Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-03-09
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES

LARK stables are injurious to the
eyes of horses,
THE farmer who is above his business
and lntrusts it to others to manage in
due season will have no business to look
after.
SWINE fed principally on beans will
produce soft, spongy pork. About two
months before killing change to corn,
and the pork will be harder and better.
CARROTS keep up the condition of
horse, improve his digestion and give o
fine, glossy coat AS food for this ami
NAL they are far superior to any root
grown.
Too much hay and too little grain is
a common mistake in feeding working
horses. Twelve quarts of good heavy
oats and twelve pounds of hay is q good
daily ration for a working horse.
HE cheapest food for fattening sheep
is corn. 1t moy be fed on the ear. It
is waste OF time and money to grind feed
for sheep, as they masticate and digest
their grain very thoroughly.
The best time for farmer to maket
his produce is when people want to buy.
When you have good market do not
walt Tor better one. A bird in the
hand is worth two in the bush.
REDUCE as far as you can the amount
OF fencing upon your farm, and put that
which is necessary to keep in good sub
stantial order. Fences at best are dead
capital, great and constantly recurring
expense.
WHEN the weather is cold, corn is the
best food for promoting plumpness and
warmth in horses. Oats constitute the
best muscle-producing food, SO that
when very hard work is required of the
animal a part of the feed should be oats.
A NEGLECTED, poorly-fed, stinted lamb
never RECEIVERS, however well fed after
wards, SO as to make as good and as
large sheep as it would had it proper
care early. Feed the ewes so that they
can supply the lambs with plenty of
milk.
AS beef animal, the Devon is in the
first class. He fattens readily, has COM
pact bones, and therefore small amount
of waste, while the flesh is the finest
quality and well laid on. The Devons
are well recommended for workers and
lOT U00I, UuC nOG IOr milk.
COLTS should never be shod at year
old. The feet increase in size with the
Of other parts of the frame.
and hence the lettering with iron is sure
to produce contraction. It is soon
enough to put on shoes when the colt
has reached two years.
WHEN fowls are affected with scaly
legs, which are caused by minute in
sect, place the feet and legs in narrow
tin pail of kerosene. This treatment
will soon cure the worst case, if persisted
in. The application of ointments and
bandages often recommended involves
more trouble with no more decisive re-
suits.
FILLING a horses rack with hay, as
some persons do, and permitting a con-
slant supply to remain before the ami
NAL, is one of the most probable means
of producing disease, and the most posi-
tive in rendering animals unfit for fast
work. Large supplies of hay have the
effect of making the stomach large and
weak.
The usual allowance of salt is one
ounce to the pound of butter. It is i'm
portant to have the salt as fine as pos
ible, 80 that it can be mixed evenly with
the butter. The salt should be of the
purest quality. For some reason, prob
ably In the manufacturing, American
salt is not pure enough for dairy pur-
poses. Higgins Salts most extensively
used.
EVERY rose will not come from the
slip. Of the three great divisions into
which the rose family is separated, viz,
the damask, the moisette and the tea,
the last two may be propagated with
more or less readiness from the slip, or
of budding; the first only by dividing the
roots and planting the seeds, which lat
ter method is resorted to, however, only
when it is desired to obtain new varie-
ties.
A PAPER says that sulphur has been
known to cure roup in fowls when ap-
piled as follows: Open the affected
fowls beak. and with tube, which may
be formed of paper, blow half a tea
spoonful of sulphur down it's throat.
Three applications have been known to
cure. ;" We do not think fowl will need
more than one dose of the size specified.
1t may cure the roup, but it will most
kill the fowl. -Couutry Gen.
tLena07a.
A COMMITTEE of Battle Creek Grange,
Mich, thus speaks of the new acquisi-
ton, evergreen grass. They recon-
mend it for light soils which are subject
to "wash " orguly with heavy rains, as
the roots form such compact mass as
to render injury from this cause almost
Mr.. D. Caine, its developer,
says it forms heavy sod, and it's long
and fbrous roots strike deep into the
ground, far below the ordinary blowing,
and it grows rapidly from early spring
until winter, and remains green and
fresh all winter.
THERE are fifty injurious insects in
gardens, fifty in ourvineyards,
seventy-fve attack our apple trees, more
than hundred injure our shade trees,
and more than fifty our grain fields
Seventy-fye millions of dollars was the
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