Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-10-19
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

COAL-TAR makes good protective
covering for wounds of trees.
WEEDS in corn and potato-feld are
like notes on interest at twenty per cent.
ITs great timefor repairing roofs and
getting out swamp mud or dry earth for
the stables.
BLACK teeth in pigs do not cause dis
ease, but are symptom of disease.
This distinction is very important.
FALL and winter evenings are the
most profitable times for mental culture,
social happiness and rest
The leaves of maple or elm stand
ing near the farmhouse door are often
more valuable than the fruit of a whole
orchard planted elsewhere.
GEESE are easily kept; grass and water
form their chief requirements. These,
with fair supply of corn, oats and
potatoes make up their bill of fare.
WHEN the mortgage on farm is so
heavy that the owner never tries to les
sen or lift it, the sooner he finds a small
place the better.
A VERY successful farmer once re-
marked that " he fed his lard before it
was hungry, rested it before it was
weary and weeded it before it was foul. "
HENS may lose their feathers in sum-
mer without having any disease. II is
better to lose them then than later in the
fall or early winter.
VEGETABLE decay prepares for subse-
quent life. An exception to the rule is
rotten potatoes and turnips in cellar in
May.
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his potatoes instead of butter, If the lat
ter is needed to pay an old debt at the
village store.
The inner kernels of wheat spikelets
are always smaller than the outer ones,
and they are later in ripening In es-
tablishing any new variety of wheat from
cross-breeding, the outer kernels should
alone be saved for seed.
IT is said that kerosene oil slightly
sprinkled on the floor of the horse sta
bles will serve to abate the nuisance of
flies. 1t may be shaken out of bottle
through a hole in the cork. A pint will
last week for the purpose.
A MAN can raise more corn on twenty
acres if it is thoroughly MANFRED, care
fully plowed and kept free from weeds
than he can on forty acres with only the
same amount OF manure and time to give
to it that he could give to his twenty.
PULvER1zED free lime will effectually
drive the worms from lawns. The lime
also kills moss, which is SO troublesome
on old lawns, often destroying large
patches of grass, and so sadly interfering
with moving. Mix the lime with twice
it's bulk of fine soil.
SUFFOLK and Berkshire pigs may be
proftably fed, to be sold at nine and ten
months, upon clover, corn meal, linseed
meal, or corn and oat meal. Half a
pound of inseed meal per day on the
average, to six-months-old pigs, would
be sufficient.
To kill bushes along fences and else
where, where not wanted, cut them down
cutting back then seems to be more eff
fectual than at other times Nothing
makes q farm look worse than to see
bushes growing along fences and in
other places.
Cur and save every stalk Of green
corn. When the ear is matured this is
the best way of saving it, and when the
stalk fails to produce an ear, large
| 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.
No farmer can afford TO waste his time
and wear out his hands i'll cultivating
non paying crops. Study what crops
your lands are best adapted too, and
confine your labor to them. Remember
always that poor land is feeble mother
which can give no sustenance. The
more you work it, the poorer you make
both it and yourself.
The great advantage in raising viii
| low-trees for fuel and shelter consists in
the fact that they grow longer period
in each year than other trees. Willows
are the first to put out leaves in the
spring, aud they continue to grow till
| heavy frosts occur in the fall. Willows
are now growing finely in spite of the
protracted drought.
On the Island of Jersey, COWS with
white horns are not looked upon with
favor. The yellow horn tipped with
black, is considered much richer milk
than the white horn; while the crumpled
horn is there now, as it was nearly CEN
July dSO, u ldFO1lUC Ills IdulCI IS
at short horn, turning from curve
a coss the head to near its center, droop-
ing somewhat from base to tip.
In the autumn or early winter bore a
! hole enc OF two inches in diameter, ac-
cording to the girth of the stump, and
about eighteen inches deep. Put into it
one or two ounces of saltpetre, fill the
hole with water and plug it close. In
the ensuing spring take out the plug and
ignite it. The stump will smolder away,
without blazing, to the very extremity OF
the roots, leaving nothing but the ashes.
| Scientific american.
| IT is one sign of good farmer if he
| prizes manure. 1t does not require
good farm or to raise bountiful crops on
a farm already rich, but the art lies in
so managing the farm that it will pro-
duce good crops every year without los
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