Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-04-16
FARM AND GARDEN.

NEVER Iall TO IOuQer EGOcK regularly
PACK parsnips in clean dry sand to
prevent whitening.
A YOUNG pigs sides should notibulge
out. 1t is sign of over feeding.
THE value of the butter sent to New
York City last year was 500, 627, 579.
USE the curry-comb lightly, for when
applied rapidly it la a source of great
pain.
ILLINOIS has 412 butter and cheese
factories, most of them in the northern
counties.
LET the horse have some exercise
every day, or he will be liable to fever
or bad feet.
MONEY spent in paint for farm build
ings and implements is not to be
counted loss.
A BLANKET of good manure during
the winter will start rhubarb off lively
in the spring.
BARLEY water will stop diarrh@ in
calves if the disease has not become too
deeply seated.
HAY is best sold from the churn or
cheese press, or when in fat, sleek, hand
some steers or oxen.
SECURED wool shrinks about one
third of it's own weight during the proc
ess of manufacture.
SALT added to poultry droppings pre-
vents this valuable manure from drying
up and burning the plants,
WHEN you have a good cow, keep it !;
when you see good COW, buy it when
you have poor COW, sell it,
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moisture that they cannot safely be
piled in heaps or stored in barns.
l.. H. BAILEY says he can make more
money out of apples at twenty-five cents
per bushel than from wheat at one dol
lar.
LOOK often at the horses legs and
feet. Disease or wounds in these parts,
if at all neglected, soon become danger
GUS.
The noon meal for working horses
should be principally grain. 1t can be
quickly eaten and will not disturb the
stomach.
The Mississippi Valley Cane Grow
ers' Association will hold it's fifth an
nual meeting in st. Louis, January Is
to Is, 1884.
BURY hard cabbage heads down.
Stand the soft heads on their feet in the
trenches, and they will likely harden up
before spring.
GIVE the young pigs a run out of
doors if you want to keep them healthy.
Young animals 1nust not be confined in
close quarters.
The Japanese reduce their manures
to a liquid, and are exceedingly careful
about saving whatever will strengthen
the crop and soil.
THE effect of short manures on light
soils, and long manures on heavy soils,
are to improve greatly the physical
character of each.
Cows that have not been wintered
we'll need little extra care just now.
warm bran,slop with a little ginger
feed daily will produce wonderful re-
suits.
AN Ohio farmer says he cured his
horses of coughing by using oil of tar
and camphor gum. He put in all the
camphor gum the tar would cut and gave
teaspoonful on the tongue three times
a day after feeding.
CoPPERAs is splendid medicine to
keep on hand for poultry. When they
have the roup wash their heads with a
solution of it and put some of the solu-
ton in the drinking water as tonic. It
provides them with soluble iron, which
is necessary.
THERE is no better food for horses
than oats. A mixture of oats and bran
is healthy and strengthening, and is bet
ter than any other known food for
| An o+c
have long ago discovered aveneld, a
nerve stimulant, in oats, and to this may
be attributed it's good effect on horses.
Farmers had long ago discovered the
same thing, only they had not given it
name.
Mr.. M. E. HINKLEY, practical horti -.
cultur1st, writing about strawberries in
the Dakota Farmer, says there are no
settled rules which may be given the
beginner that will hold good in all
localities, but that there are certain
general rules which should always be
borne in mind, to wit-thorough cult
ure, moist situation, careful watch
ing and love for the business. With
out these success is impossible.
On the opening of spring many farm
ers would do well to open accounts. Fix
price on your own labor, and that of
each hand and assistant on your farm,
and keep an accurate reckoning of days
works, cost of horses feed and use of
seed, implements, etc. A simple state
ment of receipts and expenditures
throughout the season will enable the
farmer to know how he is prospecting,
and ''going it blind is not wise proc
ess, either for farmers or spectators.
s'THERE are so many breeds Of sheep, -
says an old fockmaster, Sand so much
said in favor of each, that some men may
delay, not knowing which to take; and
others may be led to believe that some
one breed is the one, and neglect good
opportunity to purchase some other.
But if farmer will select from any flock
he can find, few wide breasted, broad
backed, deep-bodied, not too long-legged
sheep, and put Southdown ram with
+I,oro ha will not make very GREAT