Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-30
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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REFUSE salt and brine from the pickle
| barrels should be sown broadcast under
| fruit trees.
WHEN strawberry plants are set In
rows three feet apart and foot apart in
the rows it requires Ia, $40 for an acre.
A COW with three rings on horn is
six years old: with four she is seven
years old. No new rings are formed af-,
ter the tenth year.
| The simplest method to remove the
| hull from corn is to make weak I've
| from clean wood ashes and soak the
corn In it.
SWINE fed principally ON beans will
produce soft, spongy pork. About two
months before killing change to corn
and the pork will be harder and better.
FLOWER beds and lawns may be pro-
| tected from angle worms by a dressing
of salt now and heavy application of
lime in the early spring.
AXLE grease and lard, well mixed in
equal proportions and rubbed ON your
trees will protect them from rabbits.
Very little need be used, as only the
ssent is necessary.
A GARDEN should not be shaded by
large trees, for there are few vegetab les
or flowers which flourish under shade
and drip, and the strong roots of trees
usurp all the soil.
WHEREVER sheep feed new, sweet
grasses flourish and weeds aredestroyed.
If farmers fully appreciate how great
benefit sheep are to land they would
raise more of them.
BE careful to remove your sick ami
mails from the healthy ones. Every
keeper of stock should have box or
shed apart from the regular stable in
which to keep them.
The introduction of pure bronze
gobbler among flock of mongrel tur-
key hens will add from three to five
turkeys raised the first season.
A NEGLECTED, poorly-fed, stinted lamb
never RECEIVERS, however well fed after
ward, so as to make as good and as large
sheep as it would had it proper care
early. Feed the ewes so that they can
supply the lambs with plenty of milk.
AT 81 a ton it is thought certain that
sugar beets will prove more profitable
than either broom or Indian corn They
are not so exhaustive to the land either,
as the pulp can be brought back and
used for feed.
B. F. MAXIM, of Wayne, n. Y, raised
fifty-six bushels of sheIled corn on one
half acre of land. Tt was on sod land
plowed in May and dressed with COM
post of ten cords of muck, cattle and
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a cultivator.
Hoes require free access to water in
the summer time. Ii they can have
place to battle or wallow in, it is bene.
fetal to them, as 1t cools and cleanses the
skin. Mud is not filth; it is a good dis
infectant and healthful. Sometimes
mud baths have been found useful as
medicinal treatment for sick people.
EXPERIMENTS seem to prove that cab
bages grown in moist, mucky land are
almost inva riably inflicted with the dis
ease known as club-foot-caused, it is
believed, by maggot Or worm that in
fects the fine roOtlets of the plant, and
produce a thickening of the root. Salt,
applied two or three times during the
season, is recommended as a remedy for
elub-foot.
The Sac Sun: We have heard
several farmers say that they have
tested their corn saved for seed, and it
would not sprout. This is a matter of
vital importance to the farmers, and
they should lose no time in making the
matter sure. Ii there is not good seed
enough here, they should send to some
other part of the country and produce it.
The world does not turn backward.
Taste keeps with the march of progress,
and when it has declared in favor of one
thing and against another there is no
reversion. Some may claim that good
farmers butter is just as good as
creamery butter; it is not; the markets of
the world have decided against it. The
person who becomes accustomed to
creamery butter will have it at any price.
Prof. Knapp.
AS the time is at hand when many
COWS will be fresh, attention has been
called to the fact that dairymen should
bear steadily in mind that it is not the
cow which gives the most milk i'm
mediately after calving which is the
most profitable, but the steady mixer
which gives only medium quantity at
first, but has staying qualities. Milk
should be weighed at the end of each
week ;.1l~ OBTAIN record.
Mica has been applied to new use,
that of fashioning it into middle soles to
boots and shoes. A sheet of mica Is i'm
bedded in thin coatings of cement, and
placed In the boot or shoe under and adj
jacent to to the insole, the upper leather
of the shoe tapping over its edges, or
next under the filing, or between the
filing and the outer or bottom sole, and
covering the upper space from the toe to
the instep.