Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-04-27
FARM AND DAIRY NOTES.
PULLETs well fed will Law early.

A CROP we'll put in is half made.
EVERY farmer should raise flock of
guineas.
KEEP none but healthy fowls to breed
from.
POULTRY manure is the most valuable
OF farm manures, and is entitled to
great care in it's collection and use
HENS that eat their eggs may be cured
by giving them shell filed with mus
tard or dough mixed with cayenne pepper.
THERE is no crop raised which yields
SO large an amount of food and with so
little labor as Indian corn.
Do not neglect to roll your wheat
fields this spring. Every farmer should
have roller. Their use is indispens-
able on well regulated farm.
HE friends and allies of honest butter
and cheese are closing in upon the oleo-
margarine and lard vendors all along the
line
THE French preserve eggs by dissolv-
ing four ounces of beeswax in eight
ounces of warm olive oil, and with this
mixture they grease the entire surface of
the egg.
Now is the best time of the year to
transplant evergreens. They may also
be pruned now. II the lower growth is
scanty, cut off the top of the leader and
the terminal buds of all the top shoots.
PROFESSOR ROBERTS tells us that fifty
bushels OF wood ashes per acre increased
the yield OF grass more than any other
manure, while ground bones improved
the clover.
CHEESE making is defined as an art,
not acquired by the committing of rules,
or by deduction from scientific method.
1t is a personal accomplishment, an in
dividual acquisition, which others may,
or may not, successfully initiate
POTASH is absolutely necessary to sue
cessful potato growing. The easiest and
best way of supplying it is in the form
of wood ashes. It is flu rnished also in
soft coal ashes and well rotted yard or
stable manure.
IT has been noted that Elgin, Ill. =,
which, when western butter stood so low
sent the very poorest stuff to the Boston
market, now makes and ships as good
butter as is made anywhere. All the
western butter and cheese product has
taken great strides within few years.
PRoF. T. J. BURRrhL, of the Illinois
University, says. THE local law of
Michigan, which requires the immediate
cutting down and burning of peach trees
which exhibit any signs Of the yellows,
should be made general wherever yell
lows prevail, and reminder of it should
appear prominently at least twice year
In every agricultural paper: Stamp
out the yellows by cutting down every
| tree affected in the least"
HE disease known as rot is very
prevalent again among English sheep
The disease arises from the presence of
the ftuke worm in the livers of the ami
mails, and is very destructive in wet sea-
sons. One farmer in Leicestershire lost
three-quarters of his flock. A rise in
price OF English mutton is looked for as
a consequence of the loss from this dis
ease, and the increased consumption
among the working classes.
WATER is much better deodorizer
than is generally supposed. It has
great absorbing capacity. Fresh water
running through milk room keeps it
free from odors. Standing water soon
becomes charged with odors and then
gives them off again. Water used in a
milk room to cool the milk is a great
purifier, but must not be allowed to
stand more than twelve hours before be-
| ing removed.
SOME pigeon fancier may not be
aware that lettuce is something of
which these birds are very fond. The
lettuce should be hung up where they
can pick at it at will, and should be
freshly gathered daily for them. When
possible, those who have the ground to
do SO should keep a supply growing all
the year round, in the hot-beds and cold
frames, and the family as well as the
pigeons can enjoy it..
J STAHEL, the American consul at
Hiogo, Japan, states that he sees no rea-
son why the United States can not con-
troll the butter and cheese trade Of Japan
which is a rapidly growing interest.
During 1880 half the butter imported
into Japan was from this country, and in
1879, two thirds. He states that much
and there are worked and shipped at the
east. With care in making and packing
he believes American butter would soon
be without a competitor.
AN agricultural correspondent living
in Battle Greek, Mich, says that he
purified his well of water, which was
subject to so many worms, bugs ard
other insects as to render it almost unfit
for drinking, by placing in the well a
couple of good sized trout. They have
kept perfectly healthy, and have eaten
up every live thing in the water: in the
winter season crumbs of bread or cracker
are thrown in. The water is perfectly
pure and sweet.
THOSE who have SCOT, either of wood
or bituminous coal, should carefully
save it for use in the garden. It is
valuable for the ammonia which it con-
tains, and also for the power of absorb
ing ammonia. It is simply charcoal
(carbon) in an extremely divided state,
but from the creosote it contains is use
full in destroying insects, and is at the
same time valuable as fertilizer for all