Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-10
FARM AND GARDEN,

Sour milk, clabber and buttermilk
are excellent for all kinds of poultry.
If trees set last spring suffer from
drought, mulch them or keep the soil
loose.
WET grass is more damaging to
young chicks than the cold blasts of
winter.
SUCCESS in butter making depends
upon skill acquired only by actual ex
perience.
WITHIN the past twenty years the do
creased three fold.
WORMS and beetles do not injure
alfalfa, adding one more to the many
items in it's favor.
MAKE war on weeds and all trash
about the premises. It is better to be
clean than to be sick.
PHOSPHORUS, nitrogen and potash
successful agriculture.
COTTON seed meal is excellent for
COWS and sheep, but should never be
given to pigs and horses.
In localities where late spring frosts
are apt to occur, it is safer to plant
fruit trees on northern slopes. The
buds then do not swell so early, and are
not so liable to injury.
A DUNDEE, Scotland, dairyman was
recently convicted of selling milk which
had stood in room in which a child
was i'll with scarlet fever. The milk
absorbed the poison, and seventeen
persons were infected with the disease,
four of whom died.
A FEW years ago the quantity of
cheese manufactured in this country
was estimated at about 100000
pounds, three quarters of which was ex-
ported. Now the annual production
reaches 450,000,000 pounds, of which
about one-fourth is exported.
ALwARs water your plants in winter
time with luke-warm water, if you would
have profusion of flowers, and thrifty
plants. The water should be of the
same temperature as the room or place
in which the plants are kept. There is
no theory about it-this is practical
fact.
A HoRTICULTURIsT finds that coal
tar added to water is a valuable insecti-
eide. To one gallon of tar three gallons
of water are added. The solution is
sprinkled over rosebushes, grapevines,
ETC., in the spring, and the smell of coal
tar is SO strong during the whole season
that insects will not touch the plants.
SOME persons are of opinion that
cockleburr plants will kill hogs if eaten
by them. Experiment shows that hogs
will not eat these plants except when
very young, and then no injury results.
In test cases hogs refuse to eat the burr
plants, after they are about six inches
high. They are fond of the plant while
very young.
MOSES FOWLER, of Lafayette, the
largest farmer in Indiana, who owns
nearly 30, 900 acres under cultivation in
Benton County will have 100000 bush
els of corn this year and 5000 tons of
hay. Mr.. Fowler makes a speciality of
blooded stock, and last week made a
sale of single herd of Herefords, yield
ing him $4,000.
WELL finished cattle, two years old,
will yield sixty to sixty-two pounds of
beef for one hundred pounds live
weight. The primer the quality and
the younger the animal, the more beef
is given. For a three-year-old fin
ished bullock fifty-eight to sixty-one
pounds per hundred pounds live
weight should be made.
THERE is no occasion for deriding
Scientific farming" as is sometimes
done. It is only common sense practi-
cally applied, and it is only TO the extent
that it is scientific that any farming is
successful. There is no more danger of
too much science in agriculture than
there is of having too much common
sense in the world at large.
The preservation of straw for feeding
purposes is very important. It is best
secured at or Immediately after thresh-
ing time. The chaff especially of wheat
straw, is most valuable, and should, SO
far as possible, be distributed through
the stack. That which is left In the
rear Of the straw carrier should be put
under shelter. as it rots easily.
| AS general rule, farmers may, by Civ
ing proper attention to crop rotation,
blowing under clover and other green
matter, accommodating manure asidefrom
the natural collections of the barnyard,
by competing muck, forest leaves,
sods, ashes, night soil, scrapings from
the henery, privy, pig-sty etc., make
all the fertilizing material needed.
IF wheat is to follow oats or barley,
the sooner after harvest the land is
plowed the better the chances for a
good seed bed. No matter how dry and
hard the soil may be at blowing time,
every fall of rain, however slight, will
moisten the upturned surface. On the
unplowed lands the heaviest rains will
run off without doing much good.
To prevent haystacks firing, scatter a
few handfuls of common salt between
each layer. The salt, by absorbing the
humidity of the hay, not only prevents
it's fermentation and consequent heating,
but it also adds salty taste to this for
age, which all cattle like; besides it
stimulates the appetite and assists their
digestion, and so preserves them from
many diseases.
THE fact that strong loom, in a
tolerably dry state, will absorb and hold