Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-19
FARM AND GARDEN.

ORCHARD grass is the best sown in
wood lots designed for pasturage.
LAMPBLACK and strong vinegar is
recommended for a paint for marking
sheep. .
EXPERIENCED shepherds claim that
not over fifty sheep should be together
in one flock.
MANY Kentucky breeders turn their
mares with early foal on arye pasture
to help the flow of milk.
An average wheat crop in Germany
is about 72,000,00O bushels, and an
average rye crop 218, 100000 bushels.
STRONG soapsuds, with aspoonful of
carbOlic acid to a bucket of suds, is
an excellent remedy for currant
worms.
LATE potatoes are the best winter
keepers, but they are more subject to
the ravages OF the bugs than are the
early crops.
The best butter is quoted for about
four times as much as thepoorest, and
the expense OF making the former is
very little more.
AT least once a year the granaries
should have a thorough cleaning to
| prevent the weavil from breeding in
the bins or stored grain.
A PUMPKIN vine should be grown on
every waste place, as quite large
crop may be thus grown without oc-
cupying land required for regular crops.
A POUND of guano, with two pounds
of sulphate of potash, dissolved in
half barrel of water, makes an ex-
cellent fertilizer when sprinkled on
lawns.
CAREFUL experiments and records
with sheep show that a line of twin an
cestry on both sides will nearly always
produce twin lambs with the Clown :"
breeds.
SHEEP are excellent scavengers, and
eat weeds as we'll as grass. They Craze
close, and keep down many obnoxious
plants by nipping them off as soon as
they appear.
SCOTCH farmers hold that cut straw
is better for the dairy when newly
threshed, and therefore thresh each
day enough fodder for the next days
consumption.
A SHOVELFUL Of manure over the
roots of hop-vines will not only in
crease the yield, but act as @ protec-
ton against drought in summer and
cold in winter.
AN Englishman said: "Show me a.
country with no grass, and l will show
you country with no cattle; no cat
tie, no manure;n manure, no farmers;
no farmers, no nothing"
To make Lima beans sprout soak
them in warm water until they are
swollen. Then pour off the water and
lay a damp rag over them, and they
will sprout in a few days.
Go out among the trees and vines
at every opportunity; remove all sue
cors and shoots that are starting in
places where they ought not to be; de-
stroy al insect preparations.
No KIND of stock should be allowed
to eat young cherry shoots, for the
leaves and bark contain considerable
quantities Of prussic acid, and are oc-
casionally fatal to COWS and sheep.
A MISTAKE is frequently made in
overlooking q few days after Landing
and then reducing the supply, whereas
the lambs need more milk as they
grow larger, and this should be pro
vided for
PARTIALLY burned or charred corn
is recommended as an excellent thing
for poultry, keeping off attacks of
cholera and other like diseases. 1t is
as good for poultry as common char
coal is for hogs.
The selling of eggs by weight is COM
mended as a fair way Of dealing. Eight
good-sized eggs will weigh about a
pound, and the adoption Of the weight
plan would keep fair-sized eggs up to
reasonable price.
SOME fruit-groWers claim that alter
nate rows of pine and fruit trees pre-
vent the moth and other destructive
insects from injuring the fruit. The
strong odor Of the pine is obnoxious
to great many kinds of insects.
AS dogs seldom attack sheep by day,
it is becoming customary to protect
the focks by putting them inside d
high enclosure every night. These
should be wide palings, with an open
shed in the center to protect the sheep
against storms.
ANIMAL matter, meat scraps Or bone
chopped up may be fed to poultry at
any season, judiciously, to good adj
vantage. There must, however, be no
excess OF this food. Bone meal, mixed
in small quantities with soft food, is
very good for chicks.
The Poultry World advises that
duck eggs be set under hens, as the
latter make better mothers and will
find more food for the ducklings. But
this should only be done when the
ducklings are to be raised for market,
and not for breeding purposes.
THE American Cultivator says that
the cut-Worm has an aversion to salt
peter, and that a solution of one table
spoonful to gallon of water has so
far proved sure preventive. 1t is ap-
piled with a dipper, and poured on the
plants, and all around the hill
WILD animals have killed a great
many cattle in Montana of late
years, and the bounty law cost the
Montana Treasury $4,000, paid for
scalps, during the year 1884. There
were killed during the year SAT bears,
143 mountain lions, $40 wolves and
1 ,621 coyotes.
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