Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

which produce 1,26O,OOO,OOO lemons an
nually.
The annual yield of wool in Australia,
Tasmania and New Zealand is about
10000 pounds.
THERE are 200 known varieties of
cherries, sixty of apricots, 239 of
peaches, 1,087 of pears and 277 of plums.
AN Australian farmer has cured the
blight in his apple trees by placing
tomato plants after being pulled around
them.
AN English fock-master saws that he
keeps his nursing ewes in rather high
condition, contending that fat dams
make fat lambs.
In the Western New York Agricrlt-
ural Society it was recently stated that
the planting of new vineyards was never
so generally undertaken as at the present
time.
The famous Jersey COW Bomba is
dead. Her record was 81 pounds III
ounces of unsalted butter in seven DAYS.
Her owner had refused two offers of
$4,000.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Cincinnati
Commercial Gazette says ten or twelve
pairs of martins around farm buildings
will keep away the blue tailed hawks,
and also destroy the blood-sucking fly.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Kansas
Farmer tells of boy who, left at home,
saved swarm of bees by "hiving" them
in pillow-case, which he tied up safely
until the family returned and a more
convenient hive was at his disposal.
A CORRESPONDENT Of the New York
Tribune says that Persian insect pow
der, or buhack, busted freely through
the stable and upon the sides and legs
of the horses will keep away the flies
which SO torment the animals, and allow
them to enjoy their needed rest.
TREES to bud well ought not to be
more than from to / of an inch in
diameter; and it is best to bud them so
near the ground that, when reset, roots
may come from the budded portion of
the tree. Peach or cherry trees should
be budded on the north or northwest
side.
The Canadian government has or
dered that no sheep be permitted to
leave the country of La Prairie, in the
province of Quebec, because of q dis
ease existing there. The diseased ami
mails are to be slaughtered, the govern
ment paying the owners one-third their
value.
A NEW HAMPSHIRE orchardist ques-
tlons the accuracy of the general belief
that the coddling moth goes into the
ground when it leaves the apple, and
gives as his own experience that it con-
ceals itself under sticks, stones and 9th
er debris, where it will be safe from
water.
The Farm and Garden says: eff the
harness be thrown over draught horse,
or the saddle be placed on the back of
rider, he may be led out of burning
stable as easily as on ordinary occasions.
Should there be time to substitute the
bride for the halter, the act of rescue
will be more easy"
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
World belives the freedom of his large
herd of swine from cholera is due to his
habit of raking up the accumulation of
corn-cobs in the yards, setting them on
fire, and, as soon as they are on fire,
putting it out by sprinkling with water
The hogs eat the charred cobs greedily.
A MEMBER of the Elmira IN, W
Farmers Club reports that by putting
coal ashes about the stems of his cur
rant bushes to the depth of five or six
inches, and spread over space OF three
or four feet in diameter, he thoroughly
protects them from the worms. He
protects his ounce trees from the borer
in the same way.
The quantity of saliva secreted by
animals is surprising. Experiments of
Lassainge show that 100 pounds of dry
hay fed to horse required a secretion
of 400 pounds of saliva; 100 pounds of
oats required a secretion of 115 pounds
of saliva, while 100 pounds of green
food required but forty-nine pounds of
saliva to prepare it for swallowing.
A M. GARLAND, who has recently
made visit to that country, writes to
the Breeders Gazette that sheep breed
ers in New Zealand have crossed the
merino and the long-wooled English
sheep, until they have produced an ami
NAL of comparatively fixed type, that
combines the fine wool of the merino
with the heavy carcass of the Cotswold
or Lincoln.
ONE of the numbugs of the age is
jacques Seed Corn Solution, which is
represented to greatly stimulate the
seed in growing, and make it offensive
to cut-worms, squirrels, crows, etc., so
that they will not disturb the young
corn. This stuff was sold largely this
year in Ohio, Indiana, ETC., and was a
total failure. Next year they will prob
ably move their operations few states
west. Pitch in next year and see the
folly of it yourselves.
DRAINING is one of the most import
ant matters on farm. On piece of
Michigan land containing twenty-five
acres, which produced hog grass, rushes
and other valueless growth, an expense
of nearly $500 was incurred in order to
drain it. The first year after drainage
$1,75O was realized from grass alone. A
New York farmer reports that he has
land that produces forty bushels of
wheat per acre which formerly produced
nothing, the large crops being due to