Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-24
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

SELECT your choicest pullets to keep.
MANGLE wURTzEI plants, and also
sugar beets. can be transplanted with
success.
FRESH water and shade are essential to
the health of fowls during the warm
weather.
ALWAYS have a place where chickens
can be sheltered from storms and bekept
comfortable.
A BUsHEL of white clover seed weighs
sixty-fve pounds, numbering $4,000
seeds per ounce.
FRESH manure is good for corn, cab
bage or oats, but for most other farm
crops well-decOmposed manure is best.
BoNE-DUsT makes a good dressing for
lawns. Put on plenty of it. Stable
manure is often an eye-sore unless very
fine.
PICS profit by a good run on clover or
fresh grass. When slaughtered, they
should weigh a pound for each day they
are old.
CREAMERY whey is found to be better
pig food than generally expected With
very little mill feed added, pigs and
calves do well upon it.
TANsY tea, poured over cabbage plants
after they begin to head, is said to have
been found during two seasons a sure
defense against the green worm.
WATCH your colts hoofs, and see they
are pared as often as necessary. The
hoof is not only thus benefited, but the
action of the animal frequently i'm
proves
The reason for packing eggs with the
small ends down is to bring and keep
the yolk exactly in the middle of the
white. When the yolk touches the shell
it speedily becomes :'bad egg"
PROFESSOR Cook, of the Michigan
Agricultural college, recommends hunt
ing for curculio either early in the morn
ing or toward night. How often to do it
Is well indicated by the number of in
sects gathered.
For profit don't keep old hens year af-
ter year, except for extraordinary merits.
Some few old hens are famous mothers,
and are worth keeping on that account
sometimes. But as a rule work them off
IN two years or so.
SOME of the old timers In the Indian
Territory claim that foot-rot was un-
known IN that country until sheep from
the east was introduced; also that the
disease is hereditary, being transmitted
from parent to offspring
GREEN corn, as soon as the grain be-
gins to harden, is the very best fattening
food available to the general farmer for
feeding swine. The pigs eat it with a
peculiar relish, and will grow and fatten
| 11nOn If with c11r,11,iciDor ro,oi1i+u
IF young fruit trees recently trans
planted blossom, they should not be
allowed to bear fruit, as it will iniure
them. They need all their energies for
growth of wood and should not be al
lowed to waste them on growth of
| fruit.
THE safest way to destroy milk-weed
| is to pillow very shallow, and cut the
roots; then to plant hoed crop, and
keep the ground cultivated quite shall
low and frequently worked, so as to pre-
vent leaf growth. If this is done the
roots perish.
DURING the dry weather of this month
drains can be dug with greater comfort
and less expense than when the soil is
full of water. The value of drain de-
ponds upon the thoroughness with which
the work is done. It should be a per-
manent improvement.
Ii you would have full crop of good
tomatoes water the young plants twice
each week with rich liquid manure. Nip
off many of the new shoots and tie the
heavy stems up so as to expose the fruit
to the sum- Mulch thickly around the
main stem and thin out where the fruit
grows too closely.
To give hogs plenty of muscle let
them have all the exercise they will take
in ten-acre lot. Fat, which does not
go far as food, comes from abundant
food and little or no exercise. Lardy
hogs are not near as popular as they
once were. An abundance of corn is not
desirable to make lean and well-grown
| for food.
To kill bushes along fences and else
where, where not wanted, cut them down
often during the growing season, and be
sure to do it once in August. The cut
ting back then seems to be more eff
fectual than at other times. Nothing
makes a farm look worse than to see
bushes growing along the fences and in
other places.
LoPPERED milk is considerably better
for calves in hot weather than skimmilk,
being more easily digested. If they are
being reared for dairy purpose they
should not be fed on new milk, which is
too fattening. Oil meal mixed with
their milk will prevent securing. Begin
with tablespoonful daily and increase it
to pint as the calf grows older.
| A CORRESPONDENT of the London Jour
nal of Horticulture says that eggs with
the the air bladder on the centre of the