Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-08-20
AGRICULTURAL.

hOIS mdy Do KEPT from measles,
trichinosis, etc, by mixing a handful of
good wood ashes with their food twice
week.
HE value of COW der ends much
more upon the length of the milking
season thsn upon the quality Of the milk
given for few weeks.
For throat distemper in horse CRATE
fine a small green wild turnip, or, if dry,
give heaping spoonful, mixed with
pran or oats. 1t never fails. Good for
cough, also.
1T is said that every ton of dried to-
bacco leaves carried off exhausts from
the soil, in mineral matter, as much as is
contained in fourteen tons of the grain
of wheat.
THE following rule in blowing is re.
commended: Never turn up over one or
two inches of unfertile subsoil in one
season, and, when so turned up, the land
should receive dressing of manure.
BEANS should not be hoed when the
vines are wet, as it is said to make them
rust. Plant refugee for late crop, es-
F. cially for picking. Pinch the stem
Of limas of, when they reach the top Of
the pole.
CROPS must eat as we'll as the owner,
and therefore the soil should be we'll
MANFRED. Crops which leave land let
ter than they found it make both the
farm and the farmer rich. The best fer
tilizer of any soil is a spirit of industry,
enterprise and intelligence.
A WASHINGTON COUNTY (Pa.) paper
thinks that the prize system at county
fairs has never accomplished any good,
but, on the contrary, has run the socie-
ties in debt very often and created bad
feeling, and should be done away with.
It recommends in its stead the giving
out of diplomas or medals.
HENS do much better when allowed a
free range outdoors than when confined.
In France it has been found that with
fowls allowed considerable freedom
twenty per cent only of their eggs fail
to hatch; with less freedom forty per
cent. failed, and in close confinement
sixty per cent. were not Matched.
A PERSON who has tried it says that a
handful of tobacco stems placed in the
box in which the dog sleep will entirely
rid him of feas, and that leaf or two
of the same weed put in a setting hens
nest keeps vermin at respectful dis
lance. These are two more things to-
bacco is good for.
ToADs live almost wholly upon slugs,
caterpillars, beetles and other insects,
making their rounds at night while the
farmer is asleep--and the birds, too
and the insects are supposed to be hav-
ing their own way. English farmers
understand these facts so we'll that they
purchase toads at so much dozen and
turn them loose.
The farmer who has supply of roots
on hand with which to feed his stock is
now reaping the reward Of good manage
ment. Roots fed at this season. not only
serve to increase the flow of milk and
give color and favor to the butter from
fresh mich COWS, but cleanse the blood,
tone up the system and place all classes
of cattle in generally healthy condi-
ton.
BEWARE of drinking too much cold
water while you are working in the sun,
and do not plunge suddenly into a cold
bath. 1t you are near a brook, wet
your head, put leaves into your hat, and
frequently put the hands into water,
letting them remain there for a consid-
cradle time. The effect will be soothing
upon the whole system, and it will reduce
thirst.
A FRENCH veterinary surgeon, to
prevent the attacks of flies about the
ears of horses, advises painting the in
side Of the ears, or any other part es-
pecially troubled, with a few drops of
empyreumatic oil of juniper. The odor
is said to be uncomfortable to flies, and
that they will keep at distance from
the parts so treated. Drivers will do
we'll to make a note of it.-Prairie
Farmer.
PROF. L. B. ARNOLD recently stated
that he had taken the milk of three pat
rons of a cheese factory, in October, who
were feeding nothing but grass, and the
milk of three others who fed nothing
but corn sown broadcast. He took an
equal quantity of the milk of each, and
curdling it with the same amount of
rennet, at the same temperature, found,
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the corn-fed COW gave six and one-half
per centum in favor of corn fodder over
grass.
ACCORDING to the Maine Farmer.
cultivator leveled off twenty feet square
of a pen where COWS had been yarded,
spread bushel or more of wood ashes,
prepared the ground properly, sowed it
IL
came up with tepid manure water, and
gathered twenty bushels. This iwould
be about two and half pounds of onions
to every square foot, or at the rate of
about 2,15O bushels per acre. A big
story, but not impossible when all con-
ditions are favorable.
Cows will quickly fall off in their
milk unless they have plenty Of clean
water within convenient reach. They
will suffer considerably from thirst be-
fore they will travel long di tances fer
water, until they become feverish, they
will drink ton mich and this going