Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-05
HINTS FOR FARMERS.

BUTTER must be packed while perfectly
! fresh. Immediately after the final work
ing it should be put away in the
! packages.
TIE secret for manuring the corn is to
keep the fertility near the surface
when applied, and it is rare when another
course is advisable.
To increase the yield of rich milk give
COWS every day water slightly warm and
slightly sailed; in which bran has been
stirred at the rate of one quart to two
gallons of water.
THE soil of a young orchard may
be kept in cultivation until the trees
begin to bear; grain should never be
grown except Indian corn, but potatoes
and root crops are the best.
Cows when they expend vitality in
labor eat more, when they expend it in
Keeping warm they need more food and
when they either lay on fat, or produce
milk, or grow, need food in proportion.
TINcTURE OF iron is a practical remedy
for foot rot in sheep. Keep the sheep
on dry floor, pare away the loose
horn without injury to the vital parts,
and then make daily application of tine
| JuIo VI Hull.
POTASH is absolutely necessary to sue
cessful potato growing. The easiest and
best mode of supplying it is in the form
OF wood ashes. 1t is furnished also in
soft coal ashes or in well-rotted yard or
stable manure.
AN exchange says that white oak fir
kins soaked for two days in sour milk,
then washed out and soaked one day in
strong brine, and then rubbed thorough
! ly with salt make the best vessels for
packing butter.
MIR. JOSEPH BARNARD, Hopklngton,
n. H., tells the People that the CEN
| glish white potato has been raised from
this place from fifty to seventy-fve years
and upwards of 100 years on the farm
above, and is the only variety that has
not gradually run OUT"
In some places rats have become a
| great pest in farm houses and barns.
Copperas is the dread of rats. In every
crevice or every hole where a rat treads
scatter the grains of copperas and the
result ls a stampede of rats and mice.
But look out for poison.
If the soil is full of angle worms, it
is also, doubtless, lumpy and hard to
pulverize when broken up with the
| spade or pillow. In this case draining Is
the principal remedy. An application of
salt, also ashes or sand, for mechanical
effect will prove beneficial.
In the manufacture of butter the
custom has become general after churn-
| ing to wash the butter with cold brine of
| greater or less strength, not only to
| oh n lint fr,i 20 41,o
ing does not remove every trace of but
| termilk.
FRUIT trees can be pruned at any
time, provided only small limbs or twigs
have to be cut. The rule should be to
so prune the trees that no large limbs
would have to be cut. Cuts made in
June will heal sooner than at any other
! time; but it requires more care at that
time as the bark peels SO easily.
Mr.. X. A. WILLARD expresses the be-
lief that "ropy" milk is due to weeds,
bad water and bad treatment to COWS,
and Professor Englehart once said he
knew it was weed. DIR. Lehman has
known it to stop when COWS were changed
| from good to bad water, and as for
weeds the disease appears at all times.
In following the old rule of sowing
from two to four bushels of oats to the
acre, remember that on heavy clay land
you will want more seed than on q light
soil. On any ordinary land three bush
els will give the best crop. The earliest
| sown fields are usually the most product
i've.
A C&ADA correspondent recommends
when butter will not " come" placing
small piece of fresh butter in the churn,
which will cause the globules to gather.
IF that fails, the best way is to put that
cream in vessel and that vessel in an
other containing hot water on the top of
a stove. Bring the cream to tempera-
ture of eighty degrees, then churn.
DURING the past winter experiments
have been made by poultry dealers of
giving skim milk as poultry food. The
trial has proven a success. The milk
takes the place Of animal food which Is
lacking in the winter, and the result is
that in a warm room with plenty of light
and southern exposure, there is no diff
Guilty in getting an abundance of eggs.
CHIP dirt taken from under the
| woodpile is known by most to be an ex-
CCuChU hlllltS VI ouIuOS
and trees, and in view of these self
evident benefits derived from the use of
decayed wood, farmers can devote few
days time to no better work than hauling
sawdust for next winters use as bedding
or an absorbent of liquid manure.
The depth to pillow depends upon cir
cumstances and conditions, different
soils and requirements. Nearly all the
root crops require deep blowing and deep
tillage. In old ground which has be-
come infertile by constant cropping,
deep blowing is beneficial in bringing to
the surface the fresher and richer sub
soil. On sod ground shallow blowing is
best for crops whose roots do not pene-
trate far into the soil, as in the case of
corn, etc. Generally, however, deep
cultivation is best, as the soil is less sub
ject to extremes of wet or dry weather
The small mites that infest chick
ems may be eradicated by using plenty