Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

sheep and tape-worms.
TUBER-RooTED begonias are said to
need 40 artificial heat, light, nor water
during the winter.
IT is the opinion of many that q fowl
fattened quickly will make far more
juicy and toothsome meal than chick.
One thing is certain, 3-year-old fowl
will make a much better broth for an III
valid than a 6-months chicken.
BEES should be fed their winter stores
early, so that it may be capped over. To
cap the honey the bees must secrete the
necessary wax, which they cannot do
when the weather is very cold. Uncapped
honey gathers moisture and becomes un-
wholesome as food.
In nature we never dealwith pure
water, but with water holding in solu-
ton various matters either derived from
the air or from the soil, or generally
from both. These substances modify,
and in most instances enhance the solv-
ent power of water, and through this
power vegetation is supplied with the
elements of its growth.
BEES winter much better when they
are crowded onto few frames of comb,
dying In less numbers and consuming
less heat. The explanation is the econ
omy of heat. The small space is easily
warmed, and the bees are not irritated
by the cold. Cold brings overeating,
dysentery, and if the bees cannot fly,
death.
TRUMAN A. COLE, of Solsville. N. Y,
who has what is believed to be the only
herd of Holderness cattle in the country
which has been bred in-and-in, says
after twenty-eight years of such work his
animals are remarkably uniform and
vigorous, and average 800 pounds of
fancy butter and $50 calf per COW
yearly.
STABLE manure is preferable to any
other fertilizer. No farmer can afford
to waste his manure. All of it should
be saved and utilized. In many cases
farming would be more profitable if less
land was cultivated, with higher fertili-
zation. One acre highly MANFRED should
pay better than three but half MANFRED
and half cultivated.
WHY will grass not grow under our
trees? Mr.. Paul Bert has shown that
green light hinders the development of
plants. Plants enclosed in a green glass
frame wither and die as though they
were in darkness. M. Regnard finds
that plants specially require the red
rays. IF sunlight is deprived of the red
rays the plants soon cease to thrive.
A GERMAN manufacturer has figured
out automatically thatin windmilIs the
most serviceable wind is one that blows
at velocity of twenty. three feet a Sec
ond. The fans of the windwheel revolve
with nearly double the velocity of the
wind. The lowest number of days in
the year that the wind is serviceable is
$50, and the greatest number is $50.
In Denmark, in the management of
the dairy, rape-cake, oats and wheat
bran are reckoned as frst-class butter
foods, palm-nut cake and barley as Sec
ond-class foods, while linseed cake, peas
and rye are classed in the third class.
By the employment of first and second
class foods, with cut straw, hay and roots,
an abundance of butter is produced
throughout the winter.
LINsEED cake is said to be useful in
moderate quantities for mich COWS in
keeping up their condition, and also en-
riching, to some extent, their milk. It
is fattening food, and should not be fed
literally to mich COWS. In nutr1tive
value 22.3 parts of oil cake are equal to
100 parts Of good hay. When used jul
diciously with other feed it is certainly
beneficial, and will not destroy the but
ter particles In the cream.
POTATO -four, or the dried pulp of the
potato, is attaining great Importance to
the arts. It is stated that in Ian
cashire, England, 10000 tons of it are
sold annually, and 1t brings at present in
Liverpool about double as much in the
market as wheat -four. It is used for
sizing and other manufacturing pur-
poses, and when precipitated with acid
is turned to starch. When calcined, it
is employed as a dressing for silk.
JUDGE BARLOW, of New York, states
that he would not use Paris green in de-
stroying the potato beetle because of the
danger of getting the soil full of the
the vines and kill them. He would let
no one GO over his farm with gun until
he knew that what was shot was destruc-
tive. No one should kill an insect until
he knows what it is. sit is BEST" he
says, ito comply with nature, and for
no man more than the farmer. We are
i'll the habit of killing every insect we
see, yet we could not exist without the
insect world.
IT is not wise to take seed corn from a
locality where it has obtained a local
reputation for being a superior article,
unless climate and soil are nearly or
quite the same. At the present time
there is large demand for seed corn
that has obtained a fixed pedigree.
There is also a general impression that
two varieties planted together will SO
feftilize each other that larger crop
can be obtained than where one variety
alone is planted. At the same time it is
decidedly the best for the farmer to OBJ