Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-23
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

IN aIIdHSSIIS p0ICueS IOr lows allow
six inches for each bird.
ALL kinds of stock thrive better by
having variety of feed.
JOHN NORTON, a Michigan farmer,
says tile draining doubled the value Of
his heavy land.
NEVER use the curry comb on a
horses legs below the knee or hook. A
corn broom is best since it takes out the
dirt and does not hurt the horse.
WHEN turkeys are not two months old
they can successfully withstand the Sc
verest weather if dry. In wet weather
they should be confined in yard under
cover.
DoN'T forget the salt remedy for
chinch bugs. Scatter wherever they are
in growing crops, It will not cost much,
and it is said to be very good as a pre-
ventive.
HORSES are social animals, particular
" so IN the case of young horses.
They thrive best when in the society of
others; hence the advantage of pastur-
ing several in one field when practic-
able.
The general effect of lime is to render
available the plant food already in the
soil, without itself supplying any signi-
fcant amount. Lining cannot, there
fore, be successfully repeated except at
considerable intervals.
STABLE the young calves and colts
through the heat of the day and they
will make a better growth than if al
lowed to run at large and waste their
flesh in fighting flies. Never slack up
on the feed Of growing stock.
A New JERSEY farmer reports that q
dressing of eight bushels per acre of
salt to land badly infested with white
grubs enabled him to raise good crops of
corn for three years past, which was i'm
possible previous to this application.
WASHING with kerosene and water, or
amounting with sulphur ointment, will
kill Ice on hogs. In the stables use
quicklime, carbolic acid, petroleum or
turpentine, first deluging them with
boiling water. Persian insect powder in
the beds will kill the lice.
The breeds of sheep that produce the
finest mutton do best in small hocks.
and at present prices the production of
mutton is much more profitable than the
production of wool. To raise good NUT
ton it is necessary to keep sheep where
variety of food can be obtained.
The only way to remove the peach
grub is to scrape away the earth from
the foot of the tree, and follow all the
under bark burrows to their end, with
the point of the knife. AS they do not
enter the wood the wire is not required,
being used only for the apple-tree
borer, which penetrates deeply into the
wood.
BUT a few operations on the farm pay
better than the improvement of pasture
lands that have been fed q score or more
of years by cattle. Pastures fed SO long,
with nothing done 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.
THERE is perhaps more hay injured by
not being dried enough than by being
dried too much. One extreme is equally
as bad as the other. Glover, for in
stance, if allowed to become too dry in
the sun, will lose all of its leaves and its
blossoms, and the stalks that are left are
of little value. On the other hand, if
put III the NOW too soon 1t will become
NOW burnt and equally worth less.
DISCUSSING the German method of
planting potatoes, with ample distance
and with eyes under, so that the stems
shall grow widely apart, foreign cor
respondent asserts that it not only saves
in seed, but produces more and better
crops. Often in England, he says, a
dozen tubers are used where one only
would be enough, but it is difficult to
make some new gardeners believe it.
MEMBERS of the Elmira Farmers
CLUB who have tried the -four from
amber sugar cane seed as a substitute
for buckwheat, say that cakes made of
1t were In no respect inferior to light
buckwheat cakes, SO far as taste is con-
cerned. They were somewhat darker in
color, perhaps because of lack of skill in
their preparation. On the whole they
were of such merits as to make this new
use of amber cane seed appear an i'm
portant gain.
PROFESSOR BEAL OF the Michigan
Agricultural College says that the young
tree must be treated very much like
hill of corn; therefore raise hoed crops
in a young orchard. He also, like most
intelligent horticulturists, says it is
good plan to keep young trees mulched
to prevent rapid evaporation from the
soil, keep the surface mellow and pre-
vent the soil from freezing and thawing
IN winter, and from becoming overhead
ed In summer.
A VERY simple and alleged effective
remedy against the currant worm has
been discovered. 1t consists simply in
wetting the bush with a watering-pot,
and then busting them thoroughly with
sifted coal ashes. If necessary, do this
for two mornings The remedy was
first recommended by correspondence of
the Germantown Telegraph, and the edi-
tor of that paper tried it himself. He
pronounces it certain remedy. It is
simple enough, and almost anybody can
get coal ashes.
The English cavalry horses are fed
fan oI1arts of oats and tuaIua mounds oe