Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-27
RURAL NOTES.

insects.
For windgalls use padded bandage,
with astringent lotions, applied two
hours day at first, adding two hours
a day after, until it is kept on continu-
ally, is the usual remedy. Rest from
work is helpful to cure.
A NEW JERSEY farmer allows his hens
that insist On sitting when they ought to
be laying eggs, to stand in tank Of wa
ter about three inches deep. They can
not sit in water, and when taken out
they are almost invariably broken of the
sitting fever.
SHEEP owners are advised to put
small bell on say every tenth sheep, to
protect them from sheep-killing dogs
Dogs usually attack in the night, and
the sudden and simultaneous jingling of
the bells of the frightened flock will
strike terror to the dogs, their instinct
leading them to fear exposure.
To make good harness polish take of
mutton suet two ounces; beeswax, six
ounces; powdered sugar, six ounces;
lamp-black, one ounce; green Or yellow
soap, two ounces, and water, one-half
pint. Dissolve the soap in the water,
add the other solid ingredients, mix well
and add turpentine. Lay on with a
sponge and polish off with brush.
The National Live Stock Journal says:
A slop made of corn and oats, ground
in about equal parts, with little oil
meal added, makes the best food for the
SOW while sucking, to increase the flow
of milk; and this, with clover pasture
II of n ho
summer, will promote a healthy and
rapid growth of the pigs.
The AgricuItrist says: " When hogs
are put up to fatten and fed on dry corn,
it is the practice to give them but little
water; but they require some. 1t would
not be possible for 8 hog to live for
weeks without water or other drink
when feeding On dry corn, although
when fed on new soft corn, very small
quantity of water will be sufficient and
possibly, If the corn is very soft and I'M
ripe. water might not be indispenible."
AN unfeeling correspondent recon-
mends the cruel method Of splitting the
tongue of 8 cow that sucks herself.
Rather than adopt the barbarous treat
ment we would dry the COW and fatten
and sell her for beef. We have publish
ed better remedies than this, and here
we give another: Make bride, with
medium sized-wire for a bit, and fasten
upon the head of your self-sucking cow,
and she will quit the habit.
CARROTS seem to have some peculiar
effects On the health Of horses, rendering
the skin especially glossy and healthy
l. lob otcO rCy 20 II.
liable for the golden butter. They are
also more nourishing for COWS then tur-
nips are. In feeding carrots, care SHOULD
be taken that the pieces are not cut in
such a shape as to choke the animal.
Cut large carrots length wise, not across.
DILUTED carbolic acid is found to be
complete exterminator Of the potato
beetle and other insects infesting crops,
and it should be used in preference to
Paris green. But it is destructive to
plant life unless it is sufficiently diluted
with water-one pint of carbolic acid to
100 parts Of water. This important fact
should be borne in mind, and doing so,
there is, perhaps, no better insect destroy
er known.
In the care and management of the
dairy cow the milking should be done
with exact regularity as to time, and
each cow MIXED by the same person, and
in the same order, from day to day, if
possible. No change of mixers or
change Of time should be allowed, except
for the most urgent reasons. Above all,
never allow Observation-Disclosures
persns to milk, very slight causes often
cause shri1kage in milk which cannot
be brought back.
AFTER the meadows have started to
grow a second time it is the custom of
many farmers to turn their cattle on
them to devour the clover. Sometimes,
when the clover is wet, it causes the
animals to bloat, and frequently kills
them if relief is not afforded. The bet
ter way is to prevent the attack, and this
may be done by pasturing only while
dry, and then but short time, until the
cattle get used to the succulent food.
A CORRESPONDENT in the Country
Gentleman, who has been experimenting
in corn culture On clay loan, has
come to the conclusion that good sod
turned under is equivalent to an increase
of ten bushels of corn to the acre, and
that 1t is not wise to use manures the
same season, but apply them the next
season. He found that potash fertilizers
did not do much good on clay loans, but
the result from the use of bone dust,
viii CHI contained much phosphoric acid,
was more satisfactory.
CoTToN.sEED meal is one of the rich
est vegetable substances used as cattle
food, containing large percentage of
nitrogen and phosphoric acid; and this
is why the manure of animals fed on it
is 50 valuable, The process OF digestion
consumes the oil and other carbonaceous
matter in the meal leaving nearly all the
nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash to
be present in the excrements. In well
known English experiments it has been