Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-24
FARM AND GARDEN.

in this country is of the winter vari-
ETY..
MONEY economically spent in drain
ing wet places may lift a mortgage
from q farm
THE Indiana Bureau of Statistics
says that understanding decreases the
tendency to malarial diseases.
HENRY WARD BEECHER says he
knows of a pear tree that yielded 184
bushels of fruit In a single season.
Mr.. LAWEs, the English agricultural
writer, says an acre OF clover Will
evaporate eight tons of water in a
June day.
IT is said that bald wheat produce
more bushels per acre than the bearded
varieties, but not SO many pounds to
the bushel.
THE average yield of wheat in Ohio
is nineteen bushels to the acre, which
is six bushels more than the average
for the country.
The poultry keeper says new blood
should be introduced into the poultry
yard every year or two, by the pur-
OF new cOckerels.
SOMEBODY says that the odor Of
room by placing a saucer of ground
coffee in the apartment.
FRUIT trees are so heavily laden
throughout the Pacific coast region
that heavy expense is being incurred
to properly thin the fruit to prevent
Overbearing.
THE number of fowls kept in France
is reported at nearly A, 100000, the
average product of chickens at three
to each hen, and the average product
Of eggs per hen at 100 per annum.
In setting out cabbage or tomato
plants twist or wrap piece of paper
about the stem and fasten it with a
stone or a lump of soil. Plants so
treated are safe from the cut-worm
PLANT plenty of seed in the garden.
Do not be content with a small patch
of vegetables and an insufficient supply
as the garden can be so managed as to
afford an abundance for q large fami-
ly.
AFTER long and extended tests in
fattening stock for market, the con-
clusion is that of all foods ground
grain is the best, especially if fed in
connection with a variety of other
food.
A. G. CHASE expresses himself, in the
New York Tribune, that two vines of
the lima bean may be grown upon
every corn stalk, and that a quarter
acre so planted will give any family
all it can use.
THE Mark Lane Express (London)
says that a man who works as farm
er work in Manitoba, and undergoes the
privations of life in that polar climate,
ought to be certain of making a for
tune in ten years.
THE Indiana Bureau of Statistics
says that understanding not only de-
creases the tendency to malarial dis
eases, but in that state has been
known in five years to increase the
yield Of corn and wheat so percent.
USE plenty of lime in the orchard
and around the vines. 1t prevents
the attacks of insects and also serves
as plant-food, as well as Fastening
chemical action In the soil, thereby
rendering the inert substances availa-
BILE.
WHEN barbarous women, says J. B.
Olcott, demand the heads of insect
eating birds by wholesale for their
hats, it will take a large book to tell
the remote consequences from the in
crease OF predatory tribes in the I'M
natural history.
Fowls like newly-cut grass. They
should have all they want of it. The
clippings from a lawn mower are Just
the thing for them. Sunfower seed,
which can be easily grown without
trouble, forms a food of which fowls
are extremely fond.
A CORRESPONDENT of a Scotch agri-
cultural paper says his experience of
twenty years In a large dairy herd
leads him to believe that the sex of
calves can be largely controlled. II
bull is in better condition than the
cows If females are wanted, the re-
verse.
PROF. RILEY's cold water remedy
for the cabbage worm is very easily
tried by placing a few small blocks Of
ice IN watering pot OF water, and
showering the plants. AS a general
aid against destructive insects, encour-
aging a vigorous growth in rich soil
with good cultivation should not be
overlooked.
THE state fish commissioner of In
diana has not a nigh opinion OF the
carp as food fish. The dish is not so
fine and we'll favored as that of the
bass and other native fish. This opin-
ion is corroborated by others who
are well posted, yet the dispersion of
carp is continued, and columns writ
ten In it's favor
WHAT difference is there between a
farmer who pays rent of $500 a
year and one who pays interest on a
mortgage of $4,000? asks the New
York Times. The landlord is the
lighter incubus to carry, and has more
mercy than a mortgage, who sells out
the hapless debtor and loads him up
with more debt.
A GOOD bran mash is composed of
two quarts of oatmeal, one of bran
and half pint of faxseed. The oat-
meal is put in bucket over which is
placed the lineeed and boiling water
added. then the bran Is mt II, op1 +bo