Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-15
FARM AND GARDEN.

BARB-wIRE fences are being intro
duced into Great Britain.
Two hundred and fifty cultivated
plants are said to be poisonous.
MORE than 5000 Holland cattle
were brought to this country last year.
IT is said that COWS will becomefond
of beanstalks and eat them in prefer
ence to good hay.
SECRETARY CHAMBERLAIN, of the
Ohio Board of Agriculture, is among
those who believe that tillage increases
rainfall
The value of the average farm in
this country, including farm buildings
but not personal property, is estimat.
ed to be $2,964.
IT is said that the weight of mang
olds taken from field will be greater
than that of dry manure necessary to
keep the land fertile.
OF edible fruits and seeds, 100 are
classed as vegetables, 100 as roots and
bulbs, thirty yield oil, twenty produce
sugar Or syrup, and six species are
made into wine.
CALIFORNIA is the great bee state.
In four counties there are 500 bee
farms, and the annual product of
these farms is between LOCO 900 and
100000 pounds of honey.
IT is claimed that crops can be
grown cheaperin Colorado on irrigated
lands than farther east where irriga-
ton is not needed, as there are no
failures from drouths or floods.
MILK is of delicate quality and
very sensitive to bad OdOrs or unpleas-
ant influences. Worrying or running
a COW or fretting her in any way Injuries
the milk and causes it to more quickly
decay.
IT is stated that the fruit-growers of
Riverside, CAL, have voted to destroy
the whole apple crop for one year in
order to eradicate totally the cooling
moth, a subscription being made to
compensate the more unfortunate by
the sacrifice.
WHERE the cream from the milk of
several COWS is churned together, the
cream-pot should have its contents
stirred every time a fresh batch Of
cream is poured in. This will cause
the cream to ripen evenly and more
and better butter will be obtained.
If feeding for eggs give oats, fine mid
dlings, scalded, but not too thin,
boiled potatoes, and an occasional
feed of meat. If it is desired to fatten
fowls, give corn at night and soft feed
in the morning, and keep them closely
confined from ten to fifteen days. If
kept longer confined they will begin to
lose flesh.
A WRITER In the Fruit Recorder men,
tions that neighbor who set some
cabbages among his corn, where the
corn missed, found they were unvisited
by butterflies, and it is suggested that
as these insects fly low and like plain
sailing cabbage patch in the middle
of a corn patch would be compare
lively sale.
THOUGH sunfiower seed is good for
many purposes, these flowers cannot
be grown proftably except on very
rich soil. They are especially exhaust
i've of potash, which, however, is large
ly retained in the woody stalks, which
should be burned and the ashes re-
turned to the soil. The Russian is the
most heavily yielding variety.
A MEMBER of the Massachusetts
Board of Agriculture states that he
destroyed hewhite grub which attacks
strawberry plants by dipping the
roots of the plants, before he set
them out, In Paris green water. AL
though the ground was said to contain
thousands of the worms, not single
one troubled the Strawberries.
THE Importance of saving the liquids
of all kinds produced on the farms, is
Icyr
posed, and the quality when saved is
which can be strained 0he liquids from
the stock yards, sink-waste. wash-wa-
ter, and all similar refuse, vii, produce
a liquid manure which, on ordinary
farms, is nearly equal to all the dry
manure produced.
ORCHARD grass, remarks an ex-
change, is robust grower and very
tenacious of life. It masses it's roots
SO as to resist the encroachment OF
other grasses, covering much of the
ground with it's large pendent leaves
that spring out near the base of the
plant, to shade, nourish and enrich
the soil not occupied by the plant it.
self. This perhaps accounts for it's
ability to endure excessive drought.
ANY mare that is fit to raise colt
at all is worthy of good mating, says
the Nebraska Farmer, and if the plug
sires that are travelling over the coun-
try, standing at from So to $40, were
ignored entirely by owners of mares,
there would soon be moregood horses
1t costs no more to raise a colt that
will sell for from $3.50 to $500 than
one that sells for $75, and the former
is always salable, while the latter is q
drug on the market.
THE preparation of rennet, to in
sure a perfect article, begins with the
treatment and care of the calf. Every
thing to promote the character of a
healthy animal, not pampered and
not cloyed, should be adopted. On
the other hand, starvation will be as
Objectionable as overlooking The
animal should limo case be slaughtered
until it is clear that it is a healthy,
vigorous one, and this may be de-
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