Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-14
FARM AND GARDEN.

"A ENNSYLVANIA man DloaCleS his
celery by setting up boards on each side
of the row, and filling in around the
plants with coarsely pulverized charcoal.
The Ohio agricultural experiment sta
tion calls attention to the fact that in it's
experiments, potatoes raised FROM large,
whole seed ripened nine days earlier
than those from seed cut to single eyes.
A oAPoN brings much larger price than
a cockerel when dressed for the market,
and the same bird grows larger when
caponized. Capons are more plenty
than they used to be in market, but
they are still behind the demand, and
can be had only in the largest cities.
Mr.. JOHN S. THOMPSON, an expe-
rienced sheep breeder of Arcona, Ind, is
of the opinion that a cross of Shrop-
shire and Merino sheep is all that can
be desired, the lambs being vigorous
and healthy, and if the focks are we'll
kept may consist of 500 or 1000 head.
The small white onions used by
those who manufacture pickles are
grown especially for that purpose. The
same seed is used as for large onions,
but it is sown very thickly-about forty
pounds or more to the acre-while to
produce the large ones but five or six
pounds are required. A rich black
mold is best for them.
DURING warm weather there is O con-
slant escape of ammonia from putrefy-
ing urine in horse stables. This am
monia is injurious to the horses, to har-
nesses, and to the varnish of carriages.
Rx, L 1sno 4ho o4 o11n oY,I aoo,. IN,
ever it is wet with ground gypsum, the
ammonia will be absorbed and pre-
served for use with the manure.
A CANADIAN correspondent of Vick's
Monthly grows excellent radishes in
this way: He selects piece of ground
in the corner OF his garden and keeps
it for this purpose. He covers the sur
face with about two inches of leeched
wood ashes every spring, and spades in
thoroughly. His soil is sandy. His
radishes are not troubled with worms
and are smooth and brittle.
The amount of wool received in st.
Louis during the past year was 100000
600 pounds, of which vast amount not
one pound was manufactured there.
The advantage of st. Louis as a woe
market is commission of only 81 per
cent, as against per cent. in Boston,
New York, and Philadelphia. It is also
claimed that sales are much more
prompt in the West than in the East.
The Breeders Gazette says: "Broad
acres and good live stock are banks
whose shares never depreciate nor fail
to pay dividend. Nobody's account
is overdrawn, and nobody's confidence
is misplaced or abused. The share
holder in such bank can pass through
life as free from care as falls to the lot
of any human being, and, no matter
whom he meets, need never have oc-
casion to pull down the rim of his hat
to conceal the record on his forehead"
The Amherst Cabinet says: "The
farmers who are short of water, but
have silos to feed their cattle from, are
in luck. The cattle fed upon ensilage
require and will drink but very little
water. We hear of farmer who is
feeding young stock from his silo who
drives them TO water but once q week.
He tried it first once a day, but they
would not drink, then once in two days
with the same result, till now he says
once a week is as often as they will
drink"
APRoPos of the statement that cotton
seed meal is not good for making but
ter, the New England Farmer says that
tneEasthampton creamery does not allow
it to be fed to COWS whose milk is brought
there, and the editor of the Farmer says
the butter-makers told him they could
detect the smell of the meal in the milk
as soon as the cans were opened. They
also said it affected both the consistency
and flavor of the butter. In Maine
factories cotton seed meal is allowed,
but only in small quantities.
The bending forward of the knees in
horses is caused by sprain of the back
tendons, which become thickened and
shortened, drawing the limb so that il
bends at the fetlock and knee joints.
It should be treated as follows: Give
the horse rest. If the leg is tender
and too warm apply cold water dress
ings. After this apply some strong lin
iment, rubbing it in well. Moderate
work or exercise should follow until
strength returns. In bad cases blister
ing with iodi&e of mercury should be
resorted to.
The American Cultivator estimates
the annual production of cheese in the
United States to be 350,00O,0O0 pounds,
and that of butter 100000 pounds
the value of the two being $50,00O,000
more than the wheat crop, one-seventh
more than the hay crop, one-third more
than the cotton crop, and only one-ffth
less than the corn crop. If this is true
of the states, the principal wheat-pro-
ducing country in the world, how east
~, with our large herds of prime cattle
could we make our dairy produce one of
our chief exports, to say nothing of
supplying the home market.
M. PA1LLEUx, of the French Society
of Administration, has recently called
attention to new fbrous plant, ma
tive of Japan, which he considers worth
studying. Kusu is climbing plant,
which in year attains height of IL
feet to 25 feet, and does not require
much care. Warm, dry tracts of land,
unsuited for other cultivation, are said