Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-03-24

there will be a uniform growth at
once and no vacant or thin places
Ii there is lodging the whole will lodge
or none. IL sufficient manure has been
applied the crop will be as heavy as
can be crowded on the entire surface
OF the land; and little manure need be
lost either by washing out of the land
or carrying into the air.-Practica
Farmer.
Farming In Franco.
The French system OF farming may
not strike tourist who sees the fields
from g. car window only as being oil
much account, but it produces results
that, under good circumstances, are
satisfactory. 1t will be better fo1
Americans when they copy some oil
the oldworld ways. It is not at all q
bsd idea to ''feed the land in order
that the land may feed them" Still
it must be confessed things in France
are not as they once were. A steady
transfer of population from the coun-
try to the towns makes things fall
heavily on French farmers, who have
OF course to pay their full share-about
one-third of their total earnings-of
the 100000, 900 that must be raised
every year The French not having
primogeniture, they meet the case by
having unigeniture. Arthur Young
prophesied that in fifty years from
1913 France, because of the law of
division of land, would be ga pauper
warren" But Arthur Young was not
always right in his predictions. He
once wrote to President Washington
that agriculture would never be pay
ing occupation in the United States.
So far as any i'll effects have followed
from the division of land in France.
they are attributed by Frenchmen
rather to the manner in which the
principle has been carried out than to
the principle itself. Over 5000, 900
land owners, whose estates are under
ten acres each, divide among them
lots, often miles apart, and becoming
at last 80 small that no cultivation is
possible except with spade. There
are estates" so small that the owner
cannot plant q tree on it, because it is
illegal to plant one within two yards
OF his neighbours boundary, and the
nelghbOr on each side is within that
distance. These farmers are not
dependent on hired labor; they do not
want improved machinery, and it is
by such small estates as these that
Americans coming and going from
Paris pretend TO say that French
farmers know nothing whatever of
their occupation.-COr. Boston Her
aid.
March Matters.
During the winter season, If at any
time, q comparatively large consump-
tion Of animal food may be necessary,
or at least excusable. But the human
system demands it's just dues, and
with approaching spring comes the al
most irresistible appetite for succu-
lent vegetable food. This appetite is
a natural one and we should prompt
ly obey it. Therefore we cannot get
garden vegetables too early. When
the March winds have spent their fu-
ry and the surface of the earth has be.
come soft and mellow, then the gar
deper, even at the North, may begin
to plant.
Beware of unseemly haste, however!
If the land is not properly prepared
nor sufficiently MANFRED, these mat
tiers must be attended to before you
plant a single seed. Gardens must be
made rich and put in the right me-
chanical condition. This is impera-
tive. The application of superphos-
pilates has tendency to hasten ma
turity of all garden crops, and should
not be omitted for vegetables which
require long season for their devel-
opment, like tomatoes, melons, corn,
etc. We particularly commend to the
gardeners notice the special manures,
as the Mapes', the Strohbridge,
etc., all of which are COM
pounded to suit the wants of
special crops. For potato growing
we greatly prefer these manures, or
and potash compounds,
to barnyard manures when they have
to be freshly applied. In fact. we new
or like to plant potatoes on any soil
them.
When everything is ready, SOW let
tuce, peas, radlshes, parsnips, satisfy,
also cabbage and celery. By sowing
earlier and later kinds at the same
time, you can have q succession with
out having to repeat sowing every few
days.
We like good salad, therefore must
nave lettuce. But it is hardly worth
while fussing with the thickly planted
leaves when, with little painstak-
ng, we can get nice large heads. Plant
5he cabbage-lettuce early and trans
plant, giving each plant plenty ofroom
20 grow. A nice lettuce head can be
for the table in one-quarter
5he time it would take to pick over
mess of small leaves.
Don't be too fast in planting pota-
5oes, corn, Or any other crop which
most likely will be injured by late
spring frost. Everything in it's time
Orchard and Garden.