Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-05
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

1IoSu IuutulhGeIy aIGer eacn moving.
PLUMP and very salable chickens can
be procured by crossing bantam rooster
on ordinary common hens. They are
not large, but of good quality.
NEwLY-wEANED pigs require five or
SIX meals in the twenty-four hours In
about ten days one may be omitted; in
another week a second, and then they
should do with three regular meals.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rurul New
Yorker wrltesz "Tell your readers to
put one pint of salt and one pint of soft
soap ut ought to be farmers soap) to ten
gallons OF water, and use it on c11rrants
and gooseberries. I'll warrant them a
full crop. Put plenty of ashes-wood or
coai-around the roots to increase the
size Of the berries"
REMEDIES for diseases of sheep are
many, but few are effectual. This is
owing to the fondness of sheep for com
partnership. Disease once introduced
into flock spreads rapidly, and sick
sheep as a general thing never get we'll.
Farmers who wish to be successful with
| sheep should guard them against ex-
posure and contagion.
GERMAN observations show that the
annual yield of milk rises gradually
from the birth of the first calf till the
fifth, reaches it's maximum at the sixth,
sinks gradually until the tenth calf.
when it is about the same as at the first
calving, and, after the thirteenth or
fourteenth calf, is only fourth or
One-ffth of the maximum yield.
WHAT can be done in the case of
self-m1lking cows?" The easiest way
to stop the practice is to tie across the
| forehead, at the base of the horns, with
stout leather strings in way that will
not cut into the skin, a strong hickory
stick about three feet long and with the
ends pointed so that they will prick the
sides when she reaches for her teats.
SHAPING young trees may be easily eff
fected if taken in time, by summer prun-
ing and pinching. A needless or mis-
placed shoot, which might become con-
spicuous distortion If left to grow, is
rubbed off with the thumb when an inch
or two long. Branches which are run
ming out too long are stopped by pinch
ing off the ends. By these means
handsome and symmetrical head is easily
given to young tree if taken in time.
EARLY chickens will pay for all extra
care, either for poultry or show birds.
In the fall bird old enough to exhibit
in August or September will bring twice
as much as much better one will in
December. The satisfaction of having a
few birds that look mature and nice when
the main flock is IN the stage of extreme
ugliness does much to keep you alive to
yotr care. Many chickens are neglect
ed at the time they need the most care.
MELON seed should be planted in a
warm soil and sunny exposure. Stimu-
ate the plants by applying phosphate,
guano or liquid manure. An occasional
application of warm washing suds dur
ing dry weather is of material benefit.
AS the melons grow mostly on the sec
ond set of laterals-never on the main
vine-it is of great Importance and will
hasten the setting of fruit days and even
weeks TO pinch off the ends of the main
vine, and also of the first of laterals
when two or three feet long. -F'0rzn and
Garden.
THINNING the fruit, when it is quite
small, on apple, peach or pear trees, will
give better fruit and enough larger to
afford as many bushels as can be had
from small, overcrowded trees. On
heavily loaded trees from two-thirds to
three-fourths of the fruit may be taken
off to great advantage. The thinning
may be performed by cutting off the
blossoms with a pair of sheep shears; or
after the fruit is set and is as large as
small cherries, or still larger, so as to
show defects or insect marks; leaving the
largest and pest.
1T is strange to me why satisfy is not
more generally grown. 1t is of very
easy culture, and it is an admirable sub
stitute, in the spring of the year, for
oysters, if properly cooked. It is Guilt
waited very similarly to parsnips. The
soil should be fine and deep, so that the
roots may run down straight. They
may be used in the fall, or winter, if
preferred, or left in the ground during
the winter, like parsnips, and dug in the
spring before they commence to grow.
The roots are prepared for cooking by
scraping and washing, and then sliced
up and treated as oysters.
A KENTUCKY COW, raised on the farm
of Erastus Ellsworth, of East Windsor
| Hill, has a remarkable record. On
ApTu d, IOI 4, SuO gave OII 1u W WILLS,
one male and female; on March Is, 1878,
she gave birth to triplets, two males and
one female, making five calves in eleven
months and three days; on July 9, 1879,
she gave birth to twins, both males; on
October Z, 1880, she gave birth to trip
lets, two males and one female, making
ten calves in three years, five mouths
and twenty-one days. The calves have
all been of good size, healthy and hand
some, and have all been raised on the
farm.
RASPBERRY suckers, if numerous,
crowd and reduce the strength of the
| few to be left for next years bearing.
They should therefore be cut off with a
sharp hoe as soon as they make their ap-
pearance above ground, leaving only a
few of the strongest to grow for next
years crop-in other words, treated pre-
cisely as weeds. The new canes will
soon be two or three feet high, when the
| +o,,o oboY1ld no Y1ipchod off and after