Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-07-10
FARM, GARDEN AID HOUSEHOLD.

OF water, 2nd With the SAT- water slack
a barrel of lime, which should be wet
enough to form kind of paste For
the purpose of a disinfectant, this
homemade chloride of lime is nearly
as good as that purchased st the shops
and drug stores. Use IL freely about
sinks, cellars, cutters and out houses.
and, in this way, prevent sickness, suf-
fering and expense.
GIVE the horses some green clover at
noon, and cut it with horse.rake. It
is little trouble, and as hay is scarce
and high, it will pay 1t is a great
mistake to suppose that horses will not
eat hay if they are allowed any green
food. We have an object in advising
you to cut it with the machine. You
will then have your machine in readi-
ness for hay1ng.
DIR. NICHOLS advises the following.
test for kerosene: Fill a pint bowl two
thirds full of boiling water, put into it
a common metallic thermometer. The
temperature will run up to over 200
degrees. By gradually adding cold
water, bring down the temperature of
the water to 100 degrees. and tner pour
into the bowl a spoooful of the kero-
takes fire, the article should be reject
ed as dangerous; If not, it may be used
with a confident feeling Of its safety
NovICEs commonly allow weeds to
get several inches high before they
think of clearing them out and des-
troying them. Now, the great secret
of cheap and successful culture IS to
kill all weeds before they come up.
Go over the bare surface of the earth
as often as once a week, and pulverize
it thoroughly with rake or skim-h hoe.
This will Kill every weed just as it is
starting, with less than one-tenth the
labor re Iuired to kill them when sever
al inches high. Do it often aud thor
= .oughly.
PRoF. II. E. CoLToR, IN reply to an
inquiry as to the means of preserving
timber, told the Farmers Club that
most Of the patent methods were i'm
practicable in a small way, on account
of the heavy machinery necessary.
The best method for common use was
to thoroughly season the timber, and
then coat it with cOal-tar or crude pc
troleum, CT common pine-tar, put on
hot. This kept out worms, and mois-
tUre, which were the most destructive
S agents to timber.
At this season grass is often too sue
culent. There IS not nutriment enough
IN 1t IN proportion to bulk And it
will generally pay to give the COWS in
the yard some hay to eat during the
night, and q little cut feed-say on
peek OF hay and two quarts of fine
mIddllngs-the first thing in the morn
ing. A good COW at this season gives a
generous flow of milk. and it is unwise
not to supply her with all the food she
can digest,
PUMPKINS, as food for stock. find ia
vor with correspondent of the Maine
Farmer. Last year he took twenty OK
cart loads from az acre of land, which
also yielded at the same time crop of
corn. He feed his sheep upon them
for two months, ard this materially
helped to fatten forty, which he sold in
the fall for mutton, and forty more
which went into winter quarters. Civ
en- to cattle, they saved q vast amount
OF feed" What pumpkins were left
were cut up, placed i'll the dry-house,
and afterward soaked in milk for swine.
HE Kansas Farmer alludes to the
bad policy of hurrying grain to market
when prices are low. The remedy lies
IN keeping live stock For the most
part Western farmers must come to
this gradually. Add a COW, a pig. q
calf as you can. Raise some root crops.
without diminishing the size OF your
gram tieids, and see that each wear
Your herds and your fOcks are larger
than the year before. An extra supply
OF garden vegetables can often be ex-
= changed for some kind of young stock
from the people IN town. This is one
way to grow into stock farming.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman writes: "The time has ar
rived when more attention has to be
pald TO permanent pastures and NOW
Ings. Whenever blue grass or other
thoroughly established thickest green's
ward is broken up from its first natural
set 1T Will never become so good again
under any management in vogue in the
United States. In Kentucky, thehome
Of the blue grass, the pillow forever de-
stroys the rich and fattening verdure
and though those who have desolated
q blue grass region may make state
mentS to the contrary afterward no
one can exhibit the same living. healthy,
mattered turf that existed before the
pIow destroyed the natural sward. It
IS SO with all good, permanent grass
land7 the varieties growing consisting
OF the best native and other perpetual
grasses
\ PEACH-GRoWER who Fcan show
good healthy trees that are twenty
three years old. of the Old Nixon, Old
Nixon Cling, Stump, the World. Early
York, HayWorth, and some others. and
one tree thirty years DID,, writes to the
Western Agriculturist advocating the
cultivation of the orchard as thor0uoh-
Iy as though it were a field of corn In
q very dry season he would keen the
pillow goingas late as the first of August
IN an ordinary, or wet one, until the
first of July. After four years he
would put half a bushel of Stacked
lime, and quart Of salt, well mixed.
around each tree, extending out six
y eight feet in all directions and then
fork in.
A CANADIAN correspondent of the
Massachusetts, Ploughman enforces the
adyices not to Judge of the value of
COW for butter by the amount of milk
given by an account of an experiment
where a grade Durham heifer gave 245
pounds Of milk ln one week, from which
only three pounds of butter could be
made. The best COW in the herd was a
high grade Durham, which gave $3.50
pounds of milk in 60 days, from which
126 pounds of butter wee made-1S
pounds having been made IN one week
This is an average of over SO pounds of
ln1lk per per day, and a fraction over
70 pounds OF milk required to make a |
poundaof butter. The cow had good
clover md timothy pasture, and several
pounds OF corn meal lariy.
= lZE lIUn1e.
GRAHAM AND INDIAN Corn. Take hot