Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-06-09
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

HE broods of young chickens should
be well taken care of, In order to keep
them growing rapidly.
OATS are the best feed for working
horses, as they furnish more nourish-
ment and fascinating material than any
other food
Do not lay out or plant more garden
than you have manure thoroughly to
enrich, nor more than you have labor at
command to thoroughly cultivate.
PLANT LICE, which often crowd upon
the growing tips Of the branches of cher
ry and other fruit trees, are removed by
Swinging with tobacco water water
GUINEA fowls will keep all bugs and
insects of every description off garden
vines. They will not scratch like other
fowls or harm the most delicate plants.
To kill garlic in lawns, apply salt at
the rate of twenty-five bushels per acre.
Two applications in spring and fall, will
kill the garlic and produce luxuriant
growth of grass.
PEAR blight has in several instances
been arrested in affected trees by syring-
ing them with solution of potash, and
it has proved preventive when applied
to the healthy trees.
PAINT the inside walls of corn house
with coal tar, and it will drive wevils
from the corn. It costs but few dollars
a barrel, and barrel will last several
years In hen-houses and corn-houses.
SUNFLowERs are recommended in the
Duchess Farmer for an-poles, plant
ing them at a suitable distance in the
garden and planting the beans around
them when three Or four inches high
MANY sows have a frenzy for devour-
ing their young at narrowing, that seems
to be caused in part by the previous
method OF feeding, and can be partially
prevented at least by giving them va
riety of food.
SooT water applied in strong or weak
solution, according to the vigor and
need Of the plants, has the effect of dis
polling all worms from the soil, and of
imparting a deep green, healthy color to
the foliage.
Ii eggs are the only object, perhaps
the Spanish OF Leghorns are to be pre-
ferred, but if the profit is to be derived
from marketing also, the Brahmas should
be selected as the best for general pur-
poses.
A VERMONT farmer states that when
he feeds meal to his COWS, seventeen
pounds of milk makes pound of but
ter; and when no meal is fed from twen-
ty-three to twenty-six pounds are re-
CURED.
The practice of chewing bones, sticks
and old pieces of leather by COWS is an
indication that their systems need some
thing not furnished in their food, and
frequently bone dust fed in small guam
Titles, at first with meal, will supply the
need.
EXPERIENCE Of two seasons, one wet
and the other dry, is that prairie sod, no
matter how early turned, rots better, is
more free of weeds and grass after crop
of flax, than uncropped sod broken in
May or June.
PLANT tanzy at the roots of your plum
trees, or hang branches of the plant on
the limbs of the trees, and you will not
| he annoyed with curculio. An old and
successful fruit-grower furnishes the
above, and says it is the most successful
curcuio preventive he has ever tried.
The slanting- tooth harrow has proved
an important labor-saver in some de-
partments of farming. The round,
smooth teeth slanting backward at an
angle of forty degrees freely clear all OBJ
structions, donot clog, pulverize manure,
harrow wheat and destroy the small
weeds in corn drills.
erich turf cut into pieces four inches
square and turned upside down furnish a
frst-rate medium for starting lima beans,
squash, melon, and cucumber seed. I
put them in a sunny place during the
DAY, and at night cover them if it is at
all cold. [ have gained fortnight's
time by this plan. "-T s. j., Glouces-'
ter county, N. j.
GONE of the essential things in grow
ing branching corn is to put one grain in
a hill and let all the branches grow. I
think the reason so many have failed in
it's cultivation is because they plant three
or four grains in a hill, as other corn,
and the consequence is it cannot grow
nor branch as it would with only one
grain. &c. Wolf, Montgomery county,
Pa.
A FEW sweet herbs should have place
in every garden. Every cook and house
keeper knows the value of the little patch
of herbs upon which she makes such
daily drafts in summer, and which fur
nishes her with a nice collection for win
ter seasoning, without which the Thanks
giving turkey would lose all it's favor,
while strong kinds are as excellent as
medicine
HAVE had sweet corn as field crop
since 1876, and am planter of twelve to
fifteen acres per year. 1 have also fu5
nished seed to large number of dairy
farmers, and the acreage is now counted
in this vicinity by hundreds, with an in
crease this year. The chemist makes
the value of sweet corn as about nine to
five for other sorts. We begin to feed
on the stalks about July 20 to our mich
COWS and pigs, and before frost we cut
up and cure for winter use 1t makes
the best of COW feed.-As0 C. Bowen,
Sand Spring, Pa.
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