Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-05-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Gieanings.

THE Farmers Club of Fairfield,
Mich, is of the opinion {: that plaster
is of little or no benefit on beech or
maple lands, rick IN vegetable mold,
but on oak openings, either clay or
sand, it is decidedly beneficial. :"
THE weights Of the heaviest cattle
which competed at the Birmingham
show for the butchers premiums
for fat oxen, We're as follows: Here
ford, 2, 387 pounds; Short horn, 2, 506
poltnds Devon, 1875 pounds and a
Scotch OK, 1855 poahds.
AMERICAS cheese and American hams
are acknowledged by high British au-
thority TO be fully equal to the best
English. ThesLondon grocer says that
a few years ago provision dealers
would scarcely have liked to admit the
fact of their selling American cheese
to their customers, but this state of
affairssis all changed, end the Ameii-
can article is often superior to moss of
the English made,
THE Superintendent of the Iowa Ag-
rlcultural College iarm reports the cost
OF the past seasons products upon
their farm as follows: Wheat.
eighteen acres, average seventeen
bushels; totals $153 80 cost, fifty-one
and one half cents per bushel. Oats,
fifteen acres, yield per acre fifty-two
and i've fsfths bushels; total, 1856 bush
els; cost, sixteen and three-fourths
cents per bushel. Rye, ten acres,
twenty two and hree-tenths bushels
per acre; total, 223 bushels; cost.
si1ty-five cents per bJshei Consider
able expense was incurred on the rye
field to prepare it for the future orna-
mental grounds. Corn, lis acres,
namber of bushels raised, $3.50; yield
per acre, sixty and ene-half bushels
cost, fifteen cents per bushel.n
IT is the worst possible policy to kill
all the best and handsomesS fowls. and
save only the mean and scraggy ones
to freed from. This is precisely the
way to run out your stock, for like
tendsste breed like, and the result is
that-by continually taking away the
best birds, and using the eggs of the
poorest, your flock will grow poorer
every. succeeding year. Tt would seem
as though this was too plain to be
insisted upon, but, in fact, line upon
line : is needed. 1t is the crying want
OF the poultry upon the farms the
country thTough-this careful and in
telli9ent selection of the best for breed
ing Nothing Is lost by little self
denial to start with. The extra pound
or two Of poultry flesh that you leave
on It's legs, instead of sending it to
market Is as good seed, and will bring
forth ten fold and twenty fold in your
future broods, Save your best stock
for breeding ~
The sources of fertility to the farm
are the refuse Of the crops which they
bear, modified by the farm stock, and
preserved and judiciously applied by
the husbandman. There is not a vege-
table matter grown upon the farm. be
1t considered ever SO useless or obnox-
Fous, batwill, after it has served ordi-
nary useful purposes, 1mpart fertility
to the soil, and contribute to the
growth ola new generation. of plants.
II 1t is Judlciously husbanded and ap-
Piled. There is not an animal sub
stance, be it solid, liquid or gaseous.
be it bone, horn, hair, wool or flesh or
the gases which are generated by the
decomposition of these matters. but.
with like care and skill, NAV be con.
verified INTO new animal matters. To
eeeonomlze and apply all these fertiliz-
ING matters IS the province and duty of
the hUsbandman.