Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-12-27
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

KEEP the poultry busy if you wish to
keep them In health, and make them
scratch ii you wish for egg; but keep
them quiet aud well fed if you wish to
make them fat.
A PARIS house advertises garden lad
ders of light make, made of wrought
iron, futed, and of Bamboo pattern, that
a man could twirl round his head with
one hand, while he has to stagger under
a homemade one OF wood.
AN exchange says: "Take boiled lin
seed oil, stir In pulverized charcoal to
the consistency of paint, put a coat of
this over timber that is to be put In or
on the ground, aud there is not man
that viii live to see it rot. !"
In looking over the sheep industry it
will be found that the small hocks have
succeeded much the best. This IS in
great measure due to the fact that small
focks get the best attention, thrive bet
ter and are less liable to accident.
For a general purpose fowl for farm
ers the Plymouth Rock is probably the
best. They are good layers through the
year and the young chickens are un-
usually hardy, being the only variety of
which late-hatched setting in the fall
Is not rather misfortune.
LARGE trees may often be successfully
transplanted by removing them in win
ter, while the ground is frozen, with a
large ball of earth attached to their
roots. The earth about them may be re-
moved before the ground freezes, leav-
ing sufficient to support. the trees in
position.
1t is just as easy so salt the food of
stock when mixing it as to give it alone.
And 1t Is common practice to feed the
cattle first and afterwards salt them, as
1t is styled; by giving them a lump of
rock salt to lick or a handful to eat, at
regular intervals, the stock often suffers
from the system.
One Of the most successful breeders
of fowls says that fowls need rcwe1 hay
as a substitute for green grass, and adds
that they will eat large quantities of it
every day in winter when placed before
them. Another breeder writes In high
praise Of the use OF ensiIage as winter
feed for poultry
BOILING water should not be used for
scalding hogs. An old butcher says its
temperature should be from 100 to 200
degrees. Ii the hogs are small and
clean the former temperature is suffi-
clent. If they are large and dirty and
have ice on their bristles, the latter tenn
perature is required.
The first silo constructed in Georgia
is located near Atlanta. It is filed with
the vines of the famous cow-pea, which
gtOws IuxUriantly in the south. The
owner is well satisfied with the results
OF his experiments and believes that
ensllage will be of great advantage to
farmers and dalrymen in the gulf states.
POTASH as a manure for potato crops
should be applied before planting and
thoroughly mixed with the soil, because
according to V. Z. Magerstein, the tu-
bers require potassium most in the early
stage OF their growth, and a later appli-
cation of the potash manure has but
little influence on the increase of reserve
matter.
In our opinion the time has come
when our pride should be, not in the
number of acres cultivated. but in the
yield per acre. If one man can raise as
much good corn on forty acres of ground
by thorough cultivation, as he has been
making from sixty, is it not time for
less acres and thorough cultivation p
M0tUeT71 Leader.
SETS as well as large onions, accord
ing to the American Garden, should be
kept dry and cool as possible, without
being actually frozen, although they are
not injured materially by frost, provided
they are not handled while frozen. II
spread on a tight barn floor and covered
thickly with chaff OF cut straw they will
keep well till spring.
The Mirror and Farmer gives the fol-
lowing recipe for the cure of cai1ed bag
IN mich COWS: "Tincture of arnica,
four ounces; tincture of acconite, one
ounce; oil glycerine, one ounce. Mix
and battle the bag two or three times
daily; rub it in well with your hand;
give internally teaspoonful of the mix
ture three times day. Do not feed any
grain to the COW.
THERE are other points in farm econ
omy gained by shed and stable feeding.
1t takes less food to keep the animal
warm, and in a healthful condition. A
shivering animal is an appeal to both
the pocket and the heart of the owner.
Give the farm stock good, comfortable
winter quarters, and there will be saw
ing in feed. better preservation of the
manure, and akindlier feeling all around.
Corn will shrink from the time it is
husked from the field or shock, III the
autumn, Ill well-prot cribs, from
20 to 80 per cent. by spring; that is,
100 bushels will shrink to 70 or 80, ac-
cording to how dry it was when husked
and put in the crib. Sound corn will
shrink 20 per cent, so that 40 cents per
bushels as it comes from the field is as
good as so cents in the spring, says an
observer.
A WRITER in the Cultivator and Coun-
try Gentleman says of removing warts
on animals: Gin answer to various in
quiries let me say that 1 have for years
cured warts very easily on all animals,
no matter where located, by applying
butyr OF anthony with a feather two or
three times at intervals of two or three