Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-16
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

IT is never best to overdo economy
| by letting hogs or geese habituaIly eat
the grass in the front yard.
! PICS are able to consume far more
food in proportion to their weight than
either sheep or oxen.
IF particular production is all the
rage sell out while prices are high and
| buyers are plenty.
EXPERIMENT shows that with Early
Rose potatoes the smallest amount OF
seed in the hill yields the best crops.
SORGHUM sprouts are deadly poison to
| stock of all kinds. A Willow Island.
Nebraska, farmer lost nine COWS in two
hours after they had eaten the weed.
WHEN wheat is cut young it will be
| lighter in color, and will ferment more
quickly than that cut later. Late wheat
will make the least -four, but the strong
est and best.
AN eastern paper calls attention of
farmers to the value of seed wheat of
those varieties which produce three
grains to the spike as compared with
those which yield only two.
Both for its effect upon fattening and
upon health, small amount of leeched
wood ashes should be given to swine.
The food without this is rich in phos-
phoric acid, but has little lime, and the
equivalent should be thus supplied.
If the owner of COW would realize
the fact that unless she pays him III
| clear cash $s44. 80 yearly, she is kept at a
loss, he will soon become interested in
the subject of the improvement of dairy
COWS.
SWAMP muck is of little value for pot
plants. Leaf-mold mixed with the loan
taken just under the sod of an old pas
ture is suitable for nearly all plants;
additions of sand and manure can be
made as necessary.
A LITTLE preparation of the food for
horses will often materially help the
profit sides of ones account. When
corn and oats are ground up together
they afford excellent feed for horses,
when fed with hay or wheat straw to
furnish bulk. When the grain is SO
ground together, in equal parts by
weight, ten pounds of it, with twenty
pounds of the cut straw mixed with it,
will make three fair rations, or one days
feed for an average horse having mod
crate exercise.
GRAZING is the retreat of the land
owners from work and worry. While
not so remunerative as dairying, it pays
better with little labor, but in the graz
ing system capital works, while in the
dairy labor is money. If a farmer owns
his acres and can stock them, grazing
assures a quiet life with good profits.
There comes a time when a working
family deserves superior school privi-
leges, boys and girls turn to mental i'm
provements especially. Grazing is the
proper disposition of the farm for the
time.
A WRITER in the Ohio Farmer, after
mentioning some of the disadvantages of
barbed wire fences, recommends sub
stitute in the form of hoop iron. He
says: "One and one-half inch hoop will
only cost $3.50 per 100 pounds, can be
bought up cheaper and quicker, and
made as durable fence as any kind of
wire, and if tarred will last lifetime;
If painted white it makes a beautiful
light fence, besides harmless one for
any kind of stock, and as a scarcity of
good fences is seen all over the country,
the hoop fence above all others fills the
bill. Old sound rails would be good for
supports or standards.
SMALL gardening will pay every sea-
son, and should be more encouraged
among farmers. There is no use farm
ing whole 100 acres of ground year
after year, and only get moderate liv-
ing then. Farm less land, farm it better
and you will prosper. Raise more
till they get their growth; there are mil
lions in it. Take care of what you have
and what you have will take care of
you. Raise more hogs and corn, put the
corn into the hogs, the hogs in the mar.
ket, and your bank account will swell,
the rust can not hurt it, and the chinch
bugs dare not attack it, and the drouth
will come in vain.
IT will be a good plan to whitewash
the poultry house once more before
freezing weather comes. Nothing like
a good coat of whitewash to sweeten up
things-there is lots of virtue in lime if
you use it freely. If you have earth
floors, or plank floors covered with earth
IL JOoA AOWA hOuSOO, OoIu OItO OIO COL Ou
that the fowls have been scratching over
all summer, and shovel in plenty of
fresh, dry earth. If you are lucky
enough to live where you can get gravelly
soil, SO much the better, but, even if
you have to haul load of gravel five
miles, you will find it good invest
ment.
This is the season that spring calves
require unusual attention. It is quite
true that the pastures this fall, are hold
ing out remarkably good, but for all
that the calves should be looked after,
they will be all the better for little ex-
ira food in the shape of corn fodder,
pumpkins or meal. Calves, in order to
winter well, should be in prime order
or condition when the fodder1ng season
sets in. If they are what is termed
poverty stricken at the commence
ment of winter, it is impossible to re-
cuperate them during the whole winter,
and it requires the whole succeeding
summer and rich pasture at that to
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