Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-16
FARM AND GARDEN.

THE grass which grows on drv. rich
soil, with free sunlight warming it. is
much more nutritious than that grown
on land filled with stagnant water.
IT will pay to store the hay. straw
and fodder under shelter, as such ma
terials are often injured by the expos
ure to winter storms and spring rains.
PAsTEUR S method of vaccination for
cattle-plague has proved completely
successful in India for elephants.
horses, asses, COWS, buffaloes and
sheep.
YOUNG ducklings will do we'll if al
lowed to range over meadows and or
chards. They will get q large share of
their living from grass, insects and
grubs.
A LARGE fowl house imperfectly ven
tilated is as bad as small and airy
one. See to it that there are in your
| poultry house no corners where fetid
vapors can lurk out of the reach of the
| free wind.
Do not be afraid to try your hand
at poultry raising merely because SO
many are engaged init. A reputation
for always having the best will invari-
ably bring all the customers you can
accommodate.
BEEKEEPERs on the prairie have at
length found out that it is necessary
to have wind-breaks for the purpose
of protecting their apiaries. The re-
cent high winds have blown over many
hives that stood in exposed situa-
| tiOnS.
COIN is not a good food for the fowls
in warm weather, as it is too heating
in it's nature. Oats are much better
at that time Of the year and if the
fowls are confined especial attention
should be given to furnishing them
with a variety of food.
| Young bees do not gather honey
from the flowers until they arefourteen
days old. Their duties are to nurse
the lArv8, clean the cells build and
care for queen-cells, etc. They are not
| idlers-they are workers, and as soon
AS they become Of ripe age, they will
take their places in the fields.
AFTER ten unsuccessful attempts to
convey Scotch salmon ova to Austria
liza and New Zealand, O. new method
| has been tried which has been entirely
successful. Upward of 100000 ova
were captured last December from the
Tweed at PEBBLES, and more than half
of these have now been landed alive at
wellington.
The raisin-makers of California are
anticipating a good year and hand
| some profits. The markets have been
cleared of last years stock, the prod
uct IS better appreciated in Eastern
markets, and owing to the prevalence
of cholera in the raisin districts of
Spain the imports are likely to be
much less than usual.
A DOZEN yearling colts were recent
ly sold to Henry Chaplain, in England,
for an average of / $50 guineas each.
1t IS not an unusual thing for racing
stock to bring high prices in Great
Britain. In 1850 q Welsh gentleman
offered the Duke of Devonshire for his
horse Flying Childers his weight in
crowns and half-crowns.
A New YORK man has been. expert
menting winh underground irrigation,
and he has had his system written up
under the heading: 1.-The New Agricult-
ure." The cost of preparing the land
for receiving the water from below the
soil is $500 per acre. This new sys-
tenn OF agriculture will not be intro
duced by the hOmesteaders of Dakota
this year, unless the wheat crop is
very large, and the grain brings a bet
ter price than it did last season.
MUCH alarm has been occasioned by
the discovery Of the phylloxera in AL
gerla, previousl ~ quite free from the
pest. The French minister of agri-
culture has adopted the most strin-
gent means of arresting the attack.
The vines have been pulled up and
burnt, with the poles to which they
were tied, and insecticides have been
freely used in vineyards. Tlemcen,
in the province of Oran, is the place
in which the visitation has occurred.
The value of the northern portion
Of Arkansas is beginning to be appre-
ciated by grape-raisers. There is
probably not a better wine-producing
region on the continent than that por7
ton Of Northern Arkansas living be-
tween the White River and Indian
Territory. The soil and climate are
both admirably adapted to the
growth Of the grape. Timber suitable
v.
while cellars for storing wine are east
ly constructed.
THE following mode of protection
against forest fires is now generally
practiced in European forests. Plan
tations are now made in 10, 20, 40.
or 100 acres, separated by spaces two
hundred or three hundred feet wide.
This mode is practiced especially in
coniferous woods. The spaces are
cleared out and kept bare. They are
laid out SO as to get the sweep of pre-
vailing winds. Existing forests are
prepared with this mode ofcontrolling
fires by cutting these spaces at regular
| intervals through them.
In some districts of France, where
fodder is not general, straw, to saw
nothing of hay, is imported. It is
chaffed, mixed with green lucern, or
sainfoin, and stored in silos for feed
ing cattle and sheep. Wheat and
oaten straws are preferred-perhaps
they can be cut in a less ripened con
dition than barley. Indeed barley