Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-15
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

EARLY stable milk should be used to
manufacture veal, instead of butter and
cheese.
The value of grass for fattening stock
is not appreciated In the great corn
growing regions of the west.
SPRINKLE salt freely over the manure
every morning before cleaning out the
stables, and when thrown into the COM
post heap it will not burn.
FARMERS should by all means SOW
only clean seed, on well prepared lands,
whether they SOW little or much, and
the crop will be much better by such
care.
If pasture has been reserved for the
sheep and not fed down, there is no time
in the season when they will DO better
than the last of November and the fore
part of winter.
For turning under a heavy sod there
is nothing to equal pair of good oxen.
They may be a little slow at the work.
but it will be we'll done if they are man
aged by good driver.
ALFALFA has proven to the Colorado
ranchman that more sheep can be kept
on o given area of land than was ever
dreamed of by the most enthusiastic
ranchman of the plains.
ONE COW well fed and comfortably
cared for will produce quite as much
milk and butter as two that are allowed
to run at large, lie on the wet ground
and be subject to the exposure of the
weather.
CATTLE and sheep can be fattened on
grass alone, and very excellent beef and
mutton be produced. It is necessary.
however, to have better pasturage than
is usually allowed ordinary stock cattle,
or even dairy COWS.
CATS on the farm do much damage in
destroying useful birds, and they often
play with the chickens when the master
is at home, but they do not forget to ap-
propr1ate young one or two occasional
ly when unobserved. They understand
how to act much better than may be
supposed.
Cookie seed is like wild mustard,
oily, and will remain in the ground for
scores of years until turned up by the
pillow, whep it grows again. There is
probably not one acre of cultivated
ground In many counties but would pro-
duce some cookie if it is plowed deeper
than usual in any year.
MANY farmers are at great pains to
pillow up land every season, and to raise
cultivated crops on it for the purpose of
feeding them to stock intended for the
butcher in the fall, when the animals
would do better If allowed to eat the
grass that would grow on the land that
is turned under by the pillow.
OCCASIONAL sowing of little patches
of ground with mustard, green peas,
oats, etc., will do much to assist in keep
ing COW on small farm. They grow
quickly and the same land will give sew
eral crops. A little discretion in this
way will save much expense as to keep
as well as furnishing early green feed.
MANY dairymen practice milking their
COWS steadily without allowing the ami
mails to go dry. They feed heavily on
cornmeal and oil cake until the milk
fails, when the COW is replaced by fresh
one. A dairyman who keeps $50 COWS
says such practice is more profitable
than to lose the time between their
going dry and coming in.
BE careful about permitting cattle to
drink from bitches or from pools in which
they are accustomed to stand, or in
which their droppings are deposited.
Such impure water is not only liable to
injure the health of the stock, but is also
a fruitful cause of malarial and typhoid
fever among those who use milk product
from COWS thus watered.
THE Toronto Globe says that the best
thing to be done to hen with frozen
feet is to put the hen in box with
plenty of hay, and place the box in some
building which is not very warm, but
where the temperature is above freezing
point, and let the frost come out gradual
ly. Fowls should have better quarters
than places where their feet freeze.
PERSONS who raise eggs for their own
use should be careful about the food
they feed their fowls, as well as about
their surroundings. They should be
kept in clean quarters or be allowed the
run of grounds that contain no filthy
substances. The character of the egg
will be influenced by the substances
taken into the stomach of the fowl that
lays it.
The New England Farmer says Yer
mont dairyman MIXED fifteen COWS, with
the usual hay and coarse fodder of the
farm, with corn and cob meal, ground
with oats, and obtained weekly product
of seventy pounds of butter. By giving
two quarts of cotton seed meal, in place
of the same value of corn and oats, he
increased his yield of butter to ninety
pounds per week.
SEVERAL objections are made to fax
culture, but none of them are well
founded. The first that may be men
toned is that this crop is an exhaustive
one. There was more force in this state
ment formerly when seed, stalk and
roots were all carried from the field
where the crop was grown than there is
now, or since it has been harvested with
the reaper. Any crop will exhaust the
soil if grown successfully upon it with
out manure. A proper rotation in which
fax is not raised oftener than every
fourth year on the same ground will re-
move this objection. Western Farmer.
A DRY substance like wool or sawdust