Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-29
FARM AND GARDEN.

TOBACCO leaves placed in the bottom
of the nest of a setting hen will keep
away lice.
SMOKING plum trees with sulphur is
recommended as preventive of the
ravages of the curculio.
The standard weight of milk, both
in this country and Europe, is eight
and five-eighths pounds per gallon.
STOVE wood is only worth about
half as much in the vicinity of the
large towns of New England as it was
fifteen years ago.
1t is claimed by many breeders of
Jersey and Guernsey cattle that par
TALLY skinned milk from COWS of
these breeds is really better for calves
than the whole milk.
TURPENTINE, coal oil and vinegar,
equal parts, well shaken together, and
rubbed on the eggs of the botfy on
horses legs, it is claimed, will kill them
after about three applications.
A LOCAL paper is Boosting that
L. B. Harris, of Lyndon, VI, n one
day recently cured and put in his barn
100 acres of grass. That is rather
extensive farming for New England.
OIL-CAKE and cotton-seed are avail
able adiuncts to other feeds when in
diligently used. The large exports Of
these commodities show that the use
OF them in this country is not so large
as it ought to be.
A MASSACHUSETTS man thinks that
as a rule farmers use too little seed in
sowing down to grass. His formula is
no I,1chn1 of @1noo+hx- hI1cho1 Ng
redtop and twelve to fifteen pounds of
clover to the acre.
FEED the young chicks often if you
would keep them growing rapidly, but
do not feed more at time than they
will eat up clean in a few minutes. A
little bone-dust mixed with the feed
will give vigor and strength.
1T is said wheat cut in the dough will
make better and more flour than if
allowed to become dead ripe before
cutting. Anyhow, it is best not to al
low it to become so ripe as to shell
out and waste in the cutting.
An Ohio farmer says he killed every
potato beetle in a field "alive with
them," by sprinkling once with a mix
ture made in proportion of five pounds
each of "slaked lime' and copperas
and twenty gallons of water. beside
it benefits the plants"
THE pear orchards in Genesee Coun-
ty, n. Y, are being entirely ruined by
a new worm. L. Rathbone, of Oak
field, will this year lose the fruit of
some 1000 trees. The worm eats the
leaves, which blights the tree. Fruit
orchards in that region are also SUI
fering from the ravages of the canker-
worm.
The governor of Kansas says of tree
planting in his state that thirty years
ago the settlers found the land treeless,
and now they haven than 20, OOO,-
600 Of fruit trees and more than 2O0,-
600 acres Of forest trees, all planted.
He says, moreover, that during that
period the amount of rainfall has in
creased, and ascribes this TACT to the
increased area Of forests.
AN experienced buttermaker says
that crooks of butter to be kept for
several months should never be placed
upon the cellar bottom. This causes
change of temperature in the crock,
which will be at the expense of the but
ter nearest the top. The crooks will
keep their contents far better if placed
at least foot from the cellar bottom
upon bench and thick wooden cloth
thrown over them.
THE Rural New Yorker says that
white hellebore is just as certain to
kill the gooesberry and currant worm
as Paris-green is to kill the potato
beetle. Within the past ten days we
have applied it in this way as being
the most effective and at the same
time economical: One heaping table
spoonful is mixed in two of alcohol,
which suffices for pail of water. The
water is then sprayed npon the bushes.
COMMISSIONER CoLMAN, of the De-
partment Of Agriculture, has under
taken the work of collecting all the
facts pertaining to the dairy Industry
OF the country, particularly those re
specting the manufacture Of articles
designed as substitutes for pure butter.
He hopes to place before Congress and
the country a complete statement of
the factory products Of cheese and
butter, also Of their adulterated imi-
tatlOnS.
MUCH complaint is made by Western
fruit growers of the ravages of the APP
pie curculio. This insect is similar in
It's work to the plum curculio, but is
distinct from it. Earring the trees
does not dislodge it as it will the plum
curculio, aside from the fact that APP
pie trees, after a few years, attain q
size which makes Earring impossible.
Keeping pigs in the orchards to eat the
fruit as it falls is the best remedy for
this, as it is for the apple maggot.
THE tomato vines should be raised
from the ground in some way; and,
perhaps, as good a way as any is to
drive four stakes, with about fifteen
inches above ground, and tack little
pieces of lath across the tops. This
will keep the fruit from the ground
and it will not be SO nearly liable to
rot; but, if very large and early toma-
tos are desired, the vines should be
clipped back and part of the fruit
also be pinched off as soon as formed
AMATEUR farmer flor the summer
only)-"That COW | bought Of you re-