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

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oil OF cummin on your hand and an
proach the horse on the windy side
He will then move towards you. AS
soon as you can reach him. rub some
OF the cumm1n on his nose, give him q
little OF the castor or anything he likes,
and get a few drops of the oil of rhod-
ium on his tongue. After this you can
make him do nearly everything you
want: Treat him kindly, feed well,
handle gently, and your victory is GER
tain.-1trf, Field and Farm.
GAs-TAR PAINT FOR WHEELS. Last
year the spokes of my wheel barrow
worked loose, and [ tried to tighter
them by wedging; but the wedges
worked out, and the wheels were likely
to come to pieces. | had some gas tar
handy, and filled the joints with it, and
also dipped the wedges into the tar.
All was tight and st;tid tight. | next
painted my wagon hubs with it, both
the tWo-horse and one-horse, filling
cracks and joints thoroughly. This
kept the spokes tight through the re-
mainder of the season. This year
obout the first Of August one of my
tires came off on the big wagon, and /
broke two felloes. Torepair that wheel
cost me ST. 10. AS soon as / got that
wheel home from the shop, 1 painted
every wheel of three wagons and the
old buggy with gas tar--hubs, spoke
and felloes. They soon dried and the
paint was as hard as japan, and shone
like black paint with varnish. No
more loose tires since.-Prdirie Farmer.
~ To TELL THE AGE OF EGGs.GIn "a
Baden agricultural journal. Professor
Nessler, Of Carlsruhe, recommends a
simple method of roughly determining
the age of eggs. An Old egg is well
known to be lighter in weight than
fresh laid one, and as its size remains
exactly the same, the difference must
be due to diminished specific gravity.
BY dlssOlving sixty grammes of common
salt in 500 grammes of water, we get a
fluid of specific gravity 1913, in which
all new laid eggs viii sink to the bot
tom, and all downright stale ones float
on the surface. The older the eggs are
the less salt is required to render the
solution capable Of sustaining them:
and when very old indeed they will float
on simple water alone. The date at
which they do this varies considerably,
the professor having observed it on the
seventeen, sixty-third, eighty-third,
eightieth, and one hundred and twelfth
days respectively. Of course this test
Of age can not be applied in the case Of
eggs that have been kept in salt or lime
water, or that have been coated with
varnisn, oil, or liquid glass.
AMERICAN EARNING. farm
ing is now equal to any in the world.
Our farms generally are cleaner and
freer from weeds than foreign ones
with some exceptlOns-and if we would
use our native fertilizers. such as bones
and meat refuse and fish guano; our
native foods, su CHI as linseed and cot
ton seed oil-cakes, instead Of selling
tn EN- to our foreign ompetitors; and
also use those artificial fertilizers which
are so cheap and effective, as an aid to
increase our crops, we could excel the
famed English farms in the product of
the fields. We have this yet to do. All
that is needed is intelligence and conf
dence, that the more literally we feed
our soils, the more beautifully they will
reward us with teeming haryests.-
american AgricWturist. ...-.
APPLES IN SAND.-A writer in the Lon
don Garden says that h, finds fruit to
keep best in perfectly dry sand. He
round. He has had French crabs two
years old. The Catelac pear has re-
NAMED sound for twelve months. The
fruit must be sound when stored, and
the sand must be quite dry. The chief
advantages Of packing in sand are, the
exclusion of air currents, the preserya-
ton from changes of tenn perature, and
the absorption of moisture which favors
decay. Much will depend on the apart
ment in which the experiment is tried,
a dry or cool one being best. This is
not a new discovery. The Pennsylvania
Dutch farmers have long practiced this
Way o. keeping apples.
How TO RAISE LARGE CoRN.-I have
made great many experiments with
corn within the last fifteen years. | had
fourteen different kinds, and this year |
got some Of the largest ears [ ever rails
ed. l always sele ct my seed corn IN
the fall, at husking time, and IN the
spring [ sort them over again. Last
spring | took no ears that were less
than twelve inches long; then [ took off
three inches at the tip end and two
inches at the butt end, and from these
central grains [ cot ears fifteen inches
long and from fourteen to sixteen rows.
Several years ago l selected ears from
stalks that had two ears, but the result
was not nearly SO satisfactory as from
planting only central grains. My opin-
ion is, If farmer would be little m ore
careful in selecting their seed corn they
could raise from five to ten bushels more
per acre than they do when they pick it
out Of the crib in the spring.
d. n. KERN.
LEHIGH COUNTY, PA.
BUYING HoRsE-It has always been
the correct thing to do in horse-trade,
to cheat the purchaser. 1t has gotto be
the custom, and one that it is hard to
change. There is an idea prevalent
that good horses are never sold, and, to
a certain extent, the rule holds good;