Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-30

For many years I had an idea that q
fall cali was hardly worth raising and L
find there are many farmers still of this
opinion. After raising both spring and
fall calves, [ decidedly prefer the latter.
My reasons are that [ have more leisure
to attend to calf in winter than in sum-
mer; there are no flies to torment it and
the milk is richer and keeps sweet. But
my principal reason is that spring is a
more favorable time to wean calf than
fall. 1t requires as much care to keep
spring calf thriving the first winter as
fall calf; and thus you have a whole year
of special care for the former, while the
latter goes on pasture at six months old,
and will be past the nursing period by
the next winter.
An Australian poultry-raiser writes:
| presume it will be generally conceded
that a breed which shall combine the
good qualities of the game, Spanish and
Bahama, without inheriting their pecu-
liar defects, would be nearing result
desirable to all poultry -fanciers, and it
is my aim to show how this IS to be eff
fected. First, put Spanish cock to
Brahma hens, save the ight-colored pull
lets and cross these again with black
red game cock English game); the pro-
geny will be half game, quarter Spanish
and quarter Brahma, and I claim for
these birds the following advantages,
VIZ: Full breasts, white flesh, good
layers and sitters and large handsome
birds; the eggs will be large and brown.
Mr.. Ell. L. LosEE, a Canadian, who
has for two seasons been using whey as
fertilizer, reported favorably upon the
experiment at one of his recent dairy
meetings in Ontario. The whey of
]. 800, 900 pounds of milk worked up at
factory is spouted at a safe distance to
avoid the smell, and deposited IN large
vat. From this it is run into tank on
wheels prepared with suitable hose, and
taken to a piece of falloW ground, upon
which hogs for consuming the whey are
kept, and is there run into the troughs
and ted. The trOughs are moved from
pace to place occasionally to distribute
the refuse equally over the surface.
Feeding on the fallow continues until
time to put in wheat in the fall, when
the troughs are moved to lot which is
to be fallow the next year, where they
are used for the remainder of the season.
In this way $50 pigs, fed during the
cheesemaking season on a ten-acre lot,
enriched it with very high degree Of
fertility.
The Farmers Magazine gives the fol-
lowing hint on watering horses. Ii the
plan works well with travelling horse,
why not with the horse at the pillow, or
reaper, or rake? We see no reason why
horse should not have his thirst
quenched more than three times a day.
Horses require water as much as do men,
and should have it every five or six
miles, if the weather is warm. IF the
horse is very much over-heated, just be-
fore coming to watering place, say a
quarter Of mile Or so before, 1" slow
up" to walk. and when you get to
where you can give the horse water he
will have become cooled off considerably;
then, too, he should have his mouth
sponged out, and about half bueketful
of water. Nothing refreshes tired,
jaded horse SO much as drink of water,
and if he has it at regular intervals he
will keep up over long distance. He
can do much better, for whole day and
over long journey, without food than
without water. 1t this item of watering
was more carefully attended to, we would
hear of fewer cases of horses being over
come by the heat during the warm sum-
mer months.