Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-04
FARM NOTES.

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corn and wheat screenings are better for
them than dough.
BoNE-DUsT is lasting manure, and
will continue to fertilize plants for years,
when not ground too fine.
A CROSS between fne-blooded light
Brahmas and partridge Cochins will pro-
duce the largest fowls known.
Loss of appetite, thirst, Garrhoea,
general weakness and blueness of the
comb are the principal symptoms of
chicken cholera.
STAAsFURT salts, night soil, and all
manures rich in chlorine, when applied
to land on which tobacco is raised injure
the combustibility of the leaf.
YOUNG stock fattens much more readily
than old stock. Pigs, when they have
attained their growth, fatten at a less
cost than when older. The same is true
of steers and all other animals.
RACK feeding of horses is wasteful.
The better plan is to feed with chopped
hay from a manager, because the food is
not then thrown about, and is more easily
chewed and digested.
THICK lime whitewash, thinned with
a strong decoction of tobacco stems, ap-
piled to fruit trees, is recommended as
a preventive against rabbits and other
animals gnawing them during the winter
season.
SUN-wARMED water is regarded as
fruitful source of cholera, diarrhea and
other diseases in chickens. Be this as it
may, cool, fresh water should always be
supplied Stagnant water, containing
organic life, is especially to be avoided.
For scabby legs in poultry, take equal
parts of lard and kerosene oil, and thick
en- with sulphur into a paste. This
should be rubbed upon the legs until
the scabby parts come off, when they
should be smeared with sweet oil.
CATTLE like q change of diet occasion
ally, as men do. Keeping cattle on hay
or straw alone is a little like living
on bread, or potatoes, or meat alone,
with nothing except that one dish.
Therefore feed some roots, as well as hay
and meal or shorts. If you havn't the
roots on hand, be sure and have sup
ply next winter.
HE Land and Home says that the
canker worm, which attacked an orchard
of over 5000 trees In Ontario county, n.
Y, last year, were brought to the ground
dead in q few hours by showering the
trees with mixture of two pounds and
half of Paris green to 200 gallons of wa
ter. A force pump threw stream high
above the trees, where it broke into
spray and sprinkled every part.
In nearly all soils ashes are beneficial.
They are twofold; they supply to plants
inorganic constituents which they re-
quire, and they oct chemically as SOL
vents upon other salts in the. soil, or
they neutralize acids, etc. They are
more beneficial on sandy and gravelly
lands than on clay. For plants that con-
tain a large percentage of potash and
phosphoric acid, as carrots, tUrnips, po-
tatoes and cabbages, ashes are an essen
tial manure.
MANY little farms well TILED, with many
industrious, sober farmers to till them,
constitute the highest degree of agricul-
tural prosperity. The greater number
of persons who own land In any COM
munity, the more interest will they take
in it's improvement. People who rent
land as rule care nothing for the soil
they work, further than what it. will
yield them; but man who owns land
wants to see it's fertility and productive
capacity kept up, not alone for his own,
but for his children's benefit, who will
inherit it after him.
To TEST the richness of milk, procure
any long glass vessel-a cologne bottle
or phial. Take narrow strip of paper,
just the length from the neck to the bot
tom, then mark it off with 100 lines at
equal distance; or into fifty lines, and
count each as two, and paste it upon the
phial, so as to divide it into one hundred
equal parts. Fill it to the highest mark
with milk fresh from the COW, and allow
it to stand in perpendicular position
for twenty-four hours. The number of
spaces occupied by the cream will give
you it's exact percentage without any
guesswork.
A COUNTRY woman says: "The wise
man, in enumerating the time and sea-
son, made no mention of the time to
skim milk; yet, nevertheless, there is a
time-a right time, too-and that is just
as the milk is beginning to sour in the
bottom of the pans. Then the cream is
all at the surface, and should at once be
removed-with as little milk as possible.
If allowed to remain until the acid
reaches the cream, it impairs it ID quail
ty. The house or dairy maid who
thinks to obtain a greater quantity by
allowing the milk to stand beyond that
time labors under most egregrious mis-
take.
CAREFUL observation of the growth of
crops will enable the farmer to ascertain
the wants of his soil, while by the apph-
cation of a few general principles he may
be led to the general improvement of his
lands. IF, with good sun exposure, his
crops wear pale green, he may safely
infer a lack of nitrogen; if the straw is
soft and too weak to bear the head, it
will teach him that his soil is deficient in
available potash; if he has good growth
of straw and light yield OF grain, he
willfnd, by heappication of phosphates,
that the yield of grain will be largely In
creased, though while growing his crop
NOV NOT o,,paar To he benefited