Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-02
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

diet but in limited quantities each day.
To meet with success in TRANSFORMING
the tulip tree from the woods, plant the
roots only leaving but an inch or 80 of
stem.
PUSH the farm manure business this
winter, save every drop of the liquid,
somehow or other-they say commercial
manures are going up this spring.
GARBAGE is best given poultry whole,
hung up by the stalk. At first it may
not be touched, but when one fowl be-
gins to peck at it, the rest will be tempt
ed to keep on until little remains.
IT is said by careful men that it is
most profitable to growfor beef those ami
mails that can be turned off at two years
old. Greater age will give weight, but
at much increased cost.
To heavily feed cow of small milk
ing capacity is very poor economy.
Rich food will produce good results
when fed to cows that give large quanti-
ties of rich milk.
THERE is no probability that milking
either heifer or COW before she calves
will do her any harm, while neglecting
or Directing to do it may do serious in
jury.
A LARGE watering trough, filed from
the we'll, boxed around the sides and
ends, with four inch space stuffed with
leaves, and having board cover for the
top, freezes very little.
Corn chaff from shelled corn will
make an excellent packing for ice.
There Will be no danger of it's heating.
1t should be rammed down in the wall
space, as it is light, and otherwise would
be too open.
REDUCE as far as you can the amount
OF fencing upon your farm, and put up
that which is necessary to keep up ia
good substantial order. Fences at best
are dead capital, a great and constantly
recurring expense.
SEND orders for trees before spring
opens, that the trees may not get heat
ed or dried out on the road. Should the
trees get frozen in transit, put the pack
age in cool cellar, or cover it outside
with heap of hay OF straw, to thaw
gradually.
ENsILAGE was practiced by increasing
numbers during the past season, and the
fodder is now being used with varying
comments. Like all new things it
causes opposition, but the prevailing
testimony appears to be quite favorable
to it. Some complain Of the cost of the
silos pronounced seelows), but the OBJ
lection Is as powerful against barns,
which often burn with all their contents
This result will not be common with
stone underground silo filled with moist
grass or corn fodder
A FARMER who is not able to care for
his stock in the winter had better dis
pose of them before winter comes on,
and not let the poor brutes suffer and
die In the cold. The COW which gives
you and your children milk deserves bet
ter treatment. A shelter can be built of
a few rough boards that will answer in
our mild climate, while hay could be
laid aside for such emergencies, and it
would be economy to the farmer and a
blessing to the poor dumb brute.
NOTHING speaks more favorable for a
farmers temper and self-control than to
see him surrounded by animals which
like hlm. Farm hands should never be
allowed to yell and scold at COWS, horses
or any other beasts; much less to i'll
treat or whip them into obedience.
With slow and gentle movement, de-
cided but mild voice, and above allnever-
failing patience, all living beings are
much better controlled than by harsh
and despotic treatment.
INDIAN corn is very fattenlng, and will
not do for an exclusive diet for fowls;
they want variety and must have some
animal food. Finely broken charcoal
has been found good for turkeys, in the
proportion of one pint to the feed of
four, with their corn meal, boiled pota-
toes, and oats. These fed in this man
ner showed decided improvement in
weight. For pigeons the best regular
food is the small field pea, occasionally
varied with cracked wheat and corn.
DWARF trees are made by the Chinese
by cutting off the tap-root as soon as it
has other rootlets, and replanting in a
shollow earthen pot or pan where the
end of the tap-root may rest upon
stone. Alluvial clay is then put into the
pot in bits of the size Of beans, and Just
enough in kind and quantity to furnish
scanty nourishment. Light, heat and
water are allowed only sparingly-
american CMltiu0tor.
The Prairie Farmer says: During
the past two or three years the farmers
Of this country have been exceptionally
prosperous. Bad seasons abroad and
good crops at home have changed the
prospect for the better, to many an
American farmer. Now eastern money
coming west for investment in farm
mortgages has to go home for want of
employment. Many of our farmers an
ticipated their January interest and
many more lifted the blankets off their
farms for good.
VERM1N upon fowls and pigeons are
more injurious in the winter, when the
birds are housed so constantly that they
cannot use their own means to abate the
nuisance. A quantity of loose, dry
dust should be always found in every
poultry house, so that they may take an
occasional dust bath, and, if this be
found not sufficient, drop little flowers
of sulphur over the dust, or even if any
fowl is found not to do we'll with this