Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-09-17
FOR THE FARMER.

to this in the breeding of the mares.
The highest prices for butter are OBJ
tanned through neat, attractive, conve-
nient packages. Quite otter butter so
| packed sells for an advance of so per
cent. over the best ordinary market
prices.
ANOTHER fine plant for winter is i'm
patiens sultani. It's armine-colored
flowers are produced all the, time, and
while the plant is yet but few inches
high. 1t belongs to the we'll known
balsam family.
THE value Of silage is that one COW, if
not two, can be fed a whole year from
the produce of one acre; the detriment
of pasture is that five acres of it keep a
cow only six months in year.
WHERE plants of clematis jackma nm
are in fresh, good soil they grow and
flower all summer. Unless the soil is
good they will not grow, and, of course,
there must be growth before there can
be flowers.
WARM skinned milk, with the adj
dition of little ground meal of oats,
linseed and corn, in equal parts, just
enough to be digested BEAUTIFULLY, will
make as good veal calf as butter at 20
cents pound will.
CHRYsANTHEMUMs in not over rich
ground should be supplied with little
not too strong manure water. 1t en-
riches the foliage and tends to the for
nation of fine flowers. These plants
are gross feeders when in good health.
No doubt farmers are unequally bur-
dened in some respects; but the great
est burdens they bear are self-inf1icted
poor work, poor tools, poorly ham
died; poor stock; poor care; poor feed
ing; and finally, poor business methods.
The COW is not mere machine for
the conversion of food into milk. She
is an animal whose natural functions are
as delicately organized as are those of
human beings, and the first consider
alton should be given to the healthful-
ness of her feeding and lodging.
FALL grass Injuries lawns because 1T
spreads so much that it kills out all
other sorts and clover. Being but an
annual, it dies itself toward winter,
leaving the lawn entirely bare. Keepit
cut close so that it cannot seed, which
will prevent it from growing next year.
REMEMBER that no stream can be
poorer than it's source. If the spring
be impure the whole stream must be
bad. And so if the cow is not in per-
feet health, or her food or water is not
perfectly pure, the milk cannot be
good, and all it's products will be tainted.
THERE is no certainty about tempera-
ture without thermometer. Heat and
cold are relative sensations to a person,
but the mercury is a certain test. And
the milk and cream are as sensitive as
the mercury is. Consequently every
dairy needs a thermometer as guide
for the work.
A MICHIGAN farmer tells contempt
rary how he manages to conquer Cana
da thistles by the help of 200 sheep.
He put small handful of salt on each
thistle at the root. The sheep eat the
thistle close to the ground. Repeat
sailing, and the thistle seldom appears
the next year.
For Towering in the house in winter,
genaniums are justly popular. They
are always in bloom. If small plants in
pots can be had now they should be
potted into a larger size at once. If
there are none, dig up few from the
garden, and pot them as soon as posi-
Bile.
Regularity in feeding animals is es-
pecially needful for their thrift. When
will bleat loudly for their food, and
COWS and calves will worry. Worry
wastes flesh and food. So it is an econ
omy to observe regularity in feeding.
If the clover is put away green in the
barn with layers of clean straw mixed,
the whole will come out in the winter in
excellent shape, and be as good as SO
much hay. In the silo this mixture will
make the best of feed for winter and
turn the straw to the best use. 1t is too
valuable to be trodden under foot.
IT is the p to 4 cent per pound butter
which drags down the dairy business.
No good dairyman should hesitate to
help his poorer brethren by word or
act, lest perchance he might think there
might be more competition. There Is
room enough for all, especially at the
top, and more butter would be used if
it were all made good.
IF a colt has not yet been halter
broken it should be without delay.
The weakest twig is most easily bent,
easily brought under discipline and
training. This applies to calves and
heifers, which should be educated in
early age to all the practices of the
dairy.
IT was pertinent and wise remark
made by DR.. Detmers at a recent insti-
tute, that the man who adulterated
food should be in the penitentiary, but
the man who adulterated milk should
be hung. And this because the milk is
used by the infants, the weak and the
sick, as we'll as by the we'll, and any in
furious matter in the milk is sure death
to the person who drinks it.
SHOULD the ground in which potatoes
are growing be wanted for other crops,
there is no need to wait until every bit
of green stem is dead, as some say
there is. AS soon as the foliage turns
yellow it has done all it can for the
tubers, and digging may be proceeded
with. In wet seasons, or where the
crop is growing in low situation, it is
often the best thing to do tc get the
harvesting done as soon as possible.
THERE is one sure and certain specific
against milk fever IN COWS; notas cure
but preventive. This is to avoid all
grain feeding for one month before
calVing, to gradually dry off the COW two
months before it, to feed no grain food
for one month after calving, and to keep
the COW unieta and remove the calf before