Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-12-22

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milking some weeks before the COW will
come In again. Some COWS will give
milk the year round if you allow them,
and it is hard to dry them before they
make bag anew. but this should always
be done. 1t will be found profitable to
feed COWS we'll, and curry them twice a
week thoroughly.
Cost of Preparing Pork for Market.
It may not be uninteresting to hog
raisers to have the charges for slaugh-
tering, cutting and curing the hog pro-
duct, and for smoking, packing, can
vassing the same, in the city of st. Louis,
which are about as follows:
Hogs slaughtered for slaughter house
offal.
Cutting dressed hogs, curing and rem
dering the lard, Exclusive of salt and
cooperage," 25 cents per 100 pounds
hook weight. O.
Packing barrel pork, furnishing salt
and pickle, Is cents per barrel.
Packing hams in tierces, furnishing
sweet pickle, 81 per tierce.
Sugar curing hams in open watts, ready
for smoking cent per pound.
Cooperage furnished at market price.
Storage free, on the product, to
March I.
Ofal from dressed hogs sold free of
charge, and proceeds credited to the
owner.
Smoking, Is cents per 100 pounds
weight, out of smoke, including fifteen
days storage.
Packing bacon and bulk meats, in
casks, exclusive Of package or salt" 30
cents per LOCO pounds.
Packing bacon or bulk meats, in tier
ces or boxes, Exclusive of salt, pack
age or paper" 35 cents per package.
Packing bacon, in gunnies or bales,
exclusive of bags or paper" 10 cents
per package,
Repacking pork, including pickle,
30 cents per barrel. Extra salt and
barrels necessary furnished at market
price.
Cleaning bulk sides, II cents each;
bones sold and proceeds credited to
owner.
Canvassing and washing hams, fur
nishing all material and one months
storage, cent per pound.
Fall Flowing.
Now is the time to pillow if you wish
to plant early in the spring. Experience
teaches us that fall blowing is a sina
qua non in planting. In nine years out
of ten the farmer who leaves all his
blowing over till the spring of the year
will find that he will be compelled to
plant his crop In poorly prepared land,
or else plow high ground when it is too
wet. Deep blowing, with a thorough
turning under Of weeds sod, etc., in the
fall reinvigorates the land much more
than would at first be supposed. Freeze
and winter rains and snow tend greatly
to renovate I" tired fields" and restore
the chemical elements extracted by re-
cent cropping. The air is filed with
gases and loaded with every element
necessary to sustain vegable life. Rains
and SHOWS absorb these elementary par
ticles, and carry them to she eerth, so
that it may receive them Hospitality and
retain them for future use. Freezes
loosen the soil and disintegrate by the
expansive power of heat and cold the
mineral elements everywhere to be met
with near the surface.
Ii the scb-sol Is deep red clay. such
as we find in Southern Kentucky or
Northern Tennessee, then the larger the
pillow, and the deeper the ground is cut,
the better. We have found that in this
kind OF soil five to six horses hitched to
the pillow beam. and driven as we drive
to six-horse wagon, are only sufficient
to draw pillow that viii cut a width of
sixteen inches, and depth of nine to
eleven incnes. This class of fall plow-
ing always adds to the fertility of the
soil, insures, with proper care, good
crop in either dry or wet summer.
1t is not, however, absolutely neces-
sary to use so large pillow or to set it 80
deep, even in the tenacious clayey soil
above named, for good results will come
from the use of Two or three-horse
pillow kept in good order.