Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-08
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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health.
In feeding bran to stock we obtain a
return almost equal to it's cost in the
active quality of the manure.
PROVIDENCE never hides a smiling
countenance from those who manure
highly, cultivate often and seed literally.
IF q groove is made in hen roost
and filled with a mixture of lard and
sulphur. the fowls will not be troubled
with lice.
Hoes allowed to run in orchards from
the time the fruit begins to fall destroy
many pests of the orchard by eating
wormy, damaged fruit, &c.
The pride of the farmer should be in
his fields. In their beauty, in their
order, in their product he should place
the qualification of his humble and
honorable ambition.
HARVEY B. PIERCE, of North Dart
mouth, Mass, sticks to it, after twenty
years experience that stopping the holes of
borers in fruit trees with hard soap will
kill the borers.
| DALMATIAN insect powder, said to be
as good as the Persian and not SO costly,
is, according to some authorities, made
from what Is known in this country as
ox-eye daisy, but called in Europe
chrysanthemum leucanthemum.
CLEAR bran alone should never be fed
to fowls on account of its swelling and
caking in masses in the crop, and prov
ing fatal to the chicken life not unfre-
quently. It will sodden and increase in
bulk very rapidly, before digesting,
causing rupture of the crop, if any great
quantity has been eaten.
In Denmark, where large quantities
of butter are made for export, they churn
their cream for butter for the home and
London markets when slightly sour; but
for expectation t o tropical climates it is
| churned from sweet cream. The butter
is not washed either in water or brine,
but is put into tin canisters of various
sizes.
ALWAYS set the hens after dark, cover
ing them from sight for day, and re-
move the cloth or covering at night.
Thus, if the sitting room or nest is new
to the hen, she gradually grows familiar
with the surroundings as day approaches,
and will be very likely 10 conclude to
stop for few weeks in her strange quar-
! tiers.
A FRENCH paper relates the following
experiment: GA COW was MIXED three
times day for eleven days, and yielded
10 quarts of milk. With two milkings
daily she gave only 146 quarts in the
same number of days. Analyses more
over showed that the milk in the first
case was richer in butter globules by
more than one-seventh than in the second
case.
DID you ever notice, IN crossinga lawn
! of considerable extent-where a heavy
mower with roller is used, round and
round the plot-Eow the stubble on one
side, all leaning one way, as the roller
rolls it, Will turn your toes that way;
and when you come to the part that was
moved the other way your toes will
twist that way III spite OF you? The
movement IS queer one.
RYE is notso valuable crop as wheat;
but it has the advantage over wheat of
doing well on poorer soil. It should be
borne in mind that soil that is rich
enough to grow good crop of rye can,
by dressing of $50 or 800 pounds of
! fertilizer, be made to produce a much
more profitable crop OF wheat. If the
rye is grown for the straw, in special
| cases, the rye crop may be more valuable
than wheat; but as a grain crop the
wheat takes the front rank
An exchange advises selecting for seed
corn even-rowed ears and ears whose
rows are straight and irregular on the
! cob. Ears that taper are the best be-
cause better protected by the husks, and
then, too, the silk-the female part of
the plant-remains alive longer. The
reason for selecting the top ear for seed
is that it is always more fully developed,
more uniform, and more vigorous in it's
termination, having been better fertiliz-
ed when in the silk
EVERY year we are told by rotation
writer's that grain makes better -four if
cut before it is ripe. [ never heard any
observed, have always seen that too early
cutting shrinks the kernel as rust does,
more or less Some years since Profess
Caen, France, determined to test this
question and found daily increase of
nitrogen and phosphoric acid up to the
period of full maturity. We want to cut
early enough to avoid waste by Smelling.
FROM numerous practical tests in
feeding it has been found that skinned
milk at quarter of cent pound, will
be equal to corn at one cent a pound; SO
that where corn costs Sc cents bJshel.
skinned milk may be worth half cent
a quart; but the milk is more easily di-
gestible and contains more nitrogen
than the corn, and by adding the two
together in the right proportions the
milk adds to the nutritive value of the
corn. Besides pork made from corn
and milk is of better quality and
worth more than corn feed.
RATS, mice, and insects will at once
desert ground on which a little chloride
of lime has been sprinlled. Plants may
be protected from insect plaques by
brushing their stems with solution of
it, 1t has often been noticed that a
patch of land which has been treated in
this way remains religiously respected