Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-01
FARM HINTS.

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WILD peppermint scattered around the
walls and floors of barn is said to drive
away rats and mice.
In the English cheese factory manage
ment, the value of the whey for feeding
young store pigs is estimated at $15 per
cow annually.
VIM. STINsoN. of Lower Oxford, Della
ware county, Pa, is the owner of a
Guerncey cow not two years old, which
on common pasture made eight and a
half pounds of butter in one week.
In Texas, according to law, where
twenty sheepowners in county petition,
insI octors are appointed to examine any
sheep about to he driven into the coun-
ty, and prohibit the entry of focks
affected with scab.
HAVE you meadow that you want
to keep in heart another year. Top
dress it Immediately. You will see the
benefit in the next grass crop, and when
broken up for other crops, you will see
what manure will do.
ONION seed sown thickly now, in rich
loan, will grow sufficiently large to make
good sets next spring. Pull when the
size OF peas or beans, or they can stand
through the winter by covering well
with straw or hay.
NEVER try to get very heavy days
work out of team. Moderate and
steady going is what counts in long
race, and the farmers race is q long one.
1t takes but a few hours, or even q few
minutes, to SO tax horse that he is out
of fix for months.
OATS are justly advocated as the grain
above all others adapted to horses, and
it is true that for young horses, and those
used on the road, there is probably moth
ing equal to oats, but they ought to be
crushed or bruised, and not ground. In
fact, all grains are better fed in this
way.
HE report of a committee of the Indi-
ana Mi)lers' Association says a barrel
of flour, with 80 to 100 pounds of water
and salt used in mixing, yielded from 27O
to 280 pounds of bread, every white and
light" the smallest return being from
Fultz and the largest from "hard winter
wheat"
The Ohio Farmer says that land plow-
ed from one to two months before seed
ing time is very much more likely to
produce good crop of wheat then if
plowed later. Correct: provided the
crop that springs up in the meantime
is kept from rendering the ground
trashy.-Ea.
MANY vi the farmers in different Sec
tions of the country are complaining of
small black worm, averaging in size to
full inch, that has made disappearance,
and is playing sad havoc with the apple
trees. The worm is encased in a fibre
which has been spun by the Larvae, and is
fastened to the leaf. The worm is black
in color, and very destructive.
| In the use CT plaster on clover, heav-
Ter dressing then 100 pounds per acre is
rarely employed, and yet this minute
amount has been known to double the
! yield of clover. Does any one suppose
that chemical analysis of the soil on
which the crop grew, taking it to the
depth of ordinary blowing, could detect
this infnitesimal quantity of plaster.
To detect i'm purity in well water, put
tumbler of it in warm place for ten
days. If free from organic matter it will
remain sweet, but if impure it will be-
gin to smell disagreeably. Otherwise a
small quantity of nitric acid may be
poured into glass of the water; if Or
ganic matter is present it will becoms
oxidized and turn brown, and color the
water in few hours.
The Live Stock Journal, London, gives
the following account of prolific breed
er; Mr.. VIM. Mathieson, Banchory, is
the fortunate possessor of a breeding SOW
which, during the period of its existence
(ten years), has presented him with the
enormous number of 304 pigs, viz, nine
teen litters, averaging sixteen each lit
| ter.
ONE thing about turnip s-no farmer
can afford to be without them in winter.
All my stock-horses, hogs, cattle and
fowls have them daily. I do not think
there is any fat in them, but they aid
very materially in other ways. I tried
an experiment with my COW this winter.
| [ took the turnips from her and added
an equivalent in meal for one week, and
the result was a less yield of milk and
her food not digested.
The Nebraska Farmer says the past
summer has been unusually bad there
for cattle, on account of the blood-thirs-
| ty flies that swarmed about each animal.
Instead Of gaining in flesh every day on
the abundant wild grasses, the time was
taken up by the cattle during the day
in fighting flies, and that those who
have had good grazing pastures in which
to turn their cattle by night have seen
the advantage thereof.
No medicine is such complete speci.
fc for insects and other parasites on AMI.
mails and fowls az the dust, and finest
dust that can be procured, coal ashes be-
ing excellent for the purpose. Nothing
is more preservative of the health of ami
mails than dust, and in summer, when it
can be procured by them without the
aid of man, they always do best. It
should be well sprinkled and freely scat
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