Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-12-21
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.


seeds, may be put on the lawn in win
ter.
PARsNIPs and satisfy are not injured
by freezing, and may remain in the
ground and be dug as wanted, or dur
ing midwinter thaw.
CIoNs should be cut before they have
been exposed to hard freezing, and
packed in sawdust, damp as it comes
from the mill. IF no sawdust is at hand
use sand.
BEES should now be in their winter
quarters. Those who practice out-of-
door wlntering may reasonably expect
success if we have, as many anticipate.
mild winter.
HEAVY falls of snow may do much
damage to evergreens. The snow should
be shaken from the limbs soon after it
falls before it gets icy. The shovel
should be used to remove the snow that
has dragged down the lower branches.
A MODERATE freezing does celery no
harm, but it should not be allowed to
freeze hard. AS soon as the winter sets
in, the covering Of hay-which until
then had been slight-should be in.
creased until it is one loot in thickness.
In Denmark, in the management of
the dairy, rape cake, oats and wheat
bran are reckored as first-class butter
foods, palm-nut cake and barley as sec
ond-class foods, while linseed cake, peas
and rye are placed in the third-class.
By the employment of first and second
class foods, with cut straw, hay and
roots, an abundance of excellent butter
is produced throughout the winter.
MANY plants are protected too much.
require very little litter
directly over them-most Of it should be
put on the ground between the rows. A
little brush, or evergreen boughs placed
close to a shrub that is not quite hardy,
will ward off the severe winds and pre-
serve an even temperature better than
the "bundling up" with straw, as was
thought necessary few years ago.
The Dublin Farmer claims full
feed of hay to horses, to follow concen-
trated food, is wasteful, and crowds the
latter out of the stomach before proper
digestion occurs. This authority claims
that the hay should be fed first to avoid
the aforementioned trouble. A hearty
drink of water upon a full stomach also
operates to push its contents into the
before there is proper diges-
ton.
THERE are some common-sense rules
In tattening stock, the value of which
every farmer must acknowledge. The
animal must be comfortable and con-
tented to do its best. To insure this
condition they must have plenty of good
clean water, easily accessible to drink,
plenty of good, palatable food which
they can eat in quietness and undis-
turbed, besides having quiet, pleasant
companions in the field, that do not hook
or bite.
WINTER is trying time for newly set
trees, as the storms bend them and mice
and rabbits feed on their tender bark.
All rubbish should be cleared away from
the trees and a mound of earth, foot or
more high, thrown up. This serves to
support the young tree and keep away
the mice. Shows should always be
tramped hard close around the trees.
Rabbits have distaste for flesh and
blood, and by smearing the lower part
OF the trunks with blood the trees may
be protected.
ANIMALS in state of nature have O.
great variety of food, and are subject to
but few diseases. Domesticated animals
during the summer season have an
opportunity to crafty their taste for
great variety of substances and are ben
Gifted by it. Some roots should be
raised for condiments if for nothing else.
Carrots and parsnips are well suited
for our climate, as they grow in the
ground instead of above it. Their roots
shade the soil, and in that way keep it
from becoming very dry during season
of protracted drouth.
PROBABLY the largest COW in the
world is owned by Martin G. Stokes,
of GRANVILLE, White County, Ill. She is
7 years old and weighs 5000 pounds;
III hands high, 101 feet long, from the
end of the nose to the bullock, LII feet
from the nose to the end of the tail,
feet and 9 inches around the girth, 26
inches around the forearm and 81 inches
across the hips. She has been exhibited
in four states, Illinois, Indiana, Mis-
souri, and Tennessee. She is white and
red. mostly the latter, well-formed and
POIlOCO UOauCy, udS CWO calves, Ou0 .
years old and the other months old.
She was sired in Posey County, Ind
The common acceptance is, that freez-
ing of wheat lands late in the fall is
very damaging, but an old wheat-grower
givesit as his opinion that the light fall
freezes are decided benefit. The re-
suit of the fall rains is to form crust
upon the surface of the wheat fields,
which is against the perfect growth of
the plant. These slight freezings, not
enough to heave the land and injure the
roots, loosen up the soil and makes it
mellow SO that in the warm days that
intervene between the frosts, the wheat
roots get better chance to feed" and
so it results after all in benefit equal
to slight coating of fine manure.
THOMAS MEEHAN, in his last seed cat
alogue, just published, says that most
failures with seed arise from not sowing
in partial shade. If the hot sun bursts
upon the seed-beds while the seeds are
swelling and cold follows, many may rot