Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03
FARM AND GARDEN.

held at Kalamazoo, September IA to
10.
THERE is no cure for CHAMBERS, and
animals afflicted with it cannot be too
quickly killed.
THE low price of sugar is having the
effect of retarding the development of
the sorghum industry.
THERE are 1,915 trotters in this
country who have made a record of
$50 or better, and $50 PAGERS.
A WRITER in the Country Gentleman
says that good sirup can be made
from the sap of the soft maple tree.
ENOUGH land in the United States is
owned by foreign syndicates to furnish
100000 families with 80 acres OF land
apiece.
THE Farm Journal advises that we
keep cribbing horses loose in stables
without managers. Let them eat off
the floor.
FRANCE is the greatest egg producing
country in the world, supplying not
only her own peoples demand, but
selling also to England, Germany and
many other countries.
AT q recent farmers meeting in Mas
sachusetts a visiting Englishman said
that in his country a small, black
eyed bean is used for feeding work
| horses in place of oats.
The cooling worm on apple trees
may be destroyed by spraying the
trees with a mixture which is made
by dissolving tablespoonful of Paris
green in four gallons of water.
THE cultivation of red clover was
found to be impossible in Australia
until bumble-bees were imported to
fertilize the flowers. The importation
of these bees is now steadily main
| tanned.
| PROF. RIDGEWAY, of the Smithsonian
Institute, says the English sparrow in
the United States is national mis-
fortune, which is likely in the near
future to assume calamitous proper
| tiOns.
THE cutters of the COW stables
should be kept very clean in order to
allow the liquids to flow into the watts
unobstructed, from whence they should
be taken and absorbed by suitable
materials.
THERE is no danger of an overpro-
duction of the best quality of goods.
| 1t is the poor goods that do not sell
at home or abroad. What is desired
is fine beef, fine butter, fine cheese, etc.,
which are always salable.
IT is reported that the Northwest
will be obliged to look principally to
Arkansas and Texas the present sea-
son for a supply of peaches. The last
three years have not been prolific
peach seasons in the West.
In the Western states the Percheron
and Clydesdale horses are fast super
seding the native animals, the conse-
quence being larger and more powerful
horses, and which are also better
adapted for general farm purposes.
| MANY Vermont farmers are selling
their sheep on account of the low
price of wool. The shrewd ones, how
ever, are improving their focks and
preparing to reap the harvest that is
sure to follow an advance in the price
of wool.
THE Agricultural Board of Kansas
estimates the winter wheat crop OF
that state this year at 20,8OO,OOO
bushels, which is but As per cent. oil
last years crop and but So per cent
of the average yearly crop for the five
years last past.
'"Two fields, lying side by side, were, y
it is said, ''sown in wheat. One was
plowed and narrowed the usual way
while the other was narrowed five
times. The result was that the latter
gave seven bushels more to the acre
than the former"
WHO has not observed that the sol
is always loose and moist beneath a
stone heap? The American Cultiva
tor tells of some pear trees that were
mulched with stones, and which made
three times the growth of any other
though all did well.
THE common hop vine, grown as a
climber, has long been used in places
where it is desirable to cover consider
able space. 1t may be safely recon-
mended for piazzas, fences, Outbuild
ings, or to hide old or partially de-
cayed stumps of trees.
IT is said that there is no better in.
dex to the health of cattle and horses
| than the condition of the hair. Indi
gestion and all other diseases that
farm stock is heir to, even In a short
time, is plainly indicated by a rough
harsh coat of the animal.
ALL fowls that feather slowly are
usually hardy. For instance, the
Brahmas. 1t is owing to the fact that
the drain on the system occasioned
by quick feathering does not weaken
them. Slow feathering while growing
is always Indicative of hardness.
AN excellent and simple disinfectant
for sinks and waste-pipes is made by
mixing one large tablespoonful Of
copperas with one quart OF boil ing
water. This solution is odorless, and
deodorizes instantly. The copperas
may be bought at any druggists fo1
eight or ten cents a pound,
THE yan-pan of the Southern states
has been known to dropfrom the apex
of it's leaf, between sunset and sunrise
enough water to fill tea saucer. The
.train-tree," though growing in com
paratively dry places, drops enough
moisture in night to make the sur
face of the ground actually wet.
BEE teachers are employed Oy the