Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-15
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

milk is worth one-quarter to one-half
more, and others twice as much as skim
milk.
In selecting bucks, endeavor to pro-
cure one from hardy breed rather than
for size. Cost Of keep, care and manage
ment are important items.
WHEN farmer neglects or refuses CO.
operating with his brother farmers he
strikes a blow at the advancement of his
class and becomes his own worst enemy.
IT is the experience of old stockmen
that when corn is the highest is Just
when they can least afford to feed
merely enough to keep stock from losing
flesh.
Mr.. w. +. BROWN, of Oxford, O.,
shows his appreciation of sawdust as an
absorbent in the cow-stables, by sending
six miles for it and paying 25 cents per
load.
ONE dollars worth of food after the
COW is dry is worth 81. SO after she comes
in. An animal in poor condition can not
digest as much food as one in good con-
dition.
IF ewes suffer from an excess of milk
or inflammation of the udder on account
of weakness or loss of the lambs, the
milk should be drawn either by hand OF
by substituting an orphan lamb.
MERINo ewes that have been bred to
Cotswold bucks will bring forth lambs
that will require copious nourishment.
The MerinO mother is a small sheep.
Such cross needs the watchful eye of
farmer
ALsIKE clover is highly praised by
those who have grown it. The vines
often attain length of five or six feet.
Used as pastrrage it makes good feed
ing plant. Ten pounds is the usual
amount recommended for seeding an
acre.
In feeding, farmers should remember
that the measure of the value of food
is in a great degree determined by its
price. If hay is worth $40 per ton and
corn the same price, feed largely of corn,
using only hay enough to distend the
stomachs of the animals.
Four pigs ono day less than months
old were slaughtered January Sd, at
Major George S. Leland's Highland
Farm, Euclid, O., that weighed, when
dressed, respectively. 80, 286, 284 and
268 pound; total, 1,148 pounds, being
an increase of over one pound per day
for each pig.
HE brown Leghorns are looming up
as winter layers. 1t is claimed that they
are equal to the heavy feathered fowls in
that respect. The consideration, how
ever, is that they must be kept very
comfortable and have a proportion of
animal food. If exposed and unpro-
tected they are liable to roup, and sick
fowl is the most Improbable thing a
farmer can have.
AN experiment in feeding ensilage
made from the husks and stalks of sweet
corn has just been made at the canning
factory of J. Winslow Jones & Co., at
Bridgton, Me. Eighteen cattle were
fed for four weeks, and careful record
kept. LII eight days the eighteen oxen,
it was found, had gained an aggregate
of ! ,065 pounds. The greatest gain of
one pair was 120 pounds, and the next
highest pair Ito pounds.
A FRUIT tree cannot bear very heavy
crop oftener than once in two years, and
In order to obtain an even-bearing tree
the fruit should be thinned very freely
every year; this would secure not only
very even crops every year, but finer
and more superior fruit. Birds assist us
in this matter by picking off the bios
SONS. Thinning is easily done if we
obtain a slender pole with hook-like
knife attached, or even Goldfish hook,
by which the extra fruit could be easily
cut out.
CAREFUL experiments have proved
that corn which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture. This can be accounted for by
the fact that corn roots run very near
the surface, and when hills are madethey
are confined to the small space covered
by the hill; while in level culture the
roots run from one row to the other,
thus enabling the corn to stand strong,
as nature intended, and in no way liable
to be blown down except by winds of
unusual violence.
WHEN smoking hams, something to
burn long time without looking after
is desirable. Corn-cobs are an excellent
fuel for smoke-houses, burning slowly a
long time, and if, after the heap is well
under way i'll burning, they are partly
covered with ashes, the time will be pro-
| lOnSeO. WOOQ WILL Oufn slower II S1m1-
larly covered. Shavings and sawdust, as
is generally known, are also good, and if
covered down pretty well to keep the
draft from passing through the heap,
will last many hours.
A FARM can be stocked with sheep
cheaper than with any other animals.
Sheep will come nearer to utilizing every
thing which grows on the farm. Less
labor will be required for getting feed
and stock together. The returns will
come In sooner aid oftener than with
any farm stock except hogs. Lessm
is required for sheltering and fencing,
and less labor is required in herding
when outside pasturage is accessible and
preferred. And finally, handsome in
come on the investment can be had with
out the sale of the animals themselves.
In the case of horn brittleness in COWS,
Hon. Dobusch, of Hoenfort, Austria,
found no good resulting from feeding
bone meal, when the water used from a
spring was perfectly soft, that is without