Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1877-11-21

louf INTO the jar two gallons Of boiling
water. Let it stand until perfectly cold,
then put IN your eggs Be sure that
your eggs are all good. Care must be
taken not 20 crack any of them in put
ting them in, Or they will spoil imme-
dlately. The eggs must be entirely
covered with the brine, and kent in .
cool place. Be careful not to have too
much salt. or the yolks may harden T
have kept eggs in that way from Sen
TENDER until May, and used them for
the most delicate cake and omelet. a
friend IN the commission business in
making some changes in his store. found
barrel III which there were a few eggs
that had been overlooked, and had been
IN BRINE prepared in that way nearly
two years. He took them home. and
they were found to be perfectly sweet
and nice.-Cor. Detroit Tribune.
SAVING MANURE.-At the late discus
sion of farm topics at the New York
State Fair a farmer said "We are
abusing our land, exhausting it, and
raising poor crops. Perhaps we are rails
ing too much grain, and raising it in a
shlftless way. The great point, how
ever, is to husband our manure. Super
phosphate is good, but it costs good
zeal; II you put IN $6 an acre in this
FERTILIZER, and get only ten bushels more
OF oats or barley, where are you going
TO ind your pay for the work and ali
the rest? Save the manure Save all
you can Half that is made is wasted.
or badly applied The cheapest pur-
chased fertilizer is plaster and farmers
should buy it by the ton. To allow
manure to waste by washing down into
streams to poison fish, he regarded as a
positive SIM" These remarks are sound.
Farmers must make all the manure that
they possibly can, as they cannot de-
pend on commercial fertilizers. Keep
as many swine as you can feed well, and
they will make a great deal of very
powerful manure, if kept in a pen,
where you throw in frequently load
or two Of weeds, or anything you can
gather that will make manure. Save
all OF your hen manure. as it is worth
as much as guano, when mixed with
soil, and SO left two or three months.
Another farmer spoke of narrowing
ground in the spring, sown the previous
fall to wheat or rye. Sometimes the
roller will break the crust, and effect
the desired result to loosen the sur
face. He thought that the wheat crop
would be from five to ten bushels more
per acre if it should be narrowed at the
right time, or before rain He said
there is no danger of hurting timothy
sown the previous autumn by harrow
ing in the spring, but like the wheat, it
would be benefited by the operation
! SIzE ON porY1 uDxy V.DDc tn
Der of fowls which can be kept in a
given poultry yard depends almost en-
tirely upon the kind and amount of
supplies which are carried to them
while in said inclosure. A hen can
take great many steps, and do vast
deal of scratching on moderate space
of ground, and the sooner people learn
that they cannot raise the grass for
forage, or the insects to supply animal
| food in their poultry yards, the sooner
will many begin to accomplish good
results who are now making failures in
the business. When one moves into
tenement, ever SO commodious and
comfortable, he will live but poorly if
he neglects to carry in the barrel of
! flour and ct ceteras, as often as needed
So, when you have put your poultry
into the best house and yard possible
to provide for them, remember. any
thing they need to eat must be supplied
| or disaster will be the browning result
of all your efforts Our correspondence
contains many letters every year asking
how many hens may be kept on a half
acre Or a quarter-acre OF ground, as
though the poultry yard was to sup
port the fowls in the sense that sheep
pasture supports the sheep. But this
is not so. They are simply place for
exercise, air, and sun, like the play
ground Of a school There is little to
| be found, even in q large yard that
fowls can eat, and large yard is about
on par with small one. Fifteen or
| twenty hens will soon kill all the grass
of the better species suitable for their
eating, in a yard containing one-eighth
of an acre, and a flock twice as large
will eradicate all but the coarser grasses
upon u quarter Of an acre if they are
kept confined in an Enclosure of that
size. AS for insect forage in poultry
yard, it is very rarely that cricket or
grasshopper. is caught by the fowls in
their runs. Where the range includes
as much of the United States and Can
ada as they choose to travel over, the
case is different, but do not expect that
a poultry yard of any ordinary size will
feed your owls.-Pouhry World.
An Odd Little Story Of Napoleon Iii.
It was good many years ago, and all
Paris was raving about the exquisite
beauty and wonderful voice of young
girl who had just left the Conservatory
to become not long after and continue
till this day one Of the brightest orna-
ments of the lyric stage. She was hon
ored with an Imperial command to sing
at the Elysees, where she fascinated the
Emperor. who, sending for her, favored
her with an audience in the presence Of
the brilliant assembly, praised her sing
ing and asked her in what way he could
be of assistance to her. The girls only
thought was that this interview, which
SO distinguished her, was 50 soon to
come to an end, and stammeringly and