Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-27
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with the soft food make excellent green
matter for chicks.
HE foot and mouth disease, which
has existed in England for long time,
IS now believed to be gone.
AS the summer comes on it must be
borne In mind that shade of some kind
IS absolutely essential if the health of
the stock IS to be promoted.
IT Is said that eggs from hens in close
confinement seldom hatch well. It is
also advisable in selecting fowls to
breed from not to take the largest.
COMMON red clover is said to be bet
ter than the larger kind for general
purposes. The latter is difficult to
cure, makes coarser hay and is more
apt to become musty.
The cooling worm on apple trees
may be destroyed by spraying the
trees with a mixture made by dissolv-
ing q tablespoonful of paris green in
four gallons of water.
AFTER long and extended tests in fat
tening stock for market thecOnclusion
is that of all foods ground grain is the
best, especially if fed in connection with
a variety Of other food.
Ducks should have separate houses
from other fowls. No roosts are nee
essary, but they should have troughs,
as they do not like to pick and hunt
on the ground like chickens
Be sure that the we'll water does
not come from the barn-yard, the
privy vault or the cesspool. Thou
sands of farmers are drinking contain
mated water who have no suspicion
of it.
The longest-lived tree, says the Ohio
Farmer, is obtained by planting the
seed where the tree IS to grow and
grating it there without ever removing
it, but it will be longer coming into
bearing.
PEARS, peaches and ounces will not
thrive in the shade Of larger trees.
Raspberries, both red and black, black
berries and currants, will do well in
partial shade if the ground is kept well
cultivated.
AT the annual strengthening in Yer
mont, the heaviest rams fleece weighed
% pounds 10 ounces, and the heaviest
ewes fleece 21 pounds 9 ounces. This,
it is claimed, exceeds the record of any
public shearing.
AN experienced dairyman says:
"Never churn your cream uill the but
ter comes in chunks as big as your fist.
Stop churning when the butter grains
are twice the size of a pin head. Such
butter hasgood grain and brings more
than greasy butter"
IT is claimed that the best time to
sell steers is when they are two years
old, as up to that time all they eat
goes to build them up-create new It's
sue and bonneville a large part of
that which they eat after that age goes
to supply wasted tissues.
POTATOES should be planted, as far
as possible on new soil, for natural
vegetable refuse, such as grass or clio
yer sod turned under, is better than
stable manure for this crop. Plow
deep, SO as to encourage the growth of
tuber rather than of top.
PROF. FAIRCHILD says that what we
do not know about the everyday facts
of crop raising is more than what we
do know; and every discussion between
farmers reveals the absence of settled
principles, while failures from poor
Judgment are numberlesS.
THE manure from the fowls, if all
saved, will be worth forty cents per
fowl. 1t should be taken up with dry
muck, plaster or road dust. Such
manure is too strong to be freely used
in the hill, but should be spread
broadcast and narrowed in.
Dr. E. LEWIS STURTEvANTg terminated
perfect grains ofmaize-not moldy-at
temperature so low as 42.7 deg. F.
5 deg. less than is recorded by Sachs
and other botanists. But the inter
val was long; and, most remarkable,
there was no rOtting Of seed.
FROM a single kernel of wheat / ,O2O
pounds Of grain have been produced
in three years in Grass Valley, Cal.
The first year there were twenty two
stalks and heads, yielding $50 kernels.
These were planted and yielded one
fifth of a bushel, and last season there
was raised from this seventeen bush
els.
For sugar-beets the ground should
thoroughly pulverized. The roots re-
grows underground contains the most
saccharine matter; but none of the
beet will grow above ground if the soil
is mellow enough to permit it to pene-
trate it,
In Western New York it is customary
to plant corn in drills for grain, The
rows are made about four feet apart,
with a grain of corn every nine inches.
One farmer who practices this way of
planting says he can raise 20 per
cent. more corn in this way than by
planting IN hills.
For the early fattening OF lambs
provide small troughs in a yard ad-
Joining the sheep fold, with entrance a
little too small for the old sheep to go
through, and put few oats on little |
corn meal or cotton-seed meal every
day. The lambs will begin to eat when
three weeks old and grow rapidly.
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