Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-02
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

PIGS should be castrated at from four
to six weeks of age.
Coal ashes are always good and fowls
seem to delight in scratching and picking
them over
ONE drop of sulphuric acid in the
heart OF plantain or other weeds will
destroy them completely. Care must be
exercised in it's use.
VIM. j. SCARCE, Hendricks county,
Ind, has lamb at thirty days old that
weighs fifty-fve pounds. It is cross
of the Cottswold and Southdown breeds.
A FARMER in Montgomery county,
Tenn, drove the bugs from his tobac-
eggplant beds by treating them to a dose
OF rotten eggs.
LETTUCE is quick crop and occupies
the ground but short time, therefore
farmers frequently make early planting
on land afterward given wholly over to
melons, cabbages and the like.
Rye sown this month will make an ex-
cellent summer pasture for mich COWS
and give larger return of rich milk and
butter than the wild and coarse grasses
and weeds of the woods.
This is the season that leeks grow in
the pasture, which If eaten by the COW
will give the milk an onion taste. IF the
COW is well fed with ground feed she will
not eat the leeks.
A CHICKEN fancier says that he stuck
court plaster over an egg found broken
IN the nest after the hen had been sit
ting week, and in due time it gave q
chicken as sprightly as any of the brood.
SATURAr1Na ashes with kerosene and
applying a handful in hill, will keep
the striped bugs from cucrmbers It liz
not the bugs that recommend the recipe,
but the people who have tried them.
EVERY needed means for the approach
ing harvest should bemade ready. Now
ers, rakes, scythes, barns, stack bottoms,
etc., should all be examined and put in
order. Whatever help may be required
should also engaged beforehand.
WHITE Cochins should be kept only
by persons in granite districts, where
there is much white or hght-colored
sand, and not in clayey or muddy locali-
ties, for the beauty of their plumage de-
ponds upon their clean and unsullied
condition.
A New YORK farmer kills the cabbage
worm by sprinkling the plants with COM
mon black pepper from an ordinary tin
box-a pound to $50 plants-sometimes
previously sprinkled with soapsuds from
the weeks washing.
IT is said that an English grade grower
stopped the profuse bleeding of thrifty
young vine by forming q sort of hard &C.
ment over the cut ends by repeated dust
ing at short intervals with Portland
cement.
GREEN crops for manuring should not
be plowed deeper than four inches; if
they are turned under more than this
they will not receive enough of solar
heat and atmospheric air to ensure rapid
decay, and when covered too deep their
full beneficial effect cannot be realized
till the next blowing, when they are
brought nearer the surface.
THERE is a general agitation in the
live stock papers looking to the produc-
ton of beeves, sheep and hogs yielding
a fine quality of marbled meat, rather
than huge masses of indigestible fat.
The present tendency of fat stock shows
is decidedly favorable to the rearing Of
animals of less service to the table than
to the lard-rearing industry.
IT is said that the best way to manage
sickly plants is to turn them out of the
pots, shake or wash off all the soil from
the roots, and if any are decayed cut
them off; also prune the stem anu branches
severely, and pot again in fresh soil. Set
them away in shady place, after giving
water sufficient to settle the soil, adding
a little from time to time as returning
health and growth appear.
The Chinese and japanese excel all
other nationalities in the culture of early
vegetables. This arises from the fact
that they use only liquid manures, hence
the growth of the plants is most rapid,
and as natural consequence the vegeta-
bles are very brittle and tender. Let
tuce and radishes they force rapidly,
giving the plants sprinkling once day
Tobacco and kthe tea-plants are also
treated in Like manner.
In the principal dairy districts of
France many of the dairymen milk their
COWS thrice daily. A French paper al
1uding to the marked advantage over
the practice of milking but twice daily,
OdyS. LII oil OAPOILuOuo W1oil CliAO
milkings day, for eleven days, COW
gave TO quarts of milk. With two
milkings the same COW gave only 14O
quarts in the same number of days.
Moreover, analysis showed that the milk
in the first case was richer in butter
globules than that in the second case in
the proportion of 4. to 3.5.
BLACKING the outside of horses hoOfs
to make them shine and show well, is an
injurious practice, for d. if done, as is
usual, with a mixture of grease and
lampblack, as soon as the horse is
brought out on the road, dust begins to
adhere to the hoofs, which are naturally
porous, and thus stops the circulation OF
air in them, causing disease. The best
treatment for the hoof is to keep it clean,
and leave it to show its own natural
color.
The scales which fly off from iron be-
ing worked at FORCES, iron trimmings, fl
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