Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-03-17

Gain IN IS days.. 008 lbs
Total cost of feed, (hay, grain, Oil meat,
roots etc, for As days .............-., STA 43
Feb I0-6I fne~wools weighed. 900 lbs
March 2S-6l dne-wools weighed......7, 3e9 TBS
Gain in As ays.......................... 480 TBS
Total cost Of feed IS above............. $l44.78.
When both lots were sold, March 81,
the former realized l0a cents per pound,
and the latter 104 cents.
4 calculation in simple proportion will
chow that if the coarse woods gained 900
pounds at cost of SI7443 for feed, the
gain of the fine woods at the same ratio
upon an expense of STATS, should have
been $50 pounds, or little more than
one half proportionate amount as COM
pared with cost As compared with live
weight, Feb. 10, the course woods gained
III per cent in forty-six days-the fine
woods not quite 7 per cent.
SMUT IN WHEAT-HoW TO PREVENT.
M. L. Curtis, of Cook county, Ill.,.
writes to the Prairie Farmer as follows:
In late nun Der Of the Prairie Farmer
some inquiry was made as to whe her lime
is preventative against smut in wheat.
NY experience tells me that lime of itself
would be of little use were it not COM
bined with the solution of salt. [ will
give my method of preventing smut,
which has never failed
Save as much chamber-lye as will thor
oughly saturate the quantity of wheat you
may wish to SOW, then for every ten bush
els Of wheat add two ounces of arsenic dis
solved in rain water, spread the wheat on
level floor, then take broom and dip it
III the mixture. shaking it over the wheat
until there is sufficient to wet the whole.
Shovel it over once or twice, until you are
satisfied that it is all soaked alike, then
sift over 1t thin coat of fine slaked lime !;
shovel over until the lime adheres to al
the wheat alike. When it is ready for
sowing, should there be occasion to wash
the wheat in salt brine for the purpose of
cleaning it: the dissolved arsenic may be
added to email quantity of cham Der I've,
and applied as above, after the salt brine
has been thoroughly drained Do not let
the picked wheat remain in the bags over
night. [ have tried this several times and
have found it to accomplish the desired
effect in all cases.
CURE FOR RoUP.-One of the most
troublesome diseases III the poultry yard
is roup, which, in its general character
istics, is in some respects similar to ca
tarrh. There is a discharge from the
nostrils, the lids Of the eyes become swol-
len, folloWd by swelling of the face, and
the bird finally dies from being unable to
take food, or from sufocation. Many
consider the roup contagious, and it is not
unlikely that such is the case. Fowls
drinking from the same vessel will take it
Mr.. Alonzo Snider, of this city, one of
our best western poulterers, kindly fur
nishes the Prairie Farmer readers " it'll a
cure Of this disease, which he gives and
vouches for as follows:
Nv hen the fowl is first taken with the
roup, no matter how badly the head is
swollen, remove it to a dry room in The
barn, and give dessert spoonful of alum
water twice day, as strong as it will dis
solve; also wash the subjects head in it.
If the fowls rattle badly in the throat,
make a swab by tying little tow en- a
small stick, and swab the throat out with
the same mixture. In this way have cur
edfoWls in two days, that were nearly blind
with swelled heads, and [ have never
known it to fail in single instance, if
taken in season" -Prairie Fdrmer.
Bee FEEDER-A good bee-feeder
can be made cut of the usually castaway
tin. fruit and oyster cans. At the tin
smiths you can get the zinc shoulder and
screw top, such as are used on kerosene
oil cans Those of one inch in diameter
are the right size. Take the top and
from the outside punch holes with the end
of file (small holes) being careful not to
deform it. After punching eighteen or
twenty holes evenly, turn and file the top
smooth. The end or edge of the shoulder
will tit most of cans in the crease around
the hole made for the cover. Fit and
solder Thus for one dime you will have
as good bee feeder as any vet devised
one that you can feed on syrup with,
thick or thin, or water your bees in the
winter or spring.
Or you can have neck fitted around
the opening in the can, and by tying a
piece of coarse muslin over the end of the
neck, you will accomplish the same end.
To use, ell up with honey, sugar, syrup,
or water, and place the neck in hole
over the cluster of bees.-J NJ Price IN
Bee JournaI
MEAT BIsCUIT.-This is made from
boiled beef, free from grease, the liquor of
which is eyaporated to the consistency of
syrup, and this is mixed with wheaton
flour SO as to form solid paste. This
paste is then spread out by a rolling pin !,
is pierced with a number of little holes,
is cut to the Dimensions of sea biscuit and
Is then baked and properly dried. The
biscuit is eaten dry; orsmay be broken,
and boiled in It's weight in water, from
twenty to thirty minutes.
A good way of cleaning oil cloth is to
sponge it we'll with skim milk, as it
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