Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-19
FARM HINTS.

iaIy luz tAo winter 1eeQ1ng or chickens.
If the wool of sheep will pay the ex-
penses of care and keeping, is not the
carcass increase clear gain.
Do not let your lambs breed the first
year, but give little extra care the first
winter.
WEAN your lambs at five months old,
and see that the ewes bags do not spoil,
but milk them twice (the second and
fifth days. after weaving.
A RICHMOND Gil. man made in one
year, from 100 hens, $3.50 dollars net
profit, besides supplying eggs ana poul-
try for home consumption.
To cure a horse from paving in the
stable, fasten a short piece of log
chain-say five or six links-by means
of light strap to his leg, just above the
knee.
STAGNANT and impure water which
COWS drink while at pasture is one of
the most prominent causes of bad odors
in milk.
TAKE care of the health of YOUR
your sheep. Put little pine tar in
your feed troughs in winter, and give g.
little sulphur occasionally with their
salt.
The little greasy Merinos," as they
are sometimes derisively termed, though
possessing fewer attractions for the eye
of the casual observer than most other
breeds of sheep, are the backbon of the
wool growing industry of more than one
nation.
A FARMER in Streator, ILL.,, attempt
ing to smoke vermin out of his hen
house with bunch of hay, could not
get enough of what was left of it to build
his kitchen fire. He is going to read a
good agricultural paper now, 80 as to
find out how to keep the new hen-house,
when built, clear of the pests.
SAVE the potato seed. We do not
mean the tubers, but the seeds within
the balls or fruit. It is from these that
new varieties are produced. They may
be planted in the greenhouse or sunny
window now. Little tubers will have
formed ere another planting season rolls
round.
Dr.. HORNE said: "Never pet bull
under any circumstances" In this he
is very much mistaken. There is no
domestic animal but what is improved in
condition, docility, and more easily
handled and controlled by petting.
And bull is no exception to the rule.
Mr.. BENJAMIN P. WARE recently
remarked at the farmers Convention
held at Auburn, N. Y, that heavy corn
land was good for onions, and better the
second year than when first devoted to
the crop. The manure should, if posi-.
BILE, be applied in the fall.
Gov. JOSEPH GALE, who resides in
Eagle Valley, Union County, Oregon,
farmed sixteen acres of ground this year
and on that raised 5000 pounds of beans
of different varieties, 10000 pounds of
onions, about Is, 600 pounds of peaches,
1000 pounds Of tomatoes, $50 bushels
of potatoes and vast amount of
squashes.
EVERY kind of litter and waste matter,
except weed in seed, may be gathered
and spread in the yards. Abundant
litter of the stables and pens will be val
liable. Straw is worth too much for
feed to be trodden under foot. If the
straw and chat after threshing are in
the way buy some thin steers, or take
some cattle for feeding OF shares, but
give something besides the straw.
IF you would feed proftably you must
bring the pasture into the problem.
Summer feeding pays better than win
ter, because cattle need less to keep up
the natural heat of the body in summer,
and their blood is kept cool by the grass
These elements of success can be brought
into winter feeding by warm houses and
the use of roots and oil-cake.
The Nebraska Farmer recommends
new kind of wheat: "Tally one more for
grass wheatp Farmers in this vicinity
report that chinch bugs, which lave in
jured other kinds of spring wheat, have
not disturbed grass wheat. It is GER
tainly the surest kind of wheat for this
soil and climate, and Is fast becoming a
general favorite.
The Massachusetts PIouohnaaa recon-
mends as proper remedy for infamed,
hard or caky udder in COWS, the follow
ing: A pound to pound and half of
FL som salts, according to the size of
the animal, dissolved in water, adding
two tablespoonfuls of ground ginger,
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the udder twice day, the parts to be
wiped dry with a soft cloth.
EVERY farmer should consider the
conditions of his soil and surroundings
before ne decides what is best for his
particular farm; for that practice which
may be best for one farmer may be ruin
Gus to another. There are few If any de-
partments of agriculture where rigid
rules of action can be laid down. The
successful farmer must necessarily be
thinking, observing man.
A FARMER writes that in dealing with
the cabbage louise his Ian, in the garden,
is too look over the young plants in about
ten days or fortnight after planting,
and to hold the leaf in one hand and to
rub it over with the fingers of the other
hand just hard enough to destroy the
louise. When the reserves come up and
the leaves are larger he uses an old
toothbrush always with good effect.
The most profit from a sheep is to
raise lamb that will sell for more then
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