Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-28
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

crop last year for $4,000. He has fifty
acres In walnut trees.
If you want good feeces next year
keep the sheep full and comfortable
every day, and they will do the best for
you.
LET the horses litter be dry and clean
underneath as well as on top. Standing
on hot, fermented manure makes the
hoofs soft, and brings on lameness.
BEFORE spring work on the farm de-
mands attention every farmer should take
an inventory of stock, implements, grain
and other assets, that he may know pre-
| cisely how he stands.
MANY breeders who have been using
meal made by grinding corn and cob to-
gether are abandoning it. The whole
grain IS considered better for young
stock, and meal for older cattle.
PARD1ENTIER says that the best method
OF storing thoroughly dry and clean
wheat is In sacks isolated from each
other, C are being taken to keep a suffi
GENTLY low temperature in the granary.
MANY sheep-owners believe the plan
of pasturing of sheep on wheat in the
winter is good plan. They should be
taken off when thaw comes. It is
thought that many injurious insects are
thus destroyed.
The day of feeding large quantities of
corn to an animal for q score or more of
months is past, and thrifty young steers
off from good pastures, with few weeks
finishing off with corn, are to furnish the
beef Of the future.
WooL, like every other animal pro-
duct, is made from food, and if the food
is short, the wool will be short: and.
indeed, in wool growing, the profits are,
to very great extent, determined by
the extent and character of the food
supply.
DIR. STURTEyANT thinks that when
sorghum mills become general and the
apparatus for the manufacture of
sorghum is always at hand, some vari-
ties OF corn Will be found to furnish
paying quantity of sugar besides bear
ing grain.
In Lagrange County, Indiana, q
black walnut log seventeen feet long,
scaling 3,717 feet, recently sold for 1926.
Yet comparatively young men remem-
Der when ten acres of black walnut tim
Der could have been bought in Indiana
for that sum.
WINTER manuring is the subject of
much discussion of late. Whatever
may be said for or against the fact re-
mains that unless the ground is q dead
level, which seldom occurs, much valu-
able nutriment is washed away.-CleUe-
tand Leader.
A MISSOURI sheep grower advises
breeding from polled rams. The ami
mails, he says, fight less, and are never
fy-blown around the horns, are more
conveniently sheared, keep easier and
grow larger. This is his opinion after
nine years experience.
| LAMBS can be made to shear from two
to four pounds more wool by little ex-
ira care and feed during the winner.
The extra wool Will more than pay for
the extra feeding. and the result Will be
much larger and stronger sheep. For
this purpose feed good clover hay, with
bran, oats and corn mixed equally.
AN experienced horseman says there
is nothing better for horse that has
been driven hard on the road in the win
ter than bran mash fed as hot as the
horse can eat ii. The inhalation of the
the eating of the latter, produced warm
glow throughout the system, and no
serious results follow from the over
eXertion.
THE cause of club-root in cabbage is
claimed by a German experimenter,
WOrOn1n, to be parasitic vegetable,
which lives and feeds on the healthy
tissue of different cruciferous plants.
All weeds OF that order (producing pods,
like turnips, mustard, radish, etc. J
should be eradicated while land is being
rested preparatory to a renewal of cab
bage growing.
A New JERSEY poultry breeder, after
trying the value of skinned milk and
buttermilk as food for laying hens and
hogs, came to the conclusion to dispense
with the hogs and feed the milk to the
fowls, as it keeps them in good laying
condition In winter and is as cheap as
anything else that can be given them.
He thinks that poultry can be kept with
a greater profit on dairy farms.
PROF. I'll. W. WILEY says of sorghum
seed that all starch-eating animals will
eat it with avidity, but that the full nu-
tritive value can be got only by grinding
or by boiling. He thinks an estimate
of ten bushels of seed per acre will be
nearer the truth; and says that, while
the blades of sorghum make valuable
fodder, 1t is doubtful whether they re-
pay the labor of gathering them.
A FRENCH authority gives the follow
ing old recipe for testing the age of
eggs: Dissolve four and one half
ounces of common salt in quart of wa
ter. An egg, placed in this solution, on
the day it is laid will sink to the bot
tom, one day old will not reach quite
to the bottom of the vessel; an egg three
days old will swim in the liquid, while
one more than three days old will swim
on the surface.
IT is said of sulky plows that though
they seem to require less draft than
walking plows of the same size, at the
end of the days work they really have
tired the teams mora fact which must
be admitted, but with the sufficient ex-
PLANTATION, that the .sulky never shirks