Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-13

or carcasses, particular breeds should
be used for the purpose intended.
LIvE-FoR-EvER is a weed that re-
quires thorough treatment to subdue
it. The best remedy is to pillow the
land in the dryest time in the summer
rather shallow, and let the surface
ground be thoroughly dried, by which
the plants will be killed. To cultivate
the ground only spreads this pest, as
broken leaves Of it will root and make
plants. But when it is merely turned
and then baked in the hot sun it has no
chance. The land might be replowed
crosswise late in the fall, which would
again turn over any roots that had es
capped the previous blowing. In the
spring we would SOW pea vine clover
which will smooth any stragglers, and
then pillow it all under in the early fall
and put in wheat or rye crop.
II WOULD suggest" says Prof. Cook
in the Rural New Yorker, placing
pieces of fresh meat, creased paper, ETC.,
In the hives in hopes to attract the
pests, which when massed on these de-
coys could easily be killed. If thought
best, the straps could be screened by
placing them in box made of fine wire
gauze SO that the bees could not reach
them. In such screens / should try
placing pasteboard smeared with thir
coat of thin syrup, to see if the mites
| had sugar tooth to lure them to de-
struction. On such sticky surface it
would be we'll to sprinkle -four, sugar,
etc. If we can find in this manner
| some substance that will attract these
little destroyers and call them off the
bees the battle is won."
HORSE radish does well on any kind
of soil, but best in rich, moist ground
A sand loan well enriched with rotten
! stable manure will give fine, clean
straight roots; on clayey soil the roots
are apt to fork and finger" The rows
are made twenty-four inches apart, and
sets are planted eighteen inches apart
in the rows. No other cultivation is re-
CURED but to keep the ground clean
AS it is a late crop it is usual to grow
another, as early crop, between the
rows and put the rows two and one hall
| feet apart. Beets Of an early kind are
the best to grow with the horse-radish
in alternate rows, as they do not make
large tops. Horse-radish is entirely
hardy and can be left safely in the
ground all winter, but it is best to
harvest the roots and keep them in
pits.
A FARMER writer writes to the Prairie
Farmer that he made $3.50 from one
and an eighth acres of land. He paid Sd
rent, used twenty-one loads of Stacked
ashes and paid about 81 for stable man
ure. The crop was sorghum, and the
good field is attributed to the thorough
preparation of the soil. He said: 81
paid ST for seed, and ct harvest time
hired boy as help at Is cents day
We cured the blades separate from the
tops. From the cane 244 gallons Of
syrup were made, the cost being $50
and this sold for $117.80. This is not
all. I had forty-eight sheep, which
weighed sixty-four pounds per head
[ fed them on the fodder four months
then weighed them, and found they had
gained 585 pounds. I sold them at 4
cents pound, which brought me 1884
a head for my feed"
No time on the rm is better spent,
says the Massach sets Ploughman,
than that of destr ying all weeds before
they ripen any seeds; to do this two OF
three years lessons the labor of cultiva-
ton at least one-half, and at the same
time very much increases the product
of the garden or field. Some farmers
say that, as the manure is full of weed
seeds, it is but little use trying to get
rid of weeds in the garden; but they
forget that it is very much their own
fault that weed seeds get into the ma
nure. If every farmer would make it
part of his business to see to it that Nc
weeds go to seed under the fences, and
around the cultivated fields and com
post heap, it would be but a few years
before he would find his manure quite
free from weed seeds. The labor OF
moving around the plowed land and
fences, before the weeds are old enough
90 seed, is not half the labor that would
be required to destroy the weeds that
would come from the seed, if permitted
to stand to ripen their seed.