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

era" Has the charred cobg kept off the
disease? The correspondent thinks
they have.
A WRITER in the Rural New Yorker
contends that by planting corn at the
earliest safe moment we not only in
crease the chances that the crop will
receive the necessary number of degrees
of accumulated heat during the warm
season, but the number of hours of
sunshine as well, and, what is of nearly
as much Importance, we advance the
epoch of blossoming several days, and
by SO doing hasten maturity by several
weeks.
A WESTERN woman writes pleasant
letter telling how, years ago, she learned
the budding and grating of fruit trees.
She hated teaching, and persuaded her
father to let her help him in his fruit
nursery. She had excellent success
from the beginning, and afterward
learned "all the niceties of grating,
from an orange tree down to an apple
root" She found the business both
pleasant and profitable, and one which
women can work at as we'll as men.
FARMERS who are ordering fruit trees
should not let the opportunity pass of
procuring two or three or more orna-
mental shrubs or vines. Money is well
spent which adds to the beauty and at
Effectiveness of an estate. A pretty vine
over rock, wall, or on the side of a
building is profitable investment. If
vegetable seeds are being ordered of
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hold order their share of flower seeds.
! At least one portion of the farm should
be ornamented.
The Iowa Register tersely and truly
says that what we need on the farms
are independent men-men who have
the courage to leave the beaten track
and reach out on all sides after knowl-
edge and accept the teachings of science
and the products of invention, which
give them promise of great success
What we need is a higher education.
We cannot expect this of old heads,
but our hope is in the rising genera
ton, who are to take up the nipple
ments of labor as they fall from the
hands of the fathers.
The best of seeds, shabbily treated,
are liable to fail. Much wet weather
will prove fatal in some casss, while
other seeds will go right on; moderate
drought will destroy many germs,
while others will withstand protract-
ed dry season. The experience of all
gardeners is that seed germs of cucum-
bers, squashes, melons, lima beans,
sweet corn and the wrinkled peas can
not survive protracted cold or wet
weather, while the seeds of the carrot,
beet, turnip, lettuce and satisfy will
Withstand the trial great deal longer.
The New York Tribune mentions an
easy and profitable way of disposing of
the hard bones which are usually left
kicking around the backyard or dis
tributed by proving dogs. BURY
peck or half bushel or more of the
hard bones under a newly set grape
vine or fruit tree, or within reach of
the eager roots of an old one, which
will search them out and feed on them
year after year till the last fragment is
transformed into grapes or apples, as
In the celebrated case of Roger Will
iams."
In reply to an inquiry as to what
varieties of ounces are best, the Coun-
try Gentleman advises the planting
most largely of the old, well-tried
orange ounce. Rea's has succeeded
admirably for some years in the few To-
calities where it has been fully tested,
and there will be little risk in planting
it. The newer champion is fine in ap-
pearance and excellent in quality, but
needs further testing. It may be too
late in some localities, and possibly it
may be more subject to blight than the
others. It is very promising sort, and
time will fix it's position.
WRITING to the Inter Ocean, an Till
nois strawberry grower says: Vacant
spaces may occur in the rows of plants
and should be filed up the next spring,
using the plants which have voluntarily
come up in the garden. For strawber-
ries take out a spadeful of earth where
the missing plant should have been,
then Lift strawberry plant, in q spade
full of dirt, set carefully in the hole, pull
dirt around to fill up, and tramp it in.
The plant will never feel the effects of
removal, but go on growing without in
PERMISSION. Do the same with rasp-
berries, and yon can have full rows
TEE South Carolina Department of
Agriculture reports the demand for carp
by farmers general Throughout the
state. Two-year-old carp spawn there
in May. The Bulletin of the depart
ment advises persons desiring the best
results in Matching the fry to place
around the edges of their ponds, in
eighteen inches Or two feet of water,
boughs of green pine, willow or other
suitable branches for the fish to attach
their spawn to. AS soon as discovered
the eggs should be transplanted to the
clear pure water of Matching pond.
This will secure protection from the
parent fish which destroys both spawn
and fry. When reaching the size of
steel pen remove the fry to a larger
pond and feed them.
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