Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22
FARM AND GARDEN.
PROTECT the insect friends.

| MONTANA caGLIo nave TO be protected
from mountain lions.
EVERY weed is stealing fertility that
is needed by useful plants.
HE Connecticut Agricultural Society
offered prizes for six kinds of pie.
A DESTRUCTIVE enemy of the beet
root has made it's appearance in Ger
many.
EvAPoRATED peaches are supplanting
the canned fruit. They are much
cheaper.
DIR. STURTEvANT estimates the seeds
OF single purslane plant to number
over 100000.
To destroy weeds in walks apply a
solution of one pound of salt to a gal
lon of hot water.
SHARPERs are now swindling farmers
by getting them to invest in bogus
cattle companies.
The understanding and ditching ma
chimes now IN use are too expensive for
the average farmer.
The exhibits at the Michigan state
fair, which was held at Kalamazoo,
were unusually large.
HE grape crop is exceptionally large
this year. Every farmer can and should
raise this delicious fruit.
MAKE no war on humble bees. They
are one of the farmers best friends.
Many plants are fertilized by them.
IF the low price of wheat directs the
attention of farmers to the advantages
OF stock-raising, it will certainly have
one good result.
A DAM $40 feet long and So feet high
is projected in Brazil for irrigating
purposes. 1t will make fertile 5000
acres of worthless land.
HE Massachusetts Ploughman be-
heVes 1t better to apply manure to land
a year before blowing than to pillow il
Immediately after the application.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Prairie
Farmer sows half bushel of timothy
seed per acre with oats. He says the
dense lower growth that follows such
heavy seeding will smother all weeds.
The outside leaves of cabbages are
greedily eaten by COWS; but with, how
ever, bad effect on the milk, unless
care is taken to feed just after milking.
Given this, the bad favor goes off be-
fore the COW is MIXED again
ROBERT BONNER differs from Henry
Bergh on the cruelty of clipping riot
ting horses. He thinks it great bene-
fit to the horse if he is properly blank
eted and groomed after exercising. He
believes it better for coach horses not
to be clipped.
IT sometimes happens that the grass
runs out when it is not convenient OF
not possible TO replow. Narrowing lust
before the fall rains come, and sowing q
mixture of timothy and other grasses,
will greatly increase the crop on such
fields another season.
SALT in their food when cooked, for
poultry, is very proper seasoning, but
salt given In it's raw state is deleterious,
If much of it is eaten by fowls. We do
not recommend its use in any form save
mixed with their mash Of scalded meal
and boiled vegetables.
IF stock is pastured it is better to
have the land SO used divided into two,
or better still, into three or four compart-
ments. When they are allowed to run
all over they keep all eaten down closely,
but by allowing successive portions to
get fresh start they do less walking,
waste and destroy less, and much
greater amount OF food is produced.
WINTER killing of wheat, says an ex-
change, is now no longer matter of
speculation, but is charged to the ae-
count of lack of fertility, an over-abund-
ance of water, and third cause, of
plowing under excessive quantities of
green growth Immediately before drill
ing, resulting in large amount of humic
acid being generated in the soil, which
proves fatal to the wheat plant by i'm
pairing it's Vigor SO that 1t is unable to
stand the rigor of winter.
EXAMINE the newly hreshed wheat
after it has been put in the bins for a
few weeks, and if damp or heating, it
should be run through tanning mill to
cool the air in it, or it should be spread
upon barn floor and shoveled over
occasionally. A good way to examine
wheat in bins is to have a stick like a
fork-handle constantly stuck its length
down into the grain; by pulling it up
and feeling it with the bare hand any
heat can at once be detected.
Mr.. L. B. ARNOLD, in conversation re-
Gently with the editor of the New En-
gland Farmer, said he had solved the
problem of keeping butter sweet for an
indefinite period by taking it from the
churn in the granular form, and after
rinsing it sufficiently in water or brine
without any working whatever. A mis-
take made by many butter-makers is
that of working their butter too much
il is sufficient to work just enough to
distribute the salt evenly through it.
TIE wintering of sheep depends much
on the condition of the flock at the be-
ginning of winter. Sheep that are low
IN flesh in the fall hardly ever improve,
but keep going down hill all along, until
before the spring time draws around
their pelts are hanging in the shed.
See, then, that your focks are in good
condition; and if there are any thin
ones among them, separate them from
the rest and give them a little grain
each day until they have gained their
wonted vigor.