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

| at temperature of 100 or more, there is
little danger of smothering an old fowl
IN winter in tight house.
UNDER ordinary circumstances it is not
good policy to carry over hogs until
they are Is months or years old. A O.
months pig that will not net $50 pounds
of pork makes cheaper bacon than 49,
months or 2-year-old hogs that will make
only 200 and $50 pounds. Pigs Uttered
about the 1st OF March and butchered
about the next December or January
make the cheapest and best meat for
family use. They have then lived
through only part of one winter sea-
son.-ATk01180s city Kan. T0Veler.
AS far as possible the formation of
manure heaps in the field should be avoid
ed. 1t formed, the practice of turning
over the manure should be abandoned.
as labor is thus lost and much manure
wasted. The best authorities consider
1t best to cart the manure direct from
the barnyard upon the land and spread
it at once. The question Of Immediate
plowlng-ln, or, covering the manure. is
OF less consequence than has generally
been imagined. On light soils. how
ever, Immediate blowing under is recon-
mended.
WHERE it is desired to thicken grass
or increase the variety in lawns O. door
yards, much may be done by simply
sowing seed. The sprouting will be ia
vored by the shade of the grass, and the
growth of the young plants by frequent
clipping, so that by midsummer or be-
fore good set will be established. The
pr1nclpleis Is, that cutting prevents shading
the young grass and supplies it with sun
and air, thus giving it an equal chance
with the old grass, If the ground is rich
enough, as it generally is in lawns and
dooryards.
TRANSATLANTIC time is at hand again
therefore decide upon the trees and
shrubs you wish to get. and make pre-
paratlon for them. If there is a good
nursery near you, get your shrubbery
there. Because 1t is small nursery is
no reason why its stock may not be as
good as what you can obtain from a large
nursery. Or, failing that, send to some
other nurseryman whom you know to be
reliable. All nursery agents are not ras-
calls by any means, but, where practi-
cable, 1t Is often the safest plan to deal
directly with the nurseryman.
TURF, Field and Farm gives the fol-
lowing recipe to cure cribbing horses:
Take cayenne pepper pepper in pods
Will also answer the purpose), and boil
1t down until strong decoction is pro.
duced. Wash the stall manager and feed
lng-box with the decoction, and, if driv-
ing the horse, the neck yoke and wagon
or sleigh tongue. Do this once week
for several weeks, and the horse will in
time be weaned of this habit of cribbing.
This remedy is said to be more effectual
than the application of kerosene or tar
to the manger, stall, etc., commonly
adopted in country stables"
To kill worms of all kinds, use salt at
the rate of three or four barrels per acre,
In such quantity itnot only kills worms,
but most kinds of weeds. You need not
fear to use it at the rate of from one and
one-half to two tons per acre for root
crops, including potatoes, but for vines
the rate of one or two barrels is enough.
Salt assimilates the different kinds of
plant food in the soil, making them avail
able to the plants, and keeps the ground
cool and moist, however dry the air or
weather may be. 1t should be sown and
raked or dragged in before the seeds are
sown.-ITOy (N. " Times.
A WE'LL DRAINED sandy loan is un-
doubtedly the best soil for the cabbage:
low wet, cold soil is worst. Whatever
the nature of the land on which this crop
is grown, it must be rich; the richer the
better. No need to expect success on a
thin worn out soil; it is hard matter to
get the land too rich. In the spring
spread on heavy coating of well-rotted
manure, pillow it under, and if CONNER
cial fertilizers are used, apply them after
the blowing and harrow them in. Thor
oughly pulverize the soil before plant
iug; the cabbage needs a deep, rich,
well-tillef bed to produce profitable re-
suits.
If farmers will SOW one-half bushel of
winter rye to the acre in their corn. and
pillow it in the last time, it will not only
have tendency to choke out the weeds,
that start up afterward, but there will
be no danger of dry murraln among the
cattle from eating too freely of dry stalks,
as the rye will remain green through the
winter, and will be eaten by stock In
preference to the corn fodder. It makes
desirable feed for all kinds of stock,
and aids materially in the quality and
quantity OF milk produced, besides prov
ing saving Of from one to two tons of
hay from every acre sown; and last, but
not least, it affords green crop to pillow
under in the spring, which will renew
and enrich the land.-Raral World.
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