Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
FARM HINTS.

plain petroleum with a sponge three
times week. Dogs can be cured of
mango in the same way.
CLEAN all dairy utensils by rinsing
them with clean cold water, and after
wards scrubbing them with boiling wa
ter, after which repeat the cold rinsing.
ALL lands on which clover or grasses
are grown must either have lime in them
naturally, or that mineral must be arti-
ficially supplied in the form of stone lime,
oyster lime, or mari.
For throat distemper, CRATE fine a
small green wild turnip, or, if dry, give
a heaping teaspoonful, mixed with bran
or oats. Never fails. Good for cough,
also.
IT is stated on what is considered ex-
cellent authority, that the ca bbage worm
which has become so destructive in many
places of late years, can be destroyed by
sprinkling lime water over the growing
plants.
A mixture of two parts of olive oil
and one part of kerosene, is said to be
efectual in Kidding hogs of lice, if light
ly painted on. One, or at most two
applications at an interval of week is
said to be sufficient.
THE weekly (Toronto) Globe says the
golden drop wheat as raised there is
naturally spring wheat, but that it
can be grown successfully as a winter
wheat. That the grain is plump, and as
large as the best samples of fall wheat:
the straw is particularly clean, and has
not been troubled with smut or rust.
IT is believed by many that red clover
is one of the most valuable of soiling
crops, though it is not much used for
this purpose. A half acre will keep one
COW throughout the months of June,
July and August, if cut and fed at the
stall; while moro then twice this amount
Of land, if grazed, according to expert
ments in England, will barely subsist a
COW during the same time.
The cob of Indian corn draws largely
in its growth upon the potash of the
soil, the average amount which it con-
tains Carbonate of potash being about
seven pounds and half in the hundred,
or twice as much as is found in the ash
of the willow, the richest of all woods in
potash. If it were practicable to pro-
cure and remove the potash from all the
cobs of Indian corn grown in the United
sized mountain of alkali.
A GOOD filterer for cisterns is made by
passing the water through large barrel
half filled with fine gravel, and pounded,
freshly burnt charcoal, free from dust,
distributed in alternate layers, each sew
eral inches deep. Over this spread a
thin piece of bagging, and fill in with
fine gravel or coarse clean quartz sand
for twelve inches or more. The inlet
pipe should discharge at the bottom of
the barrel, the filtered water flowing
from the top. aeir H. 9f t. s.
A WRITER in French horticultural
journal relates this suggestive expert
ence: After sunset | place in the centre
of my orchard an old barrel, the inside
of which / have previously well tarred.
At the bottom of this barrel I place a
lighted lamp. Insects of many kinds,
attracted by the light, make for the
lamp, and while circling round it strike
against the side of the barrel, where,
meeting with the tar, their wings and
legs become so clogged that they either
stick fast or fall helpless to the bottom.
The following is given as correct
rule for measuring corn in the crib: Null
tiply the length by the breadth, and this
product by the depth of corn in the
pen. Multiply this again by a and
point off one decimal place; this result
will be the answer in bushels. For in
stance, we have pen of corn 48 feet
long, y feet wide and 81 feet high.
Multiplying these three dimensions to-
gether we have 500 cubic feet. Now
multiplying this by A we have 1870.
Pointing off the one decimal we have as
the contents of the pen 1877 bushels.
SHEEP, owing to their shyness, should
be treated with great kindness. The
treatment should be such that they will
actually learn to entertain an affection
for their keeper. A flock of wild sheep
is about the most improbable invest.
ment that farmer can make. They are
continually getting themselves into
trouble and causing great annoyance, if
not loss to their owner. Never haul
them about by the wool, but place the
arms about the body and round the
foreleg. In catching them, take them
by the hind leg Just above the hook
Kansas City Price Current.
KEEP sheep dry under foot with clean
litter. Never let them stand or lie in
the mud or snow. If a eve loses her
lamb, milk her daily for few days, and
mix little alum with her salt. Never
frighten sheep; if possible, avoid it.
Separate sick or thin sheep from those
that are strong, and give them special
care. If q leg is broken, bind it with
splinters tightly, loosening as the limb
swells. If a sheet is lame, examine his
hoofs; if unsound, apply tobacco, with
blue vitriol boiled in little water.
Shear at once any sheep commencing to
shed its wool, unless the weather is too
severe.
SWEET corn is much better than the
field sorts to grow as fodder. The
stalks are sweeter as well as the grain.
It should not, however, be sown.
Grown in close, compact masses, ex-
Guiding the light, the stalks possess little
value and will not be relished. The