Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-24

clean out the nests and supply them
with clean straw. Dust sulphur in the
nests. Supply them with sifted coal
ashes and sand for busting baths. Give
them green food of some kind daily.
Give them sweet food-it matters less
what kind then that they get variety.
This is the way to make /" winter lay.
ers."
FIFTEEN cows, allowed to stand out
one hour on cold day, shrunk in milk
| nine quarts; ice cold water given to a
I cow will shrink the milk; COWS allowed
to stand in water on bot day will also
shrink their milk. Cows should never
be allowed to stand in draft. A good,
careful man, placed in charge of a badly
managed nerd of cattle, has increased the
| flow of milk to an extent sufficient to
pay his wages. Putting salt on the hay
NOW is useless practice; in this case it
has no curative properties.
"THE melancholy days are come,
The sadde't of the year,
OF wailiDg winds and naked woods
And meadows nrown aad seYe.
HeaIe1 in the bellows of The grove,
Tne wi,hsred lelyes | 9 dead;
They rustic to the eddying gust,
And to the rabbit 8 tread.
The 10 lin and the wren are flown,
And from the shruos the jay,
And from the wood tips call the crow,
Tnrougn all the gloomy day"
WHILE there are a great many COWS
that will not pay for their keep, for the
simple reason that they have not it in
them" there are a great many that do
not pay, but which would pay if they
were properly taken care of. We be-
lieve in blood-believe that " it tells;"
but as frequently expressed we not only
believe but know, as every one else who
has had experience in such matters
knows, that the native cow is not only
good mixer, bat an extra good one.
The yield of milk and butter in the
summer depends greatly upon winter
feeding. ALI the feed given to COWS is
not consumed without return. The
manure gives good dividend upon the
outlay, and, the animals are storing up
energy and strength to make available
afterward. The winter is the season for
liberal and judicious feeding, and not
for "shOrt commons" Which is but
another term for half starvation.
THERE is a farmer in Massachusetts
who is noted for the excellence of his
corn crops, and he says his plan has been
for years to SOW clover on one-third part
of his pillow. land and let the clover grow
and remain uncut through the entire
season, ploughing it under late the next
season, sand planting corn upon it, and
he says experience has shown him that
this clover, with its vast amount of roots,
is fully equal to twenty loads of
manure per acre. Then he takes another
third part and proceeds in the same
way.
THE large quantities of dry, woody
and indigestible food consumed by stock
in winter tax the digestive organs very
severely, and constipation, congestion,
etc., are ever threatening dangers to the
health of the stock. A moderate guam
tity of roots or green food in the season
of dry feed acts as benefcially on the
stock as fruit and fresh vegetables do
on the human system in the course of
the long, cold season when no perspira-
ton purges the skin. In the season of
verdure and plant growing, fresh vegeta-
BILE food is so common portion of our
daily diet that we scarcely notice the
fact. And so it is with the animals
whose care we are charged with.
AN old turkey raiser gives the follow
ing experiment: Four turkeys were fed
on meal, boiled potatoes and oats. Four
others of the same brood were also at the
same time confined in another pen and
fed daily on the same article, but with
one pint of very finely pulverized char
coal mixed with their food-mixed meal
and boiled potatoes. They had also
plentiful supply of charcoal in their pen.
The eight were killed on the same day,
and there was gain of / pounds each
in favor of the fowls which had been
supplied with the charcoal, they being
much the latest, and the meat being
greatly superior in point of tenderness
and flavor.
A CORRESPONDENT of one of the for
eign horticultural journals recommends
the principle of tree-lifting, instead of
root pruning, as likely to have a better
effect in bringing trees into bearing.
This lifting process consists in finding
out the roots which are furnishing the
amount of sappy, watery matter which
promotes the growth and furnishes the
material for shoots and foliage in place
of fruit bids. In the fall, just when tie
leaves are beginning to change and droop,
the pruner digs under the tree, cut off
the roots which plunge into the cold
moist and wet ground, and raises or lifts
what remains of them until they come
in contact with the rich soil, and the air
and warmth required, and the result is
fruit instead of foliage and shoots.
FEW men are aware of the fact that
hay is very beneficial to hogs, but it is
true, nevertheless. Hogs need rough
feed as well as horses, cattle or the human
race. To prepare it you should have q
cutting box or hay cutter, and the
preener the haY the better. Cut the