Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-03
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

thrifty pig weighing ABOUT twenty, and
it will increase his weight one pound.
The present high price Of hops is
causing boom in hop growing. Many
new yards will be planted the coming
spring. By the time these come into
bearing it is fair to presume that hops
will be cheap.
DURING the cold weather fowls require
more food of a more substantial nature
than in summer, because larger per
cent. of the food consumed goes to sup
ply animal heat, to keep up the physical
condition and to repair wastes.
AN observing farmer In Iowa states
that excessive corn feeding has nothing
to do with producing hog cholera. He
states that the heaviest losses from this
disease have been during years when
there was the least corn to feed.
The Orange County Farmer says:
"a silo on the Arnot farm at Elmira,
which was filled with fresh cut grass has
been opened and found In splendid con-
dition. The cattle fed with it look sleek
aud do we'll, while the butter made from
their milk Is like that made from pastur-
age In summer
By vaporizing two quarts of tobacco
Juice over slow fire, Baron Rothschild's
gardener at Paris, Mons Boizard, de-
stroyed all the troublesome insects that
may be contained in the hot -house in
the hot-house in which the operation is
performed. He considers the remedy
infalible, and says it rarely Injuries the
tenderest plants.
BUTTER makers should feed literally
with foods rich in fats; give variety; feed,
water, and milk at regular hours; give
the COWS a generous bed, plenty of sun
light, but keep warm, and remember
that neatness, from feeding the COW to
delivery of butter to the customer or
buyer, is one great thing that must be
practiced if the best price is sought.
The female moths of the canker worm
cannot fly, but as they hatch out in days
at the beginning of spring, they crawl
up the bodies of apple trees to deposit
their eggs. Hence it is of no use setting
traps for them to fly into; but band
around tree filed with tar or printers
ink will stop their progress, and with
some watchfulness they may be easily
destroyed.
FENCE corners with their mass of
brush and weeds afford secure retreat for
such troublesome insects as live through
the winter, and for the deposit of eggs of
others ready to hatch in early spring the
larva prepared to engage In depredations
upon the first plants that appear. Fire
puts an end to most of these, and thus
the destroying element lessons the labor
and saves the crops of farms.
MANY farmers would be justified by
their own experience in doubling the
practicability of raising $50 bushels of
potatoes per acre; but if proper attention
qe given to bringing the soil into proper
condition by thorough cultivation, keep
ing the weeds and the beetles subdued,
and by mulching with straw in dry sea-
sons, there will be no very great diff
Guilty in producing such yield.
VERMIN on fowls and about hen roosts
will leave headquarters by injecting
from syringe a weak steep IN water of
pennyroyal herb tea. Drive this weak
steep thoroughly over the roosts and the
poultry, and it will cleanse them from
lice. Several varieties of flies annoy
and suck blood from horses and other
animals. PennyroyaI steep Will drive
them away if the animal is washed
with it. ........ .5..r.f.#.... ..
The Country, Gentleman advises the
packing of carrots and parsnips for win
ter use in q cool cellar, filing the inter-
stices with damp moss; or if moss can
not be had with damp sawdust. IT saw
dust is used, the boxes should not hold
ever two or three bushels, or it will
heat. ParsnipsD dry up quickly if ex-
posed to the air, but when surrounded
with moss or ssawdusts they will keep
fresh for months.
: BRUSHING and carding stimulate the
vital action Of the animal, ana therefore
bring an increased flow OF milk. If the
brushing is done daily, only a little time
is required to keep the animals clean.
An old broom is often the only nipple
ment needed, if abundant litter is used.
Give the cattle, horses, and other farm
animals good supply of bedding, and
use the brush as much as necessary to
keep them neat and clean. -.A1t A9ricul-
turiSt. 9TsT H7agEi2 !. -EE. .i| r.
e IT is claimed for ensilageg that it will
supply. the place of turnips or other root
crops, and that the yield for a given
area and q given amount of labor is
greater than can he obtained from the
cultivation of roots. Those who year
or two ago claimed that as food for stock
ensilage was in itself sufficient have
greatly, modified their claims, and the
more conservative advocates OF the sys-
tenn now teach that it should be used
with grain and hay.
/ GIVE all animals, when in barn,
plenty Of straw for bedding, keep them
scr1fpulously clean and well fed; keepal
drugs from them It is a mistakenridea
that drugs will improve their condition.
Never, allow any person to tease live
stock in any way. Save all the manure
carefully. Stock your farm to its fullest
extent with horses, cattle, sheep and
hogs, raise all the feed possible, and you
have put your coarse grains, fodder and
straw to the possible in increasing profits
OF the farm. a2uu ,8.s ,.fGL 4.
Hoes are more profitable than many
suppose. Mr.. T. D. Baird, in giving
his experience in the Practical Farmer,
commenced with hog valued at 81, in
June of last wear He hOuoht corn at