Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
FARM NOTES.

IRON is found in the ashes of all plants
that are used for human food.
A LITTLE method is worth great deal
of money on the farm as elsewhere.
MANY farmers who use plaster have
found it's good effects more apparent
when salt is added.
ATTEND to the cellars by cleaning and
whitewashiDg them thoroughly before
the winter supplies are put in.
Hoes may be kept from measles,
trichinosis, etc., by mixing handful
of good wood ashes with their food twice
week.
GERANIUMs that are dug up from the
flower bed this fall can he hung up in
the cellar on nail, and start out green
in the spring.
IT don't matter what man attempts
on the farm; to be successful, he must
attend carefully and constantly to bust
ness.
Fowl houses and yards should be
well drained. Low, damp grounds are
very unhealthy for chickens. Ahill-side
is the best location for poultry house.
VASES that are to remain outside all
winter, especially deep ones, should have
| the soil removed from them, as the
| them.
The soil should be fed so that in turn
may feed plants, for in proportion to
the richness of the soil, either natural or
artificial, in just such proportion may
it be made to yield heavy crop.
PLANT plenty of hardy bulbs this fall
-hyacinths, crocuses, tulips, narcissus.
ETC., and they will reward you next
spring with their fragrance and bright
colors.
The best butter that is made in France
for expectation to England is not sailed
but at the final washing is simply wash
ed in a strong solution of salt in place of
pure water.
A SLOW mixer makes cow impatient,
which causes her to hold up her milk
The strippings are the richest part, and
if a cow is MIXED quietly, as well as
quickly, there will be more, as well as
richer milk.
MOLD is more necessary in every soil
than farmers suppose, and supply can
be preserved by tie cultivation of clover
=
of green crops, or by the application Of
composts rich in the elements of mold
VERY few farmers keep an account of
their crops, though they are commencing
to wake up the Importance of such
transactions. If we do not look into
such matters it is not strange that farm
| ing does not pay.
| OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES can be lowered in
cold pit. On the approach of cold
weather, remove them to the pit where
they will bloom freely until early winter
| They bear considerable frost without in
jury.
ALLOW only three Or four Lima bean
vines to q hill, and when four or five
feet high pinch them off and never per-
NIT them to grow longer then that; this
will cause the growth of the lateral
branches and doubles the number Of
pods.
A BELT of forest trees seven or eight
rods in width has been known to COM
pletely stop the devastating march of
the chinch- bug in travelling from one
wheat field to another, the cool, damp
soil of such places forming an impossible
barrier to their progress. This is anoth-
er argument in favor of tree belts on
prairie farms.
WE have kept many an hundred bush
ell of apples simply by picking them care
fully in the fall and burying them in
shallow pits in the open ground, cover
ing over with straw, and four or six
inches of earth over that, in about the
same manner as we preserve turnips
| 4 ha
In all cases where insects of
any kind infest trees good drench-
ing of water, with one pound of potash
to eight gallons of water, two or three
times week will kill the last one. The
same amount of copperas dissolved in
eight gallons of water and applied In the
same way will dispel all insects and has
tendency to make the tree hardy.
LATE experiments made in Germany
on the cooling of milk before it is set for
the cream to rise show that while there
cream rising capacity in the one instance
over the other excepting that the pro-
cess of souring is longer retarded in the
cooled milky the butter made from cream
from the cooled milk keeps far better
than that made from the uncooled.
INDUSTRY, enterprise and intelligent
observation is what makes the good farm.
er. Such man uses every means in his
power to keep his land fertile, by clean
cultivation, rotation of crops, and the
application of such manures as may be
adapted to the special wants of the crops
he cultivates. He does more, he reads
the best journals he can buy, having ref
erence to their practically in agricultu'
raj art.
HARNESS that has been soaked with
water will dry hard, unless it is dressed
while damp with some kind of non drying
oil. First wipe off the harness with a
sponge, and then with cloth kept for
this purpose, you can apply the oil or
dressing thoroughly. A coating of
water roof dressing given now will be
useful, but the harness should be thor.
oughly washed and made perfectly
clean.
/ AN Eoplish journal of high repute