Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-27
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

AIAhh1 OOeblA-ACCu1bfS Ill OLC AuAl WILL
make the winters progress more certain
by 80 per cent.
EVERY day all animal is kept, after
being prime, there is loss, exclusive of
manure. The external evidences of
primeness are full rumps, tanks, twist,
purse, shoulder, vein and eye.
TREES that have good top-dressing
OF straw, chip manure, sawdust or
shavings will be found growing well
during the hot months, while they will
ripen up all the new wood well in the
fall.
The best trap for moles is arsenic.
Take sixteen grains of arsenic and Raix
In half pint of meal. Make into soft
dough; make hole in their paths; put
In little of the dough and cover up.
They will never travel theruns but once.
In packing butter and getting it ready
for market, says the Shipping List, neat
ness is indispensable, and besides it
pays. Never pack two colors in the
same package. Light colored or streaked
butter always sells hard and at low
prices.
IT is found that the galvanizing pro-
cess does not prevent fence wire from
rusting. AS soon as the coating is re-
moved IN few places the rusting taxes
place faster than on iron that is not COW
cred. A covering of paint or tar is
preferable to one Of zinc, and is less ex-
penslve.
AS soon as the fruiting canes of rasp-
berries and blackherries have fulfilled
their mission they should be removed,
so as to allow their successors to receive
proper attention. The present seasons
shoots ought to be pinched back and tied
up carefully to stakes. Do not allow
more than three or four canes to remain
IN a hill.
To remove bolts that have rusted in
without breaking them, the most eff
fectual remedy known is the liberal ap-
plication of petroleum. Care must be
taken that the rusted parts are reached
by it, and some time must be allowed to
give it q chance to soften the layer of
rust before any attempts are made to
remove the bolt.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Canadian
HOrticulturist pooh-poohs the notion of
bagging grapes to prevent the depreda-
lions OF birds, and says sheet of coarse
gauze or netting spread over the entire
vine Is much more easily secured, will
last several years with ordinary care, and
is a great saving OF time, while the ex-
pense is not sufficient to prevent common
use.
THERE are many farmers who have. eX-
ira good butter COWS and do not know it.
They have poor pastures in summer and
no shelter and Indifferent feed in winter.
In the house they have no convenience
for making butter; the milk is set where
there are no arrangements for keeping it
cool in summer, and IN the living room,
exposed to the Odors of the kitchen, IN
winter; and neither the quantity nor the
quality are any index of what q COW
can do.
A WRITER to the Prairie Farmer tried
the experiment. of fat and hill cultiva-
ton for vines. This year squashes,
pumpkins, melons and other vegetables
were planted, part in hills and part fat
He recommends the Level cultivation as
the best, as hot weather did greater
damage In the hills. In ten days the
difference was very marked. Although
the fiat cultivation was superior for a
dry season, the hill system is preferable
for wet one.
AT this season many families are
obliged to use the family well as a re-
frigerator, hanging down pals of meat
and cans of milk, or cream or packages
of butter, sometimes whole churnings to
harden for working or moulding. Great
care should be taken not to let milk or
crumbs of food fall into the water. A
very little milk will entirely spoil the
water In a pretty full well III short
time, rendering it not only distasteful,
bu-5 positively poisonous.
The best time for top dressing grass
land is as soon after the second crop has
been removed as possible-say during
the latter part of August and September.
The manure gives the grass good start
to carry through the winter and acts as
protecting mulch. Top dressing not
only strengthens the already growing
grasses. but according to the law Of sur
vival of the fittest in nature, brings out
the better kinds to the exclusion CT the
poorer grasses and weeds.
TIE fall is an excellent time to plant
all kinds OF fruit trees, except In the
very coolest climates the peach may per-
haps, be reserved for spring. Ii the
fruit orchard is to go on hill, or where
the trees may dry out easily in summer
time, toe fall ig the best time. The roots
get the earliest start in spring against
the cry time cometh. Small growing
things IN cold climates should have the
earth well drawn up around the plants
in order to guard against being drawn
out by frost.
In test with oats the red-rust proof
gave 10 bushels per acre at 80 pounds
per bushel, weighing 81 pounds per
measured bushel, and 488 pounds of
straw. The Washington yielded 182
bushels at 80 pounds per bushel, and
303 pounds per measured bushel, with
$50 pounds of straw. The Chinese
hulleSs produced 164 bushels at 80
pounds per bushel, and As pounds per