Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
FARM HINTS.

to ten are enough.
The demand for heavy horses far ex-
ceeds the supply, and is likely to for the
next ten years.
SHOULD the frost come out during the
month the truck patch should be manur-
ed and plowed to save time and labor in
the spring, when the busy season comes.
The chinch bug, SO destructive to the
wheat crop, and the bed bug both belong
to the same order, yet one has wings and
the other is wingless.
KEEP good supply of old mortar, or
crushed oyster shells, where your fowls
can help themselves, and see that the
gravel box is kept full.
To destroy pin worms in horses, give
an injection of salt and water two or three
days in succession, then administer ball
consisting of half an ounce of aloes and
one drachm of calomel.
BUCKwHEAT is recommended as the
best remedy for the wire worm. Two or
three crops sowed In succession will COM
pletely starve them out, as they Will not
eat it to any extent.
MIXED husbandry is what we need,
The farmer who grows something of
everything adapted to his locality will
be safer and in the long run will save
more than he who devotes his energies
and land mainly to one or two crops.
In France butter is sent unsalted to
market, since in this condition its flavor
and aroma can be best tested. Salt hides
many faults in butter. The wholesale
dealers salt and barrel it up Immediately
for expectation to England and Brazil.
BUCKwHEAT straw, which has hereto
fore been considered of little value, has
of late been utilized by some of the wes-
tern farmers by chopping it fine and add
ing meal to it. A small quantity fed to
stock occasionally would be relished, no
doubt.
Ii q stock of bones can be secured,
pack them in barrel with Il quantity of
rlnleached ashes, and keep the whole
moist but not wet. After a few months
break up the bones into fine powder.
This will possess every fertilizing quality
of the best bone dust
A GOOD test of the hardness of any
variety of forest trees is found in the rip
ening of it's seeds (fruits). If tree does
not perfect its seeds in given locality,
it is good evidence that it is not suffi-
GENTLY hardy to be generally cultivated
in such sections.
PROF. SHELTON, of the Kansas Agri-
cultural College, favors September calves,
because, dropped in that month, they es-
cape the trying heats of summer, can be
pushed during the winter with grain, and
in spring are ready for grass as soon as it
appears.
EGGS intended for Matching should be
promptly gathered two or three times
day. 1t is not known how much chilling
an egg will bear and still retain the life
of the embryo. But it is not safe nor
desirable to take any unnecessary risks
in the matter.
AN Indiana farmer asks this pertinent
question: SIS it not better to feed corn
to my COWS, every bushel of which will
make three pounds of butter, worth from
Is to 20 cents per pound, giving 81 cents
per bushel for my corn at the door, with
the manure left on the farm, rather than
| to sell it at from 30 to IS cents and inn
poverish my farm ?"
The raising of thirty bushels of wheat
to the acre will remove from the land
fifty one pounds of nitrogen, twenty-four
pounds of phosphoric acid and thirty
nine pounds of potash. This could be
replaced by sixty pounds of sulphate of
ammonia, I'll pounds of superphosphate
of lime and seventy-six pounds of chic
ride Of potassium.
KEEP the stables clean. Clear out
the manure every morning and scrape or
card off all filth from the animals. The
stable should be made so warm that the
manure will not freeze ut night. Alower
temperature will either demand larger
amount of food or the animal will fall off
in condition. a III,
| While the ground is hard or covered
with snow, the manure heaps can be
hauled to the fields with the least trouble.
Those who have profted by our hints
for the last few months, will have the
out now; others will have it lying around
loose and frozen, and consequently use
less for some time yet.
AN exchange says: The rhubarb plant
requires so little labor in it's cultivation,
and is at once 50 healthful and delicious,
that every garden should contain sup
ply for home use. With the exception
of forking up in the spring, and working
in manure once every season, rhubarb
plants require little attention until they
have remained in the same spot five or
six years. At the end of this time they
should be divided and put in new soil.
THE dairy business in California is
largely in the hands of the Swiss. They
generally settle together and form small
colonies, helping one another, SO that in
| a few wears each one has q small piece of
land and several COWS. They reverse the
usual order-instead of requiring from
four to seven acres to keep COW, keep
from four to seven cows on an acre. They
practice soiling almost exclusively.
The finest manure is made by turning
the heap over twice. To do
this begin at each end of the
pile, and throw off the manure
| to distance of three feet, building up
the new heaps, and placing the coarsest
manure in the center. Then proceed un-
til two heaps are made. These will soon