Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1869-09-01
agricultural.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.

cess.
So we may over-feed any animaI-hurt
him however. more with one kind of food
than with another. To feed young stock
or mich cows largely and continuously on
grain, especially corn, we know is not good.
Over stimulus in youth will lessen the ca
pacity in after life; there will be premature
failing. So q mich COW will last longer
properly treated. We have an example in
q neIghbor's COW, which gave fifteen pounds
butter per week cher nraximum) in her if
teenth year. We have personal knowledge
of this. This cow was ever regularly and
properly fed, not over-fed, receiving but
little grain, dependent mainly upon good
hay, warm stabling and ready running
water. Roots were somewhat fed, some
bran and ground grain.
The bran and meal were given but few
months after milking period commenced,
say from March to grass time. During
winter, hay alone was depended upon
There was always an abundance but no
waste; good appetite was always main
tanned. There were but two COWS and per-
feet concord between them. This seemed
to do good. They were brought in in the
fall, and SO went out in the spring. Hear
ty, healthy, hay seemed sufficient There
was nothing oyerfed here, and the COWS
lasted.
So we have known horses to do work at
thirty-thirty years old, fat, and able to do
fair days work then. We have known
aud 49, High granting and high work did
the thing. We know team that is a
pointed case owned by our father.
The world was made to be supported by
grass-the brute world-what was not
made to devo II each other, or live in the
| forest alone. The herbivora want grass;
! they have had it, from time immemorial
A plenty of good, nutritious grass is suffi-
cient. 1t will promote the best of health
prolong life, and make useful during life
and especially the latter part in comparison
to what we now too often have.-Prdirie
Fdrmer.
| A DIFFICULT QUESTION ANSWERED.
anybody tell why, when Eve was manufac-
tured from one of Adams ribs, hired girl
wasn't made at the same time to wait on
Exchange.
We can, easily. Because Adam never
came whining to Eve with a ragged stock
ing to be darned, collar-string to be sew
ed on, or q glove to be meHded 'fright
away, quick now" Because he never read
the newspapers until the sun got down be-
hind the palm tree, and then stretched him
|
my dear ?" Not he. He made the fire, and
hung over the tea-kettle himself, and pulled
the radishes, and peeled the bananas, and
did everything else that he ought! He
MIXED the COWS and fed the chickens,
and looked after the pigs himself
He never brought home half q dozen
| friends to dinner, when Eve hadn't any
| fresh pomegranates, and the mango season
was over He never stayed out till II o.
clock to a ''ward meeting" hurrahing for
the out-and-out candidate, aud then scold-
ing because poor dear Eve was sitting up
and crying inside the gate. He never play
ed billiards, nor drove fast horses, nor
choked Eve with cigar smoke. He never
loafed around corner groceries, while soil
tary Eve was rocking little Gains cradle at
home. In shot, he did not think she was
specially created for the purpose of wait
ing on him, and wasn't under the impress
sion that it disgraces a man to tighten his
wife's cares little. That's the reason that
Eve did not need a hired girl, and we wish
it was the reason that hone of her descend
ents did.
the pain and inconvenience of coming sud
denly from a dark room into the full blaze
of day, will easily conceive the necessity of
lighting stable in a proper manner
This is too often neglected in confined
stables, and the consequences are distress
| ing to a human observer. The poor horse,
| led suddenly out to his work, shows his
| pain quickly in unmistakable expressions
! stumbles, and runs against anything that
may happen to be near, until the eye has
in some degree accommodated itself to the
new circumstances under which it is placed.
| Nor is this all. By q continuance of this
IL I l.
| the eyes become seriously injured.
The Tetipd, or sensitive nerve, becomes
dull, and more or less useless, the horses
| sight is injured, he starts and SHES at OBJ
| iects which he sees impe1 feetly, and many
rider who has received a dangerous jn-
! jury has to thank bis inattention to this
simple cause, rather than any vicious ha-
bit of the animal, to which it has been at
tributed
Blindness is almost certain to be caused
by inattention to the above caution, but
even blindess is less dangerous to the rider
than imperfect sight American Stock
Journal
MAKING Cows GIVE RICH MLK.-A Ger
man farmer had fourteen COWS in full milk,
from which very little butter was obtained
He separately tested the milk of each, and
discovered that the bad quality was due to
one COW only, the milk of the others yield
ing good butter, and plenty of it. This es-
tablished the fact, that by mixing the milk
of all the COWS, the bad milk from one
spoiled the whole for butter-making
He went to a celebrated veterinarian, who
advised the employment of the following
remedy: Two ounces of sulphuret of an
timony, and three ounces of coriander seed,
powdered and well mixed. This was
given as soft bolus, followed by admiris-
tering a drought composed of half a
pint of vinegar, pint of water, and
handful of common salt. The above was
given to the COW in the early morning, on
an empty stomach, for three successive |
days, and effected a complete cure, the |
milk being found, after the application of
the remedy to have become much richer |
and to produce large quantity of good |
butter, where previously but little, and |
that of an inferior quality, had been given
by the COW. No apparent cause could be
found for the deficiency of the quality of
butter-making in the milk of this COW,
nor had the animal any disease whatever.
How To MAKE SPRUCE BEER AN ex-
change paper says: AS the season is at
hand when pleasant summer drinks, fee
from alcoholic influence, are frequently
brewed by the housewife, or the well
brought up daughters, VINO ought TO De
taught little of every hing in the way of
household duties, we append the following
recipes, which are claimed to be excellent:
1. Take three gallons of water of blood |
warmth, three half pints of molasses, ia
blespoonful of essence of spruce, and the |
like quantity of ginger; mix we'll together |
with gill of yeast; let stand over night |
and bottle i'll the morning. It will be in |
good condition to drink in twenty-four |
hours. 1t is palatable, wholesome bever-
age. 2. Those who prefer mead have only
to substitute honey for the molasses in
the above recipe, and for one third
the ginger use allspice. Half the
quantity of yeast will be sufficient, and the
bottling should occur the second day. in
stead of the next morning. 1t will be fit |
to drink in four days after being bottled, |
and VIII keep for mauy weeks. A small
quantity of alcohol is formed during TIE fer
mentation, and this prevents tie acetous |