Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-16
FARM AND GARDEN.

IHE DeEhSHlr0 l5 Gue popular uOe aG
the south.
The State Dairymen's conventions
are well worth the attention of farm
ers.
SEVEN thousand dishes of fruit were
shown at recent apple congress in Eng
land.
AN eastern farmer recommends
mixture of barley and oats for young
stock.
AN Iowa farmer trains his grape
vines on elm trees, and claims improved
results.
The value of the willow crop of
Wyoming County, N. Y, is estimated
at $4,000.
In is easy to perceive why bees can
not thrive well on sheep pasture. Sheep
eat everything down very closely, and
leave nothing in the shape of flower
upon which the bees can subsist. There
is no other reason for the popular be-
lief that sheep and bees will not thrive
together. The bees will not hurt the
sheep in any way, but the sheep leave
nothing for the bees to pasture IN. That
is the only difficulty.
THE value of an apiary depends on
the strength of the colonies, and not the
number of them. This is so we'll I'M
derstood by practical apiarists that they
count only on those colonies which can
be made good and strong by honey har-
vest, and when not sufficiently so at that
time are doubled up two or three In one.
From the surplus honey comes the profit,
and colonies that will not produce sur
plus are dead capital.
ACCORDING to the statistics given a t
the national butter, cheese and egg con-
vention, whose annual meeting was held
at Cincinnati recently, the value of those
products marketed In the United States
during 1888 is more than $40 for every
man, woman and child In the population,
not including the S100,000,0 600 worth of
milk and cream sold in natural state
The eggs received in New York annually
are worth nearly as much as the cheese,
half as much as the butter, and three
Tunes as much as the poultry.
DIR. RANDALL says that when the taste
fully extends to our rural population
when our laboring farmers learn, as they
ought to learn and will learn, that eating
fat pork the year round is not conducive
to health and to an enlarged general
economy; when they acquire the habit,
as they so conveniently could, of killing
mutton habitually for household con-
sumption in its fresh state-our people,
now the greatest consumers of animal
food among the civilized nations of the
world, will become the greatest consum-
ers of mutton in the world.
IT Is usually supposed that the russell
stripes on apples are caused by the flow
er being fertilized with pollen from q
russell apple tree, and that the frequent
and peculiar red streaks on white apples
are caused in the same way. Professor
Beal, of Michigan, has recently been ex-
perimenting on the crossing of apples,
and he finds that he cannot produce
these markings by this means. He con-
cludes that they are only sport, and that
an apple cannot probably be improved
or affected by the act of fertilizing with
pollen from another flower.
WE are told that there is no driving
of the flock in Spain. When the shep-
herd wishes TO remove his sheep, he
calls tame whether, accustomed to feed
from his hands and the favorite, how
ever distant, obeys his call while the rest
large collars, armed with spikes, In or
der to protect them from the wolves,
precede the flock; others skirt it on eth
er side, and some bring up the rear. If
a sheep be i'll or lame, or lag behind,
unobserved by the shepherd, the dog
stays with it and defends it until some
one returns in search of it.
IN nearly every portion OF what are
now called the central western states,
Kentucky blue grass comes when others
disappear. It has proved reasonably
hardy IN Wisconsin, and grows luxu-
rlantly IN nearly every portion of Hi
nols 1t varies in size and appearance
under varying conditions of soil and eli
mate. In central and southern Illinois.
andin other western states within smaller
lines, it is reckoned by many farmers as
the most valuable of all pasture grasses.
It starts in the spring, and after it be-
comes well set it is hardly surpassed, so
far as permanence is concerned. It en-
dures frost well, and grows on variety
OF soils from dry knoll to wet meadows.
-Pr0ir6e Farmer.
The London Trade Journal states
that new method of tree-felling by dy-
AdLu1b6 udS U0Ou SuCCCSSI uIIY introduced.
A cartridge of the explosive substance is
praced in channel bored directly under
the tree to be operated upon, and when
exploded the tree is simply forced up
bodily and falls intact on its side, If
this system works as well as it is rep
resented to do, and the tree is not frac-
tured by the force of the explosion, a
large portion of valuable wood at the
base of the trunk can be utilized, which
is now lost. T or converting forest into
arabic land, this method appears adj
mlrably adapted, as it brings up the
roots of the tree at the one operation.
and dispenses with the costly and ted
ious process of grubbing up the roots of
the felled timber.
WHEN purchasing your harness the
team upon which it is to be used should
be at the shop; especially is this neces-
sary in order to get perfect fitting col
lar. All farmers are not able to ft upon
their horses, therefore it is of the first
importance that the seller should be
competent judge, capable of fitting