Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-19
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

tings.
Cows fed on decorticated cotton cake
soon acquire an increase of dry matter
and fat.
AN average 2-year-old steer will eat
its own weight of different materials in
two weeks.
BREWERY refuse is valuable for mich
COWS only when fresh, as it affects the
quality of the milk when sour.
ANALYSIS have shown that maize cake
is equal to hnseed cake in feeding value,
and it can be sold much cheaper.
The average quantity of milk re-
quired by the creameries, for one pound
of butter, is about twenty-five pounds.
BY the use of lime and ashes, and by
growing COW peas for turning under,
poor soil can be made to yield good
crops.
TURNIPs can be sown at any time from
now till the middle of August. Rich
soil, well pulyerized, is needed for this
vegetable.
ORCHARD grass and red clover make
excellent companions, and as they grow
so well together the former is being sub
stituted for timothy by many farmers
this year.
IT is not easy to compare corn meal
and cotton seed meal as food for stock.
The latter contains five times as much
albumenoids and six times as much fat
as the former, but corn contains four
times as mach starch as cotton seed
meal.
CARBoLIC acid is very useful as pre-
ventive OF insect ravages. Radishes
may be protected from raggots, and or
chards from borers, by its use A mix
ture of one part of alcohol and nine
parts of crystallized carbolic acid is
stated to afford great relief IN cases of
bites from insects.
TIE quantity of saliva secreted by
animals is surprising. Experiments by
Lassainge show that 100 pounds of dry
hay fed to horse required a secretion
of 400 pounds of saliva; 100 pounds of
oats required a secretion of lis pounds
Of saliva, while 100 pounds of green
food required but 40 pounds of saliva to
prepare 1t for swallowing.
MUSTARD is one of the most valuable
plants for blowing under. 1t grows as
quick as any other crop, and If sown
thickly viii afford an excellent green
manure In time for wheat. It has the
advantage of being able to grow as early
as peas and as late as the arrival of frost.
To renovate with mustard, not only one
but successive crops can be turned un-
der the same season.
". A. ARMSTRONG, of Elmira, \. Y.
thus speaks of using ashes on heavy
soil: :" have applied ashes to corn with
a great deal of care, time and gain. I
know how the work was done. because [
did it with my own hands. My soil is
largely clay and / never saw any i'm
provement or advantage derived from the
use of ashes on corn. have used ashes
with material advantage on potatoes"
A MISSOURI farmer writes: As soon
as I find an animal In distress from
bloat, from eating wet grass or clover, |
wet 1t along the back with cold well-wa-
ter, and also place large cloth or blan.
ket OF several thicknesses over the
paunch, after being saturated with all
the cold water that it will absorb, and
over that dry blanket. IF the cold wa
ter is properly applied, one viii not have
long to wait for cure.
DUCKS may be bred in small pen,
where there is merely tank of water
four feet by two, and two feet deep.
Many of the eggs. however, will be IN
fertile. For success on a large scale, a
good-sized pool of water is essential.
The birds should have the run of field.
Care should be taken not to oYerfeed
breeding ducks and if early eggs be re-
quired meat diet must be given and
warm quarters at night.
Grass cut week after it is out of
blossom, will produce hay that contains
about forty pounds in hundred availa-
bic for food; the fatty matter will be
pale, making light colored butter. It
will take COW SIX hours to digest meal
Of such hay. Early cut hay, on the
j other hand, viii contain about ffty-five
pounds of food material In every one
hundred, which Will be in better pro-
portion and better color, and will re-
quire but four hours for digestion.
NEWLY -sLAKED lime is an excellent
thing for composing with muck. The
vegetable matter of the muck is decom-
posed by the caustic action of the lime,
and made soluble. and thereby available
as plant-food. There has been a good
deal said of late in favor of ground lime
Of very little use and in it's good effects
in the compost heap is not to be COM
pared with the fresh-burned lime. It
may be said here that it is a good time
10 get out a supply of muck during the
summer months, when the beds are dry.
Moss on shingle roofs may be removed
" the following method: Take a few
ais of Stacked lime, according to the
lie of the roof, and throw on the roof
lst before gentle rain or just after a
hover, while the roof is wet, and in a
w days the moss viii all loosen and the
ind will blow it clean off the roof, leav-
g the shingles clean and white. The
Oss being of spongy nature, holds the
pisture several days, which causes the
lingles to decay, and also causes the
of to leak. The lime also acts as a
eservatiye to the single. have used
several times with perfect success.