Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-10-07
FOR FARMERS AND OTHERS.

IrlDune ana FARMER, extracted in q
few minutes and served in the city that
same morning for breakfast.
A GEORGIAN dairyman has figured
out the cost of good butter in that
state at l2B cents per pound, where
good pasturage can be had on easy
terms for ten months in the year, and
the butter sells at 25 cents pound.
JOHN M. STAHL reminds q farmer
that it is not to use shrunk-
en- grain for seed. The conditions for
growth must be very favorable if the
crop even comes up to the average at
tanned by growth of plump grain un-
der ordinary conditions.
If q child lay hold of a knife or ra-
zor, do not try to pull it away, or to
force open the hand; but holding the
child's empty hand, offer to the other
anything nice or pretty, and it will
generally drop the dangerous instru-
ment In order to take the proffered
article
The editor of the Canadian Horti-
cultur1st thinks that Canadian fruit
growers may get a hardy race of
peaches by raising seedlings. II a
tree can thus be obtained to Tipen it's
fruit plant it's pits. Go on planting
the pits from the trees so produced for
several generations.
The Rural New Yorker reports tri-
ais tor three successive years with
commercial fertilizers for melons, and
not crop Of large melons or fair
quantity on poor soil so treated. But
in the same soil splendid crops were
raised by using a shovelful of farm
manure on each hill.
THERE are yet great opportunities
in the poultry business. During the
first three months of the present year
10000 barrels of, eggs (1,O66, 595 doz-
en- were imported from Europe into
this country. Fowls can be grown as
cheapl y per pound as beef or mutton,
and they always bring more money.
ACCORDING to q German authority
there are 256 varieties of cheese, more
or less distinct in their character,
made in Europe, while we are quite
sure there is but one kind made in
this country, though the shape is
sometimes varied. Is there not vast
room for Improvement here in this re-
spect?
COOPERATIVE dairying is no longer
an experiment. 1t has been before the
country long enough to demonstrate
its economy, and to prove that a
factory for cheese or butter making
will be a good investment from the
start, In any good dairy region, if it be
we'll managed. So says the Tribune
and Farmer.
A HEAP of stones after lying two or
three years will leave the soil beneath
much richer than before. This is prob
ably IN some cases due to disintegra-
ton ofthe stone, which is the mode in
which all soils are formed. But the
greater part of the effect is due to the
action Of the stones as q mulch, allow
ing the soil beneath to disintegrate.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Flint Globe
advises farmers whose cattle and
horses are annoyed with flies, to put a
couple OF ounces of pyrethrum pow
der IN quart Of water and sponge the
more sensitive parts of the animal
with it. He recommends carrying a
pail of the solution and sponge into
the field and applying whenever the
flies are annoying.
A WRITER to an English journal saws:
] have been used to the Ayrshire cow in
her native country, and now have a
herd IN the South. [ have seen her
tried side by side with the Short-horns
and some other breeds, and I have no
hesitation whatever in saying that,
taking the cost Of production into &C
count, the Ayrshire is the best all
round dairy COW in the British ISL
ands.
REMEMBER never to leave clothes
lines out week after week, but take
them down or wind them on a reel as
soon as the clothes are dry. With
this care, a clothes line will last years.
But, If left out, wind and rain will mill
dew and rot the line, and it will soon
become worthless. Added to this the
clothes will be colored from the line,
and dirty streaks almost impossible
to remove will be seen where they
rested on it.
In many sections of Iowa the raw
ages of the grasshoppers have been
very destructive. When the mead
ows were barred by the gathering of
the hay crop they attacked the oats
and timothy, in many places clipping
off from five to ten bushels per acre of
the oats. Very late oats in many
cases were so injured as to be of no
value except for straw. Since these
crops are secured they have attacked
the corn, with how much damage re-
mains to be seen.
A New YORK farmer, of many years
experience, states that ne has had the
best success in DISCRIMINATING Canada
thistles by seeding the land to grass
and moving when the thistles are in
blossom, but before the seeds are sui
fciently matured to terminate. By
following this practice, and cutting
all those in the pasture at the same
stage of growth every year, but few
will be found at the end OF five years.
In some cases it may be necessary to
NOV them twice a year.
AS WINTER approaches, mice are al
most sure to infest the hives if open
ings sufficient are left for their en-
trance Wax is non-conductor of
heat, and besides enjoying the heat