Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-11-27
AGRICULTURAL ATOMS.

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| CLAPP's Favorite makes an earlier and
stronger growth than the Bartlett pear.
THERE is one part of the farm that is
| not benefited by drainage-the manure
heap.
LEAVES and dead branches return to
the soil the same substance the trees
take away.
| Coal tar should be spread on tarred
paper roofs at least once a year if they
are to remain close and tight.
| THOROUGH cultivation of corn and po-
tatoes often repeated will be found a
| sale protection against drought.
In manipulating butter never allow
the hands to come IN contact with it, as
| their warmth melts and INJURIES the
| grain.
| SAND BURRs come from seed, and may
easily be destroyed in one season by
cutting them down as fast as they ap-
pear.
TURNIP tops, chopped and mixed with
straw, have been used in the silos in
Scotland, and good results are claimed
therefrom.
SIMPLY brush over the seed sown on
the grass plot. Some seeds are very
small and light, and the harrow teeth
| may cover them too much.
THE black aphis, or black f1y. is often
quite troublesome to chrysanthemums,
but can be conquered by persistent ap-
| plicatlons of dalmatian powder with the
| bellows.
| CosT considered, SAYS Waldo F.
Brown, the best implement for pulver-
lzing the soil is plank drag. To do the
best work the drag must be used on
fresh-plowed land.
For roofs that are not very steep
tarred paper is better than shingles,
put shlhgles should be used in all cases
where the roof is steep enough to allow
the water to flow off quickly.
| EXPERIMENTS in Western Pennsylvania
and Ohio in crossing tull-blood Oxford
Down bucks with a high grade of Black
| top Merlno ewes seem 10 promise the
best results in wool, lambs, mutton and
hardness.
II FIND that my sheep never did so
| we'll as since [ have given them silape.
| Not only do they thrive in winter, but
they drop their lambs without trouble,
and the ambs are more strong, vigorous
and hearty.
| In the Eumelan grape we often find
| that there are no seeds in the smaller
| berries, but it is because the ovules
| have not been fertilized with pollen, or
but sparngly fertilized, perhaps, and
| the fruit is much smaller than the nor
NAL berries.
The horse -troughs and barn-lofts are
no place for the hens. If hens are al
lowed to make nests in the stables they
may not only create filth therein, but
also carry lice in with them, as nearly
all kinds of fowls are afflicted with lice
at this season.
/ THE rich black liquid that flows off
from the barn-yard contains the wealth
of the farm. Use absorbant material,
and save 1t. The loss of liquid manure
| Is great. and if saved would not only
| add fertilizing matter to the farm but
| increase the value of the solids.
MOST kinds of fruit trees thrive best
| on rolling land. Hardy grapes do
we'll on almost any soil with little care.
| Sandy ridges are best adapted to their
growth, but sand and lea mold mixed
with undetermined clay will produce
large vines and fine yields of fruit.
A CORRESPONDENT in American Garden
says that carnation silver spray has
more good points than any other white
carnatlOn he has ever seen. 1t is about
10 inches high, blooms early and freely;
1t is nearly perfection in form, very
sweet, and the flowers are all on long
stems.
The effect Of damp ground and stag
nant water on fowls, especially on young
turkeys, is well known. Fatal diseases
follow as inevitably in those cases as
with human exposure to miasmatic ex-
halations. A dry, gravelly spot is alb
solutely necessary to heaIthful condi-
lions.
The longer the corn-fodder remains
in the field the darker it will become in
color from exposure, and the greater
the deterioration in the quality of the
blades. Bright fodder is more highly
relished by stock, as it is tender, while
exposed fodder gradually becomes
tough.
PEACH trees will sometimes partially
renew themselves if the dead limbs and
twigs are cut away. In this manner
tree may be induced to bear year or
two longer, but when the tree is old,
and the new wood grows slowly, it may
be of little advantage to attempt to pro-
long it's existence.
BY all means stack your straw. If
you do not need it you can sell it to
your neighbor. 1t is valuable for bed
ding your stock, and will be great say
ing of hay if you keep it on hand at
your stables. Besides this, it furnishes
nice bedding and some feed tor your
stock that are not stabbed.
You know that if COWS eat cabbage, or
other strong-smelling and pungent food
they will make the milk have that fla
vor. Now, it stands to reason that wa
ter that has become inpregnated with
manure wash, frog spittle or slime will
have the same effect upon the milk.
Keep them away from it.
ALL materials added to the manure
heap should be fine. The object of
the heap is to have the material under
go chemical process through decom-
position, and the result to be obtained
depends on the degree of decomposl-
ton. Unless reduced in the heap the
material is not converted into manure.
WHEN the pigs rom an old SOW fail to
grow as fast as their companions from
young sows it is an unmistakable indi-
Iok 4 I, Ii y