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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
Raising Buckwheat.

From 'Gleenlngs IN Bee Culture" we
extract the following on buckwheat cul-
ture:
Having had twenty years experience
in raising buckwheat [ will give you a
few pointers. First and most i'm portant
OF all, is 10 pillow the ground early.
PlOw Immediately after sowing oats
or planting corn, or. in other words.
one month before sowing. To kill
"quack grass" pillow twice and thorough
ly harrow IN with a spring tooth har-
row. Under no other conditions would
allow buckwheat ground to be
plowed twice. You can kill thistles ev-
cry time with buckwheat. Wait till the
tn1stles are fifteen or twenty inches
high. You can then pillow them entire
ly under by fastening log chain to the
pillow beam and TO the whiffletree of the
horse that walks in the turrow. That
way will form loop that will pull the
top In the burrows, and by having the
loops just right it will cover every one. /
have plowed them under when they
were so large that the horses would not
walk in the thistles without having
leather on their legs to prevent them
from pricking them.
Buckwheat requires a good deal of
moisture, and by blowing early the
ground gets settled and holds the moist.
ure, and the result is it will fill better.
Japanese buckwheat is eight or ten
days later than the silverhull with me,
80 [ SOW little earlier On good land
two pecks is enough; on thin soil three
pecks per acre. You can increase the
yield third on thin soil by using fifty
pounds of phosphate and fifty pounds
of plaster mixed and drilled in. I
drill between the 10Th of June and the
1st of July.
Buckwheat is one of the best crops to
subdue rough land. It always leaves
the soil in excellent condition for pota-
toes or oats or almost any crop except
corn. [ never could raise good corn at
ter buckwheat-tha is, until the
ground was reseeded. l raised forty
five bushels Of Japanese buck wheat
from one bushel, sowing on one and
one eighth of An acre. Let me say right
here that the black bees will store just as
much buckwheat honey as the Italians,
and, In fact, / would rather have buck
wheat honey to winter bees on than
Eastwood honey. In 1887 l extracted
seventy-fve barrels of buckHheat
honey. Ten pounds per colony is the
highest yield that | ever got from buck
wheat on an average
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
Broken to Yoke.

We notice, says the American Dairy
these words, broken to yoke" and
must say it meets with our entire ap-
proval. This means suggestion that
the bull may no longer remain source
of annoyance and fear on the farm, but
that he must earn his living the same
as the other animals on the farm do.
Why not, pray? He is quite as capable
of work as any other animal. and it
makes him even more potent. What
has been the divinity that has sur
rounded his Dullship 80 long that he
has led such life of ease? Nothing
but the rascaps viciousness has been
the cause of his exemption. and the
best way to take that out of him is to
cut his horns off and put him to work.
1t is a sin to the COWS and to the bull
himself, to allow him to run with them
in the pasture, while it is expensive and
laborious to keep him in the stable if no
other animal is kept up, while it also
destroys his potency. Work will do
him good and lengthen his life.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
Japanese Borticulture.

Japanese horticulture shows won
derful patience and sort OF ll-directed
skill 5.; TT, The object Of the japanese qye-
but in greater degree, is to deform,
MAIN and cripple nature, as we see es-
pecially in the dwarfing of trees and
shrubs-nanizatian as DIR. Rein some
what pedantlcally terms the process,
which consists mainly in starving the
plant and crippling the circulation of
it's juices. Kaempfer IS quoted as de-
scribing trio he once saw in a small
box one and a half inches broad, four
inches long and six inches deep, for
which 100 pounds was asked. The
three denizens of the box were BAN
boo, poisoning plum tree and pine
tree, perfectly formed, but in piccolo.
The Athenaatu.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
New Way of Propelling a Boat.

Samuel L. Farmer. of Henderson, JEFF
ferson County, N. Y, has invented
boat, which, he claims, can be rowed
faster than any now in use. Only one
oar is used, which is thrust through the
middle of the boat, somewhat after the
fashion of a center-board. The boat is
propelled by working the oar backward
and forward. The leverage obtained is
enormous. and the inventor says that a
small boy IN his boat can beat profess
sional oarsman in shell.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07

to cut. That begins to blossom about
the 10Th or Goth Of June, and then we
begin to cut, and cut the clover until il
gets a little old for fresh feed. We gem
orally have little millet at that time.
Two or three acres of millet will feed
eighty or ninety cows for week Or ten
days. After the millet, then the Sec
ond crop of clover is large enough, and
that runs till the folder corn is in the
roasting stage Then we begin to feed
fodder corn and second-crop clover,
whichever is most convenient and easy
to manage, until winter, then open the
silo and feed about thirtyfve pounds
OF ensilage per dav, in two leeds, giving
barley or oat straw, and little ground
feed upon it, what they will eat. We
milk at o clock the year around, and
every morning We give the COWS one or
two pounds of hay each, not to exceed
two pounds in any case. This we give
mainly that the COWS may all get up
ready to be MIXED, and that is all the
hay they get during the winter. When
we changed to winter dairying there
was no sudden change in the kinds of
COWS. They were the same when l
commenced that [ had before, but l al
ways keep ull-blood Jersey at the
head Of the herd, and they naturally
improved in quality. Therefore, they
are constantly growing better for but
ter. The cows have improved little in
butter, and therefore the yield is more
than it would be otherwise. I think
good ensilage is just as good for milk
and butter as the best pasture. Of
course it requires grain feed in either
case. A cow canDot make good milk
from one kind of feed; there is not the
material in it that constitutes the pro-
per qualities for milk; but ensilage
makes the best butter in winter feed /
have ever tried-nice, sweet butter, full
aroma, fresh, sweet flavor. that men are
willing to pay high price for.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
Summer Feed for Cows.

Hiram Smith, of Wisconsin. who has
made successful application of the
system of ensilage feeding and the
practice Of soiling gives the following as
his feed for soiling his COWS In summer:
The first green feed we cut is winter
rye, sowed in August and July previous.
This is headed out and fit to cut about
the goth of May, in our section of the
country. We use this ten days or two
weeks, until the clover is large enough
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07

BJoNEs-"1 suppose you were sorry to
see old Brown lose his money on that
wager as you are counting his daugh-
ter 7" Merritt-"Not a bit Of it. Old
boy, You see, he made the bet with
me. "-Epocl.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07

KIND words never die; but they fire.
quently stay long time from home.-
Picoyatne.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07
Too Expensive Maturing.


Most kinds of farm crops are now
grown on small margins of profit, and
will not bear very expensive manuring
This is especially true of grain crops
that require little labor in cultivation
Market gardeners think nothing of APP
plying 1000 or 1920 pounds of con-
centrated manures in growing some of
their crops that require most labor.
Two hundred to $50 pounds of phos-
phate per acre is about as high as wheat
growing farmers can afford. More than
this on good land makes the grain grow
too rankly, so that it lodges and does
not fill as it should. On sp1ing grains
the dressing is even less than this. One
hundred and fifty pounds of phosphate
per acre will usually pay Oh barley and
often on the oat crop. A larger applica-
ton might not pay, and under some cir
cumstances might even be a damage.
The small grains differ from corn and
garden vegetables in the fact that they
may receive more manure than is good
for them, while the soil can hardly be
made too rich for the latter. Even the
lighter application of manure Tor grain
crops would not pay at present prices,
were it not for the fact that some por-
ton ofthe fertilizer remains in the soil
to benefit the after crops of clover and
grass in succeeding CHARACTERIZATION
CultiUatOr
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-08-07

in making good butter. A few simple
rules suffice for an. efficient guide; but
the dalryman who is interested to know
why these rules are laid down and the
principles upon which they are based
may easily understand them for they
are 80 plain that she who runs may
read" and comprehend. Third, the
successful dairyman must be business
man. He must make himself convers-
ant with events. The daily newspapers
make man acquainted with the whole
world. He soon becomes as though he
had travelled all over his own and other
countries; he quickly learns to under
stand human nature; he learns the
principles upon which society is based !;
he gets information of markets, of
prices, and of the popular needs, and
all this opens and enlarges his mind
and cultivates his intellectual faculties.
Very soon he feels able to go alone.
He will not need to ask how he can sell
his excellent product 10 the best adj
vantage. His business instincts have
become developed, and as man is es-
sentially and naturally trading ami
NAL, he very easily drops into the requi-
site ways and finds his best markets.
When one man has what hundred
want, and when it is realized that these
hundred eager persons are carefully
looking over their newspapers every
morning for what they want, the one
man very quickly gets into communica-
ton with them. The small cost of the
best daily papers is q trihe compared
with the information gained, and when
care is exercised to choose q clean.
pure, moral, enterprising journal, the
younger members of the family may
gain what may be truly called liberal
education through it, and every farmer
and dairyman would find it valuable
help and accessory in his business.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24

j. Wilkinson, Co. Z, 10Th Ind, and Co. B,
18th Ind, Bainbridge Ind, says he heartily
seconds the nomination of Corp'l Tanner, made
by Comrade Charles g. Bennett, for Pension
Commissioner. He believes no better man
could be found for the place, as he is capable,
honest, and true champion of the rights of the
old veterans. He canvassed the State of In
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24
Sfoueman's Raid.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE:sI see a state
ment in your paper by a 9Th Ind. eavalrymau.
/ think his memory is short in regard 10 Stone
mans raid, as / was there, and think have
right to chip in.
Stoneman started July 26, 1864 from near
Decatur, Ga. His command was as follows:
The 1st and 18th Ky. Cav, LIST Ohio Cav, 9th
Mich. Cav, 5th and 9th Ind. Cav, 14th Ill. Cav.
and battery Of six guns II think 6-pOunders)
which were handled by men from the 18th Ill.
Cav, and part of the 18th Ind. battery We got
to Macon, Ga, July 30, IN the morning, shelled
the city, and fought the rebs till late in the
afternoon, when we were ordered to fall back
which we did, 81 miles to Sunshine Church,
where we arrived at daybreak on the morning
of the 3lst. There rebel Gen. Wheeler met us,
and we fought with his command till late in
the afternoon. Then Gen. Stoneman sent out
the white flag. At this time Col. Capron, of the
14th III. Cav, and Col. Adams told as TO get
our horses. / think there were from 600 to
zoo Of all regiments who cat their way out.
We were pursued by the Tebs till the I'd OF
August. Late in the evening we came to a
small town, / think it was Rossville, Ga. There
Col. Adams left Col. Capron. That night we
crossed a river, the name of which / do not re-
member; l know 1t was close to Milledgeville,
Ga, in sight Of the rebel pickets, and we
marched till or o'clock in the morning OF
the Sd Of August, and lay down to rest for the
first time since July 26. Just at the peep OF
day the rebs came and stampeded us and drove
US on to bridge that crossed a stream called
Mulberry Creek. The bridge broke down
The rebs killed and captured nearly all of us
Some, however, took TO the woods and made
their escape. Col. Adams reached our lines all
right. was captured Aug. by bloodhounds
and sent TO Andersonville, Ga, Aug. IL 1864
and stayed there till March IL, 1S65.-JOHN w
SEAY, Co. u, l4th III. Cav, Neoga III.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24
The Lrnchllurg Raid.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: In Fighting
Them Over there is often something that is
not as Others saw il. Ia Serg't Grofts account
OF tie Lynchourg raid he says, a small band Of
soldiers, consisting Of the Bath Ohio MID Inf
and part Of the l4th Pa. Cav" lie should have
included the 1st ID and Sd W. Va Cav; the
lst \. Y. Lincoln Cav, and perhaps the LIST II.
4. Vet. Cav. and the 9Th Ohio Cav.
In j. 4. McCOy's account Of around lynch
burg he says: a detail Of 100 men Of tie Ist
w. Va. Cav, under Lieuts. Grim and Patton.
aud 100 men Of the 14th Pa Cav, were sent
around Lynchburg TO burn a railroad bridge"
As ! was on that trip. and can find 10 or more
OF my company that We're along and we did
not belong 20 the LIST " Va Cav or the l4th
Ia. Cav, there was either more men or a mis-
take. One Of the LIST n. Y. Dragons, Nunda
Colo, inquiries what regiments composed Cape
harts Brigade Of Clusters Cavalry Division. II
has never been answered correctly, that have
seen. 1t consisted Of the lst, ID and 30 w
Va. Cav. and LIST n. Y Lincoln Cav.
On our return from Appomattox Mai. Bat
tersby, Of the LIST n. Y. Lincoln Cav, carried Z
csnnon-Tammer on his shoulder, claiming il wa.
used TO load the last gun that was fired by the
rebel Army Of Northern Virginia. Who car
forget BstteTsby, with his dog and cannon
hammer? The regiment 10 which | belonged
was as good as the best of them, but the boy
are either dead or sleeping, or they would b.
heard through our medium, The NATIONAL
TRIBUNE. Wake up, boys, and tell them how
We took hen-roosts and flags that had beer
planted.-IsAAc SANsBURY, Co. a, ID w. Va
Cav
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24
FAIR OAKS.
A Yeritable Hornets, Nest.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: As there has
never been anything said about that crossing
at Fredericksburg / will not mention it, but
would like tell how the 89th n. Y. enjoyed life
at the last battle of Fair Oaks, in 1864. We
had been in camp on Chapin's farm since the
taking OF Fort Harrison. We had no hand in
taking the latter fort, but lost 80 men in try
ing TO take the second line of works, which
proved TO be hornets nest, indeed. Then
the rebs captured our State flag-the only one
we lost during the war The last of November,
1864, on Thursday, we received 152 recruits
from New York city, and on Saturday started
for Fair Oaks. Arriving there about O'Clock
p m, we formed in line and had the usual
side-step to the right or left for about 80 min
utes, more or less. 1t seemed a long time to
me, as the rebs were dealing out ammunition to
US in the shape of shells and canistershOt
from q fort in front of US. The line was finally
formed, and We were ordered to charge. Our
recruits had not been drilled, and we had a
circus trying to keep them in line. They were
mostly Irish and Germans They seemed 10
know no fear and went IN more like drove
of sheep than anything else. We got within
about y rods Of the fort, and lay down in little
hollow, but III sight of the rebs, and every time
q soldier stirred be was sure 10 be killed or
wounded. There were five wounded within
my reach. ] was kept busy attending to them
until We fell back, and they were all taken
prisoners When the regiment started IN upon
the charge we had 3I6 men all told; when we
got back to camp we had just "a men left. Our
first night IL camp after that battle was, for
me, the most lonely ever spent while in serv-
ice. There were seven of US that had stayed
In one tent; FIVE of them were now gone And
where? Were they dead or dying on that
never o-be-fOrgotten battlefield? Or were
they prisoners, with a chance to die by inches
This subject was long discussed by Comrade
Lewis Clark and myself 1t so happened they
were prisoners, and they all lived TO get home,
AT this time, those who had not re-enlisted
were being discharged every week, and some OF
them that were missing would have gone home
in few days.
l was told that three of our Lieutenants
! went into that battle with their discharges in
/ their pockets; Lieut.. DObie, of Co. D, being one
of them.
The Union forces retreated after dark. VIZ
/ halted about midnight. started fires and stayed
! till morning. A Colonel told me that Captain
I and 20 men were all that was left of his regi
ment do not know what regiment he be-
! longed to. ! saw him and his men the mex
/ morning after we had started on our march tt
camp and 20 men was all he had left ] would
( like to hear from that Colonel, or any of hi
men, through THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE or by
letter. They must have been in the hotties
/ place IN the line Of battle. l would like t
I know to what regiment and State they be
I louged.-JoHN A. MURPHY, Co. ii, S9th n. Y.
4 Nestal Center, n. Y.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24
GEN. ROSECRANS.
An Ohio Soldiers Tribute to "Old ROsey.''

EDITOR NATIONAL tribune: / was very
much pleased with the splendid article of w. S.
Faray, war correspondent in your issue OF Nov
%, entitled "Chickamauga."
Though shamefUlly late, I am glad that
someone who is competent has come to the
front to write up the achievements and give
proper credit TO the grand old Army Of the
Cumberland, and do ample Justice to one of its
greatest commanders, Gen. w. 5. ROsecrans
Just why Gen. Rosecrans should have been
relieved Of his command after the battle OF
Chickamauga has always been a mystery to the
rank and file Of the army, who loved him.
Let us 90 back to the fearful struggle of
Stone River, Dec. 81 1862, and Jan. and 2,
1868. Was it Rosecrans or Bragg that was
master of the situation there? And ifit was
drawn battle, as some would have it, why did
Bragg retreat with his shattered army, and
Rosecraus move forward and go securely into
Winter quarters2
Then on the Chattanooga campaign, which
followed, did 1t take a West-Point graduate TO
see genius in moving the great Army of the
Cumberland in three columns across swamps,
rivers aud mountains, keeping communications
open to the rear; the 1anking of Bragg's army
out of Chattanooga, the concentration on
Chickamauga, the awful contest Sept IS and
20 with vastly superior numbers, and the occu-
patton and the holding of the objective point,
Chattanooga?
NJ NAT more c0Nia udNC DCGD tN pCINCA va NiCli'
Rosecrans aud his noble army? Who knows
but Gen. Rosecrans and his soldiers what hard
ships were endured, what obstacles overcome,
and how desperate the cOntest2 Oh, We hills
of Chickamauga, do We yet tremble from the
vibrations Of that terrible laundering of those
mighty guns?
The Army of the Cumberland loved Gen.
Rosecrans to man. 1t had implicit confidence
ia his ability and loyalty. Grand and noble
Rosecrans, the survivors of the old Army OF the
Cumberland have warm hearts for you. She
vet demands your name be written high upon
the pinnacle OF fame
The Army Of the Cumberland afterward
loved its deliberate Thomas, its strategic Sher-
man and its dashing Logan, but it never forgot
Rosecrans.
And now, Mr.. Editor and NATIONAL TRIB-
UNE readers, what improperly would there be
In the survivors of the old Army of the Cum
berland. and especially those who voted for
Harrison and Morton (aud we believe most all
did, in urging the incoming Administration
to respect civil service at least far as it con-
/ Germs Gen. Rosecrans, In retaining him IN his
present position, or give him a better one?
l have no means of knowing the wishes Of
the General upon this point, but let US cheer
his heart in his declining years by showing to
him that the old soldiers whom he led to battle
and to victory are yet loyal to him, as he was
to the cause when he gave to the Union, Chat
tanooga by the great battle of Chiekamauga.-
/ w. r. DAVIS Lieutenant, 10lst Ohio, Bourbon
I Ind
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1889-01-24
BATTLE OF RESACA.
The Troops that Saved the 9Th Ind. Battery.

EDITOR NATIONAL TRIBUNE: l noticed an
article in your paper of Nov. 8, by Henry G.
Vaughn, entitled What Troops We're There p
he referring to troops who saved the 9th Ind.
battery from capture at the battle of Resaca,
May a. 1864. ! can't say that l can answer
his question, but do know that on the 14th of
May, 1864, at or near Resaca Station, the Sec
ond Brigade, First Division, Twentieth Corps,
late IN the afternoon, near shutdown 1--WE had
been lying in reserve all day., we were order
ed to the left and into line of battle, and
marched to the edge of the woods; then halted
In front of us was an open field, not very wide,
and just on the other side of the field was a
thick Underbrush, from which the Johnnies
came out and halted, ordered arms and fixed
bayonets, ready to make charge on the 5th
Ind. battery. In less than five minutes the
Johnnies would have had the battery, as the
battery horses had nearly all been killed OF
taken to the rear, and the most of the boys had
left their guns. The rebels were not more than
100 yards from them
We opened fire on the enemy, and they fell
back pretty lively into the bushes and did not
return our fire. After we ceased firing we
swung around just in the rear of the battery
and laid there to support it, We remained il
this position until the next day. During the
afternoon of the 10th we were moved to the
extreme left of our line, and had sharp fight
in front Of a white house.-H. MGNAMEE, Co
d, 150th N. Y, Second Brigade, First Division
Twentieth Corps, Ponghkeepsie, N. Y.