Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-03-10
FARM AND HONE.
Agricultural Items.


CATTLE two and a half cents per
pound In Oregon.
THE price of mules has nearly every
where declined.
The tobacco yield for 1874 was the
smallest for many years.
LAST year India had 100000 acres
OF land devoted to cotton cultivation.
FROSTED feet may be relieved of sore
ness by bathing IN weak solution of
alum.
FROZEN potatoes can be cured by
soaking ia water three days before cook
ing.
A WALL of soft burned bricks, built
mp within cistern, makes an elegant
filter.
THE wheat crop for 1874 was larger
than any previous year, exceeding 3OO,
DOC, 900 bushels.
To cure scratches on horses, wash the
legs with warm strong soap suds, and
then with beef brine.
THE Gardeners Monthly says: Tow
dipped in gas tar, and buried in their
runs, will drive moIes away.
II is. said that 10000 cows are kept
for dairy purposes within radius of
twenty miles of Wheaton, Ill.
PETER HENDERSON, of New York, ap-
plies manure at a cost of $50 per acre
annually, and makes money out OF it.
NEVER store any articles or food Or
drink in old petroleum barrels. They
are poisonous even after being cleaned.
bales Of hay last year to Southern and
Eastern points Its value was ST., 900.
LAST years corn product was $751;
900, 900 bushels, valued at IS cents-the
poorest yield and highest price for
seven years.
FIFTY-Two thousand pounds to the
acre on twelye-acre field Is the story
they tell Of a sweet potato crop IN Kern
County, Cal.
An orange grove in Southern Florida
produced 800, 900 oranges In 1873. Last
year the product was estimated at l.
900, 1000 oranges.
ABOUT $500, 900 head of hogs were
packed in the United States last year,
against 3, $50, 600 the year previous-an
increase of some 100000 head.
A LARGE deer park is in full operation
at Maine Prairie, Minnesota, where the
raising, and buying and selling of deer
Is made business.
RABBITS are best kept from injuring
trees by sprinkling blood on the trunk.
A wash Of of cow-dung, sulphur and
loan is reported as useful.
A FARMER Of Willow Valley, Arizona,
sold III the past three months S4OO
worth Of eggs, which were laid by less
than sixty hens of the black Spanish
variety.
COMMISSIONER WATTS, of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, asked for $4,000
to expend IN seeds for distribution.
The Senate cut down the amount to$3O,-
900.
A MAN In Southwestern Missouri has
discovered that the rock fence on his
farm lis made of zinc ore, and neigh
Dor finds himself with chimney of the
same material.
A STATUTE of Illinois, making the
owner of any dog or dogs caught kill
ing sheep liable in action for all dam
ages, Is being enforced in one Of the
southern countries of the State.
The average price of corn in Iowa is
43 cents; in Illinois, Sc cents; in Kansas,
81 cents; in Missouri, "a cents. It was
the lowest in Iowa and highest in New
England, where it brings S1.18.
MOULD in cellars may be destroyed
by burning sulphur in them while they
are tightly closed. The cellar should
of course, be thoroughly ventilated
afterward, before being entered by any
one.
EXPERIMENTS recently made in Eng
land indicate that wagons are most
easily drawn, on all kinds of roads,
when the fore and hind wheels are of
the same SIZE, and when the pole lies
lower than the axle.