Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-28
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

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it begins to ripen, for fear of frost.
Sow timothy or orchard grass on fall
wheat now. Top-dress meadows and
pastures.
WINTER rye should be sown this
month during the first favorable
| weather.
To tell the sex of an egg, put it under
a setting hen for three weeks and then
raise the chicken that matches.
NEVER cut fowls wing to prevent it's
flying. Pull out the flight feathers of
one wing.
LET farmers remember that the intrin-
sic value of hardwood ashes as q fertil-
izer is half cent a pound.
on and place under cover, after thor
oughly cleaning, all farm implements
and machinery with which you are
through for the season.
DECAYED grain of any kind is highly
injurious to stock. It has paralyzing
effect upon the animals fed with it Of
tentimes causing death.
COVERING the bottom of the bin with a
layer of powered charcoal, will help ma
terially to preserve the flavor of potatoes
and prevent sproUting.
LEG weakness is not a common thing
among fowls accustomed to free range,
but it is difficult to cure permanently.
Better decapitate at once unless the bird
is valuable one.
KEEP your farm buildings and all your
premises absolutely clean. Use absorb
ents, such as dry earth and ashes, and all
offensive gases will disappear, thereby
promoting health and prosperity.
A STIFF whisp- broom is better to re-
move the dust and dirt from horses
legs than currycomb. Many horses,
with thin skin, are exceedingly nervous
and FESTIVE in the hands of careless
groom, and this nervousness often de-
generates into viciousness.
Cur and save every stalk of green
corn. When the ear is matured this is
the best way of saving it, and when the
quantity of valuable feed can thus be Sc
cured. Don't pull blade of fodder, the
cut corn is better in every respect and
easier to save.
An old gardener states that if the GU
cumber which grows nearest the root be
saved for seed for number of years,
the result will be a smaller and earlier
variety. IF the fruit on the extremity
be saved it will make larger and later
variety.
LET every farmer who is not able to
fence a large pasture get few boards,
build few rods of portable fence and
make a small enclosure for his hogs,
and move it around as circumstances
require. It will make pork raising
more profitable than to keep hogs con-
fined in pens all the time.
Sow rye and winter oats as soon as
the ground can beprepared. They will
make excellent grazing during the fall
and winter, and then produce a good
yield. Either may besown in the grow
ing corn crop, and put in with the
drag or cultivator. Feed will be feed,
and don't let this opportunity escape.
THE farm-roller is much more extern
sively nsed in Enlgand and France than
in the United States. It is perhaps
more necessary, for blowing frequently
goes on in all weathers, wet Or dry, and
ground is made cloddy by being plowed
with the water in it. The use of the
roller is, however, rapidly extending
among our most intelligent farmers.
ONE bushel to the acre of clean plump
wheat seed, on good land, in good con-
dition, sown broadcast, is ample. A
bushel and half is detrimental, result
ing In waste of seed and smaller crop.
Big crops have been grown from one
half bushel of good seed. One b1.shel
equally distributed will occupy the land,
and that is all you want. But the quail
ity and condition of the land must de-
termine the quantity of seed to use.
Now is the time to save seed corn, and
on this point farmers can not be too par
ticular. Go through the field select the
largest, best developed ears, maturing
earliest, and mark them by some means
so that they may be identified, and as
soon as frost gather these and hang up
in some dry place. 1t is better to select
from stalks bearing two and three ears,
and when gathered let them remain in
the shuck till ready for planting. The
corn should then be nubbed at both
ends, and none but sound and well
formed grains planted.
CASTOR OIL is undoubtedly the best,
end therefore the cheapest, for iron
axles, which should always be well wiped.
/ A correspondent informs us that his
market wagon would run only twenty
miles before requiring to be regreased,
when lard was used, but with castor oil
it ran sixty miles, and was good for
twenty more-a big difference, and
worth remembering. He further re-
marks that "a wheel well fabricated
will turn one-half easier and wear as
long again, gain of $50 per cent, by
| the liberal Use of oil.
THE best rule for sailing butter is to
suit the taste of the consumer. There
is no use in applying any particular