Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-18
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

To keep oats well a cellar should be
cool, dark and not very dry.
WARMER pens would be a comfort to
pigs and a source of profit to farmers,
who would save corn III feeding.
A New York farmer says that Canada
thistles may be killed by blowing them
under about the first of July, or when
the stalks are hollow.
IT is said that two thicknesses of
paper, used in lining the barrel in which
apples are packed, will prevent them
from freezing while being shipped.
Pooh shelter, care and feed will, in a
few generations, make scrubs of the fin
est thoroughbred stock. Thoroughbred
scrubs are little better than native
scrubs, and the farmer who raises either
will always be poor. Breeding the best
stock and keeping it in the best possible
manner pays the largest profits.
In selling an OK weighing 1900
pounds, only as much nitrogen is sent
from the farm as would be lost by sell
ing about one and half tons of English
hay. Of phosphoric acid, such an ami
NAL would represent an amount found
III five tons of hay, while one-eighth of
a ton of hay would supply all the pot
ash the OK has in his body.
SOMETHING for breeders to remember
that from the male parent are mainly
derived the external structure, coDigura-
ton and outward characteristic, the To-
connective peculiarities inclusive. From
the female parentare derived the internal
structure, the vital organs, and in a
much greater proportion than from the
male, the constitution, temper and
habits.
Our movable poultry houses are
small cabins, some with wooden floors
three or four inches from the ground,
and on small wheels. They are easily
pushed about from place to place.
Others have floors or wheels, but are
lifted by handles. These are specially
adapted for grass fields and summer
use. If they are constantly moved the
grass is greatly benefited by the drop
pings. Journal Of HorticuL-
tire.
The very early lambs are dropped
during this month, and If mild weather
favors them they may be made very
profitable for the early market. Should
the weather be severe. the lambs must
be kept from being chilled through; this
may be done by wrapping them in blan-
kets and administering a little hot gin
ger tea. The ewes should have the
warmest pens in the stable, and may
need to benursed with warm Cruel for a
few days.
The nitrogenous and mineral value of
muck stands to fresh COW dung as 78
cents to S1.65 per ton, water-soaked or
nearly three to one in favor of the lat
ter: but it must be remembered that
fresh cattle droppings do not represent
manure as found in farmers barn Gel
lars. This consists of mixture of the
LIQUID excrement with the solid. A ton
OF fresh urine, as determined in analy-
sis from specimens collected at my barn.
gave the following results: Nitrogen,
IT'S pounds; phosphoric acid, 1912
pounds; potash 1873 pounds.
The Massachusetts Ploughman rea-
sons that if the potato was the true seed
there would be but little doubt that
planting the largest and best specimens
would result In the Improvement of the
quality of the product. But as they are
not the true seed, and not new life Sc
cured through the principle of repro
duction, but simply continuation of the
old life secured by continuation of veg
etable growth, there is but little more
certainty of getting large potatoes by
planting large ones For seed than there
would be of getting large apples by set
ting large cions.
The demand for mutton for summer
consumption in every town and village
is a thing to be cultivated by farmers.
A flock of sheep is safe to pay 100 pei
cent. profit In the hands CT competent
manager. Every week few head of fat
sheep might go to the butcher for local
consumption during the hot weather,
when beef is less salable, and IN this
way the surplus of considerable flock
might be worked off. But the dogs
When sheep are more numerously kept
than dogs, the dog question will be sat.
isfactorily disposed of.-RuroI Neu
YOTker.
MANY western farmer will see feed
ing value Ia wheat straw this winter
should it prove severe, TO which he has
been blind heretofore. The practice OF
burning straw ricks Is reckless extraya-
gance and waste, when there are SC
many other uses to which they could be
placed. Straw as fertilizer is worth
double when plowed under the soil than
when burned and the ashes spread upoI
the soil. Decayed vegetable matter, as