Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-13
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

eggs than even when fed to pigs.
GROUND bones are better for fruit trees
of all kinds than fermenting manure.
CLEAR the ground now in which you
expect to put small fruit next year. Do
it thoroughly, too.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Farmers Re-
view has found strong decoction of
tansy, applied through the fine rose of a
watering pot, very effective against the
cabbage orm.
MUCH may be saved in winter feeding
by keeping grain straw bright and clean.
Straw is not good feed alone, but it's
use will enable the farmer TO keep more
| stock with his grain and hay than he
otherwise could.
WARM skim milk, with moderate
quantity of crushed and scalded oats,
makes the most excellent food for raising
good dairy animals. Alternate the oats
with hnseed and cottonseed meal. These
foods contain large amounts of bone and
muscle material, and will give the cow
good constitution and welcomed
| frame.
THE most profitable apples and pears
are those that do not ripen till the APP
proach of cold weather. They can be
shipped long distances and will keep a
long time. They can be disposed of in
spring when there is no small fruit to
come in competition with them. They
are better for drying or for making cider
than the early fruit.
1T is a very simple thing to cut g
chickens wing to prevent flying. Do
not cut the quill or shaft of the feather
at all; only trim the feathers partly off
with pair of scissors, except one inch
at the end. It shows but little, when
the wing is closed, and does not disfgure
the fowl, but lets the wind through so
as to prevent flying.
For general purposes on the farm
castor oil, with little kerosene added,
is the best lubricator and preserver. For
saws, mowers, buggies, and the like,
this mixture furnishes more body with
less gum than most other oils. The
amount of kerosene, if any, to be added
must be governed by the purpose for
which it is designed.
NOTING usually takes place in fowls
through the months of October, Novem-
Der and December, according to the age
OF the bird. February, March and
April chicks obtain their adult plum
age in October and November. They
drop few chicken feathers, but do not
mott outright until the following August.
Old birds molt later and later each year,
according to their age.
IF you are so fortunate as to be able
to pick eucumbers from your own vines
for picking, you can see that they are
not torn from the vines, but are cut with
shears or pruning knife, and that short
stem is left on the cucumber. If this
precautlOn is taken, you will find that
they will be much less likely to spoil or
become soft, whether they are sailed or
are put directly into vinegar.
IF each farmer now had three to five
acres of sweet corn to push his hogs,
and to make the rich milk flow, how
happy he would be. If he did not pre-
pare for this in time, it is too late now
for this year, but now is the time to pre-
pare for such rich crop next year.
Every farmer who raises hogs or cattle
needs bushel of sweet corn for seed.
And it requires great care to have it
right. Vermont State.
To remove stumps from a field, all
that Is necessary IS to have one or more
sheet-iron chimneys, some four or five
feet high. Set fire to the stump and
place the chimney over it, SO as to give
the requisite draught at the bottom. It
Will draw like a stove. The stump will
soon be consumed. With several such
chimneys, of different sizes, the removal
of stumps may be accomplished at
merely nominal labor and expense.
A FRENoH gardener sleeps the mats he
employs TO protect frames and conserva-
tories between October and May for
twenty four hours in solution of sui
phate of copper, in large hogshead.
Having allowed the mating to drain and
become half dry he plunges them for
few seconds In solution of quick lime.
Mating thus prepared will last, instead
of one, seven seasons. The cord en-
ployed In the mating must not be oiled.
IT has been discovered that cabbage
may be prevented from rotting after
freezing simply by cutting them open or
by making one or two missions IL them
with a knife. After freezing the cab
bage commences to decay in the center,
caused by the heating inside. When
opened sufficiently to let out the heated
gases and to enable them to become
cool at the center, they will not decay.
A lady is entitled to the credit of making
this very important discovery.
A CELEBRATED French flock master,
upon being pressed to say wherein the
secret of his success in sheep lay, said:
1t is only matter of food and care.
Give them variety of food and plenty
of it, and they will tnrn out mutton and
wool. That is about all there is of sue
cess in any stock. But with well bred
animals to feed, the profits are largely
enhanced. In the same direction a
western dairyman said "plenty of but
ter and cheese lies more In good feeding
than any other one thing.
A GERMAN authority claims as the re-
suit of twenty-five years experience,
contrary to the general belief there, that
larger quantities OF wool are obtained
from small sheep in relation to a given
weight than in larger kinds, the relative