Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-15
FARN AND GARDEN.


callings, be diligent to succeed.
NICELY CURED clover hay is recon-
mended as excellent for hogs in win
ter"
SOME authorities consider potash
"the most essential food for all vege-
tables"
CLOVER and grass are designated as
"the undeppinning of a successful rota-
ton"
WE find it urged that wheat should
be soaked for "a hours before it is fed
to stock.
IN a general way, it may be said that
appearance, quite as much as quality,
sells fruit.
'"1'HE English make, - it is told, ''their
sweetest pork by feeding potatoes and
barley meal"
IN order to attain the best results in
farming, rich soil and good cultivation
must 60 hand in hand
III. STEWART says that Cline should
never be plowed under, but kept as
near the top as possible"
RED pepper is mentioned as at
least preventive of cholera in the
case of both poultry and swine
On very strong soils oats are liable
to '1odge." Such soils should be Civ
en- to crop other than the oat.
FARMERS should inform themselves
of the defects of the soils they Guilt
vate and make good those defects.
BE careful in selecting seed corn. It
will be well to test it before planting
time, to see what per cent. is good.
IT is said call that need to be sup
piled to plants as food are nitrogen,
phosphates and potassium someform."
THE chickens frs Matched in the
/ brood and those with the shortest
legs fatten the best. Long-legged fowls
are difficult to fatten.
WHEN there is occasion for the en-
/ ployment OF giant powder on thefarm,
it is the part Of wisdom to call upon
! the experienced man to do the hand
ling.
CHARRED corn is an excellent food
for laying hens, as it keeps the system
clean and the hen will lay better and
amply pay for the trouble OF scorching
! the corn.
THE Ohio Agricultural Experiment
Station reports that potatoes raised
from large, whole seed ripened nine
days earlier than those from seed cut
from single eyes.
"AMBITION on thefarmis," ofcourse,
ga good thing, especially if it runs in
the direction of having the neatest
and cleanest farm, the best crops and
the finest stock"
AN Indiana farmer states that by
banishing Stops from the pig pen and
giving the swine clear, pure water he
secured frmer and more solid meat
than he had ever raised before.
1t is said that animal manures ger
orally furnish all thepotash plants re-
quire; and when thirty cords per acre
is applied, as sometimes by market
! gardeners, the soil cannot be deficient
IN potash"
VERY early potatoes may be had
for home use by starting q few tubers
at once in a hot bed and transplanting
them. A number of hills may thus be
got ready for use as soon as potatoes
begin to come in from the south.
THE manure from the fowls, if all
saved, will be worth 40 cents per fowl.
1t should be taken up with dry muck,
plaster or road dust. Such manure is
too strong to be freely used in the hill,
but should be spread broadcast and
/ narrowed IN.
IT is scarcely possible for grain to
stool much on very poor soil. We can
i get but few heads from a seed, and
these need, therefore, to be sown more
thickly to make a crop than on land
where large number of heads may be
expected from a single plant
IN one Of the best dairy sections of
New York, the average yield from 4,
500 COWS supplying creameries with
milk,was only little over 40 pounds
percow. This is probably the average
for all the COWS in the country, good
judges placingit at about 125 pounds.
IT is remarked that ''if present times
are endurable to the British farmer.
the American farmer ought to be MAX
ing money, for not only has he no rent
to pay for virgin soil, but cheap
freights have made British markets
nearly as accessible to the one as to
the other"
IT is stated that "the attempts to
raise vegetables in Greenland are not
marked with any great success. At
| go latitude, however, carrots prosper,
turnips come to perfection, ana cab
bages produce tolerably large leaves.
Potatoes never get larger than mar
bles."
IT need hardly be remarked-need
not beremarked but for thefact that it
has, here as elsewhere, to be cline up
on line and precept upon prccept"-
that "the most successful farmers
study out every means of increasing
the comfort of their stock and lessen
ing the cost of it's keep"
LEXIS are very useful vegetables.
Sow seeds in April in beds with drills
1 foot apart; when 6 inches high, trans
plant. They should be set deep, so
that the soil may blanch them, or the
soil should be hilled up about them.
The Rouen, Clarendon and large fay,
all winter varieties, are the best.
A Boston paper tells it that "before
the war only the sweet potato was
grown in the Southern states. Now,