Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-24


too wet for working, put in the plow or
spade-according to the size of the gar
den.
MANURE applied to the lawn and gar
den should always be so well rotted that
there will be no risk of it's containing the
seeds of weeds
BEETs delight in good, strong soil.
Ii well drained and thoroughly WORKER,
even clay soil will produce good beets.
But it must be rich and mellow.
IF there is not sufficient rain to keep
compost heaps moist water should be
supplied, even if it has to be hauled and
poured on them. Decomposition is ar
rested when the heap becomes dry. A
few barrels of water from the well soon
start up heat and decomposition in dry
pile of compost.
SOME seeds, like the parsnip, are not
good the second year, and should not be
kept over. ALI doubtful seeds, either as
to age, name or quality, should be thrown
out. Good seed is one of the essentials
to success in the garden, and now is the
time to sort, label, select and reject if
necessary.
ALL the seeds that may be required
should be procured at once. There are
some kinds of seed that are better to be
changed occasionally; oats and potatoes
are OF this kind, and should be procured
from a northern locality, where the oats
are harder, and the potatoes larger and
more vigorous.
In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial.
Their action is twofold; they supply to
| plants Inorganic constituents which they
require, and they act chemicallyas solv-
ents upon other salts in the soil, or
they neutral1ze acids, etc. They are
more beneficial on sandy and gravelly
lands than on clay. For plants that con-
tain large percentage of potash and
phosphoric acid, as carrots, turnips, po-
tatoes and cabbages, ashes are essential
manure.
A FARMERS wife who makes sweet.
gilt-edged butter says she uses no color
ing, neither does she wash the butter.
She churns sweet cream at temperature
of 60 degrees, in dash churn. To make
nice, fresh butter, it is necessary to ar
range that different members of the herd
should "come in" at different periods.
If the COWS are fed on good second crop
hay the butter will need no coloring.
She allows the milk to stand from thirty.
six to forty eight hours, the cream being
kept In jars and well stirred, churning
! three times week.
A New YORK shepherd says: It is not
impossible to get rid of ticks on sheep.
Take fine dust tobacco; put in box such
as ground spice is sold in, making open
ings with an anvil in the cover to suit;
part the wool just behind the fore legs,
around the body, dust ring around the
sheep quite thick. Do the same also in
different places on the body wherever
| the ticks are the most likely to congre-
gate. Use the tobacco literally, and I
will warrant a cure.
Tur best place to keep eggs intended
for hatching is to wrap them in paper
and put them down cellar in covered
box or basket I have known eggs to
hatch after being kept this way for four
weeks before being set. If they have to
be kept some time it is best to turn
them once every day or every other day.
But set the eggs as soon as hen can be
had to take them.
SOME people make the mistake of Civ
ing the broods Matched by two or more
hens at once 80 a single hen to nurse.
If each hen has Matched but one or two
chicks, then, of course, it is right and
proper to give them all to one hen. But
| ii each hen has Matched five or six chicks
she should be allowed to rear them
That number is nearly or quite enough
for a small or medium-sized hen at this
! time of year.
;o1ye 7,
and the sooner begins to feed ITSELF
March pullets are those which fill the
egg baskets in the winter time. There
fore set all the broody hens for which
eggs can be procured as soon as possible,
and take great care of the chicks which
come in this month. A warm run out of
doors can be made under hot-bed sash,
arranged between two coops, and laid on
boards set on their edges.
! It is folly to keep old sheep. They
should be turned off to the butcher while
| they are in their prime. It does not take
| half so much to fatten them then. When
| they get old and thin, i'll order to put
them in condition to slaughter, the whole
superstructure must be rebuilt Four
sets of lambs are all eve can bear
This will bring her to five years, and
this is an age when, with a little care,
she viii round up to fine carcass. Ex-
ceptions may be made when the breed is
scarce and the blood is more valuable
than anything else.
ONE fruitful source of collie in horses is
cracked corn If corn is to be fed use
whole corn; it is much more likely to be
perfectly masticated than cracked corn,
and it's imperfect mastication causes the
collie. 1t is also unwise to feed grain to
a hungry horse, for then large portion
is very apt to be swallowed without be-
ing properly masticated. This can be
seen in their weddings Always let the
edge of horses hunger be taken off
i with a feed of hay before feeding grain.
Half an hour extra spent in feeding
while on the road will bring you home
half an hour earlier at night.
GLOVER may be sown this month
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