Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-08-27
ON THE FARM.

grown near each other without danger
of mixing The same rule applies to
corn.
KEEP the barn-yard well supplied with
material for absorbing the liquids,
thereby rendering the yards dry and
comfortable
ONE good team of heavy horses is
better than two teams of ponies. The
fewer the number the less work of feed
ing and managing them is therefore
required.
ONE gallon of red paint and five gal
Ions of crude petroleum, well mixed, is
claimed to be the cheapest paint that
can be made. 1t is also very dura
BILE.
THERE are always garden plants which
need stakes. 1t is better to have the
stakes set in advance, as it saves many a
nice plant from being blown down in
wind storms.
PASTURES should be top dressed occa-
slonally through the summer, and if
divided into small plots of two or three
acres each and fed alternately, they will
afford twice as much food as if all be
run over at once.
WHERE seeds of Sweet William, Hol-
lyhock, Larkspurs and similar plants
are ripe SOW them at once, to give young
plants for next years Towering. Seeds
sown in spring will not give plants that
will flower the same season.
The value of the corn crop does not
depend upon it's grain only. The leaves
and stock are valuable, and no portion
of the crop need be lost. AS fodder
producing plant corn has no equal.
The cost of farm is not the heaviest
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for horses, cattle, machinery, utensils
and extra labor for the first year is often
more than the cost of the farm.
WHERE patches of ground have moth
ing in them in the fall, some gardeners
SOW grain in them. 1t is let to grow until
spring when, after it is some height. it is
turned under to enrich the ground.
WHEN Lima beans seem failing on ac-
count of dryness, it will pay to water
them. Where they can get all the mois-
ture they require they will continue to
flower and produce beans until it freezes
WHERE that evil weed sorrel prevails,
it may be killed out by scattering salt
upon it quite freely. The salt does not
hurt the grass or clover, but rather helps
them, while the sorrel is destroyed root
and branch.
THERE are but few more useful plants
than nasturtiums. They can be sown
late and yet furnish a good many flowers
and the more vigorous growers are good
for rockwork, trelises or where they
can run over the ground at will.
Too much work over too much ground
is sure to result in the production of the
crop at the greatest cost 1t is the labor
that is applied at the proper time, and
on an area sufficient only for the
tlo for
As a rule celery thrives best when
set In the trenches IN well enriched
ground. It cannot we'll get too much
water, and as the trench secures more
for it than the surface does, it follows
that the plants are better suited there.
THE pampered calf, brought up on
whole milk, is fat and sleek, but lacks
the bone and muscle at eight months or
year old that are possessed by calves
reared on oat meal and bran mixed
with skinned milk.
WHILE the country has been swamped
with cattle of an inferior grade says the
Western Rural, there never has been a
time when there was not good or fair
market for such meats as the cattle at
the Fat Show would make.
If you war+ vour colts to have good
solid bone, sound joints and hoofs, give
them oats and bran, but no corn. A
sucking colt should have quart of oats
and bran mixed every day while the
mare is out at work; and liberal bran
mash given to the mare at noon will
help her and the colt too.
EXPERIENCE through the past winter
proves that the cost of q mill to grind
unbusked corn, cob, husk and grain to-
gether, for feeding twenty head of cat
tie was more than paid for by the saving
in the cost of husking, grinding and
hauling corn to and from mill.
MANY gardeners who grow onions
have a fashion of bending their tops
down just before growth ceases. They
give as reason that stopping the top
growth causes the bulb to increase
in size. In some localities the custom is
almost universal, while in others it
seems to be unheard of as yet.
MIXED feed is most useful for all ami
mails. We may judge how 1t is by our
own tastes and appetites. No single
food alone except milk contains all the
elements of nutrition. The successful
the character of foods and good judg-
ment to select the cheapest and best of
them.
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August. They need deeper sowing
than was necessary in early spring. It
gives cooler soil to the roots, allowing
them to grow vigorously and thus escape
mildew, which so often plays havoc
with late peas.
THE garden is neglected on the farm,
and many farmers do not cultivate a
plot for garden. The luxuries of
farming can only be obtained by those
farmers who grow vegetables and fruits
as we'll as staple crops Of grain and
grass.
THERE is a good deal of interest in
producing new potatoes. Save the seed
balls of some good kind, and SOW them
next spring. Under glass is better than
out of doors, as the seed gets packed
beneath hard ground ontside by rains,
and many fail to grow. The tubers will
be of fair size the first season.
LESSONS in vegetable gardening are
best taken from truckers who have to
make their living from the business.
They do not begin to do anything in
the planting line until the ground has
been thickly strewn with manure. Then
every inch is utilized. When one crop