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

able if attended to properly. Wool is
sure thing, every year, and brings cash.
IF you would keep your horses and
cattle free from lice have no hen roosts in
your barn.
A GERMAN farmer says he values to-
bacco stems for manure 'about the same
as stable dung; straw soaked in urine
and dried would be much the same"
IF only six substantial farmers in a
town are agreed they can organize and
sustain a club which will put new life
into the agricultural and social culture of
that town.
ONE-HALF ounce of salt to the pound
of butter is the rule for sailing adopted
by the makers of the celebrated trade
mark lump butter, which sells for
fancy price in Boston.
The Onondaga Milk association, of
New York, concludes that "corn and
oats, ground and mixed in equal quanti-
ties, make the most valuable moal, and
given quantity of such meal is worth
more than any other"
IT is essential that leather should have
! light. In the care of harness do not in
close in dark closet or ROOM Of
| course harness should be oiled three or
four times year, first washing with soap
and water
| FARM stock must always be regarded
as the best capital farmer can have, for
| it furnishes the manure by which rich
harvests are secured; and through these
good husbandry creates the capital which
is needed on the farm
PARTICULAR care should be used in
cleaning milk pans and cans Many cases
are on record of diseases in families from
using milk infected with noxious germs
from foul milk cans. Milkmen upon
again receiving the cans should cleanse
them with boiling hot water.
The farmer cultivates his farm in sum-
mer, and it yields bountiful crop of
grain. In winter he should improve his
leisure time in crlltivating his mind, SO
that it may yield a bountiful crop of
thoughts. Neither the farm nor mind
will be productive without cultivation
Rank weeds will grow up and smother
all that is valuable.
AS matter of experience, it is found
that the mixture of cut straw and root
pulp, alternate layers of each, should
stand for at least twenty-four hours be-
fore being fed, after which it becomes
heated of itself, and the cattle eat it with
great relish There is nothing better for
young and growing stock.
Too large a number of sheep should
not be watered together We believe
seventy-fve is enough for one lot; by no
means let there be more than one hun
dred. There is more danger of diseases
in large focks than in small ones. The
proportion of sheep that do not thrive is
always greater in large focks than In
small ones.
The Cotswold, although large sheep,
have big backs and small bellies, and
will not consume so much food as some
smaller sheep that have little backs and
great bellies. Nearly fifty years past the
Cotswold ram breeders all used Leicester
rams. That greatly improved their hocks,
gives them better symmetry, better quail
ity and more aptitude to fatten.
FRENCH poultry fanciers who make
speciality of raising fowls for the market
are now feeding their poultry with barley
and steamed carrots. Its rapid fattening
qualities are something wonderful, and
it is said that the roots also imparts a pc
culiar flavor to the flesh that suits the
taste of the French epicure exactly. The
large yellow carrots are considered best
for this purpose.
Mr.. A. A. SoUTHwIcK, of Massachu-
sets, writing from his experience in that
state, regards the Berkshire swine as
meeting the demands of most farmers
who want hog that will attain a weight
from 200 to 800 pounds in the least posi-
BILE time. This sort of hog is that
n, Il ~ l.
adapted to the wants of packers.
The Rural Ne,U Yorker says: Trees
that are almost unpruned, are longer
lived and more fruitful than trees that
are subjected to a severe pruning once
year or once in two years, We should
bear in mind the fact that there should
be a proper proportion between roots and
branches. If we take off all the top the
roots all die; if we take off half the top,
the roote are badly injured unless the
tree can succeed in forcing latent buds
into plentiful crop of suckers.
THERE should be no drafts of air
through cracks in the barn that will
blow over the stock, but still it is just
| as bad for horses and COWS to breathe
bad air as it is for man. A good way
to convey pure air into the stable is to
have tubes of boards about foot square
connecting with the outside, and passing
along the sides of the stable to the rear
in such a manner that the air may be
conveyed to the front of the stock.
MANY farmers who keep horses do not
think it profitable to feed them much
grain, and frequently feed poor hay
AS consequence of such management
the animals are not worth much for
labor When the occasion arises for
putting horses thus fed at hard work
they are found out of condition and un-
able to perform reasonable task; while
in the spring they require extra feeding
for a few weeks, or else the work must
go ON with horses unfit for the business.
1t is far better to give the horses little
grain during the winter, when, should an
emergency arise, they are equal to the
occasion.