Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-20
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES.

P0nohoo, OHSIIloS anu pluUDS LII Gno
spring than in the fall.
CARE, kindness, quiet, moderate exer-
else, regular and iudicious feeding, are
all important factors in milk supply.
ANDREW SPRAGUE, of Easton, Me-,
raised 200 bushels of very large sugar
beets from forty square rods of ground.
SAwDUsT is too dry to be valuable in
manure OF composts. Burn the sawdust
to convert it to ashes and use these,
which contain all there is of value in the
sawdust.
IT is said by careful men that it is
most profitable to grow for beef those
animals that can be turned off at two
years Old. Greater age will give weight
but at much increased cost.
PROFESSOR ROBERTS tells us that fifty
bushels of wood ashes per acre increased
the yield OF grass more than any other
manure, while ground bone improved
the clover.
The use of manures in which potash
and phosphates are the only ingredients
seems to be the only preventive SO far
known tor scabby potatoes. Barnyard
manures and guano aggravate the trou-
BILE.
To prepare night-soil for use on land
mix it thoroughly with any dry absorb
ent, as powdered charcoal, dry muck.
road dust or sifted coal ashes, so that ali
Jumps may be broken fine, and then ap-
ply it as any other manure.
CABBAGE is best given to poultry
whole, hung UP by the stalk. At first
1t may not be touched, but when one
fowl begins to peck at it the rest will be
tempted to keep on until little remains
Being suspended, it does not waste or
become polluted, and it will remain in
good condition to be eaten at will.
HE most substantial walks and car
rlage roads arefrst excavated to depth
OF foot or more, then small or broken
stone placed at the bottom, smaller ones
on these, then gravel and tar mixed,
coarse sand and tar on this, and usually
an inch of fine gravel at the surface.
When there is hard, gravelly subsoil
and good natural drainage less excava-
ton is required.
PIsTrLLATE varieties of strawberries,
says the Rural NeW Yorker, are in
creasing in number. Is this due to the
fact that, in making crosses, pistillate
flowers are used for the seed-bearers in
stead OF emasculated perfect flowers? IF
pistillate flowers are placed beside per-
feet flowers away or protected from other
kinds, of course, if the pistillates bear
fruit, the pollen was furnished by the
perfect flowers. But the tendency of
such breeding will probably be still
further to increase pistillate kinds, which
is not desirable.
MARCH and early April are recognized
as critical time for the profitable man
agement of dairy farm. If just before
and after maternity, when the mammary
organs ought to be at their fullest activ-
lty, the flow of milk is checked by poor
feed, it will be injured for the whole
season. Good food and plenty of it at
this time allows the COW to recuperate.
and leads to a generous supply of milk
certain to be increased when she is
turned to grass, and likely to keep
steady thro' the season.
GRAPE vines can be grated, although
grating has not been much practiced in
this country. Various methods of
grating have been recommended, but
the following is probablyas good as any:
The old vine should be cut off below
the ground early in the spring, and be-
fore the sap has started, and cleft in the
same manner as an apple or pear stock.
The cutting is prepared and inserted in
the manner usual with other gratis. The
stock is bound up and the earth re-
placed. The cutting should have one
eye left above the ground.
The bad odors common in cheese fac
tories, and often undecided by persons
habitually in the room, are largely
caused by spilled whey soaking thro' the
floor or at least getting into cracks.
Some dairymen are even stupid enough
to bore holes in the floor to allow the
whey to escape.to the ground beneath,
there to purify. The whey vat ought
to be cleaned often, and patrons should
make it a stringent rule that whey is not
to be left over twenty-four hours in the
vat. If they understood how valuable
it is for calves or hogs they wo uld prob
ably be more eager to get it.
YOUNG calves will thrive well if kept
in a shed together and well fed. The
shed may be fitted literally, but it will
be necessary to feed them well. Bran
e"AAN oc3oO3 WILL a. LULU COIus WILL UO CIG
best food for them. Give one pint day
for those under a year, and a quart or
two daily for yearlings. Costiveness in
cold weather should be carefully guard
ed against, and, if necessary, half pint
of raw linseed oil, or pint of inseed
meal, should be given with the food as
remedy. Flax seed ground and mixed
with corn or oats ground or unground,
is a good appetizer, and keeps the calves
in good condition. While on milk,
whether sucking the COW or on the pail,
let it suffice for drink. No cold water
in cold weather.
The history of COW raised on the
farm OF the late ErastJ1s Ellsworth, East
Windsor Hill is remarkable. The cow
is about three-fourths Durham and the
other fourth is of no particular breed.
On April Is, 1877, she gave birth to
twins, one male and one female; March
19, 1878, she gave birth to triplets, two
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