Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-22
FARM AND GARDEN.

OATS and peas cut green are said to
make splendid crop for ensilage.
ALL plants are benefited by the
frequent use of hoe and cultivator.
SALT attracts moisture; in dry sea-
sons a top dressings an advantage.
PROMPT cutting down to healthy
wood will check most cases of blight
In trees.
If the pasture feed is little short,
a little grain will wonderfully increase
the milk yield.
THE ounce is slow grower, so that
1T is better to purchase trees four or
five feet high than mere slips.
THE 10000 English landlords receive
more, it is said, for land rent than is
paid the 100000 laborers who till it.
For stone fruits potash is absolute
ly necessary in the soil. Apply iber-
ally wood ashes or muriate OF potash.
HEAVY rains when fruit trees are in
blossom wash off the pollen and pre-
vent III a measure proper setting of the
fruit
EIGHT AND FIvE-EIGHTHS pounds per
gallon is rapidly becoming the stand
ard weight of milk in this country and
Europe.
ALL dead and faulty limbs should
be kept out from fruit and ornamental
trees for the protection of the trees
from further decay.
THERE is no doubt that the slight
sweating of hay in the cock adds ma
terially to it's value, especially if clover
constitutes portion.
IN Scotland premiums are awarded
stations only when they are accom-
panied by several of their colts, and
the offspring is subjected to the same
scrutiny as the sire.
A MICHIGAN farmer has conquered
the Canada thistles in his sheep pas
ture by putting a small handful of salt
at the root of each thistle. The sheep
do the rest of the work.
THE Cincinnati Gazette still makes
room for communications from those
farmers who know that wheat turns
to chess, Notwithstanding the repeated
denial of it's possibility by all scientific
men.
SOME poultry raisers occasionally
attempt to economic by purchasing
damaged grain for their fowls. Such
a course is about as profitable as con-
timing a new mich COW to diet of
poor straw.
THE fourteen year locusts are not
altogether an unmitigated evil. Squir-
rels fatten on them, and hens are bust
ly employed in disposing of them, and
old trees are pruned by them with
nicely and precision.
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer claims
that by allowing his swine free run in
his orchard he has gradually over
come wormy apples. The hogs like it,
and the trees thrive under it, while
the fruit is remarkably good.
The bronze is the king of turkeys.
They are always beautiful, are pretty
good foragers, and it costs but little
to raise them where grasshoppers and
insects are plenty. They are No.
layers, hardy and easy to raise.
For keeping potatoes in eating con-
dition late in spring. we have found no
better way than TO pour them often
from one barrel to another, to bruise
the sprouts and prevent extended
growth, storing them the while in the
coolest place to be found.
THE Gardeners Monthly says that
those who have set out trees the past
spring should take the first chance of
dry spell to loosen the soil deeply
about them with fork, and imme-
~diately after beat it down hard again
with the heel or with some tool suita-
BILE for the purpose.
To make apple trees bear every sea-
son, according to the American Gar
den, with sharp shears clip off all the
young fruit from about half the tree
Then fruit-buds will form on that side
OF the tree from which the young ap-
piles were cut off. One half the top,
then, will bear fruit one year, while
the other half will yield fruit the next
season.
The striped squash bug will put in
appearance as soon as thevines break
ground, and unless looked after will
WORK the destruction of every vine.
Cover the ground about the hills with
good coat of alr-slaked lime just as
the plants are coming to the surface,
thus giving the bugs no place to bur-
row in. They will rarely touch vine
thus protected.
THE increasing preference Of manu-
facturers the past season forunwashed
woods to washed has been more notice
able OF late, in that many lots of
washed woods held at what have been
considered relative prices are still
unsold on all markets, while unwashed,
of the same grades, are all sold. It is
better for all concerned that wool
should be shorn unwashed.
GAPEs are produced by parasite
in the windpipe of the fowl. 1t may
be removedby thrusting a feather into
the wind-pipe, twisting it around and
quickly Withdrawing. 1t is said that
combining fowl 10 box and filling the
air in it with lime-dust will sometimes
cause the fowl to cough or sneeze up
the intruder. No preventive is known,
but an occasional dose of turpentine
is recommended.
EVERY crack and crevice in the
ground is an exhaust-pipe or fue to
carry off moisture from the soil and
convey away its gases. For that rea-