Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-10
FA RGW AND GARDEN.

GULL CREAM cheese is now made
of skinned milk and lard.
THE first sorghum seed reached this
country IN 1858 from Paris
If you wish protection from insects,
protect the birds from the boys.
THE sorghum syrup crop of Wiscon-
sin last year was 1O,OOOgaIlons.
The Hessian fly is reported to be
doing damage in California wheat
fields.
IT is said a drop or two of kerosene
on each of the little hillocks made by
ants will dispense them.
Coz. +. d. CURTIS, who is considered
good authority on dairy matters,
opposes feeding ensilage to mich COWS.
Fl. B. GARTNER, of De Kalb, Ind,
has found that LOG pounds of skim
milk will produce 81 pounds increase
in the weight Of smaIlhogs.
The tent caterpillar may be de-
stroyed by rubbing off his nest with
swab saturated with spirits of turpen-
tine. Ii it is done on cool morning
the worms will all be in their nests.
In 1859, there was an apple-tree a
few miles north of Washington, d. c.,
that bore 100 bushels of apples. 1t is
perhaps unnecessary to say that it
was one of immense size.
f. d. CURTIS says there is too much
pig pen and not enough pig pasture.
A pig yard is a compromise, but q
poor exchange for field where the pig
can get a chance at green grass and
fresh earth.
INCUBATION for the prevention Of
pleuro pneumonia has been extensive
ly experimental with in France, Ger
many, Holland, Belgium and Italy,
and has invariably resulted in the
most satisfactory results.
The editor of the Farm, Field and
Stockman was told that teaspoon
ful of coal oil poured into the wounds
made by peach-borers would kill the
insects. Hetried it, and foundit killed
the tree as well as the bOrers.
MARSHALL p. WILDER has had the
largest apple-tree in the country pho
tographed. Itgrows at Cheshire, CT. -,
is sixty feet high, spreads 100 feet and
yields seventy-five to ITO bushels per
year, on alternate sides of the tree
AN easy way to kill plantain, dande-
lion, and other weeds in a lawn, is to
placed little sulphuric acid with stick
on the crown of each plant, carrying
the acid in an open-mouthed bottle
with long handle, so as not to touch
1t with fingers or clothes.
THERE are now three large sorghum-
sugar factories in Kansas. Last year
they produced 100000 pounds of
sugar and 100000 gallons of syrup
The product was manufactured from
$4,000 tons Of cane. 1t is estimated
that each of the three factories will
soon produce 100000 pounds Of
sugar annually.
THE Breeders Gazette thinks wool
can be proftably produced in this
country at the present prices. To do
this the farmer must Gull out the poor
sheep, keeping only those that will
shear eight or ten pounds of wool, and
aim to secure focks that will produce
g, clip that is uniform in length and
fineness. 1t says that prolonged de-
pressions in the price of wool have al
ways resulted in marked improve
ments of American focks.
A POULTRY-BREEDER who hasnoticed
that hawks will neither alight within
nor enter an inclosure in search of
prey, has devised the following pro
hibition: At intervals of a dozen rods,
upon their usual range, [ have estab-
ished places Of refuge. Thefowls look
for a place into which to run. These
places of refuge consist of barrels with
open ends turned down upon the
bulge, and stable boxes turned down
upon their sides, and then guyed into
position by cords attached to stakes,
SO as not to be blown away.
IT is told Of Cassius NJ. Clay that he
was once present at a convention
where the qualities of the Short-horns
Of Kentucky were discussed, and he
was asked how much milk these Short
horns gave: He was entirely taken
back by the question. The idea
Of it's being a matter of information
how much milk a COW gave seemed to
strike him as something entirely new
He hesitated, but soon recovered
himself, and said he did not know ex-
actly, but was quite sure, in fact he
was positive, that he had known
them to give as much as half a bushel.
MAJ. EMERY says: Corn fodder will
give you more butter and less milk
than ordinary feed. If you take your
COWS after the time that they go to
grass, and up to the time when they
are put on the corn fodder, you will
find that when you put them on to
the fodder the quantity Of milk will
shrink, but the amount of butter will
increase. Certain things will lessen
the amount of milk and certain things
will increase it. If you push a COW to
make her give an increased quantity
of milk, you will push her at the ex-
pense of the butter. THERE no doubt
about that. But you can put in corn
with it, and with good feeding and care
we can keep the milk up to the stand
ard.
A WRITER in the Indiana Farmer
says: There is no denying that the in
terest in sheep raising in the United
States has greatly declined within the
two years past. The general opinion
is that wool growing is no longer a
business, except possibly