Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-02
FARM AND GARDEN.


water and plenty of it.
Stock in pastures without shelter
will fall off in very hot weather.
GIVE the poultry house a coat ofhot
lime and clean out the droppings fire.
quently.
IT is estimated that this year Mani
toba will have 100000 bushels of
wheat for sale.
EARLY pears soften more RAPIDLY
than late ones and should be gathered
while still very hard.
LIZ there are weeds on the farm or
on the highway adjoining it, now is
the time to cut them.
AN Eastern poultryman says ensi-
lage mixed with corn meal is an ex-
! cellent winter food for poultry.
1T is never amiss to compare the
management of your farm with that
Of your most enterprising neighbors.
EDWARD ATKINSON says that if O.
cur dog was not stronger than the av-
erage legislature, we could raise all the
wool that we now import.
PROF. KNAPP, of Iowa, says milk
ing COWS three times a day does not
pay, according to the experiments
made at the State Agricultural Col
| lege.
A Boston man has bought a section
of land in Kansas and planted it with
| trees. He proposes to raise crop of
timber, and thinks it will prove re-
munerative Investment.
| PRICKLY comfrey is q nuisance.
says the New England Farmer, and
ought to be let alone by all who live
where red clover and other valuable
| forage plants will thrive.
| A CORRESPONDENT Of the American
Garden says he applies q mixture of
oil meal and wood ashes to his straw
berry vines while growing which serves
| as fertilizer and contains no weed
| seeds.
TURN work horses out to pasture at
night, and give them their usual grain
| feed besides. Scrape off or wash off
with warm water the eggs of the bat
| fly from their hoofs. Let them have
| water often.
SHEEP manure, on account of it's
richness in silica, will make wheat grow
stout and short, with heavy heads,
DIOuuC0
soft straw, and not so solid heads. 1t is
also admirable for corn.
CAREFUL experiment has shown
there is no appreciable difference in
the growth of plants during dark and
light nights. Yet many persons still
cling to the old superstition that crops
to grow perfectly must beplanted dur
ing certain stage of the moon.
KEROSENE the chicken houses freely
and often. Don't forget the bottom
of the perches where lice most do con-
gregate. Give fresh water; keep it in
the shade. Give plenty of green food
-purslane, so plentiful now, is good.
Remove the droppings at least once
week.
CLEAN machines with petroleum, but
be careful to wipe off every particle of
the oil with a cloth, and then apply
oil. Petroleum will remove dense oils
and is itself easily removed. For pro
tecting metals from rust it is admira-
BILE, but it must not be used where
there is friction.
THE time to shape the heads of trees
is while they areyoung. Then the top
can easily be trained in almost any
shape, and with very little attention,
but, after the tree has attained some
size and age, it is very difficult to
change it's form, and pruning them
may only iniure.
w. j. FOWLER says, in the cultiva-
tor, that the Diehl Mediterranean has
proven nearly or quite exempt from
the Hessian fly. He says that it
stools so much that a seeding of five
or six pecks to the acre is enough. He
further says that it has a stiff straw
and a compact head.
The only proper time to use the hay
tedder, says the American Cultivator,
is as soon as possible after the grass
is cut. Tighten it up, then, and it will
very soon be in position to put
into cock without injury. If clover
hay is partially dried before being
shaken up, it's leaves, which are it's
most valuable part are broken off
and destroyed.
A sLoPHoLE is thought to be handy
IN some farm yards. 1t is breeding
place of disease; it often contaminates
the well, to say nothing of it's being an
! intolerable and offensive nuisance. If
no better way of getting rid of kitchen
Stops or garbage is at hand put a bar
rel on a. stone boat or sled and make
it one OF the morning chores daily to
cart the contents to the manure pile.
L. B. ARNOLD, in the farmers Advo.
cate of Canada, speaking of wife-killing
arrangements, says that a large
amount of needless work comes from
setting milk in a multiplicity of small
vessels, causing a waste of time and
labor in filling, skimming, emptying,
washing, and handlingso many dishes,
three-quarters of which might be
avoided by setting cold in a few large
vessels.
PROF. Cox says in the New York
Tribune: eve have made thorough
trial of ice-water for the cabbage
worm (larva of Pieris rap@) with no
show of benefit. We even put the cat
erpillars in ice-water for two minutes,
after which they continued to eat, pu-
pated, and came forward as butter
flies. l think the only argument in
favor of this remedy is that it may