Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1870-09-07
FARM, Garden AND HOUSEHOLD

| A CORRESPONDENT of the Germantown
/ Telegraph who lost seventy chickens by
| gapes lRss year. now says that fresh water
| daily, with a lump of roll birthstone kept
! IN IT, viii be found certain preventive.
/ The Spaniards have 8 maxim that man
! IS ungrateful TO the past generation that
/ planted the tree from which he eats fruit,
and deals nnjustly toward the next gener-
| ation, unless he plauts the seed that it may
furnish fruit ior those who come after
him.
DELICIOUS DRESSING FOR RoAsT FowIs.-
Spread pieces of stale but tender wheaton
bread literally with butter, and season
rather high with salt and pepper, working
them into the butter: then dip the bread
in wine. and use is in as large pieces as is
convenient to stuff the bird. The delicious
flavor which the wine gives is very pene-
trating, and it gives the fowl rich eamy
character, which is very pleasant.
A PRoFTTABIE Sow.-AIr. II. G. Pease. of
Esst Whateiy, Mass, has SOW that he
bought in December, when three months
old for nine dollars. In September, 1862
she raised litter of ten pigs which he sold
for So each. amounting to $50. The next
|
raised ten of them Nine of them he bas
sold for S54, end has one left, now q nice
shoat. The 25th of July just passed she
had litter of sixteen. six of witch he he's
given away to be raised by hand, and ten
are left with the SOW, now all doing we'll.
| The result thus far is clean cash income
OF Sl04, and q nioe shoat, and the sixteen
pigs yet to be heard from.
YRGIN Sons IN THE SourH.-The South
has an immense area of new lands yet un-
touched by the plow, and from this soil
will arise wealth, grandeur, and power
new to those states. Tho amount of gov-
ernment lands in acres in the cotton states
is put down rs follows: Alsbana still has
| g, $50, ,99G; Mississippi, 4e2S a69: Louisi-
ana, 65S2, sal: Arkansas, 1854, ,430;
Florida. IL, 425. 43S; whilst Texas has over
I0o00,o ,oV0, belonging to herself. The
homestead and preemption laws of the
United States afford an easy means to the
immigrant of becoming at once thrifty
farmer in any of the states where the pub
lie lands are still unsold.
LARGE EGGs-The Greensburp IndO
Standard says: Mr.. John Gillibrend. who
resides near Millhousen, in this county,
brought to this Office Monday, three hen
eggs Weighing ten ounces, which is eouivs~
IL.
The longitudinal circumference of the
largest one was eight and one-half inches.
Its transverse circumference was six and
one-haf inches. The hen that layed them
was a cross of Shanghai and Bramah.
Minnesota paper crows over an egg which
was brought to that Office, the two cireum-
feres of which were eight and six and one
fourth inches; the weight being four
ounces The hen which laid it, produced
thirteen eggs in succession, weighing %
ounces each, or two and quarter pounds
Ia the aggregate.
Sailing RliIch Cows.
In Switzerland the COWS are salted early
every morning, and if fed in the stable the
salt is given before foddering. By sailing
In this way their appetite is improved, they
drink with more regularity, keep in better
health, and give moro milk, than when
salted in the usual way, as practieed bv
dairymen in America. The Swiss dairy
men think it very injurious to salt milch
cows only once or twice week, as they
would hex too much salt at one time, and
drink too much water for the day; they
consider that stock in order to do well
must be fed with regularity every day
alike, and never given too much of any
thing at one time.
40 Make Cows Give MIX.
The agricultural editor of the Beekeep.
ers' Journal vouches for the following.
handed him by friend:
III you desire to get large yield Of
milk, give your COW, three times o day,
water, slightly warm, slightly salted, in
which bran has been stirred at the rate of
one quart to two gallons of water. You
will find that your cow will gain 25 per
iieta aI "a
and she will beceme so attached to the
diet as to refuse to drink clear water, un-
less very thirsty; but this mess she viii
drink almost at any time, and ask for
moro. The amount of this drink is an or
dlnaly water-paiiful at each time-morn-
ing, noon and night. Your animal will
then do her best at discounting the tactical
fluid.
To Put up Green Germ.
am true lover Of green corn, and
keep it from one years end to the other,
and have it brought to my table at env
time when the notion takes me. as fresh
and good as when first taken from the
patch. Here is the way 1 work it:
L have the corn shaved from the cob and
packed away in a common stone Jar, with
salt IN alternate layers. a layer of corn
say an inch thick-followed by layer of
salt sufficient to cover it, and so on till the
jar is filed. Pieces of boards are then
fitted over it, and a stone laid On to weigh
1t down; for pickle will soon rise, and
all the corn must be kept beneath the sur
face. Cloth or paper is next tied over the
mouth OF the jar to keep out dust-and
that is all of it.
But there will be something more to do
when wish to use my corn, and therein
lieth my secret. 1t will be too salt for the
table, as packed away, of course, and if 1
soak the salt out in the ordinary way ]
spoil the whole thing, for the milk and life
OF the grain goes out with the salt / have
it soaked, nevertheless; but the work is
commenced by first dropping it into ket-
tie OF boiling water. This cooks the milk
In the corn at once, rendering it insoluble,
after which it may be soaked through as
many waters as desirable without impair
ing its favor or virtues in the least.
have eaten corn four years old, kept in
this way and treated as above, and so per-
feet was it. that had the roasting-ear season
been at hand, L should never have suspect
ed otherwise than that il was inst taken