Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1868-11-25
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The Cottage Gardener, of London, says
earthing up potatoes diminishes the pro
duet and retards the ripening Of. the
tubera. Long experiments it England
haye proved this fact-thst billing up the
potato will reduce the crop one fourth
TEMPERATURE OF CREAM Careful
experiments have demonstrated that while
the cream should never be lower than
fifty degrees, for the operation Of churn-
i1s will raise it from FIVE to ten degrees
In long series of experiments conducted
in an English dairy, the best temperature
was found to be ffty-three degrees when
the cream goes into the churn. By far
too many keep the milk and cream at the
same temperature, or at least in the same
cellar or vault Either the cream or the
milk will suffer, one being too warm or
the other too cold.
A MoTHERry HEM subscriber
sends the Baraboo Republic the following
item, which will do to go along with
Carpenters turkey story:
u Bailey, of Walworth, has ma ural
flock of curiosities An old hen came off
with eleven chickens, some time in July,
but having large heart and quite ample
wings, concluded to adopt some more, and
got up several severe battles with other
biddies, always claiming their progeny as
trophies, until she has gathered in all 40
chickens, and now keeps watch and ward
over that motley brood of all sizes and
colors. 1t is voyage of her own seek
ing: she roams at viii, and those 43
chickens all come for step-motherly cluck.
Mr.. B, say she is a regular old orphan
asylum"
Fowls IN THE HORSE STABLE
Fowls should never be permitted to have
access to the horse stable, nor the feed
room, nor the kaymow Their roost
should be entirely separate from the
stable, so that they may not always be
ready to slip in whenever door is opened,
and that the vermin which iufest poultry
NAV not reach horses and cattle. 1T is
a well.known fact that fowls of all kinds
frequently drop very sordid, offensive,
clammy, Yjscous odor, and when allowed
to 90 on the hay-mow, or in the feeding
room, or anywhere in in the barn, they
damage more fodder than we are wont to
suppose. Some horses are always afraid
of fowls, and when one enters the man.
ger, or rack, the timid horses will immed-
lately surrender their entire rights, how
ever hungry they might be, to these law
less intruders.
COOKING FooD FOR Hoes. A Massa-
rhusetts feeder writes Il am fattening
some IT'S hogs this season, and cook all
their cd in vats of about twelve barrels
each, and of which there are three, and
sock every day and feed a little warm my
stock hogs are fed in the same way. Two
wears since did not cook the feed, but
last year and this have, and am satisfied
that atsleast 33 per cent. is saved by
cooking: Ny hogs increase in weight
faster upon two-thirds of the feed, which
is mostly corn meal with small amount
OF beef scraps, say 10 per cent. | have
no doubt that Cor fattening cattle it will
pay large per cent. to cook their feed.
| use tubular boiler, upright, fve-horse
power, and use about one ton of coal per
month, at cost, -say So repairs and 9th
er incidentals, say So per month, which
docs not include the interest upon tbs
first cost, nor the general depreciation
The first cost Of boiler, watts, pipe, force
pump, &C., and car to handle feed upon
was about s475 [ think I make saw
ing by cooking, after dedueting the extra
expense, Of not less than $4,000 per an
num-" s
GHE NORWAY OAT.-Three new var
tiles of oats, the Norway, New Bruins
wick and Surprise, have recently been
pressed on the attention of farmers, and
sold at high prices for seed. And we
believe all of them have generally been
considered fairly tried. A correspondent
sends letter from which we extract
some notice of the Norway. He says =
ga party of gentleman, interested in
agricultural, lately went to Vermont to
investigate the claims Of the Norway oat,
visiting the farms of Mr.. D. w. Ran s.
dell, the originator; also, that of Gov.
Marian, r. W. Hyde, President of the
Orange Co. Agricultural Society, and
others. Their report seems to- fully
sustain the high praise accorded to those
oats last season. They say that the large
fields of Norway oats then growing, were
wonder to behold, the grain standing
over six feet high, with we'll filed heads,
averaging from IA to Is inches in length,
and estimated the yield of fully 100
bushels to the acre. Mr.. Ramsdell had
one head standing in his garden, which it
is presumed had an extra culture,
which measured twenty-one inches in
length, and stood seven feet high. A re-
markable feature of this grain is the large
number of stalks which shoot from sin
gle kernel-those sown broadc tst averag-
ing from twenty to forty, while In some
instances they have reached as high as
sixty. These oats have been tested in
the West and South, and are found to
yield equally as well in those sections as
in the New England States. They all
spring from single kernel found in a
package of peas supposed to hare come
from Norway"
ALL A "SETTING"- farmer Gruf
v7as one morning a tugsing away with all