Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-07-17
FARM NOTES.

thorough cleaning.
ALL the rakings, sod grass and refuse
of the farm can be used as a foundation
Tor compost heap.
Cow peas may be grown between the
hills of corn, as the same cultivation Tor
the one crop is suitable Tor the other.
AIR-sLACKED lime, busted freely on
the chicken yards, is one OF the best
preventives of gapes in young chicks.
P1NKs may be divided and planted
along the borders. The beds will soon
become thick and matted with the
plants.
III were asked to tell in four words
how had grown such large crops of
wheat, my answer would be clover sod
and tillage."
In all my experience of upward of
forty years Of growing clover | cannot
point TO one instance on my farm of
failure of a grain crop when the land
was previously well set in clover.-F. Z.
Root.
The temperature in the cellar for
white potatoes, says the Farm Journal,
is iorty degrees, and for the sweet pota-
toes from sixty TO sixty five degrees.
When sweet potatoes sprOut on top of
the bin it is favorable sign.
The parent fly is supposed to deposit
her eggs in the currant bush during the
latter part Of July or early in Septem-
ber burrowing in the ground immedi-
ately under the bush during the day
time and coming out after nightfall.
SEE about few choice new trees. Set
grove OF naples or chestnuts or wal
nuts. The trees will be profitable as
we'll as beautiful. Every year fill up va
cancies as they occur in your orchards.
1t is the only way to keep Iruit profit
ably.
THERE is no way of cleaning dirty
milk. Remedies are here out of place.
Only preventives will answer the pur-
pose. The only way to have clean milk
is by keeping the dirt cut of it, and this
goes a good way in securing good
flavor.
Dry COWS that are expected to come
in soon will fatten very easily it too
highly led at this season, thus render
ing them liable to milk fever when calv-
ing. Grass is sufficient for such COWS
now, and but very little grain should
be allowed.
For practical purposes a profitable
table fowl should have capacity Tor fat
tening, or rather fleshiorming, without
low that because bird is larger feed
er it will add flesh and prove profitable
as a iattener.
WHEN the second crop Of clover is cut
place it aside for the use of the pigs and
poultry next winter. 1t is chopped
fine, scalded, sprinkIed with ground
grain and fed literally. 1t will save
food, and both pigs and poultry will
thrive on 1t.
THERE is nothing to prevent the
growing OF trees Tor fence posts. Pear
trees, grown on the line intended for a
fence will not be injured il the staples
Tor holding wire fence are driven into
them, and such a fence combines USE
lulness and profit.
AN acre which will produce fifty bush
els oil corn will yield about two tons of
cornstalks, twenty-five pounds per day
OF which will maintain l,U0O-pound
steer in ordinary condition, and even a
smaller ration of the fodder will do if
the animal is reasonably we'll sheltered.
The common quail is the best exter-
minator of the chinch bug, and is fol-
lowed by the prairie chicken. If pro-
lection were given these birds and they
were provided with opportunity for in
crease, and considered to be private
property, the insect pest would un-
doubtedly be very much decreased.
The shorter the manure the better its
can be distributed over the land, and
the more valuable 1t is for providing
plant food. All long manure entails
useless labor III its handling. TO throw
coarse substances on the manure heap,
and expect them to decompose by
spring is not only loss of labor but
waste of time.
In tearing off the shingles of an old
roof which has been painted, it was
found that the paint had made ridge
where the shingles Tapped, causing the
water to set back and rot the shingles.
Ii shingles are to be painted, the paint
should be applied to each course as
laid A roof already laid will last longer
without painting.
MAKE every acre rich as far as you go,
and let weeds and grass grow on tie
poor lands and pillow them in, or SOW
COW peas and pillow them in. Peas,
homemade manure, including leaves
aud ashes in time make a small firm,
garden and orchard rich if the farmer
has ten or a dozen head of cattle and
a pair of mules and his stock increasing.
THE hens should be kept at but very
small cost in summer. Instead Of feed
ing grain give the hens chopped grass.
Cut it up fine, give them trough iull.
and they will need nothing else if they
are in good condition. Clover is excel
lent, and the hens will eat quite large
quantity in day. The finely chopped
grass is also an elegant food for young
chicks.
Do not attempt to grow melons or
pun pkins In the cornfeld if you expect
to keep the corn clean and all the
weeds down. 1t is a practice to grow
pumpkins in the cornheld, but during
the latter part of the season the corn is
neglected in order not to disturb the
pumpkin vines, which also allows weeds
to grow on some places to propagate
seed for another season.
Pros. SANBoRN advises farmers to at
tempt to use chemicals mot including
lime, plaster and salt) only after intelli-
gent buying, careful study Of the soil
by comparative tests, and then on hor
ticultural crops mainly, including pota-
toes. This advice will not apply, how
ever, when wheat approximates III per
bushel, or when soils are largely def
Gent IN potash or phosphoric acid.
THE white guinea fowl is more domes-