Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-21
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.


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A COW eats from 100 to 100 pounds of
green grass per day.
SMALL pastures and few COWS in them
are better than large ranges with large
number of COWS.
EVERYTHING about the farm which
will fertilize is of value and should be
carefully collected.
LIME water is said to be safe and
effective remedy for the little white
worms found In the soil of hower-pots.
As a rule, turnip tops ought never to
be given to milk COWS, as they impart a
disagreeable flavor to butter and cheese.
FREQUENTLY shrubs may be restored
to vigor and beauty by severely cutting
back struggling branches and removing
all dead wood.
GATHER no seed from a forest tree
that is not clean and straight and a
rapid grower. Scrub trees beget their
like. The law of heredity holds good In
trees as well as in the lower animals and
men.
In order to prevent the spread of dis
ease, it would be advisable not to over
feed, or overtrain the colts, but to grad
ually develop their speed, so as not to
weaken their bodily powers before they
are matured.
IF tomato scrub be uprooted at the
end of the season and allowed to winter
on the brow of fruit tree, or if it be
burned beneath, it will act not only as
curative, but protective against blight
and similar attacks.
FARMERS should bear ia mind that the
natural home of the sheep is upon dry
Bplands, and, though limited number
will for a time thrive upon the succulent
grasses of low ground, they are apt to
become afflicted with foot-rot and to
scour If kept thickly upon the ground.
As means of prevention and cure of
chicken cholera, take one teaspoonful of
baking soda to two quarts of milk, and
give it to the birds to drink; or take
glycerine one ounce, carbolic acid half
an ounce. water one quart, mix, and give
two ounces IN each gallon of water given
the birds TO drink.
A SUCCESSFUL Boston florist says that
he seldom fails to root slips of the
most tender and rare plants. He credits
his success to layer of oats placed I'M
der the usual layer of sand in which the
slips are planted. When moistened they
act as a stimulant and feeder to the ten
der roots of the slip.
PROF. SHELDON, high authority, al
tributes the deterioration of Cheshire
cheese to the use of large Quantities of
bone manure on the pastures. Unim-
proved land produces the best quality
of cheese. Except Sutton, he rates the
Leicester as the best English cheese,
and Gruyere the best of all cheese.
WHITE clover honey when produced
in good marketable shape always de-
mands goods price. If the beekeeper
has managed his apiary intelligentIy he
knows what he has to sell and what it is
worth, and viii not dispose of it until he
can realize its full value. There is a
time to "sell' as well as produce.
FINE butter can only be attained by
churning at favorable temperature. If
the temperature of the cream is too low
the butter viii be long In coming, and
viii be hard In texture. If the temper
AZURE is too high, the butter Will come
very speedily, but the product will be
greasy, destitute of grain and deficient
in quantity.
THE London Live Stock Journal gives
two methods of starting balky horse:
'sFirst, tire you steed out by remaining
perfectly quiet until he starts of his own
accord. Second, when a horse refuses
to draw at all, put him in cart in 8
shed and keep him there until he walks
out. To one instance the obstinate one
was thirty six hours In the shafts before
he gave IN.
A CANADA farmer says: "Carbolate OF
lime is an article not sufficiently known
by farmers and gardeners. / find it 6
sure remedy for potato-bugs and cab
bage-worms. Once busting lightly from
"a dredging-b cleaned the vermin from
nv potatoes, cabbages and caulihowers
None but a good quality should b'
used. Although the greater quantit,
required may make it cost as much fol
an acre as Paris green, yet it has the adj
vantage of not being poisonous.
LIB. ARNOLD, in the Farmers Advo
cate. saws the large loss of milk from the
protracted drouth of last season should
admonish dairymen of the danger of let
ting the spring go by without making
some provision IN time for supplying
green food in a midsummer drouth
which, for a longer or shorter term
will be very sure to come. A stitch
IN time, etc. But no one need hus
the delusion that applying to one part O
farm the products of another part vii
make one part rich without impoverish
ing the other.
"IN fattening swine they often reach
a point where corn fails to satisfy, bu
little corn is consumed and the hogs d.
not increase in weight. The trouble i
that the corn is too hard for fattening
Then try soaking it for twentty-fou
hours before feeding. This Is cheape
than grinding and cooking, and 1t
claimed to be better for fattening swine
In soaking corn it develops sweetness