Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-10
FARM HINTS.


your hair yet % Wall" was the de-
liberate reply, 81 jedge not from the way
the calves run after me"
The Indiana Farmer says that as an
evidence Of the greatly increased interest
in sheep breeding in That state, over 100
young rams of improved breeds were
sold at the last state fair held in Indian
apolis M
The New York Tribune has made the
following wise discovery: "The year
OF 1879 will be remembered in future as
that in which theattention of the country
was for the first time directed to it's farm
ing interests as q subject of paramount
Importance"
THE Connecticut experiment station is
about commencing series of expert
ments for testing thoroughly the differ
ent methods of setting milk to obtain
the best results as to cream, and, if pos
sible, to arrive at O definite conclusion,
SO that the butter makers may have suffi-
cient data to enable them to work with
some degree of certainty in the produc-
ton of butter.
THE Washington county, pa, J farm
ers, as a general thing, seed down the
ground from which q crop of corn has
been gathered, which, where it can be
done, is heavily MANFRED in the spring
for the corn crop, and then I'D the fall
with an application of some fertilizer, the
field is seeded down and generally pro-
duces O good crop of wheat the following
year.
SPEAKING of pruning, an exchange
says: Trim moderately every year, but
not heavily oftener than once in three
years. Pruning may now be done at
any time when the days are warm; cut
off no limbs that are over an inch in
diameter. Ii you do not understand
pruning yourself, have il done by com
petent person, but do not send an igno-
rant hired man into your orchard to cut
and hew at will
WALDO says LII the Ohio Farmer that
he remembers one year making very
large profit from an acre of land, managed
in this way: He first grew crop of
Tom Thumb peas, which matured in
time for cucumbers for pickles, and then
he grew 500 bushels OF turnips, sowed
broadcast among the cucumbers. He
found that these crops will manure with
out crowding each other, If properly
managed.
SOME people maize the mistake of Civ
ing the broods Matched by two or more
hens at once to 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
If each hen has Matched five or sig chicks
ri, l. L.
That number is nearly or quite enough
for a small or medium-sized hen of this
time of year.
DIR. j. I'll. PROVOST has found that rain
removes much more matter from an I'M
cropped than from cropped soil. He
placed three inches of soil in two glazed
earthenware pans, seventeen inches in
diameter. -Four grammes of white
clover seed were sown III one of the pans,
and the other was left without any stim1l-
lus to vegetation. Both pans we're ex-
posed from July II to Oct. 4, and then
the drainage-water was collected and
analysed with results which warranted
the above conclusion.
FARMERS who spread on O thin coat of
twelve OF fifteen loads of manure to the
acre, and expect to raise a good crop,
would be astonished to see the quantities
OF the best kinds of manure which mar
ket gardeners often apply to an acre Of
land near the cities. What would they
say to the application of $500 worth of
horse manure to a single acre ? 5000 Or
$500 worth of manure per acre is COM
mon thing among market gardeners, and
they find their account In so doing, too.
1T has been said by farmer that he
prefers calves for raising dropped in
September. Such calves escape the
intense heat Of the summer, and during
the winter season thay can be pushed
with grain, and in the spring are ready
for the young grass as soon as it ap.
pears. It will be noticed that profes
sional breeders in some cases so regulate
the age Of calves that they appear at the
September fairs as calves, when in
reality they are within few days of be-
ing yearlings, and also as yearlings when
they are close to two years old.
A MAINE farmer gives the following
opinion as to the best position to plant
an orchard: Were I to plant an
orchard and had two locations-one in a
valley, surrounded by hills, axcept on
the south side, and the other on high
elevation, exposed to high winds-I
would choose the latter in preference to
the former. The same holds good III
regard to peach orchards. A great OBJ
ject is to keep back the blooming as long
as possible, and this can best be done il
northern exposures without shelter
HENS fed on clear, sound grain, and
kept on clear grass run, give much finer
favored eggs than hens that have access
to stable and manure heaps and eat all
kinds of filthy food Hens feeding on
fish and onions flavor their eggs accord
ingly, the same as COWS eating onions or
cabbage, or drinking offensive water,
impart bad taste to the milk and but
ter. The richer the food, the higher the
color of the eggs. Wheat and corn give
the best color, while feeding ON buck
wheat makes them colorless, making
them unfit for some confectionery pur-
poses.
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