Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-09-03
FARM AND GARDEN.


trace of horn.
HOUSE Stops and soap suds are worth
much more in the garden than clear
water.
The Delaware peach crop this year is
estimated at from 100000 to 100000
baskets.
POULTRY should have access to fresh
water at all times. Hens will not lay
without it.
AN old horse-shoer writes to the Trib-
une and Farmer that he would never
shoe horse.
The common striped snake is a
friend of the farmer. He suEsists upon
insects and vermin.
For sheep losing wool bathing in
saltpeter water, one ounce to the quart,
is recommended.
THERE are 100000 COWS in this
country, or little more than one COW
for every four people.
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Agriculturist says gas tar poured onto
ant hills will drive the ants away.
The Colorado beetle has been super
seeded at home by worm that is making
great havoc with the potato vines.
IT is essential that the soil be rich,
free from weeds, and the season hot to
insure good crop of Hungarian grass.
In the purchase of labor-saving
machinery for the farm, the farm house
should not be-though it often is-neg-
lected.
EASTWARD more flowers are grown
than Westward, but with every year of
increased age in the Western States
comes an increased demand for flowers
ALL things considered the farmer
cannot select better grape probably
than the Concord. It is hardy, pro-
ductive, the fruit is attractive and keeps
we'll
The practice of ensilaging green fod
der for cattle in winter has one import
ant advantage. The manure from stock
thus fed is absolutely free from weed
seeds.
In August is a good time to plant
strawberry vines. If put out before the
fall rains appear, the plants should give
fair crop the next spring, and good
one the second year. u..
ALL poultry houses should, it is rec
commended, face the south in order to
get the full benefit of the light and
heat from the sun. Itpays as part of
the winter programme.
AIR-sLAKED lime in fine powder is a
good preventive of damage from many
kinds of insects Tt kills them by
closing the apertures in their bodies
through which they breathe.
On the inside of the centrifugal
cream separator there gathers a coating
of highly offensive matter. Whether
or not milk is any better for its expul-
sion has not been ascertained.
IT is common trick of some dis
; honest implement manufacturers to sell
their machines cheaply, but to make
them of poor materials, and then take
their profits in selling repairs.
ONE of the largest celery-producing
places in the Northern states is Kalama-
zoo, Mich. The fiat, broad and rich
a natural situation and soil for celery.
FARMERS should see to it now that
the pastures are not cropped too short,
as in case of drouth, where drouths
have not already set in, and the stock is
kept on it, great damage is sure to fol-
low. E.
AFTER many experiments with broken
grain filed with chess and other weed
seeds, it is the general experience of
poultry breeders that good clean wheat
fit for market is the cheapest food for
hens. -
The New York Produce Exchange
Reporter estimates the winter wheat
crop just gathered as one-fourth or
1OO,O0O,O00 bushels-greater than that
of last season. The quality is also
much improved.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Western
Rural puts half pint of mixture
composed of one part air-slacked lime
and three parts ashes in each hill of
potatoes before planting, and never has
decayed potato.
IT is said that men who drive bands
of horses up from Mexico are causing
considerable trouble through the coun-
try which they pass; as they invariably
fail to return horses which go in the
herd along the route.
The Southern Live Stock Journal of
Mississippi takes the position @that all
CtoU1C 4AOlOAuOCSA 1A1UO Ol11S C4A1I1GsOO al .
alike subject to acclimating fever, and
that imported cattle constitute no ex-
ception to this rule"
In many places straw has value for
feeding or for sale entirely above what
it is worth as manure. With some kinds
of grain, as rye and oats, saving the
straw in good order is quite as impor-
tant as saving any part of the crop.
The mammoth grass-fed Galloway
OK taken into the Chicago market last
year by DR.. FL. B. Tuttle, from his Re-
publican River range, in Colorado, has
never been approached as tosize by any
other CRASHED brute in the world.
! The Messrs. Joel B. Gentry & Go. of
: Missouri this year have sold upwards
of $4,000 worth of Short-Horn and
! other blooded stock cattle that have
gone to Colorado. The large number
of these have gone to the Western