Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-04
FARM AND GARDEN.

CABBAGE are splendid winter feed for
poultry, and should be saved for that
purpose. -
DURING the last ten years the United
States has imported eggs to the value
of Sic, 400,938.
The world produced only $4,000
tons of beet sugar in 1862. Last year
the product was 2,225,O00 tons.
BARNARD manure is often found to
harbor wire-worms, but thoroughly
sailing it will destroy the pest.
IT takes good deal of cornmeaI to
counterbalance the effects of frosty air
coming through numerous crevices in
the hog-pen.
A QUEEN BEE, sent from Bethlehem,
via Jerusalem, to the United States the
past summer in twenty-six days, arrived
in good condition.
HAVE the stables warm enough to
keep the horses comfortable without
blankets; they will stand the cold better
when out of doors.
HE leading journals of Oregon and
Washington Territory are advocating
| the introduction of the beet sugar in
dustry in the Northwest.
AN old dairyman says the way to treat
cheeses in the winter is to wash them
with vinegar as often as the mold gath
ers on them, and turn them when they
are washed.
Two main points in good farm wagon
are lowness, to save lifting, and cut-un-
der, for convenience in turning. The lat
ter, however, calls for very low fore
Iswheels, and the low wheels call for
springs, tosmodify the suddenness of the
lift over obstacles.
AFTER the early garden crops are off
the ground is usually left to go to weeds.
This is very injurious, as the seeds of
the weeds remain as disturber of the
next years crops. It will pay to spade
up all vacant places and keep them
clean, whether intended for another
crop or not.
Il GOOD fertilizer for pot-plants is one
ounce of carbonate of ammonia dissolv-
ed in a gallon of water, which should be
soft. Water the plants well with it o
few weeks and you will be surprised at
the way they will grow. The article
can be bought at the druggists for fifty
cents per pound. Keep the soil in the
pots loose.
SEVENTY FIVE years ago the first to-
matoes grown in this country were Gull
tivated as strange and snowy horti-
cultural curiosity in a garden in Salem,
Mass. Forty years ago or little more
they began to be used as a vegetable in
the season, Last year nearly seventy
five million cans of tomatoes were pack
ed in this country.
THIRTY years ago an elm on the farm
of P. Mariner of Penn Yam, blew down,
and the trunk which remained in the
soft ground and ran along IS fest, began
to sprout. Now 26 trees, well-grown,
perfect, and some of them so feet high,
are the result. They are not branches,
but have roots, and are Independent of
the original trunk.
FROM single grain of wheat planted
in 1881, says the Grass Valley (CalO
Record, grew twenty-five stalks, each
bearing a full head. These yielded 800
grains, 700 of which were planted the
next year, producing one-ffth of
bushel of splendid wheat. This was
planted last spring, yielding seventeen
bushels, making 1920 pounds of wheat
from one grain in three years.
DENMARK spends $55, 900 annually for
agricultural teaching. There are dairy
schools and schools in agriculture. I'M
proved methods are taken up by every
Dane from the king down to the hum
blest farmer. The consequence is that
this little, cold, barren country is able
to export large numbers of excellent
cattle, quantities of farm and dairy
produce, while the producers are thriv-
ing and comfortable.
TREE culture on the plains is making
rapid progress under wise encourage
ment by the government. It is not un-
usual now to see in naturally treeless
regions farmers and mechanics homes
surrounded by thriving groves. The
cotton wood, the tree indigenous to the
water courses Of the West, is reinforced
by the Western catalpa, white ash, white
elm, black walnut, locust, mulberry, sill
yer maple, red cedar, and the willow.
The amount of vegetable produce
annually imported into England is more
than that produced by the soil. To say
AOoAAh6 " oAOHAOS@A VI OuO-GIOp1Cdl V0SO-
table products, cork, dye-woods, oils,
resins, gums; nothing of cotton and
grasses, Of hemp and fax, of indigo,
madden and fruits, they import sawn
and split timbers, slaves and mahogany
to the value of e15,0OO,OOO per annum:
mahogany alone costs e4OO, 1000; the
imports not sawn and split down to
1868, stood steadily at 95,OOO,OOO in
value.
WHEN properly used, fallen leaves
are good mulch for most plants
They should be spread evenly over the
surface and held down with a little
sedge or other coarse material. Leaves
do not harbor mice as do hay and
straw. For uneven ground they are
not SO good, as they settle down into
the hollows and become matted with
the snow and ice, and often rot delicate
plants. About shrubs leaves are espe-
cially desirable, because they may be
loft on in anrino and thav roor1 .o1