Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-25
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

DIES lEOUu sudden IfOStS.
OLD carpets and bags are good for
covering potatoes in cellars.
LIMA beans should be gathered as
soon as the pods are nearly dry, shelled
and put away In paper bags for winter
use.
In the south COW peas are greatly es-
teemed for fodder, their vines when
cured being held sup erior to the best hay
there grown.
In shipping poultry to the city mar
ket be sure to mark the box or package
plainly with name of consignor and con-
signee. Also send invoice by mail.
SOME florists recommend the placing
of layer of oats under the sand in
which slips are planted. They act as
stlmulant and feeder to the young roots.
CORN smut is injurious to animals,
acting both as poison and mechanical
irritant. For this reason the smut
should be kept from the feeding stalls.
SUNFLowER seed given to horse at
each morning and night feed will keep
him in good spirits and give his hair a
sleek appearance. So says the National
Farmer.
A GALLON of milk is said to have
food value equal to two pounds of beef.
But farmers sell milk for 10 or IL cents
a gallon, and buy beef at % and 30 cents
per pound.
A FEW bulbs of crocus and snowdrop
planted about on the lawn produce a
very pleasing effect early in the spring;
they bloom before it is necessary to use
the lawn mower, and remain from year
to year.
IT is good idea to select potatoes
that are to be planted next spring as they
are dug this fall, and then give them
good care in the winter. Choose tubers
from vigorous growing plants, and those
that are fully matured
Now cut away the old tops from the
asparagus beds, clean off all weeds and
cover the crowns with liberal mulch
of good manure. Early in spring fork
over the surface, allowing the short,
rOtted portion of the manure to remain,
but raking off the coarse, strawy ma
terial.
THOUGH ensiloing may take place at
any time before frost, the successful cur
ing of corn fodder can only be done after
the nights are cool, if not cold. It
should stand until about the time of the
first frosts before cutting, and, after
partly curing, should be put in bundles
and large stocks, to remain until the
ground freezes. AQTicuI-
tUr5St
THERE Is no farm work in the doing of
which there is so much difference In men
as in husking. One man will husk two
bushels while another is husking one.
Employ good huskers, and pay them by
the bushel, if possible. See personally
that the bundles of stalks are well bound
and stacked, If they are to be left in the
field.
Corn will shrink from the time it is
husked from the field or shock in the
autumn, in we'll protected cribs from
twenty to thirty per cent, by spring.
That is, one hundred bushels will shrink
to seventy or eighty, according to how
dry it was when gathered. Sound corn
will shrink twenty per cent, SO that
forty cents per bushel as it comes from
the field is as good as fifty cents In the
spring. -Pr0drie Farmer.
IT is best, of course, to have rat-proof
corn-cribs, but '"rail pen cribs are just
as goad for the corn, If well covered with
boards or a straw roof. Chickens and
turkeys will steal a little, and rats and
squirrels have fine chance at it, but
what the poultry take is not lost, and
the vermin can be kept down by cats
and terriers. The price of corn is likely
to rule high, and it is certainly worth
while to prevent all loss OF this valuable
food by unusual care.
Colo In horses is often brought on
by feeeiDg hay passed through corn
stalk-cutters, mixed with meal, mid
1lings, or bran, then went up. The
horse eats this food thus prepared so
rapidly that it is notproperly masticated
and consequently becomes so clod-
ded in the stomach as to cause indiges-
ton, followed by collie, more especially
if directly after eating he is allowed to
drink heartily of water, and the colder
this is so much more is it liable to bring
on colic.-LiVe Stock Record.
The Scientific American gives the fol-
lowing information 10 those who desire
to get rid of stumps on the farm: In.
the autumn or early winter bore hole
one or two inches In diameter, according
to the girth of the stump, and about
light inches deep. Put into it one OF
two ounces of saltpeter, fill the hole with
water and plug it close. In the ensuing
spring pour in gill of kerosene oil and
Ignite it. The stump will shoulder
away, without blazing, to the very ex-
tremlty of the roots, leaving nothing but
ashes.
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Farmer says: Ipreserve green tomatoes
in this manner: Before the approach
of frost I spread about six inches of
straw in my hotbeds and in all the cold
frames that I can spare, and when Z
think the tomatoes are no longer safe M
open ground, I pick them from the
vines and place them on the straw in my
frames, being careful not to heap them
much. / then put on the sash and treat
them pretty much as / would tender
plants in my hotbed, giving them air
whenever the weather will permit. Toma-
toes can be preserved In this way until
January I.
HEALTHY animals will eat more food
In cold than in warm weather When