Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-05

cultivated in Florida, grows on a
handsome tree from 10 to Is feet in
height. The fruit is rather smaller
than the Siberian crab apple and the
shape fattened globe. 1t contains
one hard seed. The fruit is only mod
erately valuable, but the tree is orna-
mental.
The Philadelphia Times tells of a
farmer of that state who bought a
span Of horses from a horse railway
company, but found, on getting them
home, that he could neither start nor
stop them at will. A city friend sug-
gested that he procure bell such as is
used on street cars and attach it to
his vehicle, to which they respond with
alacrity.
PROF. BROWN, of the Canadian Agri-
cultural College, has been testing a.
centrifugal cream separator. He di-
vided the milk of several COWS, setting
one part and separating the other.
AS a result of several tests he secured
about 40 per cent. more cream when
the separator was used. That 40 per
cent. OF the cream is being thrown away
in the average farm dairy is incredi-
BILE.
A FRENCH chemist has invented a
new process for the manufacture of
butter. The milk or cream is placed
in a recipient, and by means of two
electricities which are plunged into the
liquid, the electric current is estab-
lished so thoroughly that the parti-
cles OF butter are separated from this
liquid and rise to the top. We do not
believe this business has yet reached a
stage where the public can have much
practical interest in it.
CABBAGEs and cauliaoWers will do
better upon old ground, which is rich
and mellow from previous cultivation.
The manure should be old and we'll
rotted, as green manure will not make
solid heat, although it may make q
rank growth of leaves. Many of our
good gardeners are using artificial
manure for these crops, applying no
stable or barnyard manure, excepting
such as may have been put in for a
previous or earlier crop.
In the growing and fattening of the
large mutton sheep, it is important
that their feed be abundant and nu-
tritious, so as to insure rapid and
early maturity. The profit lies in
making them attain heavy weights in
a very short period of time. These
sheep reach the greatest perfection in
their native England and under the
English farmers system offeeding, and
very much the same system should be
followed here to obtain the best re-
suits.
NURsERYNEN know what purchasers
will not believe, that short, stocky
trees are better for an orchard, more
likely to live, come quicker into bear
ing than tall, slender trees, whether
apple, peach, pear, plum or cherry.
The reason is simply this: Tall trees
IN the nursery rows for some reason
get the start, overtop and overshadow
those that started later, thesap of the
tree consequently pushes it's growth
upward and into the foliage while the
roots are long, slender and few, conse-
quently it does not bear transplant
ing as well Or do as well after being
transplanted as was expected from its
fine appearance III the row. Stocky
trees, on the contrary, being over
with branches and foliage nearer the
ground, with numerous short roots
that do not waste their substance in
bleeding or by absorption from the
soil, that cause the tree to start off in
rapid growth and outstrip it's slen-
der rival, and also come quicker into
profitable bearing. Far
ner.