Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-02-11

and home consumption there will be q
surplus of 100000 bushels, or 3O,OOO,-
900 centals.
SEEDMEN and nurserymen are gen
orally glad to send catalogues free to
those intending to purchase of them.
Farmers will do we'll to order early, look
over the novelties offered by each and
buy something from all. The knowledge
gained from these publications is cheaply
obtained, and even the dearer experience
got by experimenting with novelties is
generally worth all it costs and more
too.
To manage sheep, says the Farmers
Call, give the lambs little mill feed in
the time of weaving. Never frighten
sheep if possible to avoid it. Some rye
for weak ones in cold weather if you
can. Separate all the weak, thin or
sick from the strong in the fall and give
them special care. If any sheep is hurt
catch 1t at once, wash the wound, and if
it is in fly time apply spirits of turpen-
tine daily and wash it with something
healing. II limb is broken, bind with
splinders tightly, Iosening as the limb
swells.
HEATING the milk slightly causes the
cream to rise more rapidly at this sea-
son, and this will make the butter come
more quickly and be of better quality.
Much of heinferiority of winter butter
is due to the fact that the cream rises
slowly and fungus forms on it before
it is churned. Stirring the cream lit
tie, at least once day, is very import
ant whore only one cow is kept and the
cream is long time accommodating in
quantity sufficient for churning. I'm
less this is done the butter will be apt
to have bitter taste.
WE are told that cit is great mistake
to allow cattle to have the range of the
fields for the trifing amount of FROST
bitten grass they can pick up. They
will sometimes apparently fill themselves
full, but the cold winds and the exercise
will do more harm than the feed does
good. What heritage is left on the field
is worth far more as protection for the
soil than for it's triAing value as feed"
This may be all very we'll for some sec
tons and some soils; but for O well
regulated Kentucky bluegrass pasture
a pasture set apart for winter use-the
advice would be bad.
The statement is that eff it is desired
to change cider to vinegar as quickly as
possible it should be placed in one cor
ner of the cellar where it cannot be cas-
lily got at. Keep it on tap and every
day draw out little and turn it into
the barrel again through the bunghole.
Insert bellows into the cider every
day and blow several pints of air through
it. The oxygen of the air is what
changes the cider to vinegar. If the
entire quantity is taken from the barrel
and run back through wood shavings
the cider will turn very rapidly, as this
exposes larger surface to the air."
'REMEMBER that the grand secret of
all success in keeping farm animals is"
says one, comfort. The observant
farmer who keeps close watch over
his stock will soon learn how they are
TO be treated, so that they will have that
comfortable, quiet appearance which
indicates the thrifty animal, and will
quickly notice when one is restless and
Uneasy by day or night. When he sees
his he may know that something is
wrong, and he must try to remedy it.
There may be some animals that are
labitually restless and uneasy under
my treatment, but such will usually be
found to be unthrifty and improbable,
and should be weeded out if they can
not be reformed By better usage"
The Germantown Telegraph believes
hat if it could be so ordered that there
would always be employment at every
season of the year for men living among
farms, so that they could at all times be
1t hand-men whom one knows and can
;rust-there would be very little com
olaint of the scarcity of good workmen.
Farm laborers, as well as other laborers,
'eek permanent situations, and If they
IAN find these on the farms they would
lot only be ready to accept them, but
would willingly continue permanently
n their places, and by doing so they
would be far better adapted to the bust
less and be able to render much more
md better. service than where they are
only occasionally. The diff
'ulty lies in obtaining men only for
ew weeks or months, and then dismiss
ng them for an equal or greater length |
# time until they need them again.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Examiner
avs: IL have yet to see the farm whose |
,rook could not somewhere be damned
Without much labor, thus making little |
n fair-sized pond whose waters would
withstand the evaporation of the sum-
ner, and thus save the weary farmer
he daily tramp with weary cattle in
earch for drink. And on many farms
he dams could be built where the wa
or could easily be conducted by irrigat-
ng trenches out over the pasture when
eed is gettingsshort, or even into corn
eld when the willing leaves are praying
or rain, or into potato patch when the
oor tubers are crying for little water,
r through the orchard when the crop
J trembling in the balance. Where the
rock marks the boundary line, two or
1ore farmers could unite in the work,
hus saving expense. The day will come
hen every farm will have a pond as
urely as we'll"
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