Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-08-26
FARM AND GARDEN.


THE hay crop OF New England issaid
| to be short.
THERE are $4,000 registered Ameri-
can Short-horns.
MORE than 700 noxious insects
have been found in the New York citv
parks.
THE clover crop of Canada is being
injured by small worm that secretes
itself in the head.
THERE is a horse still in the harness
in the City of Mexico that was taken
there by Gen. Scott's army.
Col. CURTIS thinks a cross of the
Percheron stallion on native mares
makes the best farm animal.
SECRETARY SCHAFFER, of the Iowa,
Agricultural Society, says that there
is a general complaint OF apple trees
dying.
THREE Or four tons per acre is not
an uncommon yield for Hungarian
grass on rich land, and it makes ex-
cellent hay.
AN Illinois farmer raised 80 tons of
sugar beets last year on eighteen acres,
at a cost of less than $1.5O per ton.
This year he planted twenty acres.
The New England Times maintains
that it is better to cut grass at night
than in the morning. 1t claims that
grass is cured but little the first day in
either case.
M. w. CALLAHAN, in the Southern
Poultry Journal, tells Of a. duck
Matched from a guinea gg-a fowl that
was q perfect guinea in form and
plumage, but it's head, with comb and
wattles, was that of a common cock.
The American Cultivator says that
the cut-wOrm has an aversion to salt
peter, and that q solution OF one
tablespoonful to gallon OF water has
so far proved a sure preventive. 1t is
applied with a dipper; and poured on
the plants and all around the hill
A SQUARE BUILT, well-muscled horse
says the Stock Breeder, will stand
more work and more hardships than
two lank, loose-jointed ones, and not
require as much food as one of them.
A half-breed Norman is worth four
scrubs in the harness or two in the
market.
PUBLIC roads in France now meas
ure Is, $50 miles, of which 1880 are
bOrdered with trees, while 4, 500 miles
are being planted, or will be shortly.
On the remainder the soil is unfavor-
able to trees. The number of trees al
ready planted amounts to 2,67S,6O3,
chiefly elm, poplar, acacia, plane, ash,
| sycamore and lime.
To prevent hay-stacks firing, scat
ter q few handfuls of common salt be-
tween each layer. The salt, by alb
sorbing the humidity of the hay, not
! only prevents fermentation and conse-
| quent heating, but it also adds salty
taste to this forage which all cattle
like; besides, 1t stimulates the appetite
and assists their digestion, and so pre-
serves them from many diseases.
The National Stockman remarks
| that american farmers are not only
showing determination to have good
| stock, but are ready to pay for it.
Both IN the direct purchase of stock,
and IN payingfor the use of good sires,
this crops out with equal distinctness.
In short, a quiet revolution is going
on among stock-raisers OF this coun-
| try-a revolution which is investing
their business with new dignity, which
is increasing their profits, and which
is placing them on a much more sub
stantial and satisfactory financial
footing"
IT is generally found, says the Gin
cinnati Commercial, that a COW kept
by herself will give better results than
the same COW in a herd with others.
The single COW will be better fed, and a
more important point, so far as but
ter-making is concerned, will be the
fact that nearly all the butter will be
got from cream, which is never the
case when the milk and cream from a.
herd OF COWS are mixed before churn-
ing. Owning to difference in size of the
butter globules the milk from COWS
varies greatly in the time required to
bring the butter.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
Tribune writes that he uses coal tar
for potato beetles with success. The
method is as follows: Put three or
four gallons Of coal tar in barrel and
| I'LL with water. In short time the
water can be taken out and applied
to the vines with a. sprinkler, and
though it will not kill the bugs it is so
| distasteful to them that they will not
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been sprinkled. The tar water will in
no way injure the plants and has the
advantage over paris green of being
perfectly safe. 1t is worth a trial by
potato growers.
DIR. PETER COLLIER, late chemist to
the Department of Agriculture, has
lately imported from various points
in Asia, and from Natal, Africa.
seventy-three distinct varieties of
sorghum, none ofwhich seems Identical
with any Of the many sorts already
introduced here. In those dry coun-
tries sorghum is preferred to corn, be-
cause it's deep roots enable it to grow
well after once getting a start, where
maize would parch up; and it's seed
is considered quite as nourishing and
valuable as that of maize. The value
OF the stalk, in addition, is being de-
veloped here by superior mills and
management.
AN exchange remarks that in "no
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