Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-02
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

| SEASONABLE AKIN NU rs.
! FINE seed, such as grass, needs but little
covering: quarter of an inch is enough,
and less will do.
I NOT only preserve potatoes IN pits
but keep cabbage in the same way, and
they come out in the spring white and
crisp.-J p. L., Bruintree, Mass.
A SUCCESSFUL sheep raiser says that if
4 bell be put on one Of the storltest of
the flock it will protect the sheep from
dogs.
! If the land is not well drained, when
| all else is done in the wheat field, make
| the necessary burrows with the pillow, for
carrying off the surface water during
heavy rains.
MIXING fowl from different localities
is the most fruitful cause of chicken
cholera. The different breeds of game
fowls seem less liable to this disease
than any other, and if kept free from
contact with strangers are not likely
to contract the malady.
REMEMBER that deep blowing for
wneat where the soil admits of 1t is a
great protection against winter kill
| ing The breaking up of the subsoil or
| hard pan, allowing the water to escape
below the roots, prevents the alternate
freezing and thawing of the rootlets of
the plant
In answer to the question, "What DO
you estimate the annual cost of raising
sheep to be? propounded to seventy
one different correspondents by the Com
missioner of Agriculture of Tennessee,
the cost is variouSly estimated at from
25 cents to 81. Several of the CORE
spondents put it at 80 and 80 cents.
IT is believed by many bee-keepers
that rye-meal is the best possible sub
stitute for bee-bread, when the latter is
not In full supply. The meal should
be put in shallow boxes near the apiary,
and a few pieces Of comb near it will at
tract the attention of the bees. This
food causes the swarms to be larger and
earlier than any other.
| One who has had varied experience
in it's culture says: 1t seems as If celery
was one Of those crops that defed all
known rules In its culture; SO that the
most successful raisers often meet with
failure in obtaining crop on account of
some slight neglect in trimming, trans
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Far
n1er says that he has found, by exper-
fence, that six Cotswold sheep will not
consume more food than COW, and are
more profitable. For lamb of this
breed, weighing 125pounds, $500 is OBJ
tanned. He estimates that SIX ewes viii
produce eight lambs per annum and
fifty pounds of wool.
ACCORDING to T. Nerlinger, the direct
application Of peat to sandy soils does
not give such good results as to allow of
dispensing with other kinds of manures,
although the yield is greater than If the
soil had not been manuIed at ali. He
recommends that before use the peat
should be first mixed with lime and sta
BILE DRAWINGS.
WASH your horses and cattle OCCASION
ally in this weather with carbolic coap;
the flies are not partial to it, and will
trouble your animals much less. Also,
don't be too particular to sweep down
the spider webs in your stables; spiders
eat flies, and every fly caught in q cob
web is removed from all further temp
taation to bite your horses.
WICK in his floral magazine, says that
strong plants of pansies transplanted
into boxes or pots at mid-aut1lmn can be
kept in cold frames until early in winter
From this stock they can be taken as
they may be wanted and brought into
the house and kept In low temperature,
or about so degrees, and near the light.
They will bloom freely.
A BEEKEEPER says: "For successful
wintering the bee must be kept busy
rearing brood all this month. When the
season for honey gathering is over an6
the weather becomes cool bees will not
rear brood, or but very little. 1t mat
tiers not how much you may stimulate
the queen to lay large numbers of eggs
the workers viii remove the greater par
Of them.
Nix little sulphur with salt and feet
occasionally to sheep. It will effect
ually destroy sheep-ticks The same
remedy applied to cattle troubled witt
lice viii soon rid them Of the vermin. TIL,
use Of sulphur with salt viii repay th'
trouble of keeping a supply for cattle ant
sheep. If mixture of one part of sui
, phur with seven of salt be freely applied
there viii be no trouble with vermin.
A LETTER from Pennington, Mich.
narrates thefollowing remarkable occur
.. renee: Rex Woodwork, of Pennington
has a cow fifteen years old that gave
birth to two calves under rather pecu.
liar circumstances. On Thursday, Sep
TENDER 10, she dropped fine heifel
calf, nothing unusal being noticed at the
time. Two days after she gave birth t.
another. also a heifer calf. Both calves
are of the same size and we'll matched
and are the second pair of twins from
the COW.
. In the Indiana Farmer. mention Il
made of the Bokhara clover, now OF
trial III the experimental plant of indiana
, State Agricultural College, and spoke
of as bidding fair TO become valuable