Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
SEAsONABLE FARM NOTES.

softens the horns and causes cracks.
To remove warts on horses, take 81
piece of concentrated I've as large as a
walnut, put it into a bottle with rain
water enough to dissolve it, and apply
with feather.
The daily WELD of milk from a goat
averages two or three pints for seven or
eight months of the year. She also
gives three or four kids, which at to 8
weeks old make delicate, choice meat
superior to lamb.
If cows hind feet are tied together
she cannot kick. It will make the COW
some trouble for time, but the mind
of the mixer will be secure and undis-
turbed After a few weeks slight cord
on each leg Will be enough.
ONE of the best disinfectants, says
the Poultry Bulletin, is Condys fluid,
which is made by putting one ounce of
potass. permanganate in pint OF cold
water. For use one ounce of this fluid
should be added to half pint of water.
DEAR as corn has been, 1t well pays to
feed it moderately to COWS giving milk.
Butter is proportionably as dear as corn,
and feed of the latter affects the butter
product, both in quantity and quality,
even more than it does the flow of milk.
Mr.. O. S. BLISS tells the New York
World that he believes the use of air
slaked lime will check any tendency to
rot in potatoes al time of storing them
in bins. Though he ventures no posi-
tive assertion, yet he believes such treat
ment has resulted IN checking any ten
denotes to rot.
COLONEL CURTIS tells Bliss Garden
that he would rather have peck of car
rots each day to go with the oats, than
the same amount of oats for the horses.
For COWS, pigs, sheep and poultry they
are equally nourishirg and wholesome,
not to mention their great value as q
table vegetable.
A PURE Italian bee should have three
distinct yellow bands of rings across the
lower part of the abdomen, and a bright
yellow hair over the body. The So
called Albino bees are a strain of the
Italians, having white bands and hair.
The latter are the finer workers of the
two and easier handled. -MuryLd1td
Farmer.
a WRITER in the Fruit Recorder makes
the statement that one of the neighbors
planted some cabbage plants among his
corn where the corn missed, and the but
textiles did not find them. He has there
fore come to the conclusion that if the
cabbage patch were in the middle of the
corn-feld the butterflies would not find
them, as they fly low and like plain sail
ing.
THE American Cultivator says: Who
ever places much dependence on the
strainer for securing clean milk will
never make gilt-edge butter. Allowing
dirt to get into the milk and then de-
pending on the strainer to get it out, is
poor apology for cleanliness. More or
less Of the dirt, especially everything of
soluble nature, and some that is not,
Will find its way through the meshes Of
the stralner.
A COW viii give more milk and make
more butter on bright sunshiny day
than during one of dull, dark character
The animal eats more heartily, digests
better, while the vital forces are active
during the pleasant day. These facts are
not, III themselves, very important, yet
they suggest the theory whether close
stabling of COWS in winter or summer is
better than giving them therup of yard
or pasture lot.
CIsTERNS should DE constructed under
the dwelling, but out OF doors. When
making a cistern be sure and make it
large enough. Undoubtedly there is
water enough falls on the roofs of the
farm buildings in the course of the year
to supply the stock with drinking water,
as well as water for all household pur-
poses; and If it is properly filtered it is
q good deal more wholesome than much
water that is used.
FATTENING fowls should not be al
lowed too large a run. They should
have free opportunity to stand in the
sunshine and dust themselves to their
hearts content. Give them plenty of
pure water to drink and a small amount
of pulyerized charcoal In their diet.
Scalded Indian meal is probably the
most fatten1ng as well as economical
form Of food, yet they require some 9th
er articles mixed with it, say boiled
potatoes or wheat or rye bran.
In Ireland the sod cut on Doggy
ground Is piled up III heaps until dry,
| then burned into species of charcoal.
| This is then pulverized and mixed with
well rotted stable or hen-house manure,
or night-soil in equal proportions.
| Placed in drills, where turnips or car
rots are to be planted, it is said to make
| them attain mOnstrOus size. The ex-
pertinent is certainly worthy of a trial
by farmers who can get the bog mold
without too much labor or expense.
DAIRYMEN abroad have been expert
menting for the purpose of determining
which yield of milk, the morning or
evening mess, is the richer of the two.
| The decision was In favor of the even
ing mess being the richer for both butter
and cheese-making qualities. The milk
of COWS fed ground feed in winter was
richer than that produced by the same
COWS from grass in summer. This is not
matter of very great moment to the
! dairyman, though he should keep posted
on all these little points.
The record as a mixer of the Won
derful COW owned by A. D. Hull, Of
CharIestown, n. H., is attracting con-
siderable attention in that section from
cattle breeders and dairymen. She is 4