Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

FRANCE is the greatest egg producing
country in the world.
FILL the vacant places in the or
chard with young trees.
KANSAS is planting for q crop OF
2OO,OOO,O0O bushels Of corn this year.
PROF. BUDD says-prune orchard
trees when the leaf is from one-half to
two-thirds grown.
THE Detroit Post thinks the Nor
way spruce, all things considered, the
best tree for windbreaks.
HORSES soon become very fond of
sun-hower seeds, if fed to them in
small quantities with oats.
The number of cases of pleuro- pneu-
monia increased in one month in Cal
loway, Mo, from SIS to 900 head.
LET it be your last thing to trust
thefeedingo f the calves you are raising
by hand to careless and rash hired
hands.
The best preventive against insect
enemies, remarks the Western Rural is
to keep all plants in a healthy, vigor-
Gus condition.
The stockmen and farmers of Mis-
souri, are demanding of the governor a
session, of the Legislature to provide
for stamping out the pleuro-pneumo-
MA.
DE Paw UNIVERSITY, Indiana, has
organized horticultural department.
The tendency of the age in classical
colleges Is to adopt more of the prac-
teal.
II is said that potatoes should be
got out of the pits or bins some time
before they are used for seed. Expos
ure to light for while before planting
Is very important.
SEED potatoes from Northern Maine
are in great demand in Southern New
England. The farmers there believe
they make better seed than those
grown further south.
WHAT are these maple and beeches
and birches but odes and idyls and
madrigals? What are the pines and
frs and spruces but holy hymns too
solemn for the many-hued raiment of
their gay deciduous neighbors ?-Anon.
An Eastern gardener poled his Lima
beans with common six-foot laths,
driven one foot into the ground, ard
when the vines had climbed the poles
they were pinched back. Result,
more and earlier beans than ever be
fore.
TRANSFORMATION companies and per-
sons driving cattle from one state to
another should read carefully Secs. 6
and of the act establishing the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry, which makes
it a penal Offense to transport or
drive any diseased cattle from one
state to another.
We planted 5000 CataIpas on our
farm in Adair County last year. They
made a growth Of from three to five
feet and have stood the test of this
severe winter. We are planting 5000
more this week. Our object is mainly
fence posts to supply the future wants
of treeless country. Wallace.
A GOOD feed for breedingewes is corn
and oats, equal parts, coarsely ground
together and mixed with one part of
wheat bran-thoroughly wet, but not
allowed to sour. Give each eve a
quart of the mixture daily. A table
spoonful of faxseed will be a valuable
addition, and it will be found benef-
cial also to feed turnips, potatoes, car
rots and beets.
NATURE is putting on her new suit of
summer clothes. Man should keep in
time, by cleaning up his premises, or
namenting lawn with shrubbery and
flower beds, freshening house and 9TH
er buildings with paint and whitewash,
and IN various ways make home pleas
ant. In planting trees about the
house, give plenty of room for the sun
to shine about the house, into win
dOWs and rooms.
THE American Cultivator SAYS:
"In planting seed corn we have often
found difference OF one or two days
IN the time for corn to come up IN IA
vor of that where the seed was pressed
into the ground with the foot after be-
ing covered In a very dry time some
OF the corn not stepped on never came
up, and the difference of one or two
days was where conditions were appar-
emily favorable.
The Cayuga duck is supposed to
have originated near Cayuga Lake, N.
Y. The characteristic markings of the
Cayugas are black color throughout.
They are very hardy, large ducks,
weighing sixteen to seventeen pounds
to a pair. They are quiet in their
habits, and a fence a foot high will
turn them. They commence laying
by the LIST of April, and lay fifty to
ninety eggs before desiring to set.
IRON expands one foot in 900 per
80 deg. variation in temperature. A
plain wire fence will contract and ex-
pand SO much as to become useless in
course of time, because when it ex-
pands it stretches permanently. The
best time to make wire fence is when
the temperature is midway between
the extreme, as about As deg. or so
deg. The twisted and ribbon wires
do not suffer by contraction, as the
twist takes and gives sufficiently.
THE men who make the most profit
from rearing pigs have learned to ma
ture them early. To do this it is nee
essary to provide them with good
warm quarters for the breeding stock
and young pigs, during thecold wealth
er and feed as literally as possible
with variety OF nourishiDg food. 1t