Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-29
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

and prevents sickness among animals.
HEAVY fowls sometimes receive severe
injuries In trying to fly down from high
perches.
CHICKENS are always healthier when
they have plenty of sand and gravel
about them.
CLEAR up swamps and lowlands.
Grub up brier roots and stumps and
when dry burn.
ONE cannot reasonably expect to raise
strong and healthy fowls if they are kept
in starved or neglected condition.
GROUND black pepper sprinkled on
growing cabbages when the dew is on,
will, it is said, free them from worms.
The best rule both as to the quantity
and time is to give the fowls a good meal
in the morning, and the second shortly
before going to roost.
IT is generally conceded that sweet
corn makes the most and best relished
fodder for COWS. The first seed costs
more, but nothing in proportion to the
benefit to the dairy.
A WRITER in the Country Gentleman
thinks that bark-bursting or sap-burst-
ing, is the result of flow of sap late in
the season, during warm weather, too
late to form q layer of wood, and the
frost of winter, finding it in a liquid
state, causes ice to form under the bark,
bursting it from the wood.
A HORSES hoof is of the same nature
as horn. If you desire to know the eff
fects of applying a hot shoe to horses
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a minute or two, then let it cool, and see
how easily it will break A hot shoe
makes hoof brittle instead of tough.
POTASH dissolved in water, or I've from
wood ashes is the best wash for shrubs
and large limbs of fruit trees. White
wash should not be used, as it closes the
pores of the bark, which should be kept
open in order to insure healthy tree.
Potash or I've answers every purpose
which whitewash would, with none of it's
objections.
CIsTERNs should be protected that
there will be no danger of freezing.
Some who have large cellers build els
tern of brick, stone and even of wood, in
one corner. A clstern of some kind is
almost indispensable, and as their cost
is but little. many who are now compelled
to set out a barrel, pals and tubs at the
approach of every shower may be saved
all this trouble.
A TON of wheat when carefully burned
leaves 1924 pounds of ash, while a ton
of straw will leave 60.13 pounds, and a
ton of chaff 1907 pounds To know
this is of interest to the wheat grower,
as it teaches the Importance of returning
the straw to the soil, and great care
ought to be taken of the chatf, for one
pound as fertilizer is as much as three
pounds of straw, containing six times as
much mineral manure as the grain itself.
THE second crop of clover for seed can
be cut with the ordinary reaper. Some
strips of wood covered with cloth to the
cutting bar of the moving machine, the
clover being gathered upon the cloth and
raked off. This makes a much lighter
cutting machine. The straw and chaff
are useless for hay, and need not be pre-
served from the weather. They may be
used for htterin the barn-yard or stable.
PoTATo rot appears as black decay
ing matter upon the surface of the tubers,
which has disagreeable smell. If the
potato is cut into, the black appearance
is sometimes seen penetrating In spots
or streaks. The cause is fungus growth
which just now appears only at the sur
face, but in time it will penetrate deeper.
The best thing to do is to sprinkle the
potatoes with air-slaked lime, which de-
stroys the fungus. This may be done
when the crop is gathered. It will
prevent the spread, if it cannot restore
the injured tubers.
ADAM SCOTT, a prominent Maine
sheep breeder, last winter fed $50
wethers, and, to learn how rapidly they
gained in flesh, selecting two, which he
weighed every month. On January -
they weighed respectively 100 and 1876
pounds, and continued to gain steadily
down to April II, when they weighed
$50 and 40 pounds each. They were
fed on one and a half pounds of corn
daily, with all the hay they could eat.
The total cost for feed was seventy cents
per month-an increase of about twenty
cents per month for each sheep over the
value of food eaten.
A FARM is not complete without pigs;
and pigs are at their best in field in
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a field is often the most profitable when
it is growing a good crop of tender
clover The green food the pigs get
acts as a corrective to their feed at the
trough. Pigs that are getting clover or
grass can be fed corn without the injury
it would do them we're they confined
closely in pens and deprived of green
food. When the grass is short a feed
of fodder corn is important, and
especially SO for sows that are rearing
young pigs, as such green food increases
the milk and keeps both sows and pigs
in healthy condition.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural
Home says: [ learned one OF two things
about butter last spring. One of them
is that butter of all kinds should either
be made stiff and set away in cool
place or if not made so stiff should be
should be put away in gallon or half
gallon jars and either sealed up or thick
paper (old letter paper will do) brushed
over with the white of an egg fastened
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