Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
FARM HINTS,

IL.
A MAN in Easton, Maine, has this year
harvested 10, 900 bushels of potatoes from
torty-tive acres of ground.
BUCKwHEAT flour is recommended for
giving the hair of horses fine, smooth.
brilliant appearance.
GIVE hens constant access to lime in
some form. Hens must have the raw
material in order to manufacture shells
they can not make them out of nothing.
STAGNANT and impure water which
COWS drink while at pasturage is one of
the most prominent causes of bad odor
In milk.
DAMAGED corn is exceedingly injuri-
GUS as food food for horses, because it
brings on inflammation of the bowels and
skin diseases.
A JERSEY COW in Memphis has sur
pr1sed her owner and the farmers there
abouts by giving milk that made three
pounds OF butter from one gallon of
milk. So the papers say.
The best remedy for the sting of bee,
wasp or hornet is liquid ammonia, and
nothing will equal it's dilution in water
i'll allaying the irritation caused by mos
quitoes.
AMERICA stands first in the world for
honey production, as well as for scien-
tlfic management and improved nipple
ments for their apiary; next comes
Switzerland, then England and France.
HORSES contract habits very easily
when improperly managed, and transmit
them to their offspring. The balky
man makes balky horse. "'Tis easier
to prevent than to cure"
FARMERS should bear in mind that
frozen meat will not absorb salt. Before
either frozen beef or pork is put in the
barrel for sailing it should be thawed
out.
The reason that cabbage emits such a
disagreeable smell when boiling is be-
cause the process dissolves the essential
oil. The water should be changed when
the cabbage is half boiled, and it will
thus acquire greater sweetness.
WHEN horse is worked hard his food
should be chiefly oats-if not worked
hard his food should be chiefly hay, be-
cause oats supply more nourishment and
discriminating material than any other
food-hay not SO much.
To utilize feathers of ducks, chickens
and turkeys, generally thrown aside as
refuse, trim the plumes from the stamp,
inclose them in a tight bag, rub the
whole as if washing clothes, and you
will secure perfectly uniform and light
down, excellent for quilting coverlets
and not few other purposes.
To cure gals on the shoulders of your
horses: At morning, noon and night
wash the shoulders well with water and
apply with feather the following: Six
drachms of iodine dissolved in half
pint of alcohol. It is a good preparation
to keep in the stable at all times.
WORK horses and those kept for driv-
ing purposes often receive permanent
injury at this season of the year, between
wheeling and sleighing, by being shut
up and deprived of exercise. Lung,
bowel and foot diseases are frequent
penalties of neglect of regular exercise
when not IN use.
IT is held that England will eventually
become one of the best customers for our
mutton sheep. To accomplish this, how
ever, our stock of mutton sheep must
not only be increased, but especial care
must be taken in breeding, and especial
pains used Id fattening. In beef cattle,
what consumers want nowadays is supe-
rior flesh not masses of tallow.
If you take into consideration hard
ness, prolifcacy, weight of fleece and
average weight when full grown, you
will find that the Cotswold will best an
swer your purpose. The average weight
of the most common breeds of sheep,
when fully grown, is about as follows:
Cotswold 200, Leicester 1875, Shropshire
Down ITS, South Down 1855, American
Merino 103 pounds.
PLowING land when it is very dry is
nearly as hurtful as when it is very wet.
But any experience is with heavy clay,
or land in which clay is an important
constitution. Such land when plowed
dry breaks up lumpy, and consequent
rains do not dissolve the humps. It is
my opinion that there is never more
suitable condition for blowing any soil
than when it has enough moisture to
cause the burrows to fall loosely from the
pillow with no appearance of packing and
no Jumps. s. William armstrong, Ezaaai-
rd, ~. Y.
The objection to rolling wheat fields
after being sown has been made that the
snow will blow off or collect In drifts
here and there. But if wheat is sown
early the leaves should cover the entire
surface before winter, and we should
suppose would hold the soil as well as
rough soil surface. Whether this sup
position is well founded or not, we have
this fall rolled five fields after the seed
has been drilled in or sOWn broadcast
and another season will probably enable
us to test the question.
PRoF. l.. B. ARNOLD advises SKIM
ming the milk as soon as sour
ness is perceptible, and to churn at
so degrees instead of 70, before the
cream gets sour. When the butter
comes it granules, enough cold water or
brine should be put in to reduce the
mass to about SIS degrees, when after
little slow churning, the granules will
become hard and distinct, and the butter
be in candition for washing out all the