Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-24

produce pullets and reports the follow
| ing results of recent experiment with
fifty EIGHT eggs, in which three failed to
| hatch, eleven are yet too young to deter
mine the sex, and forty three turned out
true to this theory.
W. J. F. tells in the Country Gentle
man of putting paper bands to catch the
cooling moth on his young orchard and
then said: eff all fruit-growers would
attend to this the quality of apples will
improve, and both the demand and
price will increase. If man buys an
apple and bites into worm-hole, he will
not soon buy another. [ am satisfied
that what we call the over production of
of fruit, is only over production because
it is poor.
FILLING horses rack with hay as
some persons do, and permitting con-
slant supply to remain before the animal,
is one of the most probable means of
producing disease, and most positive in
rendering animals unfit for fast work.
Large supplies of hay have the effect of
making the stomach large and weak, the
belly in course of time becoming pen
dulous. Not only does the stomach in
crease in capacity, but the large intes-
tines become enlarged.
PIGS that are to he marketed this year
should be pushed hard from the begin
ming. If allowed to stand still for day
there will be loss. Ground oats and
corn mixed, or ground corn with wheat
middlings, will make good slop for the
pigs; soaked corn will also be highly
relished, and will be found well adapted
to keeping the pigs in high flesh; but
| as soon as the newcOrn is fairly in milk
that will be found the best of all fatten-
ing foods. On the other hand if pigs
are to be kept over the winter there
should be no stimulating or forcing.
Give them the run of clover field the
first summer, with small allowance of
grain.
! L. B. ARNOLD says the best dairy
products he has ever seen has been pro-
| duced on small farms and as the result
| of skill in managing the milk of few
COWS. The milking has been regular,
and the spaces of time between milBings
equal. Much depends on this. Milk
| ing at o'clock in the morning and at
night never makes the finest butter or
cheese. Sixteen hours, or an approx
nation to it, are too long a time for the
milk to remain in the udder, for the
| good of the milk or of the COWS, es-
pecially when the flow is large By
crOwding and straining the bag is some
times painful and feverish, and the but
ter fats, as well as other elements of
milk, becomes altered in consequence.
There is nothing like a sound and
| healthy udder for secreting good milk.
AN Ohio farmer has this to say about
harvesting orchard grass for seed: Cut
with the grain cradle, tie in small
bundles about as large as you can span
with both hands, set in shocks in the
way we used to set up flax, let stand
about ten days, take in when quite dry,
NOV away if you please, or thresh off
the seed at once by taking bundle at a
time and striking it over barrel. By
this operation you only get the seed,
and it is clean. If you run it through a
thrashing machine and take all the wind
off, you have hay and seed go out to-
| gether, for it cannot be cleaned by any
wind, for it is too light. Having my own
thresher. [ would never pretend to run
| orchard grass through to clean it. [
have grown this grass quite number of
years, and I feel assured if farmers
once try it they will keep it on their
| farms, as it makes the earliest pasture,
being rapid grower. Two crops of
hay can be cut in a season. We made
some hay from it three weeks since. We
will save about twenty bushels of seed
| this year.