Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-22
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

This is very important.
LINsEED meal is not only nutritious
food for cattle, but also regulates the
system and loosens the coat.
If you want good-sized potatoes, use
good tubers for seed. Do not, if
you can avoid it, cut more than one eye
IN set.
GRASS seed will usually take well if
covered with bush only. But on dry
ground harrow and roller make bet
ter job of it.
The crops that do best on rather stiff
soil are potatoes, onions, celery, late
cabbages, all kinds. When we'll drined
such soil will often produce good early
cabbage.
A NERVOUS, excitable steer is not as
profitable to feed as a Emphatic one
with broad, deep chest, for this last is
seldom disturbed much by anything.
He feeds well and fats well.
GROUND bone, bone meal and fine
granulated bone are all merchantable
articles nowadays, and large quantities
of this economical provision for poultry
are used by those who understand its
value.
GRAPEvINEs should not be planted
more than six inches deep, as most of
the roots grow near the surface. Vines
that have been laid down or covered
should be fastened upon the trellis be-
fore the buds start
The toad destroys from twenty to
thirty insects in an hour, and the mole
is continually destroying grubs, Larvae,
palmer worms and insects injurious to
agriculture; no trace of vegetation is
ever found in its stomach.
SAssAFRAs bushes may be eradicated
by blowing deep and narrowing. This
will bring the roots to the surface.
Plant corn or potatoes, and keep the
crop well hoed to kill any sprouts that
may appear. Two years of this treat
ment will thoroughly destroy them.
In testing eggs, the fresher the egg
the smaller the air-chamber. This can
be seen at the broad end of the egg if it
be held up against a strong light in
dark room. Stale eggs have notified,
grayish look about them. A new-laid
egg will always give feeling of warmth
if the tongue is pressed to the large end.
Too many farmers merely skim the
surface of the ground with the harrow
and think that few scratches are enough,
| Just as a boy takes a few dashes at his
hair with comb, and thinks that with
lick and promise, it is slick. Pulverize
the soil so that it is fine, and you will
gain moisture and an easy chance for the
seeds.
A FRENCH paper relates the following
experiment.: A COW was MIXED three
times day for eleven days, and yielded
ITO quarts of milk. With two milkings
daily she gave only 146 quarts in the
same number of days. Analysis, more
| over, showed that the milk in the first
case was richer In butter globules by
more than one-seventh than in the
second case.
HAY in NOW differs considerably in
compactness both from the kind and the
depth of the mass. Timothy hay in a
NOW twelve or fourteen feet deep for
year would weigh a ton for each 500 GU
bic feet Two hundred and fifty cubic
feet of pressed hay make ton, and this
may form a good means of estimating
for other hay. Hay in a NOW twelve
feet deep and pressed down, with grain
packed on it, would take about 400 cubic
feet for ton.
THE Mennonites brought with them to
their new homes in the northwest a
variety of mulberry called the Russian,
which proves perfectly hardy, and a
rapid grower. Trees six years planted
are six inches in diameter and twenty
feet high, and have borne fine fruit since
the second year. The wood is as durable
for fence posts, as the red cedar. The
tree is valuable acquisition to the west
and north.
THERE is always great uncertainty In
breeding from cross-bred animals, the
inheritance in such cases being quite as
likely to take one direction as the other,
and in either case frequently reverting
to the original type in avery unexpected
manner. The surest is to use thorough
bred male of some one breed, and make
your own crosses. A breed of cattle can
not be built up in one or even three gen.
erations of cross breeding, or of grading
III given direction.
FARMERS, put up your own hnlments.
One of the best for rheumatism is made
as follows: One pint of spirits OF fur
pentine, two ounces of camphOr, two
ounces OF spirits of ammonia and one
ounce of oil of sassafras. One of the
best liniments for wounds is made by
melting one pound of pine tar, add one
quart of inseed oil and half a pint OF
spirits of turpentine; it is just the thing
for any wounds on man or beast, and it
is one of the best remedies to apply to
brittle feet.-H. S. HUI.
IT is best to SOW fodder corn in drills
two and-a-half to three feet apart, and at
intervals of ten days, for a number OF
weeks from this time on, so that there
may be continuous supply of green