The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1914-03-24
Blanket your horse.

Keep the grit box Hned.
Pack Matching eggs carefully.
Japan is encouraging the fruit grow.
Ing industry.
Herbs are in demand at hotels ans
restaurants for dressing
Get the hotbed sash and frames
ready. 1t will soon be time to use
them
Cabbage is comparatively easy to
grow, and produces an enormous acre
tonnage.
Don't wait until you are ready to
set the incubator to see that it is in
good condition.
Norway spruce, Scotch and Austrian
pine, planted about Is feet apart, make
excellent wind breaks.
Don't let the horse stand without
blanket, while you are chatting with
a friend in the post office.
Plant sunflowers along the edges OF
the poultry yards for shade in sum-
mer and feed in fall and winter.
\ scrub hen is not worth much. but
she is as good as any for the man who
will not give his flock good care.
The decay of manure or any organic
matter is due entirely to the action OF
bacteria and other low forms of plant
life.
Spraying, or the lack Of it, is the
balance on which hangs success or
failure in the management Of a large
orchard
The bud moth which works in the
swelling buds and destroys them can
be controlled by an early spray of ar
senate of lead.
Nothing pays on a farm better
than kindness, and the lack of it is a
constant, though invisible, drain on
the pocketbook
For early matches it is best to give
not more than eleven eggs to a hen, or
those on the outer edge may become
exposed and chilled
Keep all plants clean, to avoid
trouble with the red spider and other
pests. Spray or sprinkle the foliage
once week if possible
Never compel hogs to sleep in straw
stacks, manure piles or any place
where they will come out steaming
and sneezing in the morning.
Too much water in the soil makes
it impossible for the bacteria to carry
on the work they find to do, and such
soils are uDprOductive Of agricultural
crops.
Too many men do not realize the
Importance of careful and correct
pruning. Find an expert orchardist
and work with him to gain the proper
experience.
No other farm animal requires so
much kindness as the dairy COW. Han
ding the heifer in a roughshod man.
ner is an excellent way to make an
unruly, nervous COW.
There never was a time in the his
tory of agriculture when the subject
aroused as much interest as it does
at the present time. 1t gets into the
blood and will not down.
The earth" cellar or outside cellar
usually gives better conditions for the
storing of vegetables than does the
house cellar Such cellars are easily
built of cement, and last forever.
The appearance of the grape root
worm in any vineyard should be the
signal for the owner to be up and n
arms against the invader, as no other
insect has done as much damage to
grapes.
It is of course possible to keep
drilled corn free of foreign grass In
the rows but hundred-mile drive any
summer will not find more of such
fields than one may count on the fin
gers of one hand.
The barnyard and the hogyard
should be we'll drained and If posi-
BILE they should be paved with some
good material that will keep the stock
out of the mud One of the best barn
yards / ever saw was paved with con-
crete and carefully drained to cis-
tern so that all of the liquid manure
was saved
Threshed oats are fine for fowls, II
fed intelligently. They will some
times produce crop-bound, if fed too
freely when first FED Almost any dry
bulky rations will produce crop-bound
when fed in large quantity. However,
oats are a very valuable ration for
fowls, but we would prefer to feed 1t
alternately with a mash food made of
pure wheat bran, hominy feed and
shorts.