Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-05-02
FARM AND GARDEN.

acres, and fed to cattle at the rate of
twenty-five pounds twice day per
head, with one ration of hay. He adj
vises the use OF meal in connection with
the preserved fodder.
COOKED vegetables of all kinds, but
more especially byiied potatoes, turnips
and carrots, sre found to be economical
food for fowls, gnd conduce to their
health These should be mashed with
thoroughly scalded corn or oat meal,
and occasionally with shorts or wheat
middlings for laying hens.
A CORRESPONDENT suggests that if
corn, before planting, be soaked in
tarred water and then rolled In plaster it
will prevent the crows and black birds
from pulling it up, and also prevent it
from rotting in case o long wet spell fol-
lows it's being placed in the ground.
Though not new, repetition of the sug-
gestion is timely,s
A CORRESPONDENT of the American
Cultivator sprouts his seed-corn thor
oughly before planting, letting the
sprouts get an inch long before putting
In the ground; then he plants carefully,
and his corn is up and growing in three
days. He drops his Lima beans into
melted lard, warm, and finds this precau-
ton prevents rot.
The six leading agricultural pro6uc-
tons of the United States, according to
the census report of 1880, were in the
following order: Corn, wheat, hay,
cotton, oats and potatoes. The value
of the first was 36O0,000 900, of wheat
$500, 900, 900, hay $3.50, 1000, 900, cotton,
$242, 900, 900, oats $130, 900, 900, and po-
tatoes $73, 000,0
Mr.. p. T. QUINN, the noted market
gardener near Newark, n. J., who has
tried fifteen different mixtures or decoc-
TONS for the cabbage worm, prefers
twenty parts of gypsum, three or four of
quicklime, and one of carbolic acid,
sprinkled thinly over the leaves when
wet with dew or rain, repeating the APP
plication as often as necessary, which
may be number of times.
MANY farmers who secure for them
selves all the labor-saving improvements
are slow In arranging similar helps for
their wives. A reaper or mower is used
at the most only a few days In the year.
A creamer to make butter-making
easier will be in use nearly or quite
every day in the year, and the butter
product will bring enough to pay heavy
interest on the first cost, besides the
saving IN labor.
THE Indiana FARMER says one of its
subscribers kept record of the time
employed In cultivating fourteen acres
of corn last season in the old-fasbioned
way, and finds he gave about two days to
the acre. The yield was 800 bushels,
over fifty-seven bushels to the acre. He
estimated the value of his crop at 1920,
and the labor expended on it at 1920,
and dedGctiDg expenses he claims a
profit Of $14 per acre.
In the northwest of France, and on
lands adjoining the coast, parsnIp culture
is rapidly extending. All stock relishes
the root; it produces excellent butter,
rich and well-havored The renown of
the Jersey and Alderney buffers is said
to be due to feeding the stock extensive
ly on parsnips. Jerusalem artichokes
are being favored for finishing off fat
stock. Parsnips fetch half the price of
hay.
A VERMONT sheep-raIser says that the
best method of doctofing sheep for foot
the flock, sound or lame, thoroughly
with kerosene or coal oil, and put what
sulphur you can take in the thumb and
finger between the hoofs of each foot.
Keep them in dry place for twelve
hours Repeat this operation in about
two weeks, and you will have no more
trouble.
WHEN grating is done early in the
season, especially on large trees, the
probability is, as the Massachusetts
Ploughman thinks, that the greater num-
Der of scions are misplaced by birds in
their flight to and fro; some protection
should therefore be afforded. There is,
of course, less danger from this usually
unrecognized source when the work is
deferred so that only brief time inter
venes before growth begins.
IT appears from experiments that a
heaping teaspoonful Of paris green to
twelve quarts of water is just as certain
to destroy the potato beetle as a larger
quantity; but one pound of the poison
mixed with 100 pounds OF plaster may
be applied by the hand as it is proved by
repeated tests that no bad results will
follow taking it IN the bare hand when
mixed ID these proportions. The plas-
ter is worth to the crop all the labor ex-
penses.
In planning q season Of farm drainage
it is not generally best to commence in
the wettest places, because these require
the most labor and yield the smallest
propOrtlonate return. The work Of thor
Oughly renogating one acre of marsh will
often require enough labor and tile to
make perfectly dry five or ten acre field
of upland that Is just little too wet for
profitable cultivation. To make any
work go farthest it should be put where
least needed, which would leave the
most difficult places for the last to be re-
claimed
SPAYED COWS are much more easily
fattened and kept in good condition than
COWS not spayed. They are less liable
to disease, and when sick yield much
more readily to remedies. Ii properly
cared for and fed as they should be,
spayed COWS will give the same amount