Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-22
FARM IND GARDEN.


lures should be carefully avoided.
This practice produces sour milk, and
sour milk makes sour patrons.
SPRING narrowing meadows, espe-
cially if they are old or have been
tramped, should not be neglected In
this case there is no danger OF the
spring winds.
FINE hay or cut on well-broken straw
makes good nests for hens. AS good,
perhaps better nests, can be made of
shavings of soft wood, from the car
penter' bench.
Those farmers who wish to try the
experiment Of sowing peas with oats
for early pig feed should SOW at once,
if the ground is dry and the frost out
enough to cover them.
THE beautiful golden skinned, red
checked and deliciously feshed apples
are good as well as beautiful. They
are the best remedy for the great curse
Of our race-dyspepsia
BE sure and see that your setting
hens are free from vermin before you
set them. Give them a busting of sui
phur several times during the three
weeks they are on the nest.
EVERY farmer who uses scrub males
In breeding his stock is throwing away
valuable time. Begin now to improve
by using the best males even if you
have to 60. miles to accomplish it.
USE a quart Of coal tar to half a
barrel of water stirred up well, and
sprinkle the water over the floors of
the coops or against the sides, and it
will kill the lice and purify the coop.
FARMERS cannot make a greater
mistake or more effectually squander
their money than by purchasing low
priced fertilizers. Good fertilizers, ex-
cept by mistake, are never sold for a
Glow price"
ONE way of preserving eggs is to use
wood ashes. Pack the eggs in q box,
without allowing them to touch each
other, small end downward, and use
plenty of ashes. Sawdust or sand, if
perfectly dry, will do as well.
STRAWBERRY plants have necessarily
to be set out shallower than any other
plants. And in our dry spring winds
it is sometimes difficult to save them.
By covering each plant with q little
chatf or short straw, they can be
saved.
COLORADO Legislature has passed
the Texas cattle quarantine act,
which prohibits Texas cattle from en-
tering or crossing Colorado, except
after ninety days quarantine on their
south borders, and the governor has
signed the bill.
In new settlements the pioneers in
variably select first the high dry land
as most valuable. 1t is less liable to
malaria than the swamps, through
the worst fever and ague is generally
found on sandy soil adjoining wet low
lands. After cleaning and draining
the black swamp soil is almost al
ways found to be most valuable. It's
fertility endures the longest under
cultivation.
A CANADIAN correspondent of the
Country Gentleman says that in his
opinion cheese factories will be ruinOus
to the country, as the stock is depre-
ciating very much. There are no such
steers and oxen in the country as be-
fore cheese-making came in practice.
Farmers can get more ready money
by sending the milk to the factory and
having less labor. But they all admit
that it is detrimental to stock rails
ing.
The increase Of the heavy draft
breeds of horses within the last ten
years, in all ofwhat are known as the
black soil and corn and cattle coun-
ties of Illinois, has been something
wonderful. Twenty years ago, more
than twO-thirds Of thehorseS one saw
in country towns were bay in color,
and showed more or less of the blood
of racing stock; to-day half the horses
farmers drive show heavy draft stock,
the largest part marked with gray.
THE New York State Experimental
Station has tested paris green as a
preventive of the borer which destroys
squash vines. The vine for a distance
from the root was wet with water in
which paris-green had been stirred.
No bOrers attacked the portion of the
vines so treated, though beyond where
the poison was applied some were
found. No possible damage can come
from this use of paris-green, as none
of the poison reaches anything that is
eaten.
ANYTHING that you would give chicks
and young turkeys answers equally
well for ducklings. Give cooked food
until old enough to allow unlimited
range. Unless insects are plenty, feed
a little cooked meat daily until the
ducklings are old enough to take to
the pond. Ducklings are great eaters,
and never seem to know when they
have eaten enough. Feed often for
the first six weeks, never allowing
them all they can possibly swallow.
Ducklings have been killed by over
feeding.
THE Gardeners Monthly mentions a
plan of supporting Lima bean vines
which seems adaptable. Posts were
put up at each side of the garden plot
and wire stretched along the top
from each, and another near the
ground, while up and down were
strings. The beans on such trellis
were planted only about eighteen inches
apart, and gavea fine crop. Of course