Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-24
FARM AND GARDEN.

IHIS is the season OF the year When
the bovines are singing: Fodder, dear
fodder, come home with me now"
Two straight chalk marks on your
gate posts tells the vagabonds of the
world that you are harborer and alder
of tramps.
CIDER apples in Westchester County,
N. Y, are worth, at the present time,
only about ten cents bushel, and are
abundant
The woman who sticks to her post in
the pestilential chamber is far Drawer
than Alexander charging at the head of
his cavalry.
HE dairy managers expect fifty car
loads of butter to be placed on exhibit
ton at New Orleans. The United
States against the world.
No cattle of any kind are allowed to
be imported into Jersey and Guernsey
in order that the cattle of those islands
may be kept strictly pure.
NEATNEss, compactness and warmth
are the great points always to be kept
in view by the farmer in laying out
or adding to his cattle houses or barns.
THERE are now living in Scotland
about $500 Aberdeen-Angus cattle,
male and female, and two-thirds as
many-a few more than 1900 in this
country.
ONIONS are known to be ripe when
a large share of the tops fall over. Pull,
dry thoroughly, cut off the tops and
sell or store in dry, cool place, spread
ing thinly.
HOG cholera in it's fatal form is pre-
vailing in parts of Monroe and Law
renee Counties, Ind. Recently many
have died, and it is specially fatal among
young pigs.
BANDS of carpet, bagging, or other
fabric fastened around the trunks of
apple trees with single long tack will
catch many apple worms. Examine
weekly and kill.
CAMELINA sATIvA, or wild or false fax,
a weed very troublesome in some locali-
ties, can be killed out if cut down or
plowed under when it begins to bloom,
as it is an annual.
A WASH of lime, soda or tobacco tea
will drive away scale bugs and other
parasites from trees; but the healthier
and more vigorous the tree the less La
bic it is to such pests.
ONE trouble in making sugar from
beets is the fact that the varieties
yielding the sweetest juice are poor
choppers, and are, therefore, unprofta-
BILE TO farmers who grow them.
CONVENIENCE and economy of space
are almost synonymous terms, and
these are the great points to be kept in
view. Good ventilation is as essential
to the well-being of stock as of man.
PROF. HENRY urges farmers to feed
more oats to young stock, colts as well
as calves. There is no food so easily
attainable that will cure acidity of the
stomach and keep the system in order.
AN Indiana farmer says he keeps
bells on several of the sheep of his
focks, and though his neighbors all
about him have had sheep. killed by
dogs, his flock has never been troubled.
WHEN using the wagon to take load
to the field, throw in a shovel and bring
back load of loan from around
stumps and logs, or woods dirt, and
throw in into the compost heap. It will
pay.
IT is not half the labor to manage
flock of fowls which pays handsome
profit for the capital invested as it is
to feed and manage few pigs that give
but little return both for capital and
labor.
WEEDS Or small brush set up before
the entrance of weak colonies of bees
will assist them in keeping away rob-
bers, as they dislike very much to ap-
proach the entrance by winding pas
sage.
To save his hogs when attacked with
cholera a Pennsylvania farmer buried
them up to their necks in the ground
and fed them for two weeks, at the end
of which time he dug them up perfectly
cured.
Do not entirely neglect the bees
though no surplus is being gathered.
Very strong colonies, by some accident
having lost their queen. will dwindle
very fast and soon fall prey to the
worms.
The transportation rates on dressed
beef shipped by rail have been fixed at
seventy-fve per cent. above live stock
rates, the rates being forty cents per
100 on live. stock, and seventy cents on
dressed beef.
VARNIsH for scratches in horses is
recommended by correspondent. He
says that by washing the diseased parts
thoroughly with warm suds, and apply
ing coat of coach varnish, a speedy
cure is effected. ,..-
Few farmers think so far al To mt a |
prop under the tongue or thills of farm
carts while loading, or at other times
when not in motion, and yet thought
fulness in this matter would save much
suffering to animals. ,e
The sparrow has proved himself an
intolerable nuisance in the United |
States, over the whole length and |
breadth of which he has spread, and |
bitter cry like that from plagued Egypt |
has begun to so up for deliverance. - |
The Hour.
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