Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-05
SEAsONABLE FARM NOTES,

The consumption of mutton again
steadily increases throughout the coun-
try.
SORGHUM seed is readily eaten by poui-
try, and is better for small chickens than
corn.
THE brown or rusty orange is sweeter
and can be kept longer than the bright
fruit.
POLAND CHINA SWINE carried off the
main prizes at the last great agricultural
fair In Denmark.
FARMERS in Southern Indiana state
that the growing wheat looks stronger
than ever before at this season.
ONE of the first things a farmers wife
should learn, If she has not already
learned it as q farmers daughter is to
drive and harness a horse.
EVERY farmer and gardener should
know how to do his own grating. It is
the easiest thing in the world to do.
after paying little attention to one who
is at work.
STRAWBERRIES are much more prolific
when four or five different varieties are
planted together, although each variety
may be q perfect one, than if but one
perfect variety were planted alone.
In selecting land to raise onions a
sandy loam should be chosen. Clay
should be avoided, or soil that is very
gravelly. A light mixture of clay on
sandy loan is regarded as the best,
when it can be had.
A NEW destroyer of the currant-worm
has just been discovered. It is the black
ant, which always colonies about cur
rant-bushes, and ravenously feeds upon
the worm. Hence, instead of extirpaU-
ing this ant, as many people are said to
do, 1t should be encouraged.
CRIBBING is a nervous habit, Just as
when persons bite their fnger-nails. It
can be cured with the greatest ease.
Put the feed trough on the floor, and
have nothing in the stall, that horse
can lay hold of with his teeth, more than
eighteen inches from the floor. A horse
cannot crib with his head down low.
WESTERN farmers should prepare to
SOW more clover this spring, as soon as
the frost is well out of the ground, and
the soil is permanently warmed and mel
low that it may be thoroughly pulver-
lied, and the seed when sown may be
evenly covered as shallow as possible to
get the highest per cent. of termination.
"H. g." SENDS the Cult1vator and
Country Gentleman cure for kicking
COWS as follows: "Take rope or strap
long enough to go around her body, put
it around just behind her forelegs; tie or
buckle it, and then take stick one or
two feet long, put it through under the
strap and twist it tight. It Is a sure
cure"
ONE of the best things in the world to
give horse after he has been driven is
g quart of oatmeal stirred in a pail of
water. 1t refreshes and strengthens him,
relieves his immediate thirst and pre-
pares his stomach for more solid food.
So says Joseph Harris, after twenty
years trial Of it, as the New York Herald
reports.
The Cultivator and Country Gentle
man says of seeding with oats: Seed
ing with oats is quite uncertain, and often
fails unless the quantity of oats sown is
small. By using one bushel or so less of
oats to the acre the success is fair, but
not SO good as sowing the clover or
spring wheat. Winter rye is the best
crop with which TO SOW grass seed"
In planting early peas and corn the
quality OF the future crop may be partly
known by observing the degree of con-
traction in them. ALI peas and corn
that seem shriveled up, with large in
dentions, will be tenderer in flesh and
contain more sweetness and juice than
the plumper kinds. If good table
varieties are desired, it is advisable then
to select the wrinkled kinds.
A CORRESPONDENT of the n. 7. Farmer
and Dairymen says: [ procured a half
filed it with rain water and
put into it one-quarter pound of am
mOn1a and one-quarter pound of nitre
When the strawberry plants were bios
soming / gave them sprinkle of the
solution at evening, twice week, until
the fruit was nearly full size. The re-
suit was double the amount of fruit.
The best treatment for mare in foal
is to give her moderate exercise daily.
care being taken against over -exertion.
The food should be good clover and tim
othy hay, well cut and sailed, ground
oats and bran mash mixed with pota-
toes or other roots. Feed some corn or
meal, but not too much, in order to
guard against milk fever. See that the
colt promptly relieves the udder as soon
as possible after birth.
POULTRY repay any corn given them.
Layers must have material to make eggs
out of-some meat or meat scraps are
needed until they can find plenty of in
sects; setting hens need clean nests. 4
spring white-washing of the whole in
terror of the poultry-house and the
roosts and nest-boxes is of great advan-
tage. Supply the softest hay or straw in
nests, and if invested by vermin, cleanse
with kerosene or crude petroleum.
THE best soil for radishes is one that
is light and rich. They should be
grown quickly, in order to be tender and
crisp. They may be raised by prepar,
ing the ground and sowing the seed
broadcast. They will generally grow so
quickly that they viii not be troubled by
the weeds; better way, however, Is to
SOW the seed in drills. To have sue
cession, row should be sown every
week from the time the frost leaves the
soil in the spring till late In the fall.