Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1889-10-23
FALL FARM HINTS.

other use Tor 1t. All stock Will eat ap-
pies.
Now down all the weeds and grass
as soon as you cut the corn off. Do not
stack the corn to remain, but pillow the
ground before winter sets in.
WILLOWS along the banks of stream
greatly aid in protecting the soil from
washings should floods occur. Willows
are easily grown from cuttings.
DoN'T letsearth or rubbish accumulate
around stills OF the barn or sheds; it you
do it will not be many years before the
expense and trouble of a new sill will
have to be incurred.
To make corn crib rat and mouse
proof line it throughout, overhead and
all, with wire cloth. having meshes 80
This does not impede the air circula
ton.
NOTHING on farm is more valuable
than we'll cured hay, and it should be
fed to stock instead of being sold. The
price usually obtained for hay IN the
market is less than it's real feeding
value.
THE New York Tribune says that lard
softened with kerosene until it will lust
flow in summer heat makes as good oil
Tor mowers, ETC., as that sold by dealers
at 100 per cent. proft-much better
than some of it.
INSTEAD of using the inferior apples
for making cider, to be converted into
vinegar, only the sound, unblemished
| fruit should be pat in press, as the
quality of the cider is Affected by the
condition or the apples.
In summer the milk should be set as
soon alter milking as possible, and as
| near normal temperature as possible.
IF you can set the milk at a temperature
of 90 to SO degrees and cool it down to
45 to 48 degrees you will get all the
cream inside of ten hours.
JUST at this time, when there is q
chance to do so, all the implements
should be cleaned and oiled. The bar
ness may need overhauling, and loose
spokes or tires of wheels can be re.
paired. In the spring the use of the
| implements will not permit Of repairs
without loss Of time.
The Rural Canadian indorses the old
rule that every cow kept for butter will
keep SOW and pigs. The skim milk
and buttermilk form basis for healthy
feed, and if given run in the pasture
or i'll the orchard the litter of pigs in
the fall will bring nearly as much as the
housewife has made from her butter.
The time to apply lime is in the fall,
SO as to allow it time 10 act on the soil.
The beneficial effects of lime may not
be apparent until the second season,
much depending upon the condition of
the soil and its composition. It should
be applied on the surface to be carried
down by the rains, and not plowed in.
In a majority of cases it rarely pays
to ate mpt to cure hen that has fallen
into the habit of eating eggs, and for
the reason that she is almost certain to
teach others the same trick often al
most before you are aware of it; the
best plan is to kill as soon as the trick
is discovered. It hardly pays to run
the risk.
NEVER grow trees of different kinds
together until satisfied one does not in
jure the other, as is frequently the case
When plums are grown near peaches,
thus inducing the curculio to sometimes
attack the latter. A single wild cherry
tree near an apple tree will provide a
harboring place for caterpillars. which
finally lnjure the apple orchard.
WHEN the pasture is overrun with
garlic it should be plowed under, sowed
in rye this iall, and corn crop grown
on the land next season. 1t should be
well cultivated in order to destroy all
weeds by keeping the land in crops that
require tie cultivator; grass seed may
be sown after the ground is again in
proper condition for pasture.
OUNCE trees are benefited by manur-
ing more than any other fruit trees,
and if the ground around the trees is
we'll covered with manure this fall the
beneficial efects.of the manure will be
very marked next spring. Too much
manure around peach trees, however.
sometimes does harm, but light cover
ing OF compost will be beneficial.
The rotting out of the heart of many
old apple trees is doubtless due to the
cutting away of large limbs by ignorant
tree butchers without giving the wounds
any protection. A tree properly
pruned during early life will need moth
ing severe atterWard. Trees and chill
dren are much alike in some respects.
The time to train both is in their early
years.
THE bronze is the largest breed of
turkey, and gobblers 8 years old have
been known to weigh fifty pounds be-
fore being killed and dressed for mar
ket. 1t is not very hardy breed, but
docs we'll when crossed on the common
variety. The white Holland turkey is
smaller than the bronze, but is more
active iorager, and can secure nearly all
of it's food.
ST DO not believe that the English rye
grass (loli1m perenrae) is adapted to our
hot and dry summers and our freezing
winters" says F. D. Curtis, in the Coun-
try Gentleman. cit is more woody
when ripe than orchard grass, and must
be the least valuable of our natural pas
ture grasses. Red-top is the most
hardy. Blue grass should be mixed in
al! pastures, and in most lands it is in
digenous.
PROF. SANBoRN repeats, in a recent
lecture, that to delay in cutting grass is
in the interest of poverty, wrong to
our families in robbing them OF the
means of advancement, rest and culture.
Better two days too early than two
days too late." Never allow the seed
to mature. He who waits for the seed
TO mature before moving throws away
the most concentrated part of the plant
and takes the husk.
In regard to cutting off the seed ends
of potatoes and throwing them away, J.
M. Smith says: Last spring I saved
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