Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-01
FARM md GARDEN.

grape planting the Dettef.
IT is not good plan to allow cattle
and swine to run together.
THE best bulbs for ordinary growers
are the narcissus and tulips.
GRATING is often done too early;
wait until the swelling Of the buds.
PLANT raspberries and blackberries
as soon as the soil can be worked
GRAPEvINEs which were left I'M
pruned last fall should be attended to
at once. e.
AMERICA has more plants of the
| Japanese flora than has the continent
of Europe.
| The glass of hot-bed is to furnish
! light, not heat. The heat comes from
the manure below.
THE Egyptian farmer with ten acres
pays more ground tax than the Amer
lean with 100 acres.
The export movement of domestic
produce is increasing over that of the
same period last year.
AN elm in Rhode Island recently cut
down, was 100 feet high, and was 16
feet in circumference.
A FLORIDA lemon recently picked
measured "a inches one way, % the
other and weighed 4 pounds 13
| ounces.
WET winters in Germany have been
found to result disastrously to insects,
as the bug crop was less the following
season.
The demand for genuine dairy but
! ter is increasing In New York owing to
the enforcement of the laws recently
enacted against oleomargarine.
THE weight of evidence is in favor of
cutting ensilage crops when nearly ripe
or quite ripe, in order to at once Sc
cure the very best results.
CONGRESS votes 100000 annually
for seeds. Each congressman is allot-
ted 5000 papers of vegetable seeds
and 1000 papers of flower seeds.
THERE are as many novelties in
fruits and grains and flowers and veg
! etables as there are in machines, and
| about as few of them prove to be
worth anything.
! A MASSACHUSETTS farmer SAYS that
carrots at $15 a ton are q more
profitable crop than potatoes at so
cents bushel. Twenty tons are fre-
quently raised on an acre.
A CONNECTICUT man says CONNER
| cial fertilizers stimulate the soil but
| do not enrich it"-which is arrant
nonsense. Commercial fertilizers may
be exhausted faster than barn-yard
manure, but only because they are
more quickly available.
Mr.. j. p. JOHNSON, of Vinton, Iowa,
writes that he has cured COW of kick
ing when being MIXED by placing
cleats each side of her when in the
stall, and putting a cross-bar just in
front of the hind legs, two or three
inches below the teats, having first
tied the COW to the manger by the
horns. When the leg is brought for
ward to kick, it will strike the bar,
and the motion will not be many
times repeated.
THE famous English gooseberries
may be divided into the white, green,
yellow, and red fruited sorts, of each
of which there are great number of
varieties, some of them bearing fruit
an inch and a half through the short
est diameter But under the usual
conditions of cultivation, they all mil
dew in this country after the first
year of bearing. This may be delayed
sometimes by high culture, shade,
mulching and pruning.
EVERY crop we grow upon our farms
makes it's demand for lime, if our
crops are to be produced in q luxuri-
ant condition, and if we are to secure
abundant produce there must be q
sufficient supply existing in the soil in
a condition ready for acting as plant
food. For this purpose lime is quite
ready after it has served all it's other
duties. 1t has then become changed
into the original condition of carbon
ate, and hence it is that whether lime
has been burnt or not, it is in both
stages competent for this duty
PIGEONS are more profitable than
may be supposed, as they often
hatch and raise as many as ten pairs
of squads in year. No one should
expect them to pay a profit unless o.
suitable poultry yard has been pro
vided. If left outside in boxes the
owls raid on them. Hundreds of
squads and adults are yearly de-
stroyed without the knowledge of the
keeper by such midnight marauders.
The hawks also destroy the old birds
during the day, but the owl is the
principal enemy.
A CANADIAN wrote to the Agriculture
al Gazette, London, for information
respecting the style of horse desired
for cavalry remounts. The following
reply was received: Canada might
well entertain the remount business
denied to us by reason of our high
rentals, etc. From 1873 to 1872 hands
seem, from drafts we have seen sold,
to be the desired heights, the require
ments ranging from light medium to
heavy, cavalry and artillery. Good
.boned, active horses are wanted, and
of sound constitution
+ In regard to light soils teaching ma
nure through them, a farmer located
on the light, sandy soil of New Jersey,
on which such excellent berries and
melons are produced claims to have
filled a glass tube. say thirty inches
high, with the almost white soil and