistern, u.s.
| ing for this purpose a gaspipe reaching
to the bottom. Two bottles, costing
about 25 cents each, will clean an ordin-
airy cistern.
1T is stated that the Merinos of Spain
are divided into two classes according to
the manner of their keeping. One class
is called the travelling or migratory, be-
cause the sheep are moved from pasture
to pasture, taking advantage of seasons.
| quality and quantity of foliage, and other
favorable circumstances. Sheep of the
other class, the stationary, are left at
different stations all the year round,
and are more or less pampered, SO that
they fall much behind the other class in
the matter of health and constitutional
vigor.
LIE 1bL Vi are
he states of Kentucky, Virginia, North
Carolina and Tennessee. TIL quantity
produced during 1882 was 513, or, 588
pounds, grown on 671, 522 acres, or about
1000 square miles, and valued at S43,-
189, 951. The average value was s 2-5
cents pound, or $64. 80 per acre. This
is more profitable than wheat or corn
growing would be in the same districts.
In 1888 this country exported tobacco to
the value of 500, 095, 229. and imported to
the value of 81, 775, 1886, or over so per
cent of our exports.
The potato possesses the property of
converting much larger portion of the
manure ingredients of the soil into hu-
man food than any of the cereal grain
crops. For instance, to every bushel of
wheat about 100 pounds of straw are
sowp, while the haulm of the potato
when dry is SO light that in experiment.
ing we do not think worth while to
weigh it. These properties, when COM
bined with suitable climate, enable the
cultivator to produce upon a given area
of ground a larger amount of human
food than from any of the cereal grain
crops. 1885 n-zzoszszneoe ..-aa -.aA 2 ,gsgs $685.
AN experiment. made by DR.. LaWes,
of England, shows that an acre of rich
pasture IN Leicestershire produced 500
pounds of increase in the weight of
fattening oxen in six months grazing.
It requires 8, 500 pounds Of clover hay,
1000 pounds of corn or oil
cake, and 10000 pounds of
Swedes to produce the same
increase. This fodder was considered
equal in value to three and one-haIf tons
of English hay. Neither soil nor eli
mate in this country are favorable for
the maintenance of such pastures
here.
THE dwarf trees of China are curl |
osities of forestry. Every child knows
how the Chinese cramp their womenis |
eet by bandaging them when they are
infants, and thus render it Impossible |
for them to walk. It is however won
derfuI to see the miniature oaks. |