Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-24
THE FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Farm.


additions to the ordinary food of COWS,
none has so marked all effect in increas-
ing the yield of milk as common mo.
lasses."
A GERMAN Psychologist asserts that
animals which are now being fattened,
particularly oxen, should not be en-
couraged to drink much water, for the
reason that, as has been found by ex-
pertinent, the ABSORPTION of water gen
crates carbonic acid to excess and tram
mels the formation of fat.
BUCKNER, in his book on American
manures, says that salt has been found
effective in destroying the wire-worm,
and in preventing mildew and rust.
The danger IN using is that in applying
sufficient to destroy the insects, the
vegetation also may be destroyed.
A YANKEE has invented the following
novel device for preventing a horse
from kicking in harness The hind
legs are strapped at the knee Joints,
with the strap running through ring
on the circlngle, so that when one foot
advances the slack slips through the
other leg to remain behind, and nice
UerSG.
A WRITER in the Scientific American
recommends the following continuance
tor facing oil stones Put thin coat
Of glue on dressed white pine board !;
when dry put on another: sprinkle
coarse emery on the glue, rubbing it in
well, and after drying put on another
coat of glue and emery. Such rub
Der will speedily reface the hardest
stOne
PRUNING eyergreens is best done after
tn seasons growth has been made,
and when the new wood is hardened
A badly shaped tree may be made
comely by the proper use Of the knife.
BY all means preserve the lower branch
es, as the great beauty of an evergreen
is IN its being we'll furnished to. the
ground. If upper branches overhang
the lower tiers, the last will die out for
want of light and air. A little Judi
clous pruning will prevent this.
A MICHIGAN correspondent of the Ru.
raj Home gives the folio wing remedy
for heaves IN horses Give once daily
a teaspoonful of aqua FORTS, prepared
as follows: Nix it with a teaspoonful
of sour or skinned milk, and mix this
with bran, and the bran with the grain
feed. The catarrhal affection of the
throat makes rapid amendment under
this treatment, and the correspondent
referred to says he had known num-
Der of cases cured by it. It should be
given, if necessary, until pound of
acid is given.
GREAT care should be taken to stack
wheat and spring grain Immediately
after cutting to stack it in small,
rather than large stacks, and to get it
threshed and under cover just as soon
as possible. The penetrating power of
storm, which sends down before a
driving wind three or four inches of
rain in thirty, or sixty, or ninety min
utes, Is sufficient to wet through and
through stacks of grain put up in the
ordinary manner. By all means let the
meadows be cut early, and the hay care
fully stacked or ncked. If carefully
built, the larger the hay stack or rick
the better, while, as above, the con
trary is not true if applied to grain.
an OACildIlSt, IGildIhlup on I'll e
chatting of the breasts of horses, SAYS ::
The common practice of using pads or
shCepskin under The collar is obiectiona-
bic, especially in warm weather, be-
cause it accumulates heat and makes
the breast tender A better way is. to
take piece of thick and smooth leath-
er, cut it out just the size of the collar,
or little wider, and let it lie fiat on
the neck and shoulders of the horse.
This will lie still and smoothe on the
horses neck, while the collar itself
N owes about, and SO it will prevent
chatting. In addition to this, let the
breasts of working horses be washed
off every night with clean water.
ACCORDING to the Canada Farmer,
weeds IN walks may be destroyed by
applying solution made of four
pounds of arsenic and eight pounds of
soda boiled in twelve gallons of water.
To every gallon of this mixture three
gallons OF cold water should be added.
and the liquid carefully sprinkled over
the walks while it is yet warm. 1t is
desirable to do this in fine weather and
when the walks are dry, SO that the
weeds and weed seeds may have full
benefit of the application. Care must
be taken not to let any of the liquid fall
on the leaves or reach the roots of any
it is not desired to kill In twenty
four hours after the poison is on the
walks every weed is killed; and If it
be thoroughly done, the walks will be
clean throughout the season.
A GENTLEMAN who has raised Hun
gar1an grass for many years, and who
finds that horses keep fat on it while
on timothy they grow poor, says, in
the Farmer, that it should be cut when
IN blow, before any seed is formed i:
wilt IN the swath the same as clover,
and make In the cock. The stock is
nearly solid and the hay very heavy,
and if made in this way will be as green
as grass, and horse will want little
grain for ordinary farm work, except
in the spring when doing heavy plow-
ing. Give horses all they will eat of
it, and they will fat with decent usage.
But IT allowed to turn yellow and form
seed, it is the same as any other gram
and will of course, injure horse the
same as If he were fed wheat in the
oul"Io W tActSS. ANY ON6fIeu grain
is bad. 1t is better to rake it by hand,
but on good soil you Will tumble up
a big cock in small space.
In forming an estimate of the appear
ance of the horse, we should pay at
tention to the relative position of his
body and limbs. The body should
give a distinct impression of being
placed on the limbs, not suspended be-
tween them. If the body is placed on
the limbs, the horse will have the pow
er of doing his work within himself, as
it is termed, and not be easily fatigued.
But on the other hand, the horse
whose body is swinging, as it were, be-
tween his limbs, will have a very.slack,
uncomfortable gait, and will be very