Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-05
FARM AND GARDEN.

The high price OF feathers is proving
a stimulus to housekeeping.
RAW onions fed to poultry twice is
recommended as q preventive ofchick-
en- cholera.
IT may be well to remember that the
changing Of pasture occasionally
makes fat stock.
THERE are sheep feeders who claim
that not more than fifty sheep should
be flocked together.
IF fowls in confinement are to be
kept in healthy condition they must
be given green food.
In hot weather all the unconsumed
food should be frequently swept away
from the chicken coops.
KENTUCKY breeders turn their mares
with early foal out on rye pasture to
promote their flow of milk.
A CALIFORNIA breeder of Angora
goats received 55 cents per pound for
his mohair, and his fleeces averaged
seven pounds.
TAKE look around the orchard &C.
casionally to see that no suckers are
growing from the roots to sap the
RELIABLE records with sheep show
that a line of twin ancestry on both
sides will nearly always produce twin
lambs with the Downs breeds.
1t requires from ten to thirty acres
of range to support a single COW on
the plains, the year round-a rather
prodigal use of soil, if not of grass.
UNLEACHED wood-ashes are a spe-
cific and excellent fertilizer for the
strawberry, while ground bone is
equally beneficial to the raspberry.
IT is estimated that 100000
pounds of wool will be imported into
the United States during the current
year, against 87,OOO,OOO pounds dur
ing 1884.
THE crops obtained from early
varieties OF potatoes, planted as late
as the 1st Of July, are better for seed
purposes than from those planted
early in the season.
A WRITER in Vick's Magazine makes
sets of perennial larkspur plants in a
row alongside his potato field have &C
tually killed off the potato beetles.
IT is too often the case that the gar
den is neglected on thefarm. The luxu-
ries of the garden should be enjoyed
by the farmer, and the fruits should
also be given their proper place on the
farm.
To destroy ant colonies, crude car
bolic acid, diluted with water, is rec
commended. Add one pound of the
O. 70 oJstc Of
a half pint or so into q hole made in
the mound with g. stick.
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. 1
layers, and easy to raise.
PLANTS watered with water q few
degrees warmer than the temperature
OF the atmosphere will make a far
more vigorous growth, all other con-
ditions being equal, than those to
which cold water is applied.
THE plum crop is becoming a very
important one in Western New York
One planter has bought a hundred
acres, and is planting it to plums as
fast as practicable. It is proved that
the trees require heavy feeding.
The editor of the Farm, Field and
Stockman reports that hurdles for
sheep are proving a decided success.
He is using the grass on the roadside,
and finds that with hurdles large
flock can be maintained at trifing
cost.
A TOAD put in a hotbed will effectu-
ally protect the plants from the raw
ages of insects, and a number of them
in an ordinary garden will materially
reduce the number of insects, and
thus protect the plants from their
ravages.
In California they have remedy for
lice on stock, composed of an ONT
ment of equal parts OF lard and snuff
1t is not applied to the entire body,
but ring of it, two or three inches
wide, completely around the neck has
the desired effect.
THE culture of hemp has been re-
vived in Central Illinois the present
season. The fiber is to be sold to the
manufacturers of them for self binders.
It is thought that the demand for
hemp for this purpose will cause this
crop to be extensively raised in the
future.
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 immedi-
ately after beat it down hard again
with the heel or with some tool suit
able cor the purpose.
SHEEP should never be allowed to
suffer from the heat of the sun and
from being worried by the gadfy for
want of shade. If it is not possible to
have shade trees in the pasture field,
then some cheaply constructed sheds
should be erected, in which they can
escape the heat and the flies.
EXPERIMENTS by Lassaings show
that 100 pounds of dry hay fed to a
horse required secretion of 400
pounds of saliva, 100 pounds of oats
required secretion of lis pounds of