Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-18

WOODS or other tall trees to make q
wind-break high up The trees should
be set SO that the trees in one row
would be opposite the space between
the trees in the next row. The willow
hedge would not only be protection
from the snow in winter, but would
protect the garden in the summer.
IN the Michigan Farmer a farmer
tells how he manages to conquer Cana
da thistles by the help of his 200
sheep. He puts a small handful of
salt on each thistle at the root. The
sheep eat the thistle close to the
ground. The sailing is repeated as
often as may be necessary, and the
thistle seldom appears the second
year.
A GOOD wash for roofs and buildings
is as follows: Stake lime in a. close
box to prevent the escape of steam,
and when slaked pass it through a
sieve. 10 every six quarts of this lime
add one quart of rock salt and one
gallon OF water. After this boil and
skim clean. To every five gallons of
this add, by slow degrees, three
quarters of a pound of potash and
four quarts of very fine sand. Color
ing matter may be added if desired.
Apply this mixture with q paint or
whitewash brush.
AN old farmer said that corn-meal
fed to animals the first 80 DAYS of
going to grass was worth So per bushel
if carefully fed; that animals thus
fed would gain so pounds the first 80
days on grass If fed one quart Of meal
daily at night and what hay they
would eat, while the same animals, If
turned out and not fed anything but
grass, would lose so pounds, thus
making a clear gain of 100 pounds in
the animal in the first 80 DAYS at
grass. have tried the experiment on
yearling steers and found the state
ment to be correct, by actual weigh
ing.-N. Y. Cor. Breeders Gazette.
Few are the farmers bold who
would venture on q cruise through a
season of teaming without a medicine
chest well supplied with arnica. But
here comes q learned doctor and de-
clares in so weighty ajournal as the Re
ceuil de Medicine Veterinaire that arni-
ca is often employed in considerable
quantities for petty strains and
bruises, and is kept in contact with
the affected surfaces until they are
swollen, heated, and often blistered,
thus greatly aggravating the original
trouble. He also cites cases where
erysipelas has been induced in men
from an overdose of this irritating
| remedy.
A VERY convenient crane to hold
large kettles out of doors can be made
as follows: Plant q stout post in the
ground, and drive an iron spike In the
top. Take light, strong piece Of tim
ber-a fence-rail will do-and mortise
a hole in it one by three inches, about
four feet from one end, to work on top
of post. Drive stake even with the
surface of the ground, having a hook
at the top. Place ring attached to
a chain, around the long end of the
rail, and hook the chain to the stake
below. The kettle is attached to the
other end of the rail over the fire. By
this machine q large kettle can be
raised or lowered, swung off or over
the fire easily by one person. 1t will
be found very useful in butchering,
making soap, ETC., in the open air.
If there is one thing more than an
other that should be turned over to
the boys on the farm it is the care of
colts. And this should be done in
such a way that a benefit may be in
Cured that is mutual as between the
boys and the colts. If the boys have
an interest in thegrowth, development
and profits realized from keeping colts
their interest in the work of the farm
will increase rapidly, and the farmer
himself will be the one benefited by the
present of a sucking colt to his son,
if that son is an ordinary bright farm
er's boy with considerable colt nature
in his makeup, only toned down some
what with a little seasoning of common
sense. Encourage the boys, therefore,
by giving them little "start" in this
direction forthey are the horse-breed-
ers of the near future.
IT has often been claimed that pro-
ductiveness and earliness in the melon
are promoted by pinching back the
leading stems. A test of these state
ments was made at the New York Ex-
pertinent station, last season by pinch
ing back the main shoots, as fast as
they attained the length of two feet,
in row of the Christiana melon, rs
feet long, leaving the stems entirely
unplncneQ IN an adJOln1ngrOW OF equal
length. The first impressions were
that the fruits formed on the pinched
row were more numerous and earlier
than those on the unpinched row
The sequel, however, showed this to
be mistake. On August Is, the
pinched row showed 81 fruits exceed
ing three inches in diameter, while the
unpinched one showed SO. The first
fruit to ripen, however, was on the I'M
pinched row, and during Septembern no
difference was discernible between the
two rows.
A WESTERN paper says: ''The good
old COW has paid off more mortgages
and paid for more farms than any
other known product. She is the
mother of all our beef. In a house
hold she catches the wolf on her horns
and losses it far from the door, She
has turned the tide in our, agricultural
prosperity, in many parts of the coun-