The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-01-30

Sheep demand clean water
Don't overload your horses.
Farming is a business proposition
Don't simply keep cows Make the
COWS keep you.
Alfalfa insures larger yields from
the crops that follow.
Notice which hens are most active.
They are the best layers.
Sometimes it is good plan TO leave
the stubble to catch the snow.
Only Is per cent. Of the land area of
the United States is improved farm
land.
Cut alfalfa or clover hay are good
green feeds for hens at this time of
the year
A load OF corn is more cheaply trans
ported when converted into animal
products.
The man who neglects to water the
poultry does not deserve any profits
from them.
Give hens good care, and it goes
without saying that they will play fair,
and keep on laying.
Don't keep a horse going after it be-
gins to show signs OF exhaustion. You
will save time by resting a bit
1t is hard to choose between poor
ventilation in barn and too much
air. Better find the golden mean.
Dairymen can we'll give d little con-
sideration to several OF the types of
milking machines now on the market.
Early pullets and young hens up to
two years of age are the kind from
which to get liberal supply OF eggs
in winter
To realize how you are coming out.
you must know what feed is costing
you, as we'll as how much butter fat
the cows are giving.
The best way TO mend straps on
common teamwork harness is to rivet
h
and hold better than wax-ends.
Experiments and Investigations have
proved that the milking qualities OF a
COW depend almost as much on her
sire's mother as on her own dam.
Unless the relation between protein
and carbohydrates in the ratio is
about right either one or the other will
not be used at its fullest advantage
According to a report recently is
sued, the total value Of our agricul-
tural products in 1913 will be S5,000,-
100000, or $296,000,0O0 more than
1912.
An American patent has been grant
ed to an Englishman for process for
preserving eggs by dipping them first
in gelatine and then in solution Of
amyl acetate.
Washing and drying a cows udder
before milking has been found to keep
GJ&I, %
the milk that usually gets in when an
open pail is used.
Cover crops are used for the pur-
pose of preventing the soil from wash
ing during the hard rains of winter
ton OF fiber to the soil,
Two acres of cornstalks placed in
the silo are worth in feeding about the
same as FIVE acres Of stalks cut and
fed as fodder. This shows how the
corn crop may be utilized.
A tractor for farm machinery that
is driven with reins is novelty, two
reins doing the steering and a third
controlling the motor, while a fourth
may be used on the brake If desired.
The manure spreader and the silo
are two things that point the farmer
towards a better bank account, and
1t is not going to be SO very long be-
fore we will add 10 this the milking
machine.
4 post that is we'll set may last long
er than one which has been made
smaller by sharpening so as to drive
Il easily, but it is seldom as solid as
the driven post. When the soil is
water soaked the set pot is more cas-
lily leaned by stock pushing on the
fence
It is a great feed and it is great crop
but it is only few years since sweet
clover was looked upon as the rankest
sort of weed TO be guarded against
and fought under every circumstance.
A good live man in a good cornfield
AN select and store 500 ears Of corn
In a day Allowing forryery careful
reselection, 500 ears of corn will plant
ten acres Properly selected seed corn
Is worth FIVE bushels per acre A days
work now means so bushels OF corn