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

days. If the warts are dry-scalod !
scrape them lightly first. It simply
dries the wart down to hardness, when
it drops off without soreness or irri-
tatiOn.
IT is a mistaken sense of kindness to
Over-feed horses. 1t may make them
look sleek and handsome. vet il impairs
their general health and makes them
more liable to disease and ailments.
When horses are regularly worked they
should have strong food and plenty of 1t
but when seldom or irregularly used,
the food should be in proportion to the
amount of work, else they will become
over-fat, incapable of usual exertiOn and
cannot be depended upon when neces-
sity requires long drives or hard work of
any kind.
ONE of the best methods of making q
good fertilizer is that recommended by
DIR. Nichols, which is to break 100
pounds of bones into small fragments
and pack them in a tight cask or box
with 100 pounds of hardwood ashes,
which have previously been mixed with
% pounds of dry, water-elacked lime and
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gallons of water viii saturate the mass,
and more may be added as required. In
two or three weeks the bones will be soft
enough to turn out On the barn floor and
mixed with two bushels of good soil.
IN determining the most profitable
COWS for the dairy, much depends upon
the purpose for which the dairy is kept.
The farmer who keeps a few COWS to
supply bis own table with butter, cream
and milk, and sell the surplus in the
the surplus in the season of flush pas
turage In the form of butter, wants the
COW that will make the most butter out
of given quantity of food. The cream
cry wants a similar COW. The cheese
factory wants the COW that gives the
largest proportion of caseine in her milk;
while the milk seller wants the COW that
gives the most milk.
PARsNIPs and satisfy are perfectly
frost proof. Indeed, they are better
after they have been subjected to
freezing. For winter use it is good
plan to take up supply for the family
or for market before the ground freezes
up and cover with plenty of sand or
sandy loan. They can be put in boxes
with sand In sufficient quantities to last
while the ground is frozen. There are
no vegetables more palatabie in the
winter than an occasional mess of par
ships and satisfy. In early spring, when
other vegetables are scarce, they come in
just at the right time.
To thrash onion seed clean it must be
very dry. Put it out in the sun on can
vas sheets until it crumbles easily in the
hand; then thrash with an ordinary fail;
run through the tanning mill slowly on
suitable sieve, then take the seed and
pour it into a barrel or tue of water,
stirring it slowly, so that all the good
seeds sink. Let it settle, and then pour
Oft the water and light seeds; drain the
water out of what is in the barrel as
soon as possible, and spread out thin on,
sheets to dry, stirring it frequently. IT
should be done on clear day. IS it Is
liable to sprout. By this method moth
ing but the best quality of seed is Sc
cured.
If there be found under the cream a
thin layer of whey and under this thick
sour milk, good weet butter can not lie
produced from such cream. If churned
immediately fair butter for immediate
use ndy U6 udu0, UuG SUCH cream
should be kept from the cream jar.
When milk has advanced so near fer
mentation as to produce whey it has
gone beyond the point of making good
marketable butter. Cream should be
skinned just as soon after it has risen
as possible. Simply souring OF the milk
will not lnjure the cream for butter, but
the moment that whey forms the cream
is beyond tie point of making first class
butter.
TIE New England Farmer mentions a
very successful case Of corn and potato
raising together. The yield of the corn
is not mentioned any further than to say
it was not excelled in the state. The
potatoes yielded at the rate Of 2C0 bush
els per acre. The variety was early rose,
planted May l, in hills three feet apart.
They were hoed the LIST of June and
corn was planted between the hills. The
potatoes and corn we're hoed together
once, and the corn received another
hoeing when the potatoes were dug,
"free OF cost the first of August
when they were dug. From the above
it would seem they do not require unin-
terrupted sunshine during the entire
day. The early Ohio would be better
potato to grow with corn because the
tops are small, and they mature ten days
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