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

Buy manure spreadeT.
Give the calf ground cats.
Eow alfalfa late in the spring.
Run the cream separator smoothly.
Litter should cover the feeding
floor
Keep records and know where
you're at
Light and pure air prevent disease
and promote productiveness.
When you have chosen q breed, work
for size and vigor by selection and
feeding.
The farmer that farms with his
mind as we'll as his hands is generally
a success.
The cellar is a good place to store
flower roots in winter. provided it is
DRY one.
Winter eggs make poultry profitable.
Don't delay arranging for the comfort
of the hens.
BY putting a pinch of soda to ordi-
nary cream it will whip as thick as
whipping cream.
! a SO forge and an anvil, with few
other tools. will more than pay their
cost the first year.
The COW stable is a poor place for
hot air. especially the kind that arises
from an ill-kept temper.
Irrigation has been practiced in
Spain nearly century, the first canal
having been begun in 1914.
Don't try to sell skinny horse.
Fat on horse brings higher price
than on any other farm animal
Hail may knock down the wheat
and ehinch bugs take the corn, but
the cream check comes every month.
Get thoroughbred, butter-bred bull
calf now. if you have none, and grow
him well to begin TO improve your
dairy.
Let the sunshine and fresh air
come into the hen house through the
windows instead of through cracks in
the siding.
Plenty of grit and plenty Of pure
water are just as essential to egg
production as good houses, and the
right kind of food.
The poultry raiser should have a
bone cutter. The cost price is reason
able and one will more than pay for
itself the first year.
Both sexes in geese are featheTed
exactly alike, which makes it difficult
to distinguish ganders from geese,
especially when young.
The seed corn should be stored
where there will be little danger of
frost. This is especially true until
the ears are entirely dried out.
1t doesn't look as though the mar
kets could be overstocked with dairy
products. Milk and butter prices are
staying up well, in the cities at least.
The rich butter fat cows can be
made more numerous only by careful
breeding If you mate ruch butter fat
stock only, the improvement will be
rapid
Eggs at 25 to 30 cents a. dozen make
The better plan is to keep a quantity
Of dried blood meal on hand for this
purpose.
Next to alfalfa there is roughage
grown on the farm that will compare
with clover hay. OF course, the
brighter and cleaner it is the better
for the stock.
Milk is food, not a beverage. IT is
usually looked upon as drink only,
but the truth is it is a food supplying
the need of practically every form of
human necessity.
II any new males are to be bought
this season il is a good plan TO get
them now while those who are selling
have more to select from. AS a rule,
too, prices are low.
In drying off your COW don't dismiss
her finally till you find that she is
truly dry. Any milk or thick, mattery
stuff left in the udder is likely to pro-
duce disease later on.
The farmer who arranges his work
so as to be busy all the year around
and to keep his men busy all the year
around is the man that gets the larg-
est profit and has the least trouble
with help.
Dairying compels @ farmer to di-
versify and to adopt rotation in
crops, and there is nothing that the
average farm needs more, unless it is
fertility and the dairy business pro-
vides that too.