Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-17
FARM AND GARDEN.

A GREEN crop plowed underis always
beneficial to the soil.
The wolves and eagles are thinning
the hocks of West Virginia.
A RAT in acorn-crib willconsume and
waste enough corn to keep a pig.
The Norway spruce, planted two
| feet apart will soon form a beautiful
hedge.
THERE are no "off-years" in ounce
| culture, and there is always a ready
market for the fruit.
WEEDS, briars and bushes may be
cut from the pastures with as much
profit as from the meadows.
A CENTRAL Illinois correspondent of
the Cultivation says 90 per cent. of the
bees IN that section are dead.
IT is said that 1000 new farms will
be opened up in Colorado this season.
They all have to be irrigated.
BEET seed has a faint tinge of pale
green if new, but is dull brown if old,
and its vitality is very doubtful if old.
The sorghum sugar-works at Cham
paign, Ill, have been abandoned.
| The venture is total loss to the
stockholders.
SooT is an excellent "starter" for
corn, as it is rich in nitrogen. 1t is q
| substance that is often wasted, but
which is really valuable.
SoFT-wooDED plants should always
be placed nearest the light, while hard
and smooth-leaved ones will not suffer
in quite shaded situations.
The Western Farmer recommends
the sowing Of orchard grass with blue
grass, timothy and clover for pasture
It starts early and grows late.
A LOAN agent who has had thirty
| five years experience in Iowa, says he
had never known q mortgage to be
foreclosed on a dairy or stock farm.
AN Englishman, who has recently
| been investigating the agricultural re-
sources of the Soudan, says it is one
Of the finest agricultural regions of the
world.
| A FRENCHMAN claims to have discov-
cred that butter can be separated from
milk by passing a suitable electric cur
rent through the tactical fluid. He has
secured a patent.
A WRITER in the Rural Workman
says a teaspoonful of coal oil poured
| into the wound made by peach borer3
in the body of limbs of trees is sure
death to the borer.
The roots of clover and some other
grasses often find their way to very
considerable depths, but drains laid
| from three to four feet deep are seldom
choked by the roots.
USE plenty of lime in the orchard
and around the vines. Itprevents the
attacks Of insects and serves as plant
food, as well as Fastening chemical &C
ton in the soil, thereby rendering the
inert substances available.
LAMPBLACK mixed with strong vim
egar is said to make paint for mark
ing sheep that will not iniure the wool,
and will remain for a year. 1t is
worth trying. Tar and paint are
both blotching and difficult to scour
from wool.
'"THE meanest man on earth," says
T. B. Terry, ''is the one who hires his
children to do Job and then forgets
to pay them-who gives them calf
to raise for their own, and sells it
when grown up and coolly pockets all
the money"
In the draining of sloughs straighten
the line of descent as much as possible
without too much digging. Because
nature forms water courses crooked is
no reason why man should follow the
example blindly however good nature s
laws may be generally.
BLACK pepper is the cabbage protec-
tor, says the Farming World, and the
way to apply it is to reduce it to a
very fine powder and dust it over the
plants. Go early in the morning,
while the dew is on the plants, and
dust over each a small quantity and
the vermin will leave.
PROF. MAYNARD says that the
strawberry, in a botanical sense is
analogous to an ear Of corn; that as
the cob exists merely as a receptacle
for the kernels SO the pulp-edible
part-of a strawberry, exists merely
for the sake of the little seeds which
dot it's surface. The Rural New York
er wishes the ''cob' of the strawberry
was several times as large.
No green manure should be placed in
contact with the roots of any trees
newly set, but any kind of manure
may be spread on the surface and cul-
tivated in. The best way is to pre-
pare land by liberal manuring a year
in advance of setting trees. Then they
will find an abundance of plant food in
suitable condition for immediate use.
High grade fertilizers, especially bone
and potash, are always safe to use
broadcast in orchards, for any varie-
ties of trees.
A PoMFRET, Conn, farmer, whose
COWS are accustomed to run beside
barbed wire fences, wishing to open q
part of the moving to them for fall
feed, drew two lines of old cord and
other pieces of Irvine across the field,
making them fast here and there to
some bean poles, The whole thing
was the work of only a few minutes,
and not one of the eight COWS ever
crossed or molested that fence. They
fed up to it, then turned aside. Such
is the force of habit.
WITH any amount of hard wor
ahead, which must be done, it is very
necessary that farm horses should
have the best of care. Feed them all
thew want, but don't give too much