Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-02
FARM AND GARDEN.

FOR tno prOmOt1On OF Gno MIX yleld,
oat middlings are considered one of the
best rations.
BROOD sows should have nice, warm,
dry pens, and should be kept quiet and
well bedded.
Corn is considered one of the best
kinds of food to produce wool and
heavy feeces.
WITHIN nineteen years the domestic
wool trade of Boston has increased
nearly three-fold.
WISCONSIN tobacco growers as rule
are aYerse to the use of phosphates as
plant food for tobacco.
THERE are 200 varieties of cherries,
go of apricots, 239 of peaches, 1857 of
pears and 297 of plums.
The principal essentials to success in
duck and geese raising are plenty of
room, water and pasture.
In the Northern states alone it has
been figured up that it costs $33,000,-
600 annually to support the dogs.
The business of strawberry growing
is rapidly increasing in Tennessee,
many growers having fields of 100
acres.
FARMERS who have tried it say that
a good crop of cabbage can be raised
by growing few tobacco plants among
them.
STOCK raisers in Texas say that they
are receiving about So all around less
than they did last spring for the same
stock.
Corn roots run shallow, which ac-
counts for the fact that hilled corn
blows down more easily than if level
culture is used.
AN Australian ram was sold in that
country for the large sum of $4,000.
The wool taken from it's fleece was over
four inches in length.
MODERATELY fat hens are the most
generous layers and their eggs produce
stronger and more healthy chickens
than those from over fat hens.
IT is a good plan to pinch off the la
ter blooms of the tomato plant, as this
will hasten the maturity of the plant al
ready set and increase it's size.
FARMERS are now generally assent
ing to the opinion that all swamp lands
and most level clay land should be tile
drained if it is to be cultivated.
NEVER gather berries while wet with
dew or rain. Much fruit is ruined by
being gathered too early in the morn
ing, especially in hot, sultry weather.
BARLEY, rye, Alsike and Lucerne
grains and grasses, potatoes, peas and
other vegetables have all terminated
this spring without irrigation in the
vicinity of Fruita, Col.
A COMPANY has been formed at Ber-
lin "for the removal of trichin@ from
pork" The meat is picked in brine
containing muriatic acid, the brine be-
ing heated to high temperature.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Farm
err thinks an inverted sod produces by
far the largest and best crop of Lima
beans. A very rich garden soil pro-
duces rank growth of vines and late
crop.
The prospects of the wheat crops
are not as good as a month ago. A
larger area was injured by the winter
freezing than was generally supposed.
A full average crop, however, is expect
ed.
THE cheddar cheese of Canada is
made by draining off the whey while it
is sweet, the curd being allowed to sour
afterward. THERE'S more nutriment in
the cheddar than in the common cheese
of the States. American Cultivator.
CARBoLIo soap, literally applied two
or three times, at intervals of as many
days, will, it is claimed, entirely de-
stroy lice on hogs. It is also good
plan to mix little sulphur with their
feed at the same time.
IT is very rare that hens time is
worth too much to be spent in brooding
and rearing family. This is more near
| " an automatic method of rearing
chickens than any which art can devise.
It will, at least, run itself with less help
than any other.
Cows that are watered from stagnant
ponds or from wells in the barnyard
will give milk more Or less tainted, and
from which it is impossible to make the
best butter. So large part of milk is
water that the drink of the COW is of
quite as much Importance as her food.
IT is said that Western New York
farmers will plant less corn than ever
before, having been scared by the fail
ures of the past two seasons. They
claim to have bought Western corn at
lower prices than they could grow it in
ordinary seasons, when they have an
average crop.
ALL grass land that is disposed to re-
tain water should be tile drained, and
especially if it is designed for the pasture
of stock. The instinct of cattle grazing
on a pasture guides them to pass
by the tall, rank grass of wet spot
of ground to crop the shorter herb
age of dry soil.
The authorities of the Iowa Agricult-
ural College make the following CLASH
fcations of the relative values of vari
GUS foods as milk producers: Corn,
per 100 pounds, so cents; oats, so cents;
barley, 55 cents; wheat, IS cents; wheat
bran, 70 cents; oil meal, $1.45; clover
hay, 80 cents; timothy, 30 cents; pota-
toes, 10.
NOTWITHSTANDING that exercise ex-