Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

A Run in the pasture at night will be
beneficial to working team.
To AVOID chicken cholera, keep your
premises clean and the fowls always
treated with view to high health.
SMALL chickens can be made useful
in a garden at insect-catching as long
as they do not scratch newly-planted
ground.
ONE acre of land we'll prepared and
well titled produces more than two which
receives on y the same amount of labor
used on one.
GROWING or adult fowls drink a good
deal if they have pure water by them all
the time If this drink be clean and
accessible they visit the tank or foun-
tain often. Milk is healthy and profta-
BILE.
PENNSYLVANIA has law for the pre-
vention of trespassing on gardens, yards,
orchards, fields, etc., and doing damage
to property of any kind The fines for
infraction are not less than SIS nor more
than $50.
A CHEAPLY made box, covered with
mosquito netting will protect melon and
cucumber hills against insects until the
vines begin to run, and thus keep off
insects and afford some protection against
bad weather or chilly nights.
The root crops, mangels and beets,
and field cabbages, need frequent Guilt
walton during this month, and until the
leaves cover the ground. If weeds are
allowed to grow, and the soil is left I'M
stirred, the crop will be small.
EARLY sowing is the best, except when
there is danger from the Hessian fly.
Late sowed wheat makes such a poor
growth before the frost comes that it is
not in good shape for the winter, and is
not sure of giving even fair crop.
WITH this month begins the fall work,
and the more promptly it is entered
upon the better. The stubbles are now
idle, and they can be plowed at once for
the fall sowing, thus preventing a
growth of weeds from ripening their
seeds.
POULTRY manure will lose in value if
exposed much to the weather. Lime and
wood ashes should also be kept free
from it, as those articles liberate the
ammonia. Road dust, swamp muck, old
sawdust, mari and coal are all good to
mix with it.
HENS should not be allowed to disturb
the settlers by laying in their nests.
Broken eggs and bad hatch will result.
If the setting hen cannot be isolated in
any way, cover her with an empty coop,
basket or box, being careful to have her
come off every day for feed, water, exer-
else and dust bath.
IF you wish success in raising young
chicks and turkeys, do not feed corn
meal. For very young chicks give cheap
oatmeal and broken rice, and in two or
three weeks feed cracked corn and
cooked scraps. Young turkeys must
be fed on bread, thick milk and chopped
dandelion and onion tops.
COARSE corn-meal, mashed potatoes
and bran well mixed and given twice a
day is an excellent feed for ducks. They
Will eat whole corn at about four weeks
old, but it should not be their sole food
A grass run is dispensible. They do
good service among the bugs and slugs
ID the garden. With plenty of shade
and good grass range they will not re-
quire any great supply of water.
The use of a timothy-head to cure
chickens of gapes is barbarous, and edit
ors indorsing it by publication ought to
share in the odium. One might as well
say use a rat-tail file Those desiring
to know how it must affect sick chicken,
should try it first in their own wind
pipes. That such remedy can cure the
gapes in the sense of saving them is pre-
pOsterOus.
A FARMER who has had much ex-
perience in draining lands, says that
when quicksand Or unsound ground &C.
ours drains should be cut wider and in
cases deeper, with their sods trampled
down along the bottom before their tiles
or stone conduits are introduced. Sods
thus placed always admit water freely
and the substrata in consequence very
soon become solid.
PoTAToEs should be harvested as soon
as they are ripe, otherwise the tubers
may start In d new growth. They are
much more apt to be affected by the
"rot'' If left long in the soil. If this
"disease," which is a fungus growth,
makes its appearance, the vines should
all be burned as soon as all the potatoes
are dug, as the spores are thus destroyed
in vast quantities.
WHEN other work will permit, it il
best to pillow the land for fall sowing
soon after the haying and harvesting is
over. This avoids the drought-driec
that is frequently found later in the sea
son, besides turning under the weeds be-
fore they have time to ripen their SEEDS
| Thorough use of the cultivator will pre-
pare the early-plowed land for seed wher