Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-12-09
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LEGAL STANDARD.

Beans. ......... -oU DIlcd APpie0 ...2|
Bran..........20 Onions. ........57
Glover Seed 80 Salt ....,.........50
Timothy. As Stone Goal ....8 50
Flaz. ,......... So Sweet Potatoes. 4G
Hemp .......... Ii Lime ....-.... 50
Blue Grass IA Sand 49,. ...."l30
Huagaria1 is
The above valuable table showing tie
number Of pounds 10 the bushel, is val
liable to farmers and dealers. Gut it out
and preserve it.
CURING Poll. EVIL james SeafeId,
Of Fairfield, Maryland, te l. how he cured
poll-eyil, as follows: / laid open the
swelling with knife and forced it to run;
after it had run twenty-four hours /
washed out the incigiou with soap and
water and sprinkled quick lime into the
cavity This process Of washing out aud
lining | repeated every twenty four hours
for about two weeks, at the end Of which
time the swelling had gone down, and the
sore healed over. This | did two years
ago this present mouth, and there is no
sign Of the return Of the poll evil,
Horses. as a general thing. get too
much licking aud too little feed. If a
man losses his hat while driving his
horse, he licks the horse to pay for it.
# he runs into another wagon through
his own carelessness, he licks his horse to
make it all right IF he slips or STUN
bles, he gets licked fer it; if he does any
thing he gets licked, and if he don't DO
anything he gets the same. a great
many horses know sight" moro than
their drivers, and if they could change
places with them, society at large would
be the gamers, and SO woald the horses.
Rochester Union.
BUcKwHEAT CAKES = Everybody
knows pretty well how to bake buck
wheat cakes Still there may be hints
given which facilitate the business or I'M
prove the mode in some degree. To
avoid the steam Or smell Of grease in the
common mode Of baking, soapstone grid
die have been introduced in many places;
but we see that iron griddles, first washed
with strong suds, and then secured with
dry sand, vii! render greasing wholly un-
necessary if rubbed with salt previously
to the baking of each cake. A trial, our
authority says, will make all adopt it in
preference to the old mode of greasing
and steaming.
PLANTING YoUNG TREES AFTER OLD.
a committee Of the Alton (Ill) Horti-
cultural Society say that in passing
through the extensive orchards of Mr..
flagg, they were shown several hundred
young apple trees that had been planted
in the same holes from which old ones
had been grubbed up. The young trees,
for Tigor OF growth and hea!thfulness Of
foliage, were equal to any grown upon
new land. fact worthy Of note, as dis
proving the theory advanced BY all iorti
cultural writers, that fruit trees will not
thrive upon the site of an old orchard
All the preparation the soil had was The
burning Of The old trees in the holes.
Nr. Flagg attributes his success as much
ID. the heat as to the ashes left.
GRAPES ABOUT RocKs.-The -Ameri.
can Journal Of Hor.irulture says: The
past season WAS very peculiar ono-wet
and coid-and the grapes in many locali-
ties in the East failed to rinen. While
this was generally true, it was rather re-
ireshing to observe at one Of our horti-
cultural exhibitions splendid specimens Of
well know variety, apparently fully
ripe, which we found on inquiry had been
crown near a ledge of recks Some wears
ago re visited place where we Observed
similar results from similar cause
GAe Whole secret Of the thing is, that tx
rocks absorb the heat Of the sun BY day
and give It off at night; keeping the
roots of the vine warm, and the tempera.
lure about it more fully equalized
Our attention was once attracted to
this same subject by Observing that the
melon vines n a hill around which some
stones had been placed were much larger
At the end of 4 few weeks thaa'thosc in
the hills that had not been so treated
The sane principle is observed in cities.
where grape vines are trained in front al
brick walls, which absorb the 1heat BIZ
day, and reflect il when most needed By
the vine We propose to test more fully
the value Of such treatment for the vine,
By placing stones about the roots of sew.
eral bearing vines in different parts of
the vineyard where they failed this year
70 riPen single grape.
Sort EUEM or SELL By WEIGHT
0Ge cf The Yankee ancestors employed a
wood chopper 10 ply his vocation. At