Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-16
AGRICULTURAL HELPS.

A BULKY fodder is the natural food of
ruminants.
WINTER is the time to thoroughly re-
pair all tools, plows, reaping machines,
cultlvators and the like.
A TRUE test for eggs is to drop them
In water, and If the large end comes up
they are not fresh.
The draining of land promotes warmth
because it diminishes evaporation, and
thus less heat IS abstracted from the
earth.
HARNESS oil made Of one gallon Of
meats foot oil, with four ounces of lamp
black, well mixed, is simple and effec-
tive
THE meat of turkeys that are kept
supplied with charcoal during the period
of fattening is said TO be superior in
point of tenderness and flavor.
PLYMOUTH rock pullets Matched in
April will, if well fed and cared for right
along, commence laying by the middle
of September.
On many farms there are some old
cattle and old sheep that can only be
kept at loss. 1t is economy to fatten
them for the butcher.
An imported Durham COW, the pro-
perty of farmer near Aurora, H., has
given birth to six calves in less than
two years. The bovines were born liz
pairs.
The National LiUe Stock Journal
thinks that wildness and bad temper in
a mare may be remedied by breeding
them, and cites several instances where
this has succeeded.
Conn will answer very well for mar
keting purposes, provided we begin
thus to feed the birds at the right time.
But corn feeding to laying hens, as an
exclusive diet, is of no account what
ever. Change their feed often.
FILLING horse rack with hay, as
some persons do, and permitting a con-
slant supply, is one of the most prob
able means of producing disease, and
the most positive to render animals I'M
st for fast work.
AS the COWS come In, the best Of the
heifers should be selected for raising.
After these become COWS continue the
selection, and, with good bull, In afew
years the value of the dairy herd may
be doubled
small part, at most not more than
seven to nine per cent. of the live
live weight, while in old OF very fat ami
mails the proportion sinks as low as from
SIX TO four per cent.
A CrTRoN was brought to the Office OF
the Rltra} NeaU Yorker by Mr.. E. Viii
lialns who received it from Florida,
measuring 7x12 inches IL diameter. It
IS said to be the largest citron on record.
The weight is ten pounds.
HEREFORD cattle are, 10 doubt, ex-
ceedingly healthy and extraordinary
good breeders, and 1t is very much in
the breeders of them to feed In such a
forcing way as is general with short
horn men.
MEssRs. WHITMAN & BURRILL, of Lit
tie Falls, N. Y, who have tested ensil-
age upon large scale, are convinced that
400 tons of good ens1lage, obtained from
Is acres of rich land, is equal to 15O
tons of good hay, obtained from four or
five times as many acres.
THE foaming of cream in the churn
and the refusal of the butter to come are
due too a low temperature of the cream
or too long keeping of it. At this sea-
son it Is most likely to be from the low
temperature, and it can be remedied by
pouring into the churn sufficient warm
water to raise the cream to &c degrees.
WHEN our fowls are affected with
scaly legs, which are caused by q
minute insect, we place the feet and
legs in narrow tin pail of kerosene.
This 4roofroop+ al coo,, o-,,,o IL -
cases, If persisted in. The application
of ointment and bandages often recon-
mended involves more trouble with no
more decisive results.
THERE is prevalent idea among farm
ers of the old school that manure
should be kept in heaps, until, by heat
ing and decomposition, it becomes well
rotted and in better condi ton for use.
A careful analysis shows that manure SO
treated loses 10 per cent. of its nitrogen
which would have been saved had the
manure been carried to the field or or
chard and spread.
A KENTUCKY farmer who raises i'm
mense quantities of Irish potatoes says
III the Farm and Home that it comes OF
rich, night soil, containing plenty of
vegetable matter, deep blowing earl " in
the spring, planting fifteen inches apart
covering four inches deep or more, keep
ing down the weeds, and not working
the ground after the potatoes begin to
bloom. The main secret he says, is in
selecting the seed. One eye Will yield
more potatoes than two.
WAGONS require greasing much more
frequently when driven on bad roads
than on good roads, as the draught is
harder, and whatever increases the
araught, increases the wear on the axle.
GOOD ayia orea &c for winter NAV be