The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-07-07

The toad is the farmers friend.
Cleanliness is essential In dairying.
Heavy pruning conduces to wood
growth.
Raise chickens with the simplest ra-
tons possible.
Properly managed, flock Of sheep
is always profitable.
Successful chick feeding is based on
:arefulness in details.
II many sheep are kept, 1t Is best to
divide them into small focks
Hay should not be put In the barn
when damp with dew or water.
Pasture that lasts all summer Is
about as uncertain as taxes are sure.
working mare that Is sucking a
colt.
Don't cut more hay than you can get
In in day If you are in rainy dis
trfct
The health of the horse depends to
a great extent upon the cleanliness OF
his skin.
Watch for lice and leg scale on the
poultry and find time to kill them and
whitewash the coop.
A fair hatch of strong, healthy
chicks is to be preferred to a greater
number Of weak ones.
The ewes should be judged very
much as a dairy cow-good mixers
grow their lambs most rapidly.
Silage is the best and cheapest form
IN which succulent feed can be pro-
vided for winter or summer use.
Soft shelled eggs indicate lack Of
time in reach of the hens Provide
ground oyster shell or old broken NOR
tar
Eggs from hens that have made a
fair showing In laying last winter will
be more fertile than those that did
heavy laying.
A gradual change in feeding brought
about before the pig is weaned will
make the weaving period much less
trying on the pigs.
After the chicks are two weeks old
they can be gradually weaned to
cracked wheat and finely ground oats
with the bulls removed.
Dutch cheese is an ideal food for
young turkeys, and how they do thrive
on it; but chicks should never be fed
exclusively on the scalded curd.
Leg weakness is a common CON-
plant with young chicks and If al
lowed to continue unchecked will
cause great slaughter among them.
1t does a f1atfooted horse lots OF
good to have his shoes taken off and
be given run of two or three weeks
in the pasture after the seasons work
rs well along.
Cut the oats hay as soon as you
can see general tinge of yellow over
all the field, for the grain is then
doughty and the stalk and the blades
are filled with sap.
Can't expect the hired man to be In
terested very much in some one else's
work. The man interested must be
there with both feet and busy brain to
watch for the small leaks.
Some poultrymen feed cracked corn
to both old and young fowls for the
reason that it is harder to find and
gives the birds more exercise In eat
ing it than the whole kernels.
Here 1s an old neighbours remedy to
remove warts from cows udder.
Take equal parts of pine tar, sweet
oil and linseed OIL Heat and mix we'll
When cool apply to warts once a day
after milking"
The careless man sometimes leaves
the door of the corncrib open at night
but his carelessness is enforced on
his mind very strongly when he finds
that horse or COW is foundered from
eating too much graia during the
night.
The COW raised on the same farm
where she was born will always do
better than anywhere else. Here she
feels contented-at home. If she has
good treatment-and contentment has
a good deal to do with the thrift and
profits Of the dairy COW.
Have good dinner bell on the
farm. 1t will come IN mighty handy in
calling the menfolks from the field
wood lot barn or anywhere about the
premises, not only at meal times, but
IN case visitors come. some accident
occurs about the house, some sudden
illness, there is a telephone call, the