Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-02
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.


BREWERY refuse is valuable for milch
| COWS only when fresh, as it affects the
quality of the milk when sour.
IF you starve your horse all day he
will eat hastily at night, which is injur-
ious even when the feed is light.
By the use of lime and ashes, and by
growing cow peas for turning under,
poor soil can be made to yield good
crops.
| The fall season for TRANSFORMING trees
ought to commence in September, or
earlier, If the foliage is withered and the
wood ripe.
IF you are exhausted after a hard or
wet or late day, take tumbler full of
hot milk. 1t is also good for soreness of
throat or stomach.
OKRA is as easily grown as corn, and
requires the same treatment. The
young, unripe pods make delicious soups,
and it sliced and dried can be used the
| year round.
MANY times for both eggs and flesh it
is a good thing to cross fowls. Two
good breeds in this manner often make
fine fowls, which are solid flesh-makers
and good egg producers.
"EAoH agricultural society should
| pick out the best young farmer within it's
| bounds and give him an education at
the Agricultural College," is the good
suggestion of President Chadbourne.
| EVERY farmer who has to contend with
stony land will thank us for saying that
when the small stones are to be picked,
two men with dung forks will do more
work, and do it easier, than four with
| their hands.
! AN improved stanchion has been in
vented that possesses at least one excel
| lent feature. The frame is turned on
| pivots, so that the animal confined can
turn its head and neck with as great
ease as when tied to a rope or chain.
To make cisterns and tanks water
tight, paint thickly on the inside with
mixture of two parts of melted glue and
one of linseed oil, boiled with litharge.
In forty-eight hours the coating will be
so hard that the tank can be filed with
water
For a number of years a German
paper-mazer has been utilizing the
waste water from his engines, conduct
ing it by bitches to and upon the
meadows adjoining his mill. He asserts
that his profits from his grass crop have
been trebled.
The farmer should buy no implement
of the value of which he has not good
evidence-the best attainable. Where
it is practicable he should either see it in
actual operation, or obtain the opinions
of those who have SO seen it. After its
value is determined, he should see
whether it is adapted to his particular
wants.
The most vital point of the beet-root
grower is the quality of the seed he
uses. When beets were first grown for
sugar, 5 per cent. Of sugar was the
amount obtained; now Is per cent. is
obtainable in favorable instances. This
has been attained entirely by the i'm
provement of the pedigree principle Of
the seed.
M. MARGUERITE, of France, draws at
tention to the great waste of blood, when
it can render such invaluable services as
manure. a preparation of sulphate
of iron, one quart to twenty of blood,
will convert the latter into a cake which,
when dried, either by pressure or heat,
will readily pulvarize, and contain from
A MISSOURI farmer writes: AS soon
as | find an animal in distress from bloat
from eating wet grass or clover, wet it
along the back with cold well-water, and
also place a large cloth or blanket of
several thicknesses over the paunch,
after being saturated with all the cold
water that it will absorb, and over that
dry blanket. If the cold water is pro-
perly applied, one will not have long to
wait for a cure.
MORE mowers are injured or spoiled
every season In cutting the grass that
grows near fences in orchards or on
broken ground than in cutting that
which cover fields that are clear of i'm
pediments. The Old-fashiOned scythe
should be employed to cut not only the
lodged grass and clover that grow in
fields where there are no impediments,
but that which is in orchards, near
fences and in fields where there are
obstacles that will impede the operation
of the HORSEPOWER.
THE famous system of rotation, now
extended quite generally throughout
England and Scotland, with occasional
notifications, is as follows: The first
year, clover and mixed grass seed; the
second year, wheat; the third year, tur-
nips or rutabagas; the fourth year, bar
ley; and then the same course again.
An innovation on this is to add another
grain crop, oats, to the shift, making a
five years course; and SO efficient has
this course been that it has been calu-
lated that the grain crops have increased
one-fourth.
The eye of a steer, when prominent,
bright and clear, with mild and gentle
expression, is an indication of health,
with quiet disposition and good-feeding
quality. If the eye is dull and sunken
the capillary circulation Will be defec-
tive, and the functions of nutrition i'm
perfectly performed, and there will not
not only be deficiency in the ability to
fatten, bot lack of strength and consti-
tutional vigor. A restless and wild ex-
preston of theeye indicates predomin-
ance of nervous action and unquiet
disposition that is not compatible with