Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-18
FARM AND GARDEN.

winter the chickens should be Matched
by the first of May.
LOOK often at your horses feet and
legs. Disease or wounds in those parts.
If at all neglected, soon become danger
GUS.
WASHING with carbolic soap is o sure
remedy for lice on cattle. We have never
known it to fail. Repeated applications
may be necessary, however.
| ALWAYS scald all the butter utensils
before using and rinse in cold water, and
keep them in a pail of cold water while
III use as it keeps the butter from adher-
ing to the utensils.
NONE of the tuberous-rooted grasses.
like timothy, are suitable to permanent
pastures. They cannot stand close crop
ping nor constant tramping. Pasture
| grasses must be fibrons and deep-rooted
varieties.
WHERE cabbages are grown only on a
small scale and the cultivation is done
by hand, lettuce or radishes can be
grown between the rows, as they will be
out of the way before the cabbage need
all the space.
The larvae of the imported butterfly
are very destructive to late cabbages.
Professor Budd's remedy is gas-tar water
spr1nkled on once q week. DIR, Sturte-
wants remedy is half pound each of
hard soap and kerosene oil in three GAL
| Ions of water.
| HAY caps are becoming one of the nee
essities of the farm. The cost of one
does not average twenty-five cents and
will protect 500 pounds of hay. Hay
| thus protected can stay in cocks TOR
weeks, and not lnfrequently a whole
crop can be saved by having them on
hand.
The practice of running hay through
| a hay-cutter and reducing it to as short
pieces as possible, and then mixing with
corn and sending to an ordinary grist-
mill to be ground into provender for
| poultry, has been followed for several
| years by certain breeders with good re-
suits.
POTATOES intendedfor planting should
bespread out thinlyin thelight, and this
for the reason that when potato is thus
exposed IN cellar, the eyes nearly all
start good, healthy, green sprout; but if
IN pile, orln darkness, only the strong
est ones grow long, white, worthless
sprouts.
LETTUCE seeds should be sown I'M
der glass or in window-bo for a sue
cession. AS soon as the soil is in good
condition, seeds may be sown in the
ground, in rows fifteen inches apart, to
be thinned to ten inches. The Curled
Simpson, Tennis ball, and Hanson are
among the good kind.
The milk of COW in her third or fourth
calf is generally richer in quality than a
younger one, and will continue so for
several years. In dry seasons the quail
lty is generally richer, although cool
weather tavors the production OF cheese.
Hot weather increases theyield of butter.
Farm, Herd and Home
To prevent the old fowls and half
grown chickens from eating the choice
bits away from the little ones, use feed
ing-boxes made of foot boards, six feet
long and four feet wide, with Slated
tops of lath. These are placed on blocks
Of sufficient height TO allow the small
fry to run under and exclude the taller
ones.
A DRY substance like wool or sawdust
for hens nests abstracts moisture from
the eggs and ruins them. The hen, if
left to herself, twill make her nest on THE
moist earth. At tie bottom of the nest
ing boxes place damp sod of earth and
mold 1t into cOncaye form. This damp
ness is beneficial, as it supplies the moist
ure the eggs lese during the process of
Matching.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Iowa Home
stead says that it is a mistake to raise
cabbage plants in a cold frame or hot
bed. He plants the seed where he wants
the cabbage to grow, and when the
plant shows four leaves, thin out all
but the strongest plant in each hill.
He claims transplanting checks the
growth of the plant, and that by the lat
ter method larger and heavier heads are
produced.
The advantages of crop of turnips for
the latter part of autumn are many fold.
If the farmer does not wish to harvest
them, he can turn on his entire stock.
and the hungry animals that might have
roamed over frostbitten, barren fields,
will luxuriate in plenty. The turnips in
the cellar will make beef and mutton,
and keep the young stock in thriving
condition. Nocrop of proportionatevalue
can be given at so little cost.
"a FARMER gives the following di-
rections for curing CALLED shoulders in
horses and says that it is reliable: Take
some leather and burn it to crisp; rub
it well on the CALLED part. A few appli-
cations will effect perfect cure. A new
new work horse put to the pillow this
spring received several gals on both
shoulders. A few applications of the
burnt leather made them as sound as
if never injured, and no scar is now
seen.
Com which is hilled will blow down
more readily than that which has level
culture. This can be accounted for by
the fact that corn roots run very near
! the surface, and when hills are made
they are confined to the small space COW
cred by the hill, while in level culture
the roots run from one row to the other,
thus enabling the corn to stand strong,
as nature intended, and in no way liable
to be blown down except by winds of I'M
usual violence.