Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-14
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

horses legs below the knee and hook. A
corn broom is best, since it takes out the
dirt and does not hurt the horse.
A YOUNG animal is very often spoiled
by becoming too fat, for its food is di-
verted from the production of bone and
muscle to the accumulation of fat.
HE coddling moth is a night-hyer.
Orchardlsts have frequently built fires in
their orchards at night during the season
when the moths are Matching and flying.
The yellow stain made by the oil used
on sewing machines can be removed if,
before washing in soapsuds, the spots be
rubbed carefully with bit of cloth wet
with ammonia.
TURNIPs are healthful for horses.
They should be cut into thin slices, or,
what is better, pulped finely and mixed
we'll with little meal and some salt,
Rutabagas are better than white tur-
nips.
IT is good idea to wrap the trunks of
apple trees with burlap sacks, and to ex-
anime the wrappings every few days to
ascertain If any of the grubs Or worms of
the coddling moth have found their way
into them, that they may be destroyed.
In selecting paints for out-of-door
work, the lighter colors should be pre-
ferred in point of durability, though at
present fashion dictates the darker tints.
The dark colors absorb the suns rays
and occasion earlier decay of the material
painted.
But few operations on the farm pay
better than the improvement of pasture
lands that have been fed score or more
of years by cattle. Pastures fed SO long
with nothing dore to them, not only be-
come messy, but the better varieties of
grasses are superseded by the poorer and
less nutritious varieties, so the feed is
not only less in quantity, but poorer in
quality.
In hoeing melons never work any part
of the hill that is covered by the vines,
but work before them-that is, around
the hillside of the limit growth already
made by them. If grass has secured a
stand In them gently pull it up, care be-
ing taken not to disturb the vines more
than is necessary to clean them out, and
all manure or fertilizers should be ap-
piled before they begin to "run."
The best treatment for a mare in foal
is to give her moderate exercise daily,
care being taken against over exertion.
The food should be good clover and
timothy 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.
WHENEVER possible, set turkey eggs
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closely to the nest, rarely coming off,
even to feed. Unlike the eggs of other
fowls, the eggs of the turkey will not
bear much variation of temperature, and
they must never become chilled. When
a turkey leaves her nest see that she is
cooped in dry location, as the slightest
dampness is injurious to the young ones.
They are also very sensitive to filth.
CHARCOAL is not fertilizer. It is al
most indestructible and wholly insoluble
in water. It is of great value as dis
infectant and deodorizer, absorbing
many times it's own bulk of ammoniacal
gas, and acts as storehouse of ammonia
and moisture, giving them out as needed
by plants. Its mechanical action is to
Tighten the soil and it tends to purify and
keep it sweet. Plants take their carbon
from the air by their leaves and not from
the earth.
To drain depression in field where
a c]ayey or hard-pan subsoil prevents the
sinking of rain water and the lay of the
land is unfavorable for ordinary methods
of drainage, first dig a hole as if for q
well through the impervious stratum at
the bottom hollow, fill it up to the brim
with refuse stones, remove the eXcavated
earth so as to allow the surface water
free access to the pit, and standing water
will never 1nJure the grass or green crop
in that part of the field.
HoRTICU1TUR1sTs commonly expect
fruit of inferior flavor from moist soils.
The cells are longer and filed with water
On the same hillslope in Germany three
qualities OF wine are produced, Ind the
variation is wholly owing to difference
in the soil. Marshall P. Wilder states
that in the famous vineyard of Johannis-
berg, which he had visited, the wine
per bottle, half way down SIS, and at the
foot of the hill only two francs per bot
tie.
TOBACCO growers have safe way of
printing their rows by sowing fertilizer
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into fattened ridge. The same prep
aration would not suit strawberry
planter SO well, for he likes his mellow
ground quite fiat for planting, but such
a fertile ridge might be an So elegant fix
for transplanting beets and turnips or
cabbage. Tobacco planters generally
stick their plants so low that the weedy
ridge is mostly drawn away at Che first
hand-dressing.
The chinch bug is little less than
one-fourth of an inch in length, little
less than half as wide as it is long,
rounded on the under side and fiat above
of coal-black color, with white wings,
which have triangular black dot on the
outer margins. The mouth is prolonged
INTO slender, horny, jointed beak, usu-
ally turned under the breast when not in
use With this beak it punctures the
bark, stems and leaves of plants and
sucks out their juices. It's capacity for