Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-23
FARM AND GARDEN.

BLACKBERRIEs require a good soil.
The roots run very deep.
NONE but very wealthy people can
afford to burn green wood.
A WARM stable, good bed and
warm blanket are due every horse.
1T is the belief in Europe that hog
cholera in America is caused by tri-
chin8..
A CORRESPONDENT of the Pra
Farmer reports hog cholera in Will
County, III.
SHOULD you be keeping large flock
of hens and the choice lay between feed
ing the milk to pigs, decide in favor of
the hens every time.
MIR. JONES' Ontario, Canada, is cred
tied with having the largest bee farm in
the world. This seasons produce is set
down at 10000 pounds.
FARMERS intending to underdrain will
often save money by having an expert
lay out system for the whole farm,
that any mistakes may be avoided.
ARE you wintering any COWS which
will not pay for their keeping? If so,
fatten and sell them; or sell them any
way. A poor cow runs It's owner in debt.
1T is estimated that the value of the
garden products of Massachusetts,, ex-
| elusive of potatoes and beans raised on
the farms, equalled SIS, 900, 900 last year.
LET the horses litter be dry and clean
underneath as we'll as on top. Stand
ing on hot, fermented manure makes
the hoofs soft and brings on lameness.
AN eastern farmer advises the use of
kerosene for the determination of horse
nettles, pouring it on the stalks and let
ting it run down the stems into the
roots.
AN old farmer says it is his opinion
that bad results will always follow SOW
ing wheat on land into which the green
growth of any crop had just been
| turned.
FRENCH shepherds find that salt dis
solved in water and sprinkled over the
rations of sheep gives them an increased
relish for their forage and contributes to
their health.
At the Toronto Fat Stock Show the
shorthorn Champion, weight 1850
pounds and 1912 days old, won the
special prize, cup valued at 500, as
best of any age.
Mr.. GREEN, of New Albany, Ind,
says he finished the b0rers in his eight
cen acre peach orchard by scalding them
with hot water, poured on from the
| spout of a teakettle.
ENGLISH beef, which is largely made
by feeding roots, is said not to be as nu-
tritious as American beef, which is made
from corn and grass; but the English
beef is regarded as the best favored.
SAYS the Iowa Register: "One hun
dred bushels of corn will shrink to nine
| ty in the crib, and to an extent more
than that, depending on the openness of
the crib and the honesty of the neigh
| bors.
IN California considerable fruit is
canned in the orchard where it grew,
the canned product bearing transporta-
ton better than that which has to be
| shipped even a short distance from the
factory.
The editor of the Breeders Gazette
has been feeding mich COWS and young
stock with millet. Hefnds il profitable
TO himself and acceptable to the cattle.
They will leave good timothy or clover
at any time for it.
IT has been noted by members of the
Kansas State horticultural Society that
insects injurious to fruits are more nu-
merous about the railroad stations.
The average loss in that state by the
depredations of insects was "a per cent.
The American Cultivator says that if
barley has not terminated the fact of its
having been slightly stained by wet is
| no actual detriment whatsoever, the
grain is not really injured and ought to
bring to the farmer just as much as the
bright samples of equal plumpness.
n. j. SHEPHERD says that he finds a
great help in fighting insects in the gar
den is to have the soil rich and mellow.
SO that the plants make strong and
rapid growth, which takes them out of
the way of the worst injuries by the
bugs.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune says that any one who allows
his fruit trees to slowly starve to death
and then adds insult to injury by blam-
ing them for not rewarding his Incidence
with bountiful crops, deserves to be de-
barred from good fruit the remainder of
his life.
The American Cultivator suggests
that one great reason why so much dilap-
dated wire fence is seen is because the
wires are stretched too tightly. Cold
contracts iron, making the wire shorter
| in winter than when the fence was built
at milder temperature, and something
has to give way.
The Pittsburg Stockman, in noting
the fact that for three successive years
the corn crop has been more or less of a
failure, says the fault is not to be laid
entirely to the unfavorable seasons, but
to the planting of inferior seed, selected
from the immature crop of one year for
planting the next.
THERE are in Ohio 25, TIA, 421 acres of
farming land, valued on the grand dupIi-
cate for 1883 at $706, PTS, 354, while the
cities, towns and villages contain real
estate valued at $424, 783, O99. The vaIu-
alton of chattel property in the state is
$542, 207, 121, making the total valuation
for taxation ST., 673, 265, 871.
The American Cultivator thinks ma
nure may be proftably applied to wheat
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