Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-08

| SEASUNAbIE FRkM NJ rs.
WHITE clover is better for sheep than
the red, as it is shorter and makes better
grazing. -
WHEAT chaff, wet, and mixed with
bran and a little salt makes a good feed
for sheep.
A WASH of carbolic soapsuds occa-
sionally will prevent the annoyance of
insects to cattle. I##
The value of agricultural salt as a
fertilizer, it would appear, is becoming
steadily increasing demand. -
IF a farmer can notraise fair crop by
the use CT stable manure, clover, and
deep, thorough tilage, he may try
commercial fertilizers hot before.
GUINEA fowls will keep all bugs and
insects of every description off garden
vines. They will not scratch like other
fowls or harm the most delicate plants.
DIR. G.. A. GREENE, Lancaster, Penn,
took the sensible ground, in a recent adj
! dress, that tight check-rein is cruel,
binders a relic of barbarism, and the
crupper undesirable with the majority of
| horses.
! CLOVER is heterogeneous and also
potash plant, clover hay containing more
of these elements than the best English
hay, although the former will not sell for
near as much as the latter, consequently
clover hay should not be sold off the
| farm.
A NEGLECTED, poorly-fed, st1nted
lamb never RECEIVERS, however welI-fed
afterward SO as to make as good and as
large sheep as it would had it had
proper care early Feed the ewes so
that they can supply the lambs with
plenty of milk. .--..
The best place for turnips is a spot
on which brush has recently been
burned. The soil is fresh cool and
moist and the ashes aid not only as
fertilizer for the very elements that tur-
nips require, but it keeps away the fly.
Do not SOW in dry time.
RANCID butter may be recovered and
sweetened by washing and kneading it
well first In new milk, and afterward in
cold spring water, butyric acid, on which
the rancidity depends, being freely
soluble In new milk. The above recipe
has been found to answer perfectly.
| THERE is a mistaken notion that when
the roots of tree are once in the ground
/ the work is done. To insure success 1t
should be mulched with leaves, straw or
tar III such quantities as will aid in re-
tanning the moisture III the soil. The
chances are that it will encounter a
| drouth more or less severe during the
summer.
THEY have what they call winter oats
in Oregon, that are sown at any time
during the year--say from the last of
! September up to the middle of March,
provided the ground is in favorable con-
| dition. These oats are used chiefly for
milling; they yield larger grain, heavier
and more uniform in size, than summer
or spring oats, and at the rate of from
forty to eighty bushels per acre. .S5
| A WRITER in the Fruit Recorder cir
cumvents the ravaging currant worm by
allowing no sprouts to grow. He allows
! but three main stems to bush, and rubs
off all root sprouts when about six inches
long. The worms begin with the new
growth first; hence, he SAYS, no sprouts,
no worms. The fruit also is far finer on
plants thus treated, the common red
dutch being nearly as large as the
cherry currant, and a better bearer.
SWEET corn has been planted quite ex-
tensively by farmers and dairymen this
spring. It's value for winter forage and
early feed is becoming better known and
appreciated, and it will gradually gain
until every live farmer will find himself
providing it as regularly for the denizens
of the barn yard as the mistress does for
/ the table. It affords large amount of
excellent feed to the acre, and is not hard
to place where it will do great good.
SUPERPHosPHATE, plaster and bone
dust can be dropped in the hill with the
corn without injury, but guano, lime,
/ salt, or any other fertilizer having caus-
! tic properties, should never be placed in
contact with the seed. In dropping the
first three, however, it is much better to
scatter either of them well over the hill,
either before or after dropping the corn,
covering the whole at one and the same
time. Those having caustic properties
to be dropped and covered before drop
ping and covering the corn.
LET the war on weeds begin early and
keep it up without cessation. Whenever
there is shadow of chance weeds
assert themselves, and if not quickly
subdued soon monopolize pastures,
meadows, fields, and gardens. A sover-
eign remedy for most weeds is thorough
cultivation. A weedy field planted to
corn and cultivated early and late,
especially early, for season or two, will
generally lose even the toughest
characters among extraneous growths
A sharp-toothed cultivator will accom-
plish much, and where this misses hand
hoes will finish the rest
OF the great value of Hungarian grass
for forage there can be no doubt; but the
great drawback is the difficulty of curing
it properly. 1t seeds SO heavily that
even when cut before the seeds ripen, it
must be fed to horses with care, as it is
liable to cause founder. Cutting it green
is not remedy because the seed ripens
unevenly. The German millet in some