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

ment stations.
ALLOW no decaying vegetables to re-
main in the cellar.
CAPoN1zED turkeys often weigh from
thirty to fifty pounds.
Forty EIGHT hundred patents on
churns have oeen issued.
The borer worms have attacked the
North Carolina pine trees.
1T is we'll to head trees to proper
height and form when they are young.
AN Irish stock paper, the Farmers
Gazette, advocates the dehorning of
cattle.
LARGE focks of sheep are being
driven from Washington Territory to
Montana.
EVERY farm should be provided with
workshop. Valuable time will often
be saved as well as money.
The Tribune and Farmer is authority
for the statement that sheep have been
sold in Kansas this winter for % cents
per head.
A MICHIGAN farmer whose land is
new has discovered that gophers dig
out and eat grub worms. He has
stopped the war on them.
A TEAMsTER in Maine says he can start
the worst balky horse by taking him out
of the shafts and making him go round
in a circle till he is giddy. He has
never had to try this method more than
twice on the worst cases.
The craving for salt by all animals is
not result of feeding under the car g
of man. While this country was all
forest, every salt spring was frequented
by deer, and this fact was taken advan-
tage of by hunters for their capture.
The question of branding cattle is
again being considered by Montana
stockmen. A hide not branded will
bring 81 to $3.50 more than one side
branded, and the present custom is es-
timated to cost Montana breeders alone
81, 100000 year.
AN experienced blacksmith says that
more horses feet are ruined by rasping
the hoof than by any other cause. This
outside coating is impervious to water
and does not evaporate. When broken
into by raspinQ the moisture of the foot
evaporates, leaving the hoof dry and
brittle.
ANIMALS that are troubled with worms
may be safely and speedily relieved by
giving them small dose of turpentine
two or three times in their feed. It
nauseates the worms so that they lose
their grip on the intestines and pass
through with the excretions of the
stomach.
AN English poultryman says that on
the first appearance of the gapes make
quart of oatmeal porridge, stir into it a
tallow candle and administer it warm to
the chicks. Repeat the remedy about
every two hours. He states that he
has never lost a single chick from gapes
since the above was administered.
A GREAT deal of butter is injured in
quality before the milk is brought from
the barn or stable. If poor butter is
the result, the housewife or dairymaid
is not the one to hold responsible. If
the COWS are we'll bedded and the milk
er uses due care there will be much
fewer complaints of ill-favored butter.
A SUPPLY of lime and gravel should
be kept in the hen-house during the
winter. A good deal of small gravel
will be eaten by fowls, the stones in
their gizzards helps to grind the food
and make it more digestible. The lime
is best given in the shape or oyster or
clam shells slightly burned and then
pounded into fine pieces.
EVERY hen-house should be provided
with one or more boxes of dry sand for
fowls to roll in during the winter when
they cannon get at the ground. The
boxes should not be used as nests nor
for any other purpose than for fowls to
dust themselves with. Dry earth from
road-beds is excellent for thisAuse and
some should be saved every fall.
RENTS of farming land in England
have only declined per cent, notwith-
successive bad seasons, but
more farms are for sale and there is in
creasing difficulty in securing good
tenants. Rents must be much lower an
other year, and more of the land every
season is seeded down and devoted to
pasturing and the growing of meat.
ONE of the most valuable uses of
agricultural colleges should be the col
lection of insects, properly classified.
where practical farmers can learn more
in day than most of them can gather
through observations in the field through
an entire season. It requires time.
patience and knowledge to make such
collection, but it's value well repays it's
cost.
IT is remarked that yellow corn
generally brings one or two cents more
per bushel than white flint corn. Yet
the latter is equally good, and for feed
ing horses is probably slightly better,
as it does not contain quite so large a
of oil. The chief use of
corn, however, is for fattening, and for
this the preference IS for yellow varie-
ties"
The gizzard of fowls is admirably
adapted for grinding the hardest grains,
and it is well to give it something of
this to do. Feeding fowls with meal
and water or soaking grain for them is
q waste of labor, Even young chickens
thrive better on whole wheat or screen
lngs than on meal mixed with water.
The drink needed is better given sepa-
rately.
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