Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES,

AN Ohio dairyman, who claims to
have weighed the skinned milk fed to
swine, and the gain in flesh thereof, saws
100 pounds of skinned milk will pro-
duce three pounds of pork.
CHARLES ALDRICH records having cut
and cured tops of artichokes for stock
feed and that cattle consumed them
"with much more relish than corn fod-
der, even eating up the coarse, hard
stalks"
THE tender luscious mutton of the
English is not attributable to their
cooler climate alone, but to the turnip;
and, we may add, other succulent roots
on which the sheep are fed and fattened
for the butcher.
IT is generally useless to SOW timothy
seed In the spring. If good seeding is
wanted SOW them to quarts per acre in
the fall with winter grain, the larger
quantity if sown alone, the smaller if the
field is also to be seeded with clover in
the spring.
TAKE down the grape vines, trim them
and lay them out on the ground, simply
laying inverted sods or little earth Oh
them here and there to hold them close
to the ground. Remember this when
the time comes to put it in practice
NeaO York Herald.
IT is one thing to raise a goodly mum
Der of promising pullets and carry them
successfully through the summer and
fall; but If we neglect them now and do
not provide good house quarters, grain,
animal and vegetable food for their use
III winter, we are not doing our duty as
poulterers.
EARLY in the fall is the proper time
for applying manure to pear trees,
which should be spread on the surface
where rains and SHOWS can mix it with
the soil. If pear trees are heavily
MANFRED In the spring or summer it is
apt to cause an unhealthy growth and
result in blight.
A HORSE head ought to be as free as
his feet, except that the head must be
used as the guiding part. It would be
| just as sensible to tie and brace up his
| tail when he is to be backed as to fasten
the head when he is going forward. A
horse of any spirit always holds his
head where it ought to be when he is in
motion.
DIR. HANAMANN warns farmers against
the practice of removing straw from
land, as it tends to render the soil poor.
Not only are potash, lime, phosphoric
acid, ETC., taken away, but also a con-
siderable amount of organic matter,
whereby the moisture is too much re-
duced. Care must be observed IN re-
| storing to the soil what it has been de-
prived of or sterility will be the ulti-
mate result.
In Bridgeport, VT, and its vicinity,
Spanish merino sheep are raised, and
held at extraordinary high prices. One
farmer has refused $1,000 for a lamb,
and has another for which he asks
| So, 900. Two other farmers bought one
sheep between them, and one afterward
sold his share to the other for 81, 500. A
record of names, numbers, pedigrees,
owners and transfers is kept by an as
ISOLATION which has It's headquarters at
Middlebury.
The moulting season for hens occurs
about this time, and as fowls are not
then laying eggs they are apt to be neg
lected. This is mistaken policy.
Shedding their feathers and producing
new growth exhausts the fowls
strength, and If not well fed they are
long time IN recovering. Generous
treatment now will insure an early re-
sumption OF egg production and plenty
of eggs next winter when they will COM
mand the highest prices.
GIVE all animals when in the barn,
plenty of straw for bedding, keep them
scrupulously clean and we'll fed, keep
all drugs away from them. It is a mis-
taken idea that drugs will improve their
condition. Never allow any person to
tease live stock In any way. Save all
the manure carefully. Stock your farm
to It's fullest extent with horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs, raise all the feed posi-
BILE and you will find you have put your
coarse grains, fodder and straw to the
best possible use in increasing the
profits of the farm. Farmer.
The superficial feet Of animals are es-
timated by multiplying the length in
feet of girth by the length of back from
tail to fore part of shoulder blade, thus:
An OK with girth s feet 6 inches, and
length 6 feet, would measure 89x6-56
feet approximately. Then for girth less
than feet allow per foot II lbs; 3 to 5
feet, Is lbs; 5 to feet, % lbs; to 8
feet, 81 lbs This rule is not very relia-
BILE, because much would depend on the
condition of the animal as to flesh. 2,
Well-matured heavy cattle will net Sc to
60 los to the 100 lbs. Common and
small cattle net about half their live
weight. -LOW5sUiLie Courier Journal.
WHEN very large quantities of pota.
toes have to be stored for a short time,
or even during the entire winter, out
door pits may be resorted to; but, for
convenience of handling and the facility
with which they are accessible at any
season, good cellar is worth more than
the best of pits. A potato cellar should
be so constructed that the floor is en-
tirely dry at all times, that frost and
light can be excluded completely, and
that perfect ventilation of every part can
be given rapidly, sufficient to keep the
air pure and the temperature as low as
possible without falling below the freez-
ing point.
SOME experiments have recently been
! conduete6 in the old country with a