Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

THERE is no better food for fAtten-
ing poultry than boiled rice
AMERICAN beef is retailed in London
or less than it is in Boston.
The pear delights in a deep. rich
warm loan, with a clay subsoil.
THE plum requires a deep, moist soil
| but there must be no stagnant wafer
in it.
The Philadelphia Press saws truly
that a bad road is a bad Introduction
to any neighborhood.
THE famous potato-grower of the
Rural New Yorker says he has grown
potatoes that weighed six pounds.
THERE is a club at the state capital
of Maine, composed of the members of
the Legislature who are farmers.
THERE is nothing that makes q bet
ter winter feed than cabbage; and no
other crop can be kept more easily.
ALWAYS keep convenient in the sta
BILE a little mutton tallow or vaseline
to use when O. cows teats show signs
Of cracking.
ENGLISH gardeners buy toads wher-
ever they can be obtained, and put
them in their gardens to keep down
insects and slugs.
WHEN the early lambs begin to
come, have a fresh COW, and feed the
young lambs cows milk, beside the
ewes milk, twice day.
THE cherry grows best in rich, warm,
sandy loan. If mulch of leaves,
straw or brush is put around them
they will be very much benefited by it.
The agricultural editor of the Los
Angeles (Cal.) Herald recommends figs
and grapes as the best possible food
for hogs, and says that they are
being thus used extensively in Califor-
nia.-St. Louis Republican.
FROM the milk records of the Michi-
gan State Farm the average annual
yield of six short-horns was 5,OO9.16
pounds; Of six Ayrshires 3,525.33
pounds, and of two Jerseys, 4,949.5
pounds.
MIR. PARSONS, a Western tree-grOwer,
has sold $2,7OO worth of walnuts
from II acres of land. He will not be
in hurry to clear that land of it's
trees. A good hickory grove pays
better in it's fruit than any ordinary
farm crop.
The secretary of the Massachusetts
| State Board of Agriculture, says that
a horse will do better if fed four times
a day, and should not befed less than
three times. He says the horse is diff
| ferent from any other animal in that
he has thesmallest stomach in proper,
ton to his size.
If nine-tenths of us city people and
professional paupers hadn't acted the
fool and left the farm, we would have
been far better off and happier in every
respect than we are now. God made
the country, but the man made the
town.-San antonio TEX Times.
Mr.. WEBB, a gardener at Ports
mouth, Eng, has been very successful
with red and white currants, his trees
being raised with a single stem and
pruned very high, so as to produce
masses of spurs. He has many trees
thirty years old which are in full bear
ing.
A GREAT deal of butter is injured in
quality before the milk is brought
from the barn or stable. If poor but
ter is the result, the housewife or
dairymaid is not the one to hold re-
spOnsible. If the COWS are well bedded,
| and the mixer uses due care, there
will be much fewer complaints of i'll
favored butter.
AN authority on poultry says that
old tln-pans, suspended by stout cords
so that they come within a few inches
of the floor, make excellent feed
trOughs. The idea is not q bad one
| The food is up out of the dirt, and the
hens have to stand up and eat '1ike
folks, " no getting in with their feet
and making a mess generally.
SoAPsUDs applied to gooseberry or
to currant bushes will kill, it is said,
moss growing on them. The applica-
ton may be made any time, but bet
ter when no leaves are on. Several
applications may be required, but, as
the suds is an excellent fertilizer, the
trouble will be more than compensat-
ed for by the increased growth.
In 1884, as farmers wife in East
ern New York was lowering a jar of
butter into the well, the fastening that
held it broke, and it sank to the bot
tom. A few days ago Farmer Nc
Chesney was cleaning out the well and
found the jar. There were in it about
two pounds of butter, as solid and
sweet as when put up fifty years ago.
IT is remarked that the Concord
grape is failing, reports to that effect
being prevalent in all parts Of the
country: This is due to agradualloss
of vitality from long-continued cult
walton, and is common to most of our
varieties of grains and vegetables. 1t
is thought that the Worden is the
coming market grape for localities
where the Concord has heretofore been
raised. It is a Concord Seeding, and
perfectly hardy.
AS regards the keeping qualities of
washed butter, Henry Stewart, the
well-known. authority on dairying,
tells US he kept a ffty-pound pail Of
washed butter a year; 1t then brought
three cents a pound above the price
OF fresh butter sent to New York mar
ket with it from an ordinary commits
sion man. 1t was washed in the churn