The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-02-20

Make the stallion earn his feed
The clumsy horse suffers from cold.
Use the best breeding stock that
you can afford.
Color in butter is important but
flavor counts for more.
It will pay for owners to keep indi-
viduaI records of cows even In small
herds.
The young mare has fretted and
fumed, always half a length ahead of
the old horse.
Leguminous plants dc not thrive in
soils where the accompanying bac
terra are absent.
? Hens that are put out into the cold
and snow are soon chilled out of the
egg-laying notion.
The most frequent fault of old
peach trees is the absence Of fruiting
wood in its lower branches.
Kerosene is great remedy in the
poultry pen. 1t may be used as a
medicine, also as a disinfectant.
Alfalfa is the forage crop that
means much for the development of
diversified farming and more stock.
A horses usefulness is measured by
It's strength and rapidity of move
ment rather than by size and weight.
The man who will grow strictly
fancy asparagus need never want long
for any of the comforts this world af-
fords
and hard usually lacks that quick
fresh taste that is in butter not so dry
and hard.
One of the greatest mistakes with
beginners is the tendency to crowd so
fowls into place where there Is room
for only 20.
Inheritance has something to do
with persistency in milking, though
care and feed will encourage and es-
tablish the habit.
You can find prosperous dairy farm
ers in every locality. There are neigh
bors who don't make the cows pay. 1t
is in the men. not in the soil.
A few Goals from the wood fire of
the kitchen put into the houses now
and then, where the hogs can grind
them up to charcoal, help to keep the
hogs healthy.
Fortunate is the man who has a
big crop Of pumpkins. They should
be gathered before frost. and fed to
the cows Don't be afraid the seeds
will hurt the cows.
No man should forget that the
dairy barn is the place where human
food that is most susceptible to out
side influences is produced. Have the
barn in good condition.
Garden beans have been developed
from several species of wild forms,
and all of the common kinds are very
tender to frost and require a warm
season and sunny exposure.
One or the methods of preventing
injury to apple trees from the woolly
aphis is to have the trees grated on
Northern Spy roots, as this variety
seems never to be seriously attacked
The beginner in selecting breeding
stock should appreciate the advantage
he will secure in using much care in
the selection Of stock and the sorting
out of the undesirable ones from time
to time.
Black raspberries and dewberries
are propagated by layering. The tfps
of the canes are bent over to the
ground and covered with dirt to a
depth Of about four inches as soon as
the fruiting season is past.
A little grooming or brushing will
have a great influence on the appear
ance of the COW. A few minutes
spent in this way will pay large divi-
dends in better looks and also in q
greater price Of farm stock and better
returns.
After the silo has been well filed
1t may be covered over at the top
with little we'll shocked straw or
hay. AS a matter of fact, though, the
silo can be opened and used the day
after it is filled. If you have use for
the feed, don't wait.
Making the stallion earn his feed by
moderate work outside the actual
breeding. season, will leave the fees
from his breedig service practically
clear gain; besides insuring him a
more vigorous constitution for trans
hitting to his Offspring.
After a COW becomes fresh In milk
the first feed to give her is a warm
bran mash. This, besides being
Strengthening is OF a general benefit.
1t is a good idea to cut down the meal
ration on the cows, beginning some
four weeks before calving and at that