Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07
FARM AND GARDEN.

an average of about 400 pounds of min
eral matter.
SPRINKLE little lime lair slacked)
over the potatoes in your cellar. It will
tend to prevent rot, and purify the all
of the cellar.
POMONA, CAL, has a sheaf of wild oats
fully 7 feet high, which has been pre-.
pared for exhibition at the New Orleans
Worlds Fair.
The Ontario Agricultural College de-
clares raw peas to be better than cooked
for fattening swine, and that they are
better and cheaper than Indian corn.
The demand for mules is said to be
| constantly in excess of the supply, and
the business of mule breeding is grow
! ing all the while, because there is money
in it.
GRAIN is low and meat is high. But
ter is also pretty well up, but hay is also
dear. Still, with grain low, meat and
butter should be produced at reasonable
figures.
Ii is good practice to keep even
"store" cattle improving all the time.
| The animal that is thought to be
stationary in condition is really losing
ground.
New ENGLAND raised thirty-three
bushels of corn to the acre last year.
Only Kansas and Nebraska beat this,
but there are not many acres to be cred
tied to New England.
o. PARSONS, of Downey, has picked
and sold his walnut crop, getting $2,7OO
for the product of seventeen acres, an
| average of $3.50 per acre. How much
is his land worth an acre?
ONE of the most remarkable Yields of
honey ever heard of has just been gar
nered by 81. @. Parks from his apiary
near Riverside, Gal. The yield for the
season from 33 hives was II tons, an
average of 414 pounds to the hive.
IT is estimated that the raisin crop at
| Riverside, CAL, will this season amount
to $4,000 boxes, and the packers have
been paying from 81 to 5 cents per
pound in the sweat boxes. This crop
is being made from about 1000 acres.
To show what can be done in Cali
fornia in wood-growing, Fl. FL. Roper,
| of Santa Ana, CAL, has had log cut
from blue gum tree measuring three
| feet in diameter, and is only seven
years old. It will be on exhibition at
the New Orleans fair.
A WISCONSIN man builds wigwams to
keep his hogs warm. He sets up lot
of old fence rails or posts, with their
lower ends in the ground and their up
per ends coming together at a point,
~ i
A hole on one side let's the animals in.
The best way to rid horses ears of
warts is to rub them well with coarse
cloth and then touch them well with a
little nitric acid every alternate day
until you have administered three ap-
plications. A single drop of the acid
will be cutie sufficient for the smaller
ones.
NOTWITHSTANDING all the discourage
ment of the creamery interests, the
three creameries of Madison County,
Ia, pay to the farmers from $125,O0O
to $150,OO0 annually, which is not bad
for business that has been supposed
to have had the bottom knocked out
of it.
Moss on currant or gooseberry bushes
may be killed by applying soap-suds at
any time, although it is better to do it
when there are no leaves. Several ap-
piications may be required, but as the
suds is an excellent fertilizer, the
trouble will be more than compensated
for by the increased growth.
FROM Pasadena, CAL, comes a report
that Amos Wright has this year grown
several acres of sweet potatoes which
yielded eight tons per acre. At II
cents per pound, an average price, he
will get 1910 per acre for his crop
They were grown entirely without irri-
cation, and are said to be of superior
quality.
ENGLISH manufacturers have an i'm.
provement in mi1k-cans in the form of
wrought-iron stays, which radiate from
the center and are fastened into the
metal which projects below the can.
The necks of the cans, being made of
wrought-steel, are provided with close
interchangeable lids, which serve to
keep out dust.
A NEVADA woman provides for sup
ply of fresh eggs by putting the con
GGuGS Va OAO OSS-ShO41 1uOO DOGb16S,
which are tightly corked and sealed,
and placed neck down in cellar. She
says that the contents come out as fresh
as when put in. This plan might work
well in a high and dry region but fail
utterly in other places.
The experiment recently tried of
planting large piece of ground near
Canterbury, England, with lavender and
peppermint, and extracting thu oil, has
proved so satisfactory in every regard
that it has been decided to establish
works at East Kent, near the South
eastern Railroad. for the further de-
velopment of this new industry.
The ventilation of cellars is subject
of great Importance, inasmuch as the
foul gases which arise from the decay
ing vegetable matter therein and are
allowed TO pass to the rooms above, are
very injurious to occupants. To pro-
vide against this, and to secure proper
ventilation, pipe should be constructed
between the cellar and the chimney, the