Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-26
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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stock.
APPLES boiled with meal are good
for plugs.
SHEEP manure Is richer than that of
COWS. Practically it is estimated at
nearly double the value of that of cattle.
IT is said three pecks of boiled pota-
toes, fed a day, warm, is a remedy for
diarrhn in cattle
If bone dust be applied now the re-
suits will be greater after two years
than they will be the first season. It
does not operate quickly.
DEcAYED grain of any kind is highly
injurious to stock. 1t has paralyzing
effect upon the animal fed with it, often
times causing death.
The grease which has become hard
ened by dust on the axles of machinery
can all be cleaned off by the use of
kerosene.
LIME is an excellent fertilizer on clay
soils, on account of its power to render
soluble many of the component parts of
the clay, and also to make it more por-
Gus,
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 we'll and fats we'll
HORN shavings are valuable as manure
by reason of their slow decomposition,
giving out ammonia for long time. They
also contain small quantity of carbon
ate and phosphate of lime.
Pres that have been raised on milk,
grass, clover, tubers and roots until they
weigh 100 or 200 pounds are generally
healthy They are then in good
condition to fatten
GROUND bone, bone meal and fine
granutated bone are ali merchantable
articles nowadays, and large quantities
of this enconomical provision for poul-
try are used by those who understand its
value.
If hens get into the habit of eating
eggs, take enough bran and corn meal
of equal parts for one feeding, and
enough vinegar warmed to make the
meal wet enough for the hens to eat
Mix together and feed it to the hens.
WARM and airy stables great cleanli-
ness with the animal and her products,
iudiciously feeding of COWS and feeding
of pastures are the indispensable means
to supply milk in quality, quantity and
soundness capable of resisting decay.
ACCORDING to DR.. Wiedebold, fungus
growths in cellars may be combatted
either by burning sulphur or by pour
ing two parts of concentrated sulphurlc
acid over one part of common salt, and
so closing all openings as to prevent any
escape of the vapors.
THERE are many farmers who have
extra good butter COWS but who do not
know it. They have poor pastures in
summer and poor shelter and Indifferent
food In winter. They have no conven-
fences for making butter, no arrange
ments for keeping the milk cool in sum-
mer, and frequently in winter it is ex-
posed to the odors of the kitchen.
PROF. J. F. W. JOHNSTON, says: cit
is certain that common salt has III very
many cases been advantageous to the
growing crop" He then quotes the re-
suits of experiments in which wheat
dressed with salt gave an average Of
eight bushels more of the same kind of
soil produces without salt; barley gave
an increase of twenty-One bushels an
acre, and hay one ton increase to the
acre
THERE Is no cure for the disease in
calves known as black leg or carbuncu-
lar erysipelas, when the swellings on
the tanks or legs have appeared. Iu
fact, cure may be said to be impossible
at any stage, but prevention is easy.
The disease is imminent with calves that
are taken from poor pasture and taken
on to good feed or into corn stubble. To
prevent danger, give each, one ounce of
oil doll f~1,, IL
not let the calves overfeed themselves.
ONE need not be much of an epicure
TO be able to distinguish readily the
difference between a fowl that has been
shut up and delicately fed for a time
before killing ard one that has been
forced to scratch for living Confine
fowls intended for the table in a dark
ened place, give them plenty of milk,
either fresh, thick or sour, with grain
and table scraps, and you will have
delicate article of food, with no strong
60 chicken flavor about it.
A WESTERN paper says that -four of
sulphur is simple and effective remedy
against worms in pigs, and the animal
readily partakes of it, when mixed in
Cruel or other sloppy food. For pigs
under three months old teaspoonful is
a dose, and for older ones small table
spoonful. 1t may be given four days in
succession, morning and evening, and
repeated every other week. Give plenty
of sour milk, green food, celery tops,
acorns and sliced raw onions. Avoid
stagnant and putrid water. Give access
TO charcoal and ashes
A CORRESPONDENT of the Ohio Farmer
gives the following advice about pas
lures: There are thousands of acres of
pasture that will require at least three
acres to carry cow through the sum-
mer. and it needs no argument to show
that it will be profitable to expend
several dollars per acre to reduce this to
two acres for cow. L am more and
more in favor of mixed grasses and