Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-03-28
Thoughts for the Farmer.

Thoughts for the Farmer.
Never rent a farm when you can buy
one. The rent soon amounts to the value
ola farm and you are but little better off,
and your young, stronger days are pass
| ing.
Much of the time on a rented farm
passes unemployed, when if you was on
| a farm of your own you could spend
| this time in making improvement.
To have a home of your own will en-
courage you to form habit of saving,
which you will have to do to pay for a
home and make life successful.
To be the owner Of farm will have a
beneficial effect upon your character
It will increase your self respect and
your confidence in yourself.
If you are in debt do not spend cent
without you are absolutely compelled
to; remember dime makes hole in q
dollar.
A farmer should know every dollar
that comes in and every dollar that
goes out, and what it is expended for.
Never ''turn a field out" A field
thrown out makes you nothing in any
way, and you have to pay tax on it the
same as if it did.
Never at any time have fields lying
idle; if you have fields too poor to make
profitable crops, SOW them in rye and
turn it in. There is scarcely any grain
or grass crops that will not enrich the
soil if turned in at the proper time.
Treat your soil in such a way that it
will not leave you and follow every
rain that comes along. The washing of
the soil by rains has ruined many farms
and bankrupted many owners. Keep a
good portion of your ground sown to
clover and other grass.
There is poor chance for success at
farming without plenty of stock let their
manure be the crop that you bestow the
most care and attention upon; it is the
most valuable one on the farm.
When building your houses and out
buildings, arrange them for beauty and
convenience; remember, every yard
that is added to the distance to the
meat house and the well will amount
considerably in one year and will wear
your wife's life greatly in time.
1t is poorly arranged farm without a
good orchard of we'll selected fruits of
all classes and most especially good
garden. Let these receive your first at
tention; they are the most valuable
items of the farm.
Much time is lost in the spring by not
knowing what to plant or where to
plant it; and many a valuable plant is
lost by not knowing what to do or how
to proceed with business as soon as you
get up in the morning.
Improve the wash places on your
farm by hauling wood-mold and leaves
from the woods and throw over them.
Scatter straw, cornstalks or anything
that will hold or improve the soil or
rather form soil.
Chemists tell us and practical men
confirm their Statements, that the
LIQUID eXcrements are worth more than
double the average solid eXcrements of
ordinary farm animals.
AS sure as a small leak will sink a
large vessel, small things on the farm
UNDECIDED will sink the largest farmers.
Do not step over rail or walk around
a lot of COW droppings, kicking the
shovel out of your way, to have an
hours idle chat with a neighbor and
then say you have not time to attend to
these things.
Cultivate a Friendly, sociable feeling
to visit them, learn their mode of farm
ing see the effect of different manures,
modes of planting and cultivation, ex-
change views on all branches of farm
ing, best and most profitable stock and
most profitable food and best way of
feeding. Have yourself supplied with
good reading, books and papers,
they will influence you to lead an hon
est and industrious life which will be
crowned with successful. D. B., in
Practical Farmer.
Farm Notes.
Prof Henry. Of the University of Wis
consin, who is well known as conserv-
alive and careful agricultural expert
menter, advises, where cornstalks are
to furnish the principal rough food, the
following as days ration to COW, to
be fed at two or three feeds: Corn
stalks cut, fifteen to eighteen pounds;
clover hay, five pounds; bran, six
pounds; corn meal, four pounds.
A writer in the Farm Journal tells
how he prevented abortion among COWS,
with which he had before been much
troubled: ''1 procured some bone meal
and fed tablespoonful to each cow ey-
cry other day, and continued to do so
until very recently. [ now feed two
spoonfuls twice week to each cow"
There is no standard percentage OF
butter as to milk. Milk varies in the
amount of butter it contains during the
season. In the autumn, When the COWS
give less milk, the percentage of butter
is Twice as mucn DIS when Inc HOW
is the greatest. Cow S differ, as il
takes all the way from five pounds to
twentyfour pounds to make one of but
ter.
The peach growers of Maryland and
Delaware have decided to request the
legislatures of those states to enact laws
compelling the destruction of all trees
affected by the yellows. This is an i'm
pOrtant matter and demands the atten-
1rPn OF al peacn grower; as Inc yellows
country, is very damaging, the disease
being contagious.
The strawberry plants will begin to
grow as soon as the frost shall be out OF
the ground, and now is an excellent
| time to fertilize them. A mixture oil