Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-06-18
ITEMS FOR THE FARMER.

land it would not become exhausted SO
! soon.
THERE are million less sheep in
Kansas than there were four years ago,
and the farmers in that great state are
rulng their mistake
SUCCESS in gardening depends on the
seeds. 1t is waste Of time and labor
to use inferior seeds. Be cautious and
procure seeds from the most reliable
sources only.
WHEN pig is or 10 months old its
work is done; if it is not profitable
! pork then it never will be, and it might
as well be planted under an apple tree,
to save further loss in feeding.
PEAS grow much faster when staked
than when allowed to lie fiat on the
pods. All vines grow better when
staked. A double row of brush is bet
ter than single one for peas.
TIE European system of planting po-
tatoes on high ridges is falling into dis
repute In small gardens where the
ridge and the plat system have been
tried side by side, no advantage was APP
parent to the credit of the ridge.
THERE is no need for the long hair on
the legs of horses. 1t is not protec-
ton, but directly contrariwise; for the
hair prevents the skin from drying, and
causes irritation of the skin, cracking of
it, and the resulting disease known as
grease
WITH good, wholesome feeding;
thorough grooming of the skim avoiding
to give water directly after eating, but
always giving it previously to the feed
ing, no condition powders, medicines or
nostrums will ever be required for your
horses.
TREAT COW gently and kindly and
she will be gentle and kind Use her
roughly and beat her on every supposed
pays back in kind. There is a good
deal of human nature in COW, and this
retaliation is human attribute.
A COW who had been overheated by
chasing of dogs had a calf two weeks
old. The calf was suddenly taken with
diarrhea of the worst form-the white
scours-so called, after having been fed
with the cows milk. Undoubtedly the
milk was unwholesome while the COW
escaped.
On the first appearance of diarrhea in
a young calf food should be withheld J;
except one pint of fresh new milk,
warmed to 90o, given twice in the day,
until the undigested food is got rid Of
One tablespoonful of castor oil will be
the best remedy: alum and other as
tringents are worse than useless.
THERE will never be enough good but
ter in the market to reduce the price of
LIT below a very profitable point. The
reasons are that every person wants
good butter, but not every dairyman
can make it; and moreover it will be
the poor butter which will fall in price
until it is driven out of the market.
ALFALFA grows rapidly, and should
be cut as soon as the blue flowers APP
pear. 1t thrives better when, cut, and
becomes thicker. 1t is fully the equal
of red clover for stock, and contains
larger proportion of nutriment. Farm
e1s should put in an experimental plot
as soon as possible, in order to test it in
this section.
STUDY the silo; the process of ensi-
lage; the best crops for it; the great
economy of it; and then 90 to work to
make silo, and grow crops to fill it
with. 1t makes one acre produce as
much animal food as three acres can do
without it, and it solves the problem of
how to keep one cow or one steer for
every acre of the farm.
No doubt one-half the COWS in exist
ence might be put under ground with
profit, for they are kept at loss to
their owners. Thirty cents day for
feed and 10 cents day for income is
poor business. And not only is the feed
wasted over the "ne' er-do-wells," but
their improbable product goes onto
the market to reduce the value of that
Of the better COWS.
SALICYLIC acid is dangerous to health.
1t is, however, recommended as a pre-
sentative of butter as well as of fruit.
BoraX and preparations of boracic acid
are also decidedly unwholesome, and
should never be used in the dairy.
Cleanliness and regard to proper tenn
perature are the very best butter pre-
servatives, and they are the cheapest.
JOHN JACOB Aston, when questioned
as to the means whereby he made his
large fortune, said: 81 stopped all my
losses, and let my profits run on" This
is the true principle which lies at the
bottom of the business of keeping all
kinds of farm stock. Learn to distin-
guish the dead-heads, and take off their
heads-somehow Find out the profit
able animals, and make them more
profitable.
THE popular fad recently current in
regard to warm water for COWS is one of
the silliest. 1t is an invention by some
person who has never realized how
cow will enjoy a draught of fresh cold
water as much as her owner does. If
the person who gives his COWS warm
water should take his drink in the same
way he will realize this fact. Why !.
warm water is an emetic and is SO be-
cause it nauseates the stomach. But a
drink Of cold, fresh water, how refresh
ing it is.
AN excellent mode of growing early
tomatoes, egg-plants, etc., is to scoop
out a potato or turnip and fill the hol-
low with rich earth. Have only one
plant to each potato. When the plant
is of the desired size plant the potato
(earth and young plant and no check
will be given the growth, as the decay
of the potato will assist in providing
food for the plant. Where turnips can
be had they should be preferred to po-
tatoes. Egg shells have also been used
for the same purpose with success.
THE greatest need of agriculture, at
the present time, is to grow all crops
now produced at one-half the cost.
This is the true way to make profit:
Lessen the cost of products. The tend
ency is everywhere to the increase of
OODIlatiOn which in the absence of