Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-01-22
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.
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spread out, their value is increased three
fold.
THE farmer who plows deep, manures
literally and keeps down weeds will pros
per.
The cultivation of the soil is fast beeom-
ing science, and one that is of more value
to mankind than any other.
THE increased price of the great agricul-
tural staples, does not keep pace with the
increased cost of production.
MODERN fowls show the result of per-
sistent effort toward improvement as
much as the present races of cattle, sheep
or swine.
WE should bear In mind the fact, that
while sudden wealth is rarely acquired IN
farming, neither will great or sudden loss
es be met with.
The driver of grocery cart who let a
basket of eggs fall, says that "truth
squashed to earth may git up and git, but
he'll be darned if eggs viii
One hundred Merino sheep, with plenty
of bedding, will, during the ordinary feed
ing time IN winter, produce about forty
two-horse wagon loads Of manure, which
IS far more valuable as a fertilizer than
that of either horses or COWS.
WE are now exporting apples to Eu-
rope. Tho shipments from Nav York
have been between 1000 and 5000. bar
rels week for the last two months,
recently increasing to between 10000 and
1900.
PROFIT in keeping stock comes from the
food digested and assimilated In excess of
what is required to support vitality, and
the more we can get q single animal to
digest and assimiIate, and therefore con-
vert into the desired product, the greater
the profit.
APPLES, pears and peaches contain from
90 to &c per cent. of water, and most other
fruits nearly the same. Grapes contain
nearly twice as much sugar as apples,
more than twice as much as currants.
three times as much as raspberries, FIVE or
six times as much of aprioots and peaches
FEED more grass! These three words
contain and explain the entire theory of
that practice by which any one can make
hog raising-barring the cholera-as pro-
ftable as the raising ofany other kind of
stock, if not more so, on account of their
ready sale IN any market every year.
A correspondent of the New York Tri
bune holds these excellent articles of
faith ] believe the best fertilizer of any
soil Is spirit Of industry, enterprise and
intelligence, and without these no man can
be successful. | believe that a man who
Is not smart enough to enter the CONNER
cIal world, Is not smart enough to run a
farm
JOSEPH HARRIS claims that he can make
cheaper pork out Of late fall pigs than
out CT spring pigs. If we'll wlntered, be-
ing young, they will consume but little,
they will keep fat en- clover during the
summer, ind very little Germ in the fall
will make them ready fer market. His
plan is to give young pigs all the cooked
corn-meal they will eat until four months
old
PROF. bUckMAN reports to an English
farmers club that In pint of Italian rye
grass seeds he had examined, he found
|,040 seeds OF weeds; from pint Of mix
ed grass he took out 8,406, from a pint of
Dutch (whltel clover seed 7, 600 All these
seeds were of plants of an Injurious or
troublesome character, many Of them de-
eldedIy poisonous.
Tue following is said to he sure test
ota horses age. Aftcra horse is nine wears
old, a wrinkle comes over his eveiid, at
the upper corner of the lower lid. and
every year thereafter he has one we'll de-
lined wrinkle for each year of bis age over
nine. It forinstance, horse has three
wrinkles. he Is twelve years old.
AccoRDINs to newspaper gossip. there
Is a mare in the city of Troy. n. Y, which
Is fond of lager beer She answers to the
homely name of Nance, can speed L 9. 40
gait, but has become so partial to the
foamlng malt that she has ceased to he
useful. Whenever she comes in sight of
tavern sign she feigns Sickness, and no
amount Of whipping will force her to move
until pail ct beer is placed before her
ana she Is permitted to drink. After
drinking she prieks up her ears and goes
on her way as jolly as Teuton.
WE find IL the Western Planter, from
as many orchardists, i've different pre-
scrIptlons for protecting trees from the
teeth OF rabbits. One places u thin Iaver
Oh weeds, refuse hay, or similar trash |
around the stems, fastens it with a touch |
weed, or tie OF straw, and has thus saved |
5UO trees for many years. Another rrbs |
the bark with fresh hogs liver and otbar
bloody ottal. Another has equal success
with strong smelling grease. Another an. |
Plies pant Of buttermilk and scot when
snow falls; and again in March and the
last smears the bark with the Blood Of the
Thanksgiving turkey.