Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-06-11
FARM AND GARDEN.

OhASS eggs are the UeSU 1oI HeSt
eggs.
The French cultivate sorrel for
salads.
LINsEED meal is said to cure scours
in sheep.
THE cheese production of Canada is
increasing.
Two American colleges have forestry
departments.
WILD hogs are becoming quite numer-
GUS in Nevada.
JAPANESE farmers cultivate all crops
with large chisel.
ENGLIsHMEN own one-sixth of the
cattle in Montana.
NEARLY one-half the butter sold in
New York is an imitation.
The maple sugar crop in New En-
gland was small again this year.
MORE than 100000 skunk skins were
brought to market in this country last
year,
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, is the great
point of shipment for Southern straw
berries.
AN ear of corn containing LOO we'll
matured grains was grown in the
Crosse Tete, La.
The widest colts, if properly ham
died, often become the quietest and
safest, generally developing into the
most enduring horses.
FARMERS should not be prevented
from planting their usual acreage of
potatoes by the large crop and conse-
quent low prices of last year.
EVERY farm should have root crop
as part of rotation. A root crop cleans
the land of weeds and furnishes an
abundance of food for farm animals.
The Chinese farmer soaks all his
seed before sowing in liquid manure
diluted with water. A correspondent
says eggplant, squash and melon seed
may be thus treated to great advan-
tage.
| CHOICE horse steaks sell in France
and Germany for about eight cents per
pound. It is regular article of diet
among the poor in the large cities Of
these countries, and is said to be both
palatable and nutritious.
KEEP the horse collars clean TIL
dust and dirt which adhere to collars
when they are wet with sweat works in
to Jumps and ridges, and sore shoulders
are the result. If the collars become
hard wash them clean, pound them and
apply oil.
POULTRY should not be allowed to
run on the same plots of ground year
after, without proper precautions for
renewing, refreshing or disinfecting.
1t is a mistake to neglect these things,
and to allow the accumulation of drop
pings for weeks and months WITHOUT
removal. Poultry-keeping without
pains taking is proftless.
JACOB TAYLOR, of Spireland, gives
the Indiana Farmer his remedy against
the dangerous ailment, milk fever, in
young COWS. After losing several COWS
he learned of the remedy, which he
says has not failed of cure in q single
case. As soon as the calf is born give
the COW bucketful of dry bran, in
which a tablespoonful of gunpowder
has been thoroughly mixed. He finds
this an excellent thing to give COW
| just before calving time also.
SORGHUM, for fattening cattle, is high
ly recommended by DR.. Kedzie, of the
Michigan Agricultural College. 1t has
been found by some who have tried it,
he says, to possess wonderful fattening
properties, and produces beef of very
superior quality. But he adds that the
sorghum must be fed cautiously at first
until the cattle become used to it, on
account of eating too freely of the ma
terial, causing securing, etc. The seed
of cane are equal in value, pound for
pound, to oats or corn.
A VIReINIAN, writing to the New York
Tribune, wonders that the custom of
naming the homestead, so universal in
the sold Dominion" is not more gen
eral throughout the Union. "Mest of
the old places" he adds, "bear very at
tractive and expressive nam es-as Bose
we'll, Shelly, Ford, Eagle Point, Elm
Wood, Marlfeld, Oak Lawn, or the
Cedars. It was good taste also to re-
tain Indian names. When farms have
no proper names they are sure to re-
ceive very undesirable nicknames"
Col. F. D. CURTIS says that a good
crop of peas will afford from forty to
sixty bushels to the acre, and bushel
of them will go further in making
growth than bushel of corn, because
peas, being heterogeneous, supply all the
wants of the system, and make a health
full and firm flesh, whereas corn goes
more to fat, which is not so good for
food and makes softer pork with more
waste in the cooking. He sows black
eyed marrowfats, with ground in good
condition, broadcast or with drill,
using two to two and one-half bushels
per acre.
A WRITER says that years expert
ence with broad wagon wheels is con-
elusive as to their value. A four-inch
tire will carry two tons over soft ground
! with greater ease to the team than a
two and half inch tire will carry one
ton. The wheels are not SO much
strained by stone and rough tracks on
the road, and the road is not cut up,
but. on the contIar is packed down