Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-21
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

BREAK down the corn-stalks while
they are frozen. It will save great
deal of vexatious work in the spring.
WHEN roots are injured, as in trans
planting, the broken roots should becut
smooth and the top cut back IN pro-
portion to the roots removed. Dead
wood is of no use, and should always be
taken off.
The feeces of any sheep are badly in
jured around stacks. Long-wooled
heeces are more damaged than the
downs of fine woods, since they are
longer and more open, and catch more
boards, chaff and straw.
A PORT HURON, Mich, man says alum
water is death to cabbage and currant
worms; its astringency so contracts their
tissues that they cannot breathe. He
used one pound of alum dissolved in
three gallons of rain water.
A PENNSYLVANIA fruit grower, when
he plants a strawberry bed, applies ma
nure at the rate of 80 to 40 tons per
acre, and dresses it annually afterward
with fab mulch of 25 tons more. He
raises 5, 1000 quarts to the acre and they
are big berries.
The winter time can be made more
profitable than it is by inaugurating and
carrying forward thorough system of
repairs, Frightening up farm utensils,
repairing fences and wagons, oiling and
cleaning harnesses, and In various kin
dred necessary improvements.
IT is bad policy TO wash harness with
soap, as the potash Injuries the leather.
If the harness becomes rusty rub off the
dirt as well as possible with soft brush
and apply dressing Of grain black, fol-
lowed with oil or tallow, which will fas-
ten the color and make the leather pill
able.
WHEN a cows udder is badly swollen
and tender battle it with warm water
and milk it dry at least twice day.
Give the COW one pound of EPSON salts
and afterwards one ounce of saltpeter
dissolved IN some bran slop, repeat each
second day until the Inflammation is re-
moved.
SHEARINa may be practiced on hedges
but never on trees and shrubs. Both of
these have habit of growth peculiar to
itself and this popularity constitutes
one of their beauties, when pruned alike
into regular shapes their identity is de-
stroyed. Use the pruning knife with
Judgment, and cut only the strangiing
branches.
An eastern paper says lambs can be
made to shear from two to four pounds
more wool by little extra care and feed
during the winter. The extra wool Will
more than pay for the extra feeding, and
the result Will be a much larger and
stronger sheep. For this purpose feed
good clover hay, with bran, oats and
corn mixed equally.
The fat headed apple tree borer is
found under the bark of apple trees,
white oak, and sometimes on other trees.
This insect attacks, principally, diseased
trees; the remedy is, therefore, to have
only healthy trees. Apple trees that
are sunburned, are very subject to its
attacks. Use the knife and wash with
soft soap about the last of May.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Rural New
Yorker says that those who undertake to
raise seedlings from the rhubarb as a
means of improving the quality, will be
disappointed, as the plants, fresh from
seed, though vigorous and healthy, will
vary as seedlings of all plants do A
choice sort, once established, is easily
increased by taking off eyes with bit
of root in October.
A New YORK local Horticultural
Society decided that hogs are the most
economical manure-makers in cases
where all refuse vegetable matter
gathered about the farm, including
weeds, rod, forest leaves, etc., are
thrown in for the animals to eat and
trample on. One gentleman stated that
he had made Sc loads of the best of fer
tilizers in one season from three hogs.
One hundred pounds of corn meal is
equal to rs pounds of wheat, 83 of oats,
90 of rye, Ill of barley, 333 of corn
stalks, 400 of oat straw, 500 of wheat
straw, e66 of rye straw, 200 of timothy
hay, 100 of clover hay, 500 of Irish po-
tatoes, 625 of ruta bagas, 900 of beets,
700 of carrots, 700 of cabbage, 60 of
beans, 40 of oil cake, or 1000 of white
turnips, for feeding stock. -NebrGSk0
Farmer.
IT is an old adage, November and
March for old women and COWS, and
the latter month will soon be upon us,
with its sudden changes and cold, windy,
inclement weather. For this reason 1t
behOoves farmers to look well to their
cattle and sheep now, and to realize how
they require more attention and watch
fitness during the latter part of winter
than at any other time of the year.
Cleveland Leader.
THE Scientific American says that
copal varnish applied to soles of shoes,
and repeated as it dries until the pores
are filed and the surface shines like pol
ished mahogany, will make the soles wa
terproof, and last as long as the uppers.
The New England Farmer adds that one
of the best things for farm boots, is an
outer sole, or tap, of wood, thoroughly
dried, soaked In linseed oil and screwed
to the bottom of the boot. 1t isn't ele-
CANT, but it does keep the cold from
"striking through the bottom OF the
boot.
A CORRESPONDENT writes: 4" 1t Is re-
ported on what seems good authority
that George Hull, of Aviston, Clinton
County, H., has a male bull ram on