Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-01
SEASONABlE FARM NOTES.

APPLES boiled with meal are good for
pigs.
Ir pays TO feed COWS giving milk
Literally. Butter IS high, and now is
the time to feed proftably.
On many farms there are some old cat
tie and old sheep that can only be kept
at loss. 1t is economy to fatten them
for the butcher.
To prevent lameness and keep your
horses feetjn good condition, stuff them
frequently with inseea meal mixed with
soft soap.
KEEP barrel of gypsum in the stables
where cows are kept, and sprinkle the
floors with it after the stalls are cleaned.
1t is valuable absorbent of liquid
manure and an excellent deodorizer.
SAVE the SCOT that falls from the chin
neys. A pint of SCOT to q pailfull of wa
ter will will make liquid manure of
the greatest value for flowers and plants
of all kinds.
FEED stock regularly at stated hours
each day. Stock becomes wonderfully
observant on this point, and becomes
restless when the time arrives for giving
their food, should that food not be at
hand.
For two years we have tried stacking
fodder and find that it keeps as well as
when stored in the barn, and it is on
hand when wanted. We put about
thirty shocks in stack and do not build
very high as it is heavy to pitch.
SUFFOLK and Berkshire pigs may be
proftably fed, to be sold at 9 and 10
months, upon clover, corn meal, linseed
meal, or corn and oat mdal. Half a
pound of linseed meal per day on the
average to six months Old pigs would be
efficient.
THERE are twenty-six pounds of phos-
phoric acid In twenty-five bushels of
wheat; if there are nottwenty-six pounds
of available phosphoric acid in the soil, it
matters not how much there may be of
other elements, you cannot have twenty
five bushels of wheat to the acre.
STRINGHAnT is an affection of the
nerves. and is incurable. 1t is caused
by loss of power of the nerve which
controls the muscle by which the leg is
lifted; the action is then spasmodic, IL
regular and excessive, causing the high
lifting usual in this disorder.
PERHAPS the heaviest returns ever OBJ
tanned in this country from q single
sheep was secured last year by Daniel
Smith of Hmsdale, n. H., who raised
from q Shropshire eve three lambs,
which he sold for $18, and the wool of
the eve for $3.50 making the total in
come from the sheep $3.50.
The celebrated Hereford bull,
Anxiety, belonging to Mr.. Culbertson,
of Chicago, and kept on his farm at
Newman, ILL.,, died on the 2Sth ult.,
from impaction of the manifold, also
called dry murrain, caused by exposure
and the vicissitudes of travel between
the state fairs. He was probably the
finest Hereford bull ever imported. His
value was $4,000.
DIR. ANDERSON of Scotland estimates
that one COW, well fed, will furnish an
amount of manure annually which
will yield 103 pounds of ANN onia,
Lightweight pounds of potash, ana
sixty-four pounds Of pbosphoric acid;
and that these elements represent
value of 500. IS, based on their avail
bility, as compared with the artificial
fertilizers in which they are found
A NEW system of cattle farming is
coming into vogue in Nevada. After the
manner of alteration in making oxen
they alter their COWS by extracting the
ovaries. Though unsexed, they cou-
tinue to give milk Indefinitely. They
increase notably in weight, and their
flesh becomes juicy and tender as that Of
oxen. In the valley of ne Humboldt
and it's branches the assessor returns s.
900 spayed cattle at double valuation.
It is seldom that one is lost in the surgi-
cal operation.
The Columbus (Ga.) E1aquirer-iSuaa
tells this champion gourd story: ''Mr.
E. Z. Hickey has a gourd vine covering
about one-fourth of an acre, and upon
which is over 100 gourds which will
hold over a gallon each. It was planted
by little girl, a daughter of Mr..
Hickey, and has not had more than half
a chance, as the hogs, sheep and goats
have all been running over it. 1t has
run down into the ravine and damned
the stream"
AS a general rule the farmer should
not desire that his poultry should be
very fat, for there is kind of antagonism
between production and the storing of
much fat in the tissues. If it was a
mere question of what to do with the
material there would seem to be no
reason fowl, once having attained her
full weight, should not then always be-
gin to lay. Fat in a living being is
generally as foreign to the system as if it
were tried out and slowed away in
pantry; and yet a certain proportion of
it seems to be to be the rule with all ami
mails in their ordinary health, the
amount varying with the individual.
The difficulty of establishing the
value of each COW in the dairy is not as
great as it is generally supposed. The
method usually employed is to weigh
each cows milk upon a spring scales rs
soon IS it is drawn, and before pouring
it into the general receptacle. A small
record hook containing the name of