Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-13
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

pulleCS are not so SOOQ 1Or Matching
purposes as those laid later.
No man will ever get first-rate, even
or profitable stock of sheep, who does
not make practice of yearly culling.
The bulbs of the tuberose never
bloom but once. They require a sandy
soil.
FACTS and experiments go to prove
that COW high in flesh will yield more
butter in proportion to the yield of milk
than one in low flesh.
The onion maggot has been very de-
structive to the crop in some parts of this
country of late years, especially at the
east.
Do not be in too much haste to set
your hens, unless you have warm place
not only for them to set in, but also for
the young clicks after they are Matched.
\ To certain extent tillage may be a
substitute for manure, but the man is
not wise who endeavors to substitute
manure for tillage.
FACTS and experiments go to prove
that COW high in flesh will yield more
butter in proportion to the yield of milk
than one in low flesh.
The introduction of pure bronze
gobbler among flock of mongrel tur-
key hens will add from three to five
pounds extra weight per head to the tur-
keys raised the first season.
WHEREVER sheep feed new, sweet
grasses flourish and weeds are destroyed.
If farmers fully appreciate how great a
benefit sheep are to land they would
raise more of them.
A GARDEN should not be shaded by
large trees, for there are few vegetables
or flowers which flourish under shade
and drip, and the strong roots of trees
usurp all the soil.
A SANDY soil is best for rye. It is so
hardy that it will thrive in climate or
exposed place where wheat will fail. It
is less liable to the attacks of insects
than wheat, and deserves to be a more
general crop than it is.
A COUPLE of ounces of carbolic acid to
three quarts of water, sprinkled on the
poultry house through the fine nose of
small watering pot, once in three or
four weeks, will destroy lice and other
parasites.
AN exasperated Pennsylvania farmer,
who had lost great number of sheep,
placed some poisoned meat where he
thought it would do most good. His
rage was considerably soothed next
morning on finding the dead bodies of
eighteen sagacious dogs.
WHEN COWS want to chew bones, says
an exchange, it is well to give them
some steamed bonemeal. It will be
partly digested; what is not digested
will be recovered with the manure; no
loss will be incurred and no harm will
be cone, and some good may result.
EXCESSIVE drinking of water by farm
animals is said to increase the consump-
ton of fat in the body. Too watery fod-
der and too much drinking should be
avoided, especially in fattening, if we
wish to obtain the most rapid and abun-
dant formation of flesh and fat.
ALWAYS cut your flowers with sharp
knife on scissors, and early in the morn
ing or at evening. Keep them well
sprinkled-f possible, add fresh water,
If in vase, every day, and better warm
than cold, and put in little salt. Set
the bouquet at night on the floor of a
cool room or cellar.
IT is worth while to remember that
gentle treatment and rapid and close
milking will tend to the greatest devel-
Opment OF the milking COWS, while the
opposite practices will have the effect of
materially reducing the quantity. But
with kind treatment and careful milking
there must be an abundance of the best
feed provided, If the best results are de-
sired
The Boston board of trade recon-
mends that butter be neatly packed in
white ash or spruce tubs holding from
80 to 60 pounds. These should be well
soaked in brine before using, the butter
laid in very solid, and neatly covered
with clean bleached cotton. Butter of
different colors should not be put in the
same tub. Care is always found to pay
richly.
MIR. A. r. WHITNEY, proprietor Of a
large orchard nursery in Illinois, recent
~ received an order from Switzerland
for Is, 900 three .year-old No. 20 crab
apple trees. The order made two full
caravans. Mr.. Whitney's experiment
few years since in producing Seeding
crab-apples, was most fortunate one.
He fruited many thousands of them,
several of which proved excellent, but
the number 20 was the finest of them all.
Its reputation is becoming worldwide, as
this Swiss order proves. What will be
the next European demand from Ameri-
ca?
The fault with fve-feld rotation is
that it is exhaustive of the soil and does
not produce manure. 1t is necessarily
confined to corn, oats, wheat, clover and
grass, and these crops are totally incon-
sistent with good farming and the keep
ing of sufficient live stock. A seven
course rotation is preferable, and it may
be worked on four fields very well by
having three fields under two crops.
This rotation would be wheat, grass,
pasture, corn, oats, or fodder crops,
barley or oats seeded to clover, and last
ly clover. The advantages of this rota-
ton are two fields for hay and one for
pasture, one field of roots or fodder
crops, and two succeeding cultivated
crops by which the soil is cleansed from