Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-03-29
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

taken care of will continue to produce
fruit for twenty years.
THERE is no vegetable on the farm that
pays bigger per cent, If properly man.
aged, than the sweet potato.
SHAPE up your work so that you will
have all your time and energy for the
planting and tillage of your crops.
EXAMINE the farm implements now.
Where grease has become hardened with
dust it may be removed with kerosene.
A GOOD pasture is a first-class SANTA
rian for all kinds of stock. Sweet, green
grass is the best medicine for most of
the ills of animals.
PLUMP and very salabIe chickens can
be procured by crossinga Bantam rooster
on ordinary common hens. They are
not large but of good quality.
HEDGES are ornamental and useful.
but if they are left to take care of them
selves, they serve as harbors for weeds,
obnoxious grasses and insects.
HoRsERADIsE is a profitable crop to
grow, as it finds sale at from to cents
per pound unprepared. It is bought
readily by manufacturers of the prepared
article.
BLUE GRASS is somewhat delicate
when very young, but after it gets good
hold it usurps the soil, cleaning out all
other grasses. 1t should not be pastured
the first season.
GRAPES rank among the most healthy
and nutritious of fruit. They ornament
the table and furnish most excellent
food. They are the cheapest luxuries
that can be enjoyed on farms.
IT has been ascertained that where
eggs are sold by the pound that they
vary In weight from one to four ounces.
The average weight Of dozen eggs is
twenty-three and half ounces.
ALL premises that have been occupied
by poultry during the winter, should
now be thoroughly cleansed. All nests,
feed boxes and fixtures must be over
hauled to remove dirt and any lurking
disease.
SHEEP do excellently well on straw.
They seek out the best part of it, and it
is recommended that straw which is to
be used for litter be first placed before
sheep so that they may get from it the
portion that is valuable as fodder.
ALL who have thoroughly tried it rec
ommend planting sweet corn for summer
feeding Of hogs, and soiling dairy COWS.
Sweet corn seed seldom grows as certain
ly as the standard corn, and consequent
ly there should bemore care in the selec-
tion.-LoaO0 State Register.
UNLESS land is very wet, Professor
F. Farsky finds that potassium salts ex-
ercise very beneficial action, but they
are best as manures when in combina-
ton with phosphoric and nitro {enous
substances. Chloride of potassium
turned out to be of greater advantage
than the sulphate.
A READER requests remedy for ex-
cessive sweating in horses. This is
usually caused by feeding them too much
corn, and hence the best remedy is to di-
minish the quantity of corn and vary
the feed as much as possible. Some
horses, however, are constitutionally
subject to sweats.
If you begin pruning fruit and orna-
mental trees and shrubbery while young,
and follow it up each year, you can
form just such a top as you want. II
your tree needs spreading out, cut the
young shoots off just above a bud on the
outside of a shoot; and if you want to
train upward, leave a bud on the upper
side of the limb where you cut it off.
The best treatment for a mare in foal
is to give her moderate exercise daily,
care being taken against over exertion.
othy hay, well cut and sailed, ground
I 4, -
toes or other roots. Feed some corn or
meal, but not too much, in order to
guard against milk fever. See that the
colt promptly relieves the udder as soon
as possible after birth.
MOST farmers do not appear to appre-
ciate the value of good pastures. They
seem to forget that their largest reven-
ues are derived from them. The largest
yield of milk is during the time COWS are
in pasture and requiring scarcely any at
tention. The greatest growth of wool
and the heaviest gain In the weight of
all young animals are made during the
period that the pastures furnish all the
feed required for stock.
TT is not best to breed from turkeys
the first year. Persons commencing
with pair of young birds can not well
avoid this, but if you are. going to make
a purchase do not take birds less than
2 years old. Some breeds attain matur-
ity at years, but bronze turkeys not
until they are years old. Ii possible
SELECT those for breeders that are not
only years of age, but that have been
bred from well-matured birds.
JOHN TALcoTT, of Rome, N. Y,
believes the best roots for stock are the
long orange carrot, the white, sweet
German turnip, and potatoes. The car
rots he would feed with meal or shorts
and early cut hay to dairy cows. There
is something in roots thus fed with meal,
he adds, that seems to give an animal a
better appetite, and consequently
greater gain than where dry food alone
is used. The animal thus fed is not as
likely to cloy in it's appetite as when dry
food is used.
SOME writer has recommended that
salt and tar be mixed and put in the bot
tom of the salt trough for sheep. We
are satisfied that this would be an ex-
cellent plan. The tar by itself hardens