Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1872-06-19
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD


FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD
Tfe Farm. .-tE
The Poultry World thinks the ligh
BSfhalna the best breed of fowls.
A PoRK-BAtsER out West says he i.
Convinced, By an experiment., that there
is an advantage of Is per cent in grind
ing and cooking grain for swine.
ACCORDING to the Practical Farmer 6
tablespoonful of ground salt sprinkle6
on the surface of each hill, before the
corn IS up, vii prove sure death to the
cut worm A ~ - ~ @ aa
A WISCONSIN correspondent of the
Western Farmer says he finds it abso
4 lQtely necessary to hill early rose pota
toes, while peaohblows and pinkeyes
do best with level culture.
il an article urging the importance
Of forestry, the Western Rural express
es the opinion that by the time the
groves attain sufficient age to be vaIu-
able as timber, they viii have paid for
themselves twice in the protection they
have afforded. 8. t- -----
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman has found that sowed corn,
when fed alone or almost exclusively
and continually to COWS, is not so vaTu-
able as it has been generally consider
ed; but grass and sowed corn are all
that could be desired.
ONE of the most money-making ap-
ple-growers in Pennsylvania says his
success is owing to high culture. Be
fore planting his orchard, the ground
ord
manured, and this system is kept up.
so the ground is at all times in good
heart. Ill
IN potato culture, by covering the
surface Of the ground with any coarse
mulch, a large yield Of good sized tn
beEs is almost certain anywhere in the
Middle States, while without it a crop
is uncertain, especially in light soils.
Whether the mulch will cost more than
the increase of crop is worth, depends
upon circumstances.
A CORRESPONDENT of one of our ex-
changes says he feeds his stock a tea
spoonful Of sulphur to eacn animal,
with their salt, once in two weeks
when he has done so no vermin have
troubled them, and his dairy cows have
not been affected with garget, nor his
sheep with grub IN the head. He has
practiced this twenty years.
IT certainly pays to take little
pains with young trees, for what is
there that Is more remunerative than
an apple crop one year after another?
Who among our readers would be Will
ing TO take IS per tree for an orchard
Of young apple trees just coming into
bearing? We have an orchard of 600
apple trees, covering a lot of fifteen
acres, that we would not take from our
grounds for $4,000. Add five years
more to them and one will see what
they viii add to the land. It is the
strangest thing to see farmers owning
100 to 200 acres of land, with barely
enough apples TO supply the family or
perhaps, aa orchard of 100 to $50 trees,
occupying three. or four acres of land
from which they realize more profit
than from any twenty acre field they
have, not planting more apples, or, af-
ter they do plant them, not giving
them the proper care. When will
farmers see this in its true light?
IT seems barely possible that the
dalrymen may try to improve too ex-
tenslvely on old practices. At the Ell
gln butter factory, In Illinois, there
has been trouble, which has been trac-
ed to the too sudden cooling of milk.
The practice of cooling as rapidly as
possible is not likely to continue popu-
lar ii it results in no better Weld than
one pound Of butter and three pounds
Of cheese from thirty six pounds of
mix. The fact IS the animal odor is
very volatile, and seems to pass away
rapidly enough under the natural man.
ner OF cooling, and equally so whether
the milk has been set in shallow or
deep pans; and when butter of the
choicest flavor and most perfect keep
ing qualities has been, and may still be
made under old-fashioned methods.
farmers can hardly be recommended to
change them for new appliances until
they. are really shown to be improve
ments. While progressive men of all
occupations are on the lookout ALWAYS
for advances and willing to study and
adopt the means by which advances
are attained, they are disposed to hold
last that which is good and to let well
enough alone.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Country
Gentleman says & 1t is generally
thought best, so far as nv KNOWLEDGE
extends, to let dairy COWS 90 dry three.
or at least two months. Ny own ex,
fence would give three months as about
the best average length of time cows
should go dry before dropping their
calves in spring and this [ find hest
without regard TO the general health Of
the animal or the amount of milk To he
produced the following OF after seasons
Cows that are MIXED too long. either
get thin IN flesh, and give but little
milk, and that of poor quality, or else
require a large amount of nutritious
TODD to keep up good supply of milk
and the animal IN good flesh. NV rule
IS to feed literally as long as I do milk,
and when a COW gives less than about
Two Quarts OF good wholesome milk,
dry her of and lessen the feed. A dry
COW needs but about two thirds the!
amount OF fodder required by a COW of
tne same size which gives milk, so that
there Is no present profit milking too
long, unless dairy products are very
nigh, to say nothing of the damage by
lmpalring the future usefulness Of the
cow"
THE relative value of clover. as com
pared with timothy or herds grass.
whether for hay, for winter feeding, or
Tor green forage for soiling in summer,
la one OF no lnconsiderabIe interest to
practical agriculturists. When green
X AEst cut one hundred pounds Of red