Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-09-09
FARM AND GARDEN.

eggs from hens not separated from the
males.
DEEP cultivation and fine condi-
ton OF the soil are as important AS
the use of manure and superior varie-
ties of plants.
Iowa has $50 creameries, Illinois
40, Wisconsin 43O, and Minnesota
139, making a total of l, $3.50 in four of
the Northwestern states. e.s-l...
n. p. CLARKE, of st. Cloud, has been
appointed the Minnesota delegate to
the National Cattle and Horse Grow
ers' Association, which meets at St.
Louis, November %.
ALFALFA is being extensively grown
in all the states west of the Mississippi
River. 1t becomes permanent when
once established, and affords several
cuttings of hay in a single season.
A CENTRAL Kentucky farmer saws
that Bermuda grass grows during the
hot season, when blue grass rem aims
dormant, and that during it's period of
growth it will carry half more stock
than blue grass.
THE Illinois State Board OF Agricult-
ure will give an exhibition of dairy
stock in connection with the Chicago
Fat Stock Show, to open Tuesday,
| November 10, and continue till Thurs
| day, November 10.
A CROSS made by the Leghorn, either
brown or white, with the light Brahma,
makes one of the Dest families Of cross
bred fowls. Also, a cross of the
Plymouth Rock and Brahma, Wyan-
dotte and Brahma.
A TEAsPOONFUL of glycerine and a
| few drops of nitric acid to pint of
drinking water will generally cure a
| fowl that shows symptoms of bron-
chitis, when accompanied by a gurgling
sound in the throat, as if choking.
FARM animals, especially the horses,
should have a dark, thick shade, in
which they can escape the heat and
| the even more worrying flies. Dark
sheds are the best for this purpose,
where piece of thick woods is not &C
cessible.
LATENT fertility abounds in many
soils which need the action of the
phosphates, ashes or mineral fertil-
izers to liberate the valuable constitu-
ents. The value of a fertilizer is not
| alone in its own richness, but also IN
its effect upon the other constituents
of the soil
In Holland, cheese is made with the
use Of hydrochloric acid instead of
rennet. thus making the coagulation
more complete, retaining all the but
ter, and giving greater yield, the
principal objection being the taste, as
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its flavor is preferred by many, and it
has high keeping qualities.
IT is said that the best means of
cleaningup a strawberry bed is, after
the picking is through, to burn the
mulch off when it is very dry and then
work the beds out as usual-using the
pillow between the rows and work
ing the rows out with a hoe Burning
destroys all weed seeds and the eggs of
insects, and does not injure the roots
of the plants.
1T is good sign to see so much in
terest taken by the managers of but
ter and cheese factories in the use OF
whey as a calf food. No doubt the
dairy herds of the country would be
greatly improved if more calves were
raised on the dairy farms; and as this
is a mere question of economy of food,
any method that would reduce the
cost of raising the calves would great
ly benefit the diaries in the country.
WHEREVER Holstein bulls have been
introduced the grades have displayed
such marked superiority as producers
of milk, butter and beef, as to create g.
strong demand for them. An Illinois
dairyman states that he has a grade
Holstein COW that gave 5000 quarts
OF milk in a year as 2-year-old, and
now, at 6 years Of age, gives, on grass
alone, eight gallons of milk a day, and
that many of his grades never go dry.
AN Ohio dairyman, speaking of the
marks that the time will never come
when winter dairying shall be over
done. With warm, well lighted, clean
stables, plenty of early-cut and we'll
cured grass, supplemented with the
contents of agood silo, and q well-flled
root cellar, the comfort, health and
profit of the COWS should be no more
problematical in winter than in sum.
mer.
By cutting an old fruit can in half,
thelower portion may beused forhold-
ing ground bone. charcoal, sulphur or
ground shells. They can be easily
nailed to the coop or in any sheltered
location, where the fowls may at leis-
ure eat what they desire from them
If they are trimmed off at the top, a
hole cut near the bottom, and the can
filled with water and inverted over a
tin plate, they answer well as drinking
fountains.
MANY farmers practice sowing En-
glish or flat turnip seed in their corn
fields, and upon rich soils good crop
is generally obtained. The seed may
be scattered thinly between the rows
and scratched in with a garden rake
If sown just before a heavy rain no
raking will benecessary. Such turnips
are a great benefit to cattle and sheep
when fed in the fall of the year, lust
as stock comes to the barn after the
grassfails.
SOME one has experimental with
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