Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-08
FAHEF AND GARDEN.

cASSAFRAS pOleS lOf rOOSJS prevent
lice, it is said.
A BARREL of apples will make about
ten gallons of cider.
A MUCH larger area will be devoted
to sorghum-growlng this year than
formerly.
THERE is nothing more injurious to
a sheep than to lie on fermenting ma
nure pile.
MICHIGAN allows to each farmer who
uses wide tires on his wagon q rebate
on his taxes.
GOOD sheep require good care to
maintain their excellence, or they will
soon deteriorate.
GOOD corn fodder is an excellent
sheep feed 1t isloosening, cooling and
relieves constipation.
EARLY lambs are considered by
sheepmen the most profitable source
of income from their focks.
INDIAN corn should be fed sparingly
at this season to fowls, as it has q
tendency to fatten to an excess.
AT Seattle, Washington Territory,
eggs often sell for a dollar a dozen,
and are rarely less than fifty cents.
Do not forget the great value of
the wood ashes. They are valuable
in the orchard, in the garden, and in
the fields
In Berks County, Pa, apples sold
last season for ten cents per bushel.
A three acre orchard yielded 800 bush
els of fine fruit.
WHAT the wool growers need is less
grumbling and more united action in
seeking legislative redress, says the
| National Stockman.
A WRITER in an exchange says: Tell
your readers to feed grain, if they have
| to sell half their sheep to pay for
grain for the other half.
CHIP dirt from the side of the wood
pile and old ashes are recommended
as one of the best possible dressings
to put around fruit trees.
THE most profitable sheepis the one
that will produce an eight or nine
! pound fleece from 10 to 125 pound
carcass, an exchange says.
NOTHING is gained by selecting grape
vines more than two years old. Old
er vines suffer more by being trans
planted, and will fruit no earlier.
By the wool clip and the lamb crop,
says the Record, every well bred flock
of sheep in Colorado has paid twenty
per cent. on the capital invested in it.
THE wool business is not likely to be
overdone in this country, as we do
not supply our demands, and the
market will increase as rapidly as the
supply.
In pruning, it is well to cover the
wounds with oil or white lead or
grating wax or shellac Even the cut
part of small branches had better be
SO treated.
IT is said Of charcoal that it has
some potash and enough of sulphur to
make it an insect preventive in beds
for growing radishes, early turnips
and onions.
AN Indiana farmer banished Stops
from the pig-pen and gave his swine
clear, pure water instead. He never
had such firm, solid meat to put up
before, he says.
IT is said that eggs from mature
hens are much better for Matching pur-
poses than those from young ones, as
a larger proportion of them are likely
to prove fertile.
IT seems that the seed of sorghum
may be made to yield q fine quality of
glucose which, sWeetened with cane
Juice, is superior, in appearance at
least, to cane syrup.
By giving COWS water at tenn
perature of $50 a yield of milk one
third greater was obtained, according
to experiments made at the Agricult-
ural College, st. Remy, France.
IT has been proven by actual exper-
iment that beets or turnips can be
raised, lifted and stored for six cents
per bushel. At this cost they certain
ly are a profitable food for sheep.
JOSH BILLINGS. [ wus a
young man [ wus always in hurry to
hold the big end of the log and do all
the lifting. Now | am older seize the
small end and do all the grunting."
NEVER feed much corn to young
horses. 1t only supplys heat and fat.
forming foods. Many a colt has been
injured for life by getting too much
corn.
PROF. SToCKBRIDGE says that the
average growth of wood on an acre of
land, between New England and the
Potomac, is cord and a half a year
for thirty years after it is once cut
over
KALE should be sown in rich ground.
Sow the seeds in seed beds in April.
The plants will be ready to transplant
in June, and should be treated lust
the same as cabbages. They are
hardy.
PREPARE to give your melons q
southern to southwestern exposure,
and, if possible, a light, sandy rich
soil. You cannot raise melons in
heavy land exposed to the north and
Least winds.
T. EGG plants are just about as tender
as tomato plants Seed should be
started in frames or in the house. SO
that the plants may be in the open
ground about the middle or latter
part OF May.
A HORSESHOE made entirely of the
horn Of sheep has been tried in LYONS.
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