Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-17
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

has food value equal to two and half
pounds of homeless beef.
HE y, Y, Tribune recommends paint
ing with coal tar the wood work of the
stall of a gnawing horse. Thorough
saturation with kerosene is also said to
produce permanent cure.
A FRUIT GROWER placed tobacco stems
around the trunks of peach trees, and
there is not the sign of borer in any of
the trees so treated, and tied them at
the tops. 1t keeps off rabbits as well, III
winter.
CROOKED fence-corners in the United
States occupy more land than would
suffice to supply the farming population
with bread, if properly cultivated, or to
furnish food for more sheep than are
owned in the whole country.
IN fumigating poultry houses with
sulphur much difficulty is experienced
In getting the sulphur to burn. The
trouble is the sulphur melts and smoth
ers the fame. By melting the sulphur
and passing strips of wick through 1T,
burning will afterward be an easy mat
ter
f. d. CURTIS says that twenty years
tree with a wheelbarrow full of ieached
ashes, and the tree shows the benefit of
it to this day. Mr.. Curtis also says
that too many varieties of fruit are
nuisance, making an endless amount of
work.
AN Illinois farmer finds the smoke of
corn cobs an infallible preventive of hog
cholera. He puts his pigs liz a tight
room once a week and treats them to a
/ smoke-bath of about ten minutes dura-
ton. They never have the cholera. 1t
is possible that they might be affected
with it if they we're not smoked.
| A WRITER says that he has never failed
! to cure garget by the use of beans. He
| feeds one pint Of bean meal, mixed with
other meal, for four successive days, and
| has found that quantity sufficient to
cure the worst cases. He thinks If COWS
were fed with bean meal several times d
year they would never be troubled with
garget.
A MEMBER of the Oxford, GO. farmers
club claims that it is no trick to raise
500 bushels, and even !, 600 bushels per
acre of mangold wurtzels, in good sea-
son on good land, with the same labor
roots should be pitted Just as wiuter
closes up the ground, and kept in the
pit until March.
EXPERIMENTS by careful breeders give
some valuable facts for estimating the
cost of producing pork. 1t is conceded
that one bushel of corn should produce
ten pounds of pork, but everything de
ponds on the management. With good
weather, a good breed, sound corn and
regular feeding, this average may be
reached, but not otherwise.
LOOK out for damage from mice if you
nave trash of any kind heaped up around
your trees. Many valuable trees are
lost every winter by not attending to
this little pest; he girdles the tree at the
ground, and you may not know anything
about it until next summer, when you
find the tree liz a dying condition. His
time for doing his destructive work is
when there is snow on the ground.
ANCIENT laws relating to bees vested
the ownership IN a swarm only to him
from whose ground the swarm depart
ed, provided he followed and kept them
In sight until they alighted. 1t was not
unlikely that making racket was re-
sorted to for the purpose Of notifying
others that the owner was following his
/ bees. As III many other cases, the GUS
tom was followed long after the neces-
slty for 1t pass ed away.
A SIMPLE way Of obtaining a very good
bronze for iron work is as follows: Mix
an equal quantity of butter of anthony
and oil of olives; put this mixture on the
iron which is required to be bronzed
with a brush, the iron having been
previously frightened with emery and
cloth, and leave it for several hours;
then rub with wax and varnish with
| copal. Cotton seed oil would probably
answer as we'll as olive oil.
! The Dublin farmer claims that full
/ feed of hay to horses, following the feed
ing of concentrated food, is wasteful, for
! the reason that 1t crowds the first out of
the stomach before proper digestion has
! been accomplished. And so. in order to
| secure best results, hay should be fed at
/ first and the concentrated food after
/ wards, which leaves it to become fully
| digested, with no danger of being crowd
! ed away or out Of the performance of it's
| desired purpose.
| The knack of getting a supply Of eggs
| both summer and winter is to keep the
pullets Of the early spring and summer
hatch. Feed them all they will eat
clean of the best and most nutritious
and egg producing food, with such sim
pie condiments as pepper, ginger and
mustard, to stimulate them. Kill off
/ the hens before they molt in their second
year, and keep none but young hens.
| Of course, under this system of forcing
for egg production and flesh there is no
valid objection, as it is not intended that
their eggs should be set.
MosT sheep get all their permanent
teeth when between three and four years
old. An authority says: "In the
sheep, as in the OK, all the temporary