Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-06
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lice, it is said.
A BARREL OF apples viii make about
ten gallons OF cider
Man first destroys and then builds
up forests -HunbOLdt
A MUCH larger area will be devoted
to sorghum growing this year than
formerly.
New JERSEY horticulturists discour-
age the use OF stable manure on
lands planted with peach trees.
The great mass of the butter pro-
duced III the country ismade onfarms :;
the great mass OF cheese is made in
factories.
SCRAPS OF fresh meat and bones fed
to hens two or three times a week will
keep them healthy and promote the
laying of eggs
A GEORGIA hen is reported to have
killed a hawk in a fair fight by blow
through the eye, piercing the brain.
1t was a fowl blow.
CHIP dirt from the side of the wood
pile and old ashes are recommended
as one of the best possible dressings to
put around fruit trees.
THE best remedy FOR the pest known
as the strawberry leaf roller is said to
be hellebore and water sprinkled over
the plants with an atomizer.
PLANT a few artichokes for the hogs
as an experiment. They make valu-
able succulent food and are richer in
fiesh-forming material than potatoes.
In Kentucky, several farmers who
raised large crops of potatoes are
turning them to good account by boil
ing them and using them as food to
fatten hogs. .
BY giving COWS water at temper
allure of GO q yield of milk one
third greater was obtained, according
to experiments made at the Agricult-
ural College. st. Remy, France.
PROF. STOCKBRIDGE says that he
average growth of wood on any acre of
land, between New England and the
Potomac Is a cord and q half q, year
for thirty years after it is once cut
over
IT is stated as a result of French ex-
periments that the sugar beet gradu-
ally loses It's sugar when grown a sec
ond year, the quantity being very
small when the seeds are fully ripened.
SIR j. B. LAWEs says the carbon
which is only another word for vege-
table matter, alive or dead-appears
to be the only medium by which nitro
gen is accumulated in the soil to be
used again by living vegetation.
STUBBLE that has been left long and
not beaten down by pasturing affords
great protection to young clover. 1t
prevents the snow from being blown
off, and is thus worth an equal
amount of straw in the stack or barn
yard.
EARLY in the spring is a good time
to procure evergreens, and the best
way is by disbudding. By pinching
out the buds from the ends of the low
er branches, it will force q stronger
growth on the laterals, and thus thick
en- the tree.
A REPORT says, "Of two fields, lying
side by side, sown in wheat, one was
plowed and narrowed in the usual
way, while the other was narrowed
five times. The result was that the
latter gave seven bushels more to the
acre than the former
A WRITER says that he has found
that it requires as much food to bring
one turkey to maturity, when the bird
IS confined TO one yard, as to make
forty pounds Of pork. We should
think that would depend on the size of
the turkey, somewhat.
GENUINE perique tobacco IS said
only to grow on q ridge situated about
one mile from the Mississippi River in
ST. James Parish, Louisiana-a ridge
only about two miles wide and seven
miles in length. The average crop is
about $4,000 pounds
PROF. w. III. JORDAN, of the Penn
sylvania Agricultural College, has &C
copied the position Of director of the
Maine State Agricultural Experiment
Station. James M. Bartlett of the
Maine Agricultural College was APP
pointed assistant director
SOME one said: "Show me a coun-
try IN which much attention is given
to sheep and [ will show you pros
porous country" And it is even so.
Systematic sheep husbandry perse-
vered IN means solid wealth to the
individual and to the state.
SWEET cider, before it works, boiled
down to one-quarter it's first bulk will
keep sweet throughout the year.
Sweet apples cooked in the condensed
cider will make a sauce better than
the common apple sauce, and that
will keep good for months.
OATS have been hitherto but too
much Of a secondary crop, planted to
exc out shortness in corn. In feed
ing it will be found highly economical
as well as healthful to cut the oats
and straw together, mix with cotton
seed meal or shipstuffs, not forgetting
salt.
ANTS can be driven away by appli-
cations OF gas tar, but it is doubtful
whether it is profitable to get rid of
them in the neighborhood of ap-
pie trees, as ants prey upon the plant
lice, which do much damage to foliage
at a time when it is needed for start
ing the young fruit.
On Russian River, CAL, ten years
ago, 100 acres of wheat land brought
an annual profit of $1,000 to the
farmer owning the tract. He cut it
into fve-acre lots and sold it to hop