Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-27
FARM AND GARDEN.

posture.
The New York butter yield is valued
at $56,OOO,OO0.
A RAM belonging to John Bell, of Te-
konsha, Mich, sheared forty -four and
one-half pounds. It was the growth of
1854 days.
LOUDLY the praises of buttermi1k as
drink for hot weather are sung of late.
Tt is a good Misunderstanding, nutri-
tious, healthful and cheap.
AN apple tree in Mercer County, KY,
has borne fruit for sixty seasons with
out failing. Five feet from the ground
it's trunk is ten feet nine inches in cir
conference.
In California the waste from the har-
vest of grain is often allowed to reseed
the land, and second CT volunteer"
crop is raised without any blowing or
additional seeding.
CoTToN-sEED meal well fed to COWS
will increase the yield of milk, but the
managers of Eastern creameries refuse
milk from COWS fed more than one quart
per day, and then it should be given i'm
mediately after milking.
AN AGRICULTURAL writer gives the fol-
lowing periods to which various trees
have been known to reach in particular
cases: Elm, 1876 years; maple, 416;
larch, SIG; orange, $50; cypress, 800;
walnut, 900; oriental plane, 1000; lime,
LOO; spruce, 1900; oak, 1900; cedar,
1000; yew, 5000.
BROOM sedge indicates silicious, al
buminal soil; pig weed and dock, a
good subsoil; sap weed, a potash soil ;
poverty grass, a worn out soil red piney,
a barren soil; wire grass, a strong soil ;
crab grass, a rich surface soil sassafras
and MULLEN show want of calcareous
elements; sumac indicates potash, while
sorrel indicates deficiency of lime.
The editor of the Iowa Homestead
says that last fall he fed out lot of
second crop clover on rough piece of
raw prairie. He first burned off the
prairie grass. The cattle ate part of it,
tramped some in the ground and the
wind blew the rest back and forth. The
result is the prairie isnicely seeded to
clover. He considers this desirable
way to seed bare spots in pastures.
THERE are some plants grown in the
garden that are gross feeders. Such
plants will appropriate any quantity of
manure that may be given them. Cab
bage, celery and asparagus are such, and
in order to push them forward rapidly
there is nothing superior to an occas-
ional application of liquid manure, fol-
lowed the next day by hoeing. The
more such crops are worked the better,
THE American dairyman recommends
those who have trouble in getting q
good quality of butter to stake down
the scythe from the old apple tree and
march out into the pasture, and stay
there until you have cut down every
weed you can find. There is no weed
known to botany that makes good milk;
they are the natural enemies of every
product of the farm, and to the dairy
products In particular"
ALMOST any kind of material left on
the ground under fruit trees, says
horticulturist, will act as fertilizer. It
will at least prevent the growth of
grass and weeds, and thus check loss of
moisture and fertility that the tree
needs to perfect it's growth. It is as a
mulch that the advantage of straw ia
orchards consists. It's fertilizing value
is very small, and none of this available
until the straw is rotted.
RECENTLY farmer who had pIowed
up fence row relaid the fence after
seeding with timothy and clover. 1t
was fence rail, laid worm fashion, and
under the rails, where the heat of the
sun was shaded, the grass was vigorous
and at least three times as large and
thick as it was where no shade was had.
This burning up of the plants by heat,
perhaps, explains some failures in grow
ing grass seed without caution.
The use of blood as food for cattle
has, it is stated, been the subject of ex-
pertinent in Denmark by chemist
who, as result, has now invented and
patented new kind of cake, in which
blood forms one of the chief ingredi-
ents. This new food is stated to be ex-
ceedingly nutritious and wholesome,
and is eaten with avidity by all sorts of
animals, and even by COWS and horses.
which have naturally strong dislike
to the smell of blood.
+ An Ohio farmer gives the following as
plAO OOoU Wdy ALL OOuO1uS S1ud1 duOuuG
of berries, or even eggs for Matching, by
express: "Put the berries in four
quart basket, and put it in larger one
"a peck and suspend it from the handle
by rubber cord. Then tie the ends. and
sides with the same material, so that it
can neither touch the bottom nor sides.
Have it just stiff enough, but not too
stiff, SO that it will spring when moved
Tie paper over the larger basket and
tie tag upon the handle.
The blossoms of the pumpkin and
melon tribe are of.two kinds, male and
female. The male blossoms are on long
stalks, while the female are nearly SEES
sile and are under the leaves. The
male flowers soon wilt and die People
ignorant of this fact often suppose that
pumpkins or squashes are "blasted"
when male flowers die. If the male
flowers should not be numerous, and if
bees are not plenty, it is good practice
to shake the male flowers over the