Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-23
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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lowed to become dry and wilted before
they are planted.
Two parts quicklime, three parts scot,
and one part coarse, refuse salt, used as
top-dressrng, is said to be destructive
to the cut worm. Refuse salt alone at
the rate OF five hundred pounds to the
acre, IN the fall will destroy the worm.
IF dairyman, or the owner of sin
gle COW, wants to know how different
kinds and quantities of feed effect milk
production, he should weigh and record
each milking. The effect OF exposure to
cold and storms as against protection In
stables can also be ascertained. Weigh
ing is less troublesome than measuring.
GOOD stock can not be secured without
care and attention. The ordinary
farmer does not concern himself about
pedlgrees In his own stock, but he does
care about the cattle be raises. Accord
ingly he should see that what he raises
are from pure bred male animals and
then that they are properly fed.
The soil best suited to clover is tena-
cious or stiff loan. It is eminentIy a
lime plant. A careful analysis showed
35 80 per cent. of lime in the inorganic
constituents of red clover, and practical
experience has pointed SO clearly in the
direction of sustaining this analysis that
clover soils are regarded as above de-
scribed.
The farm roller is much more extern
slvely used in England and France than
the United States. It is perhaps more
necessary, for blowing frequently goes
onin all weather. wet or dry, and ground
is more cloddy by being plowed with
the water being in it. The use of the
roller is, however, rapidly extending
among our most intelligent farmers.
HE over-stocking of land is one of
the sllrest and quickest ways of running
pastures. 1t is an everyday thing with
many farmers, who can not be made to
believe that they are getting the full
benefit of pasture unless the grass is
eaten off little faster than it has time
to grow; consequently, all who put this
method into practice always have bare
pastures and poor cattle.
TURKEYS and geese are now more prof
liable to raise to supply a distant mar
ket than chickens. The former are
more in demand during cold weather,
when poultry can be shipped to the best
advantage and at the least coast. Tur-
keys and geese are most desirable dur
ing quite cold weather, as they contain
much Oil. Chickens are harder to trans
port than turkeys and geese, and are
preferred for eating during warm wealth
er. On this account it is desirable to
raise them near where they are to be
marketed.
WHEN eggs are scarce it pays well to
give extra care to the hens. Generally,
cooking food for animals does not pay,
but III the cold months, or at any time
when hens are wanted to do their "level
best, " it does pay to cook food for them.
1t is a good plan to keep big iron pot
hidden under the kitchen table, and
into it throw parings of all kinds, all
sorts OF table refuse, and fill up with
small potatoes. Cook until very soft
and keep it on the back of the range all
night, In order to have it warm in the
morning. Before feeding mash all well,
and stir in bran, meal, or m1ddlings.
WHENEVER you see hawk fly off with
chicken, follow him at a distance
sufficient to allow him to get well ago
ing with his repast before you modest
him, but be sure and frighten him away
before he has devoured the whole chick
en-. Then set your steel trap where you
tind the chicken, covering it well with
the feathers for bait, aud, in few MIN
utes after you are out of sight, the IN
suspecting pirate will pounce down and
take possession of that trap In a way
that will allow you to carry him home at
your leisure.
1T is excellent practice to have stock
time winter comes. Experience teaches
that stock entering into winter quarters
In good condition can be kept without
difficulty; while an animal beginning
the winter In poor condition, notwnth-
standing an abundance of feed, careful
housing and the best attention, will in
varlably be in poor order in the follow
ing spring; particularly is this the case
with common stock. Fat stock consume
less amount of food than poor stock,
because there is not SO much required
to keep up the animal heat. Tribune
Farmer.
IF geese and ducks are raised for the
market, only the best varieties should
be bred. It costs no more to feed them
and they will sell for twice as much to
persons who know their value. Geese
are not despised by many persons, ex-
cept foreigners, chiefly for the reason
that poor varieties are kept, and kept
so long that their flesh is very tough.
Most farmers raise geese for their feath-
ers, and do not fatten them till there is
danger of death from old age. In Eu-
1opean countries. where geese and ducks
are more generally aten than here, they
are fed literally during the summer and
fattened before they are old. When
managed in this way, their flesh ranks
among the luxuries, and commands a
ready sale.
THE cranberry is most proftably Gull
tivated on low, moist, level lands, where
drainage as well as Overlooking can be
applied, as circumstances may require.
Yet, like many other plants, it may be
successfully grown under conditions very
from tbnCo IN y1Tb,ob ~ fo,1Y,I