Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-05-18
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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In growing potatoes it is now general
ty conceded that time is injurious.
A CORD of dry horse stable manure
weighs about four thousand eight hun
bred to five thousand pounds.
The greatest loss upon farm is it's
fertility. This the farmer should never
dispose OF without an equivalent.
IT is said that if sod land is plowed
just before the corn is planted the worms
will feed upon the sod and not injure the
corn.
Corn requires fertility and cultivation
without which, it matters not how good
your seed, you will never have a good
crop.
If you want good sized potatoes, use
good-slzed tubers for seed. Do not if
you can avoid it cut more than one eve
in set.
WHERE the ground is rich much of
the fine grass seed will be wasted that is
put in for hay crop with clover and
timothy.
IT is not merely for laying on fat that
oi-meal is valuable, but also in the in
crease of fertiizing qualities of the ma
nure pile.
In France it is generally recognized as
a rule that sugar beet should never be
cultivated upon fresh manure or barn
yard manure.
PENNSYLVANIA farmers claim that bran
when mixed with corn-meal of the same
weight will produce more weight in an
animal than feeding pure corn meal.
The usual time allowed for lambs to
suckle is four months. When separated
from their mothers they should, if pos
sible, be SO far renewed as not to hear
each others bleat.
CONCERNING the time for Matching the
eggs of bees the worker takes twenty one
days TO hatch, reckoning from thelaying
of the egg, the drone twenty-four days
and the queen seventeen days.
RAIN brings down yearly about twelve
pounds of ammonia per acre of ground.
To supply an equal amount of sulphate
OF ammonia at 6 cents a pound would
cost the farmer $3.50 an acre, and is,
therefore, the manurial value of the rain.
To prevent sows from crushing their
young, nail board about one foot wide
be put on like a shelf, so that the little
pigs can run under it to get out of the
way.
LICE may be destroyed by dipping the
plants In hot water, SO hot that the hand
can just bear it and no more. Dip them
in and take them out again instantly,
and repeat two or three times. It will
not hurt the plants. .. s.g
THE crops that do best on rather stiff
soil are potatoes, onions, celery, late cab
bages, late beans, Hubbard squashes,
and fruits of all kinds. When well
drained, such soil will often produce
good early cabbages.
PUT the hen in a warm place say
about 70 degrees, with plenty of sun
shine; feed her with corn and food con-
tanning a good supply of phosphate of
lime, and you have the hen in place
where she can't help laying. 0a-
II hens get into the habit of eating
eggs, take enough bran and corn-meal of
equal parts for one feeding, and enough
vinegar warmed to make the meal wet
enough for the hens to eat. Mix to-
gether and feed it to the hens.
WARM and airy stables, great clean
Illness with the animal and her products,
judicious feeding of COWS and feeding of
pastures are the indispensable means to
supply milk in quality, quantity and
soundness capable of resisting decay.
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 are therefore
to be avoided, especially in fattening, if
we wish to attain the most rapid and
abundant formation of flesh and fat.
IT is said that potatoes raised in Colo
RADIO are blue inside, but are of very fine
quality. The color is attributed to the
immense quantities of minerals in the
soil. The streams are constantly riled
with washlngs from sand hills, and the
water discolored by washing from gold
and silver ores. .vgr
NEVER plant onions on dry. gravelly
land subject to draught. They require
q deep, rich, sandy loan, or a we'll
worked and undergrained clay soil. If
the manure was not plowed under in the
fall apply some that is finely composted
In the spring. The seed may be sown
as early as April. ign
GROUND for early peas is best MANFRED
in the fall. If that has not been done,
pillow IN the manure early, letting the
ground warm day or two, then harrow
and let 1t have day or two more of sun
IN which to warm up. By this practice
you will get peas earlier than if you put
the seed into the cold ground as soon as
plowed.
A LADY who had raised large num-
Der of hens says that, after vainly trying
the recommended remedies for lice, she
has hit upon the plan of. giving them
once or twice aweek large loaf made of
graham -four in which handful of sui
phur has been mixed. The hens like it.
and arefreed from lice, and kept healthy
through the season. apa -
JOSEPH HARRIS says that an excellent
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