Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-25
"a REFF AND GARDEN.
I'VE brooding hens clean nests.

DE an early bird IN the spring.
PRUNE large limbs on all kinds of
trees before the buds swell.
PLANT raspberries and blackberries
as soon as the soil can be worked.
GRATING is often done too early,
wait until the swelling of the buds
GRAPE vines which were left I'M
pruned last fall should be attended to
| at once.
The common or plain leaved pars-
ley is best for flavoring; the fern leaved
for decorating dishes
Iowa takes the premium on apples
at New Orleans, and buys her apples
for use from Michigan.
New JERSEY horticuturists dis
courage the use of stable manure on
lands planted with peach trees.
INDIAN corn should be fed sparing-
ly at this season to fowls, as it has q
tendency to fatten to an excess.
LAYING hens must be provided with
lime. Place it in boxes in convenient
positions for them to dust themselves
in.
The patent on driven wells that has
| given farmers so much trouble expired
by limitation on the 18th of last Janu-
airy.
WHEN one and half pounds of but
ter will purchase q bushel of corn
don't be afraid to feed thecow literally
on corn.-MarshaH
If you are troubled with white
speclS III butter, stir the cream every
morning before it is churned, and the
white specks will not appear.
FEED your poultry on raw onions
chopped fine, mixed with other food,
about twice a week 1t is better than
a dozen cures for chicken cholera.
A FARMER in Plymouth, n H., raised
last year 400 bushels of onions on one
acre Of land, and a farmer in Portage
County, o., raised 1000 bushels on
| two acres.
EARLY lambs, with their dams, need
warm pens. As the days grow warm
er the ticks grOWmore active. Dip the
infected sheep in some Of the prepara-
tons sold for the purpose
POULTRY cannot be made to pay un-
less provided with a properly arranged
house for their accommodation. This
! is as necessary to their well-being as it
is that horses and cattle should have
a good stable.
THE winter Of 1SS4-5 will -be renem-
bered, by those who remember any
thing, as the "cold winter" 1t has
| been more remarkable for the uniform
ity of the cold, than for the extreme
| depression of the temperature.
STUBBLE that has been left long and
not beaten down by pasturing affords
! great protection to young clover. 1t
prevents the snow from being blown
| off, and is thus worth an equal amount
OF straw in the stack or barnyard.
EARLY in the spring is a good time
| to procure evergreens and the best
way is by disbudding. BY pinching
out the buds from the ends Of the lower
branches it will force a stronger growth
on the laterals and thus thicken the
tree.
! In Ohio, at the horticultural meet
ng at Dayton, it was the opinion that
the cherries were all killed by the win
ter, but that the harder varieties Of
apples are not hurt, and the moder-
a1ely tender are not materially in
jured.
! A GERMAN paper states that eggs
may be kept perfectly fresh for a year
by rubbing them with vasseline which
has been melted with -tenths per
cent. ofsalicylic acid. The application
SHOULD be madetwic at an interval of
a month
|. NEGLECTED peach trees grow i'll
Eshaped, with long limbs which often
break. Ii each spring, half to two
J thirds the length of the shoots of the
former year is cut away, the result
will be a compact head, and more and
better fruit.
EXPERIMENTING with mongrel fowls
in these days is very poor business
at the best, when there is such an
abundance Of prime stock to COM
mence with. 1t is just as cheap to
breed and feed the better kinds of
/ poultry at the outset as to keep poor
! trash.
CANKER worms come out early. APP
ply protection to the trees now. The
simplest Is band of thick brown pa
per, a foot or more wide, tackled
around the trunk. On this paint a
band of pine tar, which should be re-
neWed If from any cause it does not
remain adhesive.
IT is now correctly asserted that
Johnson grass is not hardy plant,
although the roots may occasionally
survive q pretty sharp frost. 1t is q
valuable forage plant for warm eli
mates, as it will withstand great heat
and severe droughts.
ORDINARILY a pig-pen is terribly
cold place, even when made of inch
lumber and the cracks are battened
If enclosed on the south as well as On
the other sides the light and warmth
Of the sun during the day are shut out
and the pigs suffer more than if they
were in an open shed facing the south
MORE than 3, OOOhead ofcattle have
! died in Chase County, Kas., since Nov
Dember L. Trusting to a "sunny Kan
sas" winter, instead OF "a continual biz
lard, lasting 100 days, no sufficient
shelter and food were provided, and
hence they persisted. A lasting lesson
has been learned-Gazette
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