Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-17
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

INCREASE the feed of fattening AMI
mails.
EARLY fattened poultry is the most
profitable.
HAVE you done your fall blowing for
spring crops?
Cows and cattle at pasture need more
salt than on dry hay.
HAVE you provided plenty of fuel for
winter, and is it under cover?
ARE your cattle and sheep sheds and
stables in order for winter?
As cold weather advances give
stronger feed to stock intended for
slaughtering.
. CATTLE and horses should have extra
feed now that they may enter winter in
good condition.
REPAIR fences and gates If you have
any leisure, thus saving time in the busy
days of spring.
A VERY good plan, if one has not car
bolic acid on hand, is to mix with the
whltewash cup full of kerosene before
using it in the fowl-house.
DUCKS and geese can be raised with
out an abundance of water. Give them
enough of pure water to drink, and al
low them an occasional bath.
To allow COW to fall off in flesh while
giving milk for butter-making is a
serious mistake, which can be easily de-
tected by the expert when the butter is
placed upon the market.
The manure produced by sawdust
when used as bedding for horses is
said to be better fertilizer for certain
garden crops than any other. When
mixed with the soil in which celery is
grown, it is said to greatly benefit those
plants.
LET the surplus straw be stacked in
the yards. If the stock have a picking
at this, it will answer well the purpose
of noon feeding; and will also keep the
animals on the move to their warmth and
growth. The straw scattered by such
plan is not wasted.
EVERY pound of flesh made now viii
cost but fourth or less of that which is
made In the winter; besides, the growth
of the animal increases in proportion to
its size up to a certain limit, and the
heavier it is made now the greater its
future increase.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural NeaD
YORKER stops COW or steer from jump
ing over fences by mailing horseshoe
on one forward foot. This prevents the
hoOf from spreading, and consequently
renders the animal unable to spring
This is calculated to be very efectual.
THERE are upon nearly every farm
some old cattle and old sheep that ought
to be fattened. It don't pay to keep old
stock over winter. Fatten them for the
butcher and give the young stock what
the old would have eaten, and they will
be worth much more in spring. Some
Of the old stock, if kept over, may die
before grass comes again.
ONE of the best things in the world to
give horse, after he has been driven,
is quart of oatmeal stirred into pail
of water It refreshes and strength
ems him. relieves his immediate thirst,
and prepares his stomach for more solid
food. 1t is like the plate of soup before
dinner, satisfying and appetizing to-
gether.
A LONDON live stock journal, speaking
of horseshoeing, pertinently remarks.
Ii the farmers or blacksmiths are
anxious to do something useful at
small expense, let them publish an illus
trated broadside fit for hanging in black
smith shops, telling smiths and their
masters what not to do. "Don't carve
the frog; don't open the heels; don't
rasp the outside of the hoof; don't cut
the hoof to fit the shoe, but, after short
ening the toe, if needed, fit the shoe to
the foot, ;" and so Gu, as common sense
dictates.
"CAN fruit trees be grown for their
timber as well as for their fruit 2" was
the somewhat novel question up for dis
cussion at arecent meeting of a horticul-
tural society. Cherry timber, it was
argued, makes beautiful furniture and
brings in market almost as good a price
as does walnut. The pear was said to
be in demand by millwrights, though
this wood is nearly worthless for general
farm purposes. The apple, it was
claimed, is III demand by last-makers
and turner's of woodenware. When
fruit trees are grown with view to tim
! Der as well as fruit, high trimming was
! recommended
PLANTS in pots on balconies, in win
dows, or in situations exposed to the di-
rect influence of the rays of the sun, are
often half and sometimes altogether
killed by the root-roasting to which they
are subjected, the surface of the pots
often becoming SO heated that the hand
cannot be placed upon them without be-
ing burned. The poor roots, that gen
orally hug the sides of the pots closely,
have, indeed, sorry time of il under
these conditions.
"LAsT autumn" writes a lady in
Vick's Monthly who enjoyed the luxury
III x-oz.x1 10 al H.