Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-21
FARM NOTES.

ty-three months old, weighs l, 700 pounds.
A McKEAN county, (Pa.) man pos
sesses 8 sheep that weighs $50 pounds.
IT is said that one bushel of beets add
ed to nine bushelsof apples makes cider
richer and Of superior flavor to that
made of apples alone.
GIVE the fowls 8 variety-corn.
wheat, oats, buckwheat, cooked vege-
tables of all kinds, fruit, refuse of the
table, raw cabbage in winter, grass Of
any tender variety in summer.
RACK feeding of horses is wasteful
The better plan is to feed with chopped
hay from manger, because the food is
not then thrown about, and is more
easily chewed and digested.
HE most satisfactory results with
bees may be expected if abundant stores
of honey can be found within two miles.
They will work more freely upon bios
SONS at some little distance from the
apiary than upon those close by.
A COW that has accidentally eaten her
fill of meal should be kept in the stable,
and not allowed to drink. AS soon as
discovered she should be given pound
or two OF epson salts, repeating the dose
till movement of the bowels is obtain
ed.
THERE is no question but that stock
must have water, and in abundance, also
OF good quality. Most farmers will
claim that stock do not know the differ
ence between good and bad water, but it
can well be proved that they do, by any
one who has studied their habits
Turf, Field and Farm.
A FARMER near Bangor, Me-, noticing
that wheat was being picked from the
heads of standing grain, and, finding
flocks of yellow birds flying about, shot
some of them. On opening their crops
he found only three grains of wheat.
and, by actual count, $50 weevils. 1t is
better that farmers know whether they
kill friends or foes.
The West Chester, (Pa.,) Village Re-
port says: "The Farmers Club fix the
rate of temperature for scalding hogs at
from 145 to 155 degrees. Townsend
Speakman states that he has succeeded
well with the water at 145 degrees. J.
Hibbard Bartram, of Westown, uses
three parts boiling hot water and one
part cold spring water"
BRAN is valuable food for horses in
reducing the infammatory effects of
stimulating food. Made into mashes it
has cooling and laxative effect, but
used in excess, especially in dry state,
it is apt to form stony secretions in the
bowels of the horse. Stones produced
from the excessive use of bran have been
taken out of horses after death. weigh.
ing many pounds.
JAMES WATERMAN, of Williamstown,
Mass, once had COW, cross of the
Durham and Jersey breed, which yielded
him in eleven months 528 pounds of but
ter, besides furnishing what milk his
family wished to use. He since then
has kept cow of the same breed, which
cow, when three years old, yielded 4O7
pounds of butter per year, and now
annuity yields 500 pounds of butter be-
sides milk for the family. The first cow
gave thirty-eight pounds of milk per
day, and the latter forty pounds.
SOME one wrote to the Rural New
Yorker to know if kerosene would not do
to prevent bark lice. This brought
reply from a Mr.. Charles Downing, who
says: have not had any experience
with kerosene, and would not like to
risk it. l have found potash dissolved
In water good remedy-one pound of
potash to one and half gallons of water
put on with paint brush; and now is
a good time, when the leaves are of, or
any times before the buds begin to swell
in the spring. The trees should be wash
ed as far up as there are any insects,
even to the ends of the branches"
The barn-yard is the field for winter
work. Much may be done here by skill
full management. Manure, so long as
1t is frozen. remains unchanged,
and the best preparation of
the manure in the best manner for use
in the spring makes no progress. Make
a central heap ia the yard, and by means
OF few planks and wheelbarrow move
the manure from the stable each day to
this heap. If the heap is built up
square, and made four feet high, it will
keep warm in the coolest weather, and
while warm it will ferment and rot.
PROF. BEAL objects to the practice of
scraping the trunks of apple trees, and
thinks that, as the rough bark protects
them from the intense cold of winter, it
is worse than time thrown away. He
remarks that old trees do not receive
nourishment through the bark, but
through young twigs and leaves, and
that moss on trees is not a parasite suck
ling.
A correspondent in the Country Gen
tleman says: MANY a field might be
made clean by little labor and atten.
tion in this direction. It is about as
important to clean the grass fields as
those devoted to hoed crops. My door
yard was at one time overrun with
thistles. killed them in a single season
by cutting them off at the surface, and
not allowing them to show themselves
long enough to take breath. They arc
ugly customers to deal with, but in my
experience they may be seriously check
ed, and often destroyed, by repeated
cuttings. Where it is not practical to
cultivate the land and eradicate them by
keeping the surface clean, this is about
the only thing that can be done.
GRASS causaa the roSat Ehoro1 oooro |