Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-17
FARM AND GARDEN.

IHE woods of the United States are
estimated to cover 380,000,0OO acres.
or sixteen per cent. of the total area.
70 prevent mot cure) the attack of
borers on fruit trees, wash the trunks
with mixture of soap and kerosene.
If you have field too rocky to be
cultivated, set out an apple-orchard,
and in few years you will have q
handsome income from it.
A SMALL amount of lime mixed with
wheat that has acquired musty smell
by having been slightly heated, will
sweeten it without injuring the wheat,
it is claimed.
This is the season in which horses are
apt to be troubled with scratches. Be
sure and see that the fetlocks are
clean. There is too much neglect of
the legs of horses.
PROF. TRACY regards sweet corn as
our most valuable vegetable. He saws
that nowhere else in the world, unless
1t be in Italy, can sweet corn be grown
IN such perfection as in our country.
OHIO, Western Pennsylvania, and
West Virginia produce the choicest
f1eeces of washed wool raised in the
United States, and form standard
which regulates the value of all woods
marketed.
QUOTING from the New York Tribune.
Green's Fruit Grower says that resi-
dent of Newburg, N. Y, Mr.. E. Ell.
CLARK, is said to have 200 different sorts
OF apples grated upon one tree-137 of
them in bearing last year.
COMMON coal oil, such as is used for
burning in lamps, is claimed to be a
perfect protection to timber against the
ravages of worms, when applied freely.
With it's use the trouble of having wood
powder posted is successfully averted.
A FARMER of Harvey County, Kas.,
reports great yield of wheat from a
small quantity of seed. From one and
one-half bushels of seed sowed on three
acres he reaped 135 bushels, a yield of
80 bushels to each bushel of seed sown.
Stock raising has made Holland one
OF the wealthiest agricultural countries
in the world. Land there is worth from
two to four thousand dollars an acre
nine acres out of every ten are kept in
grass, and pay the owners large divi-
dends.
A WELL known genealogical writer says
that there are two hundred and nine
varieties OF cherries, sixty of apricots,
two hundred and thirty-nine of peaches,
one thousand and eighty-seve of pears,
and two hundred and ninety-seven of
plums.
1T has been ascertained by carefully
repeated experiments that the first
drawn milk contains five, the second
eight and the fifth seventeen per cent.
of cream. Thus COW three quarters
MIXED is not half MIXED, if butter is
the object.
IT is possible for a Short-horn steer
three and under four years old, exhib-
tied at the next fat stock show, provided
he is owned in Iowa, to receive as pre-
miums an aggregate of $4,000. This
should bring out Iowa's best obtain
able specimens.
A SOUTHERN paper mentions the
case of an eighty-acre farm, that had
become so exhausted as to yield but
four or five bushels of wheat per acre,
but by the use of clover as green crop,
it was made to produce this year from
twenty to twenty-five bushels of wheat
per acre.
AN exchange wisely says that rocky
forest land had better be kept in woods
until the rest of the farm is in the high
est possible state of cultivation. There
are millions of acres of poor land partly
cultivated that ought never to have been
cleared off. OF that which is plowed
not one acre in 1000 is made to pro-
duce half as much as it would produce
if thoroughly titled and wisely eulti-
waited.
A WESTERN correspondent recon-
mends selling fat hogs about January /.
Keeping hogs till January gives them
ample time to accumulate flesh, and as
farmers say, they have time to fill out,
and that hogs fat faster the last of the
season. Sometimes hogs bring more at
the beginning of the shipping season,
but there is always cause for such
result, which can be foreseen and easily
taken advantage of by producers.
THE irrepressible question as to
whether trees should be set out in the
fall or spring is answered by the Rural
New Yorker in this way: IF you live
north of Chicago and New York set
them in the spring; if south of Chicago
and New York, in the fall But wher-
ever you live, give the roots large holes
and mellow soil. Compact the earth
well about the roots and cover it with a
few inches of manure, or something of
the kind"
PROF. Morrow says that the
prickly confrey has been grown on the
Illinois Industrial University farm for
several years. It grows luxuriantly,
but he counts it valueless where good
grass, clover, or corn fodder can be
readily grown. He has never known
horse, COW, sheep, or pig to voluntarily
eat it as it grows or when offered them.
1t would be classed as coarse weed.
Knowing nothing of either one would
almost as soon select the Canada thistle
or the burdock for valuable forage
plant.
PEANUT FLOUR may yet become an
important product of the Southern
states. It is reported that Virginia