Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-11
FARM AND GARDEN.

chickens that have the gapes.
CAUL1FLowER seed must be started
early if you would have good heads.
WooD ashes are six times more val
liable for the orchard than BARNARD
manure.
COOP hardwood ashes contain
about six or seven pounds of potash
in one hundred, or q little over three
pounds per bushel.
PRAY look to the cellars Decaying
apples, pumpkins, potatoes, cabbages,
turnips and the like are thought to be
| the cause of malignant fevers, dipthe-
ria and the like.
| How many pounds of mutton, beef,
and pork were blown away to nothing
by the last blizzard because proper
shelter was not provided for cattle,
sheep and swine in this country.
FEMALES constitute over a quarter
of Germany's agricultural laborers.
In the last census 1862, 34S persons
were returned as engaged IN agricult-
ural work, of whom / ,23O,O6O are fe-
males.
A WRITER says in the Garden that in
growing peas, the fact is that, Gin
point of earliness Wehave notgained a
single day in the case of any of the
new introductions for these last thir-
ty years.
Iris said that had not an explana-
ton been given, which caused the COM
missioners of awards to revoke their
decision, the second prize for butter at
the Calcutta Exhibition would have
been given to a fine sample of Ameri-
can oleomargarine.
THE day for scrub hogs is fast pass
ing away. The day for grades will
not inger long when it is seen how
readily pure-bred stock can be had,
how much better the product it yields,
and that no greater care in it's keeping
is required than should be given to or
binary stock.
APPLES stored in earth pits for
spring sales keep as well as potatoes.
sides, to keep out dirt. Pitted apples
decay on being taken out quicker than
those from the cellar: hence ship at
once after exhuming.
Now when white wheat is so cheap,
is the time to clay I'M store and
have it ready for the poultry. 1t is
the best grain for fowls, to make them
lay eggs. Corn is more apt to pro-
duce apoplexy, or q disease of a SIM
liar nature, which causes them to fall
from the roosts dead.
TH1sTLEs make manure and are
killed by blowing under when full
grown. The addition OF manure to
produce rank growth would make
them grow hollow, thus helping to de
stroy them. The land may be sown
to wheat or rye, and it will produce
a good crop Rural New Yorker.
Ii there be any warm corner or sun
ny side for brute life in this cold eli
mate our domestic animals deserve it,
and they are sure to pay the highest
rent in speed, beef, milk, wool and
pork for the comfortable places in
which to toast their feet and spin their
yarns while the billiards are bowling
without.
THE keeping of a colt on farm is
one of those small things the expense
of which will pass almost unnoticed,
and yet the growth of the colt is SO
profitable that limo way does the far
mer receive any better compensation
for hay and grain consumed than from
feeding such hay and grain to q few
good colts.
EVERY plant begins life like an ami
mal-a consumer, not a producer.
Not until the young shoot rises above
the soil and unfolds itself to the light
of the sun, at the touch of whose rays
chlorophyl is created, does real con-
structive vegetation begin. Then the
plants mode of life is reversed; car
bon is retained and oxygen is set free.
Do not despise the American hen
She is Industrious. She lays every
year OOO,OOO,OOO eggs She earns
the right to cackle. Some of these
eggs may be bad. 1t is not the hens
fault Shedoe the best shecan. Out of
the 100000 deeds that men do
more or less of them are bad. A hens
egg is good when fresh. Mems deeds
are not apt to be So Chicago Her
aid.
THE great trouble with celery grow
ing is that the plants, at one stage Of
growth or another, are permitted to
SuI1er 1Or wafer. IL MS. invariably
causes tough and hollow stalks.
Keep the plants growing from the
time they appear above ground in the
seed bed. Transplant them to rich
soil-give them water as often as they
need it, and give it in abundance, and
you. will have tender, plump celery.
Now while pure-bred hogs can be
had at moderate cost, it is a good
time for the farmer to buy one or
more pure-bred sows. If as is we'll
known, a pure-bred Berkshire boar
impresses on his half-bred get in a high
degree certain good qualities for which
he is himself noted, why not use also
pure-bred sows and thus secure in full
the excellencies of the breed? Why
breed for half Of what is good when
the whole may be SO easily had?-
[Chicago Tribune.
THE recipe for the government har-
dressing is as follows: One gal
lon neats-foot oil, two pounds bay
berry tallow, two pounds beeswax,
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