Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-14
SEASONABLE FARM NOTES.

RECOLLECT that success in farming is
made up OF small economies.
TREES are more apt to winter. kill in
dry, light or sandy soil, than in medium
heavy and moist. In such SOILS plant
deep
REMEMBER that the deeper a soil in
worked into good condition the deeper
Will the plant roots penetrate and find
moisture during drOuth.
Coal tar, if put on hot, makes a very
good pant for farm wagons and carts.
1t Will keep out the water and preserve
the wood; but it does not make a nice
finish.
HARD water or that containing an I'M
due amount of magnesia end lime is not
beneficial to sheep. Where such
abounds 1t is best to provide them with
rain water.
SALT is used to destroy the onion
maggot with partial success. About Jhe
| first OF July SOW two bushels to the
| acre; the salt also hastens the maturity
OF the crop.
CATTLE, horses and sheep do much
damage to orchards in winter, frequent
| ly, by passing over fences on snow
drifts. For this reason wire fences are
| the best for orchards.
A PROMINENT hOrseman says he always
puts plates OF gutta percha a quarter OF
an inch thick inside his horses shoes
over the frog. They remain all winter,
and prevents the balIing of the snow.
REMEMBER to keep your pigs grow
! ing, whether you intend to kill them
soon or winter them over. Every day
you keep hog without its gaining any
thing you are losing both time and feed,
ONE man will keep his cows i'll good
condition by feeding Is pounds of hay
and 4 quarts of meal per day, while
others give 80 pounds of hay and 6
quarts of meal, and their stock get poor.
ALWAYS have a good dry shed for
stock hogs during the winter season. It
is better to have it laid with a good
| plank floor, as the ground is apt to
"sweat them and cause them to take
cold.
The heeces of any sheep are badly in
| jured around stacks. Long wooded
heeces are more damaged than the
downs OF fine woods. since they are longer
and more open, and catch more boards,
chaff and straw.
HEY now have goats III England that
| give three or four quarts of milk per
day. Some specimens have recently
sold for $50 per head. The interest III
goat-raislug is increasing, and the milk
IS in good demand at high prices.
MANY man has had his pork fail to
keep properly because it was sailed in a
frozen condition. Frozen meat, whether
beef, pork or mutton, will not properly
asslmllate the salt, and cannot be de-
pended on to keep in hot weather.
If your double team did not work to
suit you TO day, one crowding to the pole
while the other would pull his head to
one side, see that the reins are right,
and Ia hooking them to your wagon to.
morrow, put the off horse on the near
side.
HE Pekin duck is nearly as large as
goose, is entirely white, and can be
kept In small enclosures with only a
trough to bathe in. They g ew rapidly,
| furnish fine feathers, and are excellent
for the table. They are also good layers.
good settlers, and careful mothers
IT is better economy to pay man 81
per day who knows how to care for
stock, and who will stay with them,
watch over them, and see that each one
gets his share, than to have a hand
work for nothing, who has no correct
conception Of how to feed or care for
cattle.
TAR is one of the most useful articles
to be kept about stable. Internally
use teaspoonful night and morning for
chronic coughs; externally it is particu-
larly useful in thrush and all diseases
or wounds of the foot. Mixed with fish
oil it is one Of the best remedies for hard
or brittle feet
| a CORRESPONDENT Of the Chicago
| Tribune feeds cOtton-seed meal, corn
meal and bran to COWS, one pound of
each at ration. The cotton seed meal
must be free from husk, or it will be in
digestible. Care must also be taken not
to feed the cotton-see meal for two
months before calving time.
THE consumption Of parsnips is large
~ increasing in towns. At one time
they were only salable in the spring af-
ter they had frozen and thawed. They
are now in demand all winter Some
raisers dig them in the fail, allow them
to freeze, and keep them in that condi-
ton till they are sent to market.
PARsNIPs should be planted in large
quantities on every farm. They are
quite hardy, have no enemies, and are
| the only root which will fatten a pig
without anything else. In addition to
these facts, they make the best butter
and cheese, and are the best of all roots
for every kind of stock. Southern IN
| dagStries. r.
ORANGE Co., N. Y, farmers say that
the COW has been more profitable with
them than the fast horse. A few fast
trotters have brought much money into
the county, but It has usually gone to
secondhand buyers, not growers of the
stock. The good dairy COW has, on the
other hand, brought her income into
the pocket of the farmer.
In all the tests of the new grapes it
should be remembered that the test for
mildew is not conclusive unless the vine
has acquired age. Most very young
vines are exempt. 1t would seem that
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