Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-24
AGRICULTURAL.

STRA BERRIES SET now, IN rich SOIL
and covered we'll throughout the winter
will give a large crop next season.
To cure scab in sheep, rub it with
pure petroleum with a sponge three
times a week. Dogs can be cured of
mango in the same way.
LAND laid down with clover is better
then money in bank, drawing more in
terest then any bank can pay, and COM
pounding the interest oftener.
IT is bad practice to pillow up pas
lures for reseeding. The older the pas
ture, as a rule, the better the grass. If
a pasture fails, top-dress it with we'll
decomposed manure.
Nor only have trees about the farm
yard, but have them in the pasture, by
the watering place, near the barn and
wherever cattle, horses and sheep are to
be provided for.
AS general thing, it is cheaper and
more convenient to get seeds
of the regular seedsmen than to
save them. But if any are saved, let
them always be of the earliest, fairest
and best specimens.
BEING the last of the warm months
September is overrated. It is matter
of-fact sort Of month, in which shrewd
people discount the remainder or the
season and prepare for the comforts of a
long, cold winter, SO far as they may.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Poultry
Journal has discovered that a very
strong decoction of peach-tree leaves is
specific for chicken cholera. / do not
know of single failure when used
in time. Dose, one-half teaspoonful.
THERE is more money in good poultry
raising, considering its cost, by one-half,
to be had annually then can be realized
from the pigs or the sheep on the farm.
And yet the latter are fed and housed
and bred everywhere, to the entire neg
lect, almost, of fowl stock.
WILD carrots can be exterminated
with little labor. 1t yields to moving
in two or three years, if the seed is not
allowed to ripen, being only biennial
whose seed germs must either sprout
soon or perish. Cattle will eat some of
it, and think sheep would eat it all.
For kicking horse fill an old sack
with hay and suspend it from the loft by
means of rope, in such manner that
the horse will be able to kick it every
time it swings against him. Let him
kick until he stops of his own accord,
and you will have no more trouble with
him that way.
Try your wild cherries in glass cans
and let any half invalid or we'll per-
son swallow the juice of few at each
meal. If, to keep the land productive,
we must feed it, so we must attend to
feeding the body with the native relishes
which are plentiful, and SO save SO much
bother with manufactured medicine.
ONE of the most important matters in
the care of hogs in the autumn, not only
with stockers, but fattening hogs, is
that they be kept dry under foot, have
plenty of the best food, and especially
that their sleeping quarters are dry and
warm, and at the same time well ven
tilated.-Prairie Farmer.
PROBABLY the very best way to pro-
tect wheat in the bins from the weevil
is to thoroughly fumigate the bins with
burning sulphur. This should be done
before the grain is put into the bins,
and repeated in the course of month or
SO after the grain is stored. Some per-
sons use lime and salt, but there is moth
ing better than Observation-Disclosures
Farmer.
A VERMONT farmer recommends the use
of sawdust, as bedding for cattle, to
keep them clean and to- absorb the
liquid manure. An experience of TWEEN
ty years in using on large farm shows
that it does not injure the soil, being
freely applied in this way. Some soils,
no doubt, would be improved by the
addition Of sawdust; others might be in
jured somewhat until the sawdust de-
cayed.
AN old stock breeder says: I" In my
opinion the best COW ever bred for milk,
cream and butter is highgrade jersey,
mixture of Jersey and Ayrshire breeds,
say seven-eighths Jersey and one-eighth
Ayrshire. Such a grade will produce
more milk, cream and butter Of equal
quality than any other thoroughbred
Jersey. -
IT is believed by many that red clover
Is OuC VI OAO OCoo VI SOAAAAAS SAOPSs "a
half acre will keep one cow throughout
the months Of June, July and August,
if cut and fed at the stall; while more
then twice the amount if grazed, accord
ing to experiments in England, will
will barely subsist a cow during the
same time.
In order to keep their butter over the
period of low prices and hot weather,
California dairymen seal up their pro-
ducts in tin cans, sinking them in the
bottom of cold streams. Butter made in
April comes out in October in good Or
der and continues to keep fresh in the
cool weather of winter. Forty-four-
pound cans are commonly used.
WHITE Belgian carrots do blast badly
where the land was freshly MANFRED.
Where rye MANFRED last August was
plowed under, the foliage remains I'M
touched. This kind of carrot has habit,
also, of growing out of the ground now
and then in way to interfere with cut
ting the top with a thrust hoe before
blowing the roots out.
A WEsTFIELD, Mass, farmer is trying
on interesting experiment. to se0 If high