Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-05-17
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

GQO SOIL.
EXCESS of water in the soil prevents
root development.
PLENTY of stock and grass makes good
land and large crops.
ALL liquid impurities are liable to
flow downward into wells.
Cows purchased from rich lands
seldom do well on poor soils.
For picking, the white spine is con-
sidered one of the best cucumbers.
ANIMALS in constantly good condition
consume less food than these that are
not.
HUNGARIAN grass, or millet, should
not be seeded until the soil is quite
warm.
NEeLIGENoE in the preparation of seed
furnishes the key to many low averages
in yield.
MORE grass and more stock are each
essential to the other, and both impor-
tant for the highest prosperity of.western
farming.
The nearer fattening animal APP
proaches matur ty the greater is the
proportion OF fat in the gross increase
obtained.
CoTswoLD sheep have large, hand
some frames, well covered with flesh and
a great propensity to fatten. Their NUT
ton Is apt to be rather coarse-gr grained.
In setting strawberry plants, do not
set them too deep. Il the center bud be
covered with moist earth it is very likely
to decay, and the cause not be expected.
PUT four or five lima beans in a pot
and cover them an inch deep. 1t is real
fun to see them come up. Take care of
the plants and set them out without dis
turbing the roots.
WHATEVER he has done, or neglected to
do in the past, the farmer who has land
which can properly be devoted to that
purpose should make it point this sea-
son to raise fruit trees.
DEEPLY rooted crops, as wheat, red
clover and mangel, are those best fitted
to resist drouth, while shallow-rooted
crops, as grass and tu1nips, are those
that suffer most from it.
CARRIAGES respond quickly to frequent
hoeing. 1t is one of the crops upon
which too much labor cannot be bestow-
ed. They should be cultivated often,
even when there are no weeds among
them.
A FEW sprigs of cedar branches Cor
leaves) have strong tendency to drive
off insects from the nests of hens. Mix
them among the materials composing
the nests, and they will certainly do no
harm, while they may do much good.
II one has dozen hogs, a pen ten
feet square, closely walled up on the
east and north sides to break off all the
raw, cold winds, dry in all kinds of
the best sleeping place of these animals.
THERE is no wisdom In working a
thirty acre field year after year to get
five bushels of wheat or ten of corn to
the acre, when, with the same expense
for fertilizers, you could raise fifteen
bushels of wheat or thirty of corn to the
acre.
In feeding horse for long journey
do not give more than the regular guam
tity OF food before starting, but only af-
ter the work is done. A horse that is
regularly driven requires very small
amount of hay in the morning feed if
any, and none at the noon feed, and at
night just before closing the stable, fill
the Manager with hay.
CAPTAIN j. B. MOORE, Concord, Mass,
is authority for the statement that a
gentleman in Salem, with plenty Of
manure and water" raises the aspar-
agus, peas, corn and other vegetables
needed in a family of seven, also the
summer keep of two COWS and hay and
mangel wurzels enough to winter them,
all on one acre of land.
Tur of ,o,i11y 3o1.o HI y,
influenced by the richness of the diet. A
diet of watery grass will probably yield
moderate quantity of poor milk; the
addition of oilcake will increase both the
yield and also its richness. The altera-
ton In the composition of milk by poor
or liberal feeding is chiefly an alteration
in the percentage of solid matter.
WHERE lands are used for rotation
of crops, about two years in five are
given to meadow and pasture, the other
three years to wheat, barley or oats and
maize, thus taking from the land three
exhausting crops and two restoring
crops, and this rotation, well conducted,
by liberal use of clover and grass seed,
and land-plaster (gypsum), keeps up the
fertility indefinitely.
The selling of calves when but few
days old is loss to the farmer. The
milk is ropy and unfit to be sold, and
calves should not be sent to the butcher
at that age TO be used as food. The loss
to the farmer or dairymen arises from
the fact that the calves make very rapid
growth when young, and will pay for
themselves handsomely if kept until
they are really fit for veal.
thic foroiorY1
countries show that peach trees attain
their largest size, live the greatest num-
berof years, are freest from disease, and
produce the largest amount of fruit
when planted on land lying quite near a
body of water. The most favorable
position for peach orchard is land
lying east of the water, as the prevailing
winds favor the spread of moisture.
Few of our farmers have yet learned
the advantages of the practice of English
farmers when establishing what are in
tended to be permanent pastures, of
sowing not only clover and timothy, but