Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-09
AGRICULTURAL HELPS.

DIP the tip of nails in grease and they
will easily drive into hard wood.
CALVES in winter need good feed, bet
ter than yearlings.
The poultry crop equals the corn crop
in many counties of the United States.
PAINT all tools which are exposed to
the weather or the heat of the sun.
THERE is no better feed for fowls
when Noting than sunhower seeds.
THERE is as much nourishment in one
bushel of beans as in five bushels of
potatoes.
NEVER breed from vicious sire; tenn
per is hereditary in animals as well as in
man.
THE Massachusetts, PLoughnan asks
If oxen have not been abandoned for
horses too much in doing farm work.
The fodder from an acre of corn
which yields fifty bushels is equal in
value to ton of hay.
ADD little wood ashes to the flower
pots OF favorltes, and see how quickly it
will flourish and improve the growth.
EWES in lamb are very liable to take
cold, and when exposed to wet and cold
weather, or allowed lie on the ground,
are likely to suffer abortion.
SPENT tan bark has been plowed into
q compact clay soil with the best results,
as it rendered the soil mellow and IL
creased its warmth.
The old adage which says lime APP
piled to the land will enrich the father
but impoverish the son contains much
truth.
The introduction of pure bronze
gobbler among a flock of mongrel tur-
key hens will add from three to five
pounds extra weight per head to the trlr-
keys raised the first season.
FLAT warts on the inside of horses
leg may be removed by scraping off the top
and applying muriatic acid with a small
stick or camel's hair brush. They may
be cut from cows udder and killed in
the same way.
A MAINE farmer, who has been very
successful in cultivating the BURBERRY,
says his best success has been on the
dry uplands, and he has always trans
planted his bushes from where he found
them.
A WISCONSIN farmer, twenty-three
years ago, planted piece of land unfit
for cultivation, with black walnut trees.
The trees are nowfrom sixteen to twenty
inches through, and have been sold for
$4,000.
DoN'T put all your eggs in one basket;
act on the principle of raising little of
everything that the community demands.
The world depends upon the farmer for
a living; his labor is better than gold, in
being of greater value to humanity.
One of the great advantages of drain
ing the soil is toinsure the free access of
oxygen. A plant cannot any more live
without oxygen than can an animal.
Oxygen is one of the best fertilizers, for
by it's action in the soil it prepares the
minerals for food OF plants.
A. NJ. PURDY in his fruit recorder,
corro borates the statement that the
scrapings of blacksmith's shops make a
valuable liquid manure when STEPPED in
water, but advises that it hould be ap-
piled in full strength to th e strawber-
ries.
WATER made slightly salt, and to
which bran In the proportion of one
quart to every gallon has been added, is
said to increase the yield of milk by
twenty-five per cent, if it is given to
COWS as their ordinary drink. After
short time the COWS will refuse pure
water, unless they are very thirsty.
A LADY who has raised large number
of hens says that after vainly trying the
recommended remedies for lice, she has
hit upon plan of giving them once or
twice week large loaf made of Ora
ham -four, in which handful of sulphur
has been mixed. The hens like it, and
are freed from lice and kept healthy
through the season.
THE "silos in which green crops are
preserved are said to be likely to be fill
ed with carbonic acid from the ferment-
ing mass, and before entering them
lantern shonld be allowed to see if there
is danger to life. A New York farmer
was nearly killed by neglecting this pre-
caution the other day.
PIP in poultry is symptom of dis
ease, and not itself disease; it is COM
monty an affection of the air passages,
which compels the fowl to breathe
through its mouth, becoming dry in con-
sequence. A hard substance forms at
the end Of the tongue, sometimes ex-
tending to the roof of the mouth; this
causes the noisy breathing which pro-
duces the sound of pip.
The best instrument for the destruc-
ton of the runners of strawberry n1antS