Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-12
FARM AND GARDEN,

from older chickens and adult fowls.
A LITTLE salt in the soft food given
the fowls is acceptable to them. 1t
should not exceed in quantity the
amount used in food for the table.
DURING this season afrequent water
ing of special plants may be done to
advantage. A tablespoonful of am
monia to q gallon Of water will be
found an excellent invigorator for re-
viving weak and unthrifty plants.
In eight OF the American states there
are 1,79S butter and cream factories,
and the value of the dairy products of
the whole Union last year was $780,
100000, while the value of the milk
COWS is estimated at $7OO,OOO,OOO.
A MAINE farmer had q tree which
gave a very large crop of very small
apples. He thinned the small branches
from the outside, taking more than
half and thinning the fruit the apples
came larger and gave as many bushels
as before.
The fleece of the sheep will generally
pay for care and feed. The increase II
sold, is good profit. The fleece of a
yearling steer is not worth quite so
much. This is an advantage sheep
raisers seldom consider in these hard
times.-Texas Live Stock Journal.
A sQUARE-BUILT, well muscled horse
will stand more work and more hard
ship than two lank, loose-jointed
ones, and not require as much food as
one Of them. A half-breed Norman is
worth four scrubs in the harness or
| two In the market.-Stock Breeder.
A MAPLE tree at Precton, Pa, made
it's ninety fifth annual flow this sea-
son. 1t is on record in the annals of
the family owning it that in 1890
sugar was made from the first sap it
yielded and sent to Gen. Washington,
who acknowledged it's receipt in an
autograph letter.
The Columbia rs. c. Register pre-
sents a phase of Southern farming,
but leaves the moral to be inferred f:
GA farmer from Lexington was in
town yesterday, and when asked what
he was doing here, said he was very
busy at home fighting grass; but had
to stop long enough to come over and
buy hay for his horse"
The Japanese are very fond of eggs.
They eat them at dessert like fruit,
and very often with oranges. The rich
japanese are very particular concern
ing them; they will not eat those OF
fowls which have full liberty and feed
on what they pick up; they must be
fed on rice, and they must lay their
eggs in rooms prepared for that pur-
pose.
PARIS green can be used to destroy
nearly all leaf-eating insects which
work upon trees before the fruit is half
ripe. 1t is the most effective OF all
remedies against the canker worm. 1t
is also a good remedy for the first
brood Of the coddling moth Larvae, or
apple worms. London purple is cheap
er than Paris green and may be used
IN the same manner.
LITTLE chicks should be fed little or
no wheat bread when quite young, as
it forms a paste and cannot be di-
gested. Corn bread cooked the same
as Western people cook corn dodger,
that is corn meal stirred in water with
little salt and grease added and
cooked on top Of the stove, is the best
food we have ever used until chicks are
week old, says q poultry journal
ALL manures deposited by nature
are left on or near the surface. The
whole tendency of nature is to 90
down into the soil rather than to rise
from it. There is probably very little,
II any, loss Of nitrogen from evapora-
ton Of manure unless it is put in piles
so as to ferment. Rains and dews re-
turn to the soil as much ammoniain a
4 IL
The tobacco acreage, says the Con-
necticut Farmer, will be somewhat re-
duced this year in that state. Men
are not so ready to put their entire
fortunes in the crop as formerly.
There is tendency to retire the weed
to it's proper place as supplementary
rather than a principal crop, and un-
willing recognition of the probability
that the days of high prices for it are
a thing of the past.
NATURE ripens a swath twelve miles
wide daily in the United States, COM
mencing early at the Gulf, and ending
late in the sparse settlements of the
far North. The cereal harvest swath
commences in May in Mississippi and
ends far into September in some por-
UlOuS OIL Uu0 h0Q hlV0r OF Un0 NOrUQ.
In this wheat by-and-by the click of
the reaper will give place to the busy
hum of the thrasher.
DON'T pasture your meadows close
too late in the fall, and then wonder
next year why you do not get a better
yield of hay The bare roots exposed
to severe drought in midsummer or
the cold of midwinter will suffer deter
ioration. Better SOW corn, Hunga-
rian, etc., to bridge over than ruin the
meadows or pastures by too close
cropping and tramping. You must
take care Of your grass lands if you
expect them to carry your stock to
advantage.
DARK colored, very strong tea is de-
structiveto aphides, thrips and ''twit-
ter" but harmless to scales, red spiders
and mealy bugs. Tobacco stems,
commonly known as ''factory trash,'
may be obtained at a cent a pound at
any cigar mandatory. Half fill a
pail withIstems and fill up over them
with boiling water. A pint Or quart
g Of +o,, :.