Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-22
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

Buy none but The best variety of fruit
trees.
HENS, as rule, lay about an equal
number of eggs in their first and second
seasons, after which the produce rapidly
decreases.
NITRATE of soda is very soluble, and
for that reason should be put on the
land in the spring, especially if used on
light soils.
GRANITE rocks, sand and dust contain
large amounts of potash. On some of
our sandy lands an application of pot
ash has but little effect.
The man who neglected to purchase q
pure bred lamb because it costs more
than common one is the man who al
ways insists that sheep are very unpro-
fitable.
IT does not require heavy pastures for
sheep. They are great foragers, and
weeds, leaves and even stubble enters in
their bill of fare. They equal the goat
in that respect.
Mr.. HARRIS LEWIS gives it as his
opinion that grazing for milk may be
made to pay till land reaches 500 an
acre. On land of greater value, grazing
COWS for profit is questionable.
WHITE leaves and variegated white
and green leaves indicate degeneracy in
a plant. A branch with leaves entirely
white is no longer capacle of propaga-
ton; it is in the lastsstage of its exist
ence.
LINsEED oil, well applied with white
wash brush, has been recommended by
q Kentucky fruit-grower as a reliable
remedy for pear blight. He claims to
have efect1lally' checked the progress of
this disease with it's use.
The great mistake in setting out
| hedges is to throw up the ridge to set
them on. The best results always come
from a perfectly level ground. The adj
vantages of this plan to promote growth
is as great as level cultivation of corn.
A FEW sheep could be kept upon
every dairy farm with profit, and would
be a benefit to the pastures, eating that
which the COWS reject, and when in win
ter quarters they would eat much the
COWS refuse, and so would be of very
small extra cost.
In reply to a correspondent the Louis
vile Journal says, SOW as soon as you
can work the ground in spring, and on
until the middle of April. For field Gull
ture use one and one-fourth to one and
One-half bushels of seed per acre; for a
| thick lawn two bushels.
The Poultry Mon thly says that, as a
rule, one variety of fowls is enough for
almost any pers on to manage success
fully and proftably, and this is espe-
cially true with beginners, who have to
gain their experience in all the varied
details of poultry management.
SOME farmers think cow must eat all
the time when confined in the stall. It
is poor economy which puts fresh cay
into a Manager on top of older hay. A
little tossing of the hay left in the
manager will dry it and make it seem of
renewed Diceness to COWS or horses.
EXPERIMENTS have shown that of 100
pounds of the dry matter of fodder the
following amounts pass into the excre-
ments, solid and liquid together. Fed
to the horse, 53 pounds; the mich COWS,
Al pounds; the OK, 50 pounds, and the
sheep, 48 pounds. On the average,
then, about one-half of the dry matter of
the fodder passes into the manure.
FROM the, day you slip halter over a
young horses ears he should be encour-
aged to look to you like child for all
his little wants and simple pleasures.
He should come cantering up from the
farther corner of the paddock when he
hears your voice; should ask to have his
nose rubbed, his head stroked, his neck
patted, with those honest pleading looks
which make the confidence of dumb
creature so touching.
ALL live stock should be kept clean.
They should not be exposed to the
severe weather of winter, not only be-
cause it does not pay. It costs money
for an animal to keep itself warm, for it
must be done at the expense of the food
it gets or the flesh it has already gained.
An animal Is in many respects an engine
and it's food is the fuel. Any shelter
given to the farm stock saves in food.
just as covering to boiler saves fuel.
THE "latest is prepared food for
stock, i. e., ration composed of hay,
pressed and sold in the market as "com-
towns it is possibly very desirable food
for horse or COW if it is up to the
claimed nutritive standard, but economy
upon the farm would say that the farm
can but supply the food that stock may
require.
THE value of potash for the grape has
been recognized by cultivators. A curl
Gus proof is reported to one of the
French journals. A variety of the black
musket has been found defective in color
where potash is deficient in the soil,
and the writer recommends that one
vine of this grape be. placed in every
grape house, to show by it's full or by
its deficient color, whether the border
for the roots has q sufficient supply of
potash.
MANY a dollar that would otherwise
come to the fockowner is lost through
his failure to appreciate the fact that
maximum profits is secured through the
quality and condition of his sheep,
rather than through numbers. Quality
and condition are the inseperable re-
quisites to real success. The first of
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