Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-08-28
THE FARM
TOMATOES are good for chicks.

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Of sheep.
SWEET and nutritious grasses give
richness and flavor to milk, attainable
from no other source.
THERE IS no egg of a bird known
which is not good food, OF which could
not be eaten by 9 hungry man.
MONEY skillfully expended in drying
land by draining or otherwise will be
returned with ample interest. ~.
The Prairie Farmer advises a summer
fallow as the surest and easiest means
OF subduing Colorado thistles.
MANY farmers in Western New York
still raise large areas Of peppermint, al
though the oil sells only for 81 80 per
pound.
BRANDY and salt, two-thirds brandy
and One-third salt, is good for all kinds
OF gals, wounds. bruises and infam-
matOry sores on horses.
THAT there is no royal road to success
as an agrlculturist, is shown in the sur
rendering Of Chiswick farm by the
Prince of Wales. He couldn't make it
pay.
A SOUND New Hampshire farmer says
no acre Of land ever cheated him when
he had treated it with liberal hand.
Cultivation and manure will redeem q
swamp Or a sand bank.
Much as we have tried to improve
our swine, it must be remembered that
what IS gained IN quantity and quality
Of flesh Is at the expense Of the bristles,
for the finer the hog the fewer the bris-
ties. The sale Of bristles is an import
ant trade in Russia, amounting to some
100000 pounds, valued at $5,OOO,OOO.
They are obtained from the wild hogs
that roamin a portion of that immen
country. France supplies 100000
pounds, and Germany adds to the ex-
pOrtatlOns.
CHEESE as an animal food, may, with
advantage, be substituted for butchers
meat, at the current prices. There are
good and substantial reasons for regard
ing cheese as a Wholesome and valuable
food, and it is worthy Of even a more
liberal consumption than it now re-
REEVES. English people probably con-
sumo more cheese than any other ma
ton on the globe, Or in the proportion
of about ten pounds yearly to each in
habitant. In the United States the con-
sumption is only half the quantity.
PROF BEAL, of Michigan, says: Gin
our cornfelds are often large numbers
Of slender stalks bearing no ears, or very
small ones. These stalks have tassels,
and they scatter pollen, and are very
apt to scatter some of the ears on the
best stalks-on the very ears which we
shall select for seed. Tie different ker-
nels on the same ears may have twenty
or more different male parents. Now,
theory and analogy at least tell us. if
we wish to improve our corn to the,
greatest extent, we must pay some at
tention to the pollen used. A much
corn by itself on good soil, and test it
well, giving the stalks plenty of room.
Before sheddin5 pollen, cut out entirely
or remove the tassels Of ali the poorest
stalks. In this way we not only select
seed from good females, but also from
those fertilized by good males"
How TO TELL A RIPE MELLoN.-When
the melon begins to change color in
side, and its seeds to turn black, a small
black speck, scale or blister begins to
appear on the outer cuticle, or rind.
These are multiplied and enlarged as
the fruit natures. A ripe melon will
show them thickly sown over the sur.
face. A partial development only in
dicates half ripened fruit. A full crop
of blisters reveals it's perfect rpeness.
When hundreds of melons are strewn
alongside the sidewalk, you will have to
look pretty sharply to find one that ex-
hibits satisfactory 'escutcheon," to
borrow term from M. .GuenOn But
it is unfailing. when found, and by fol-
lowing this guide you may walk away
with the utmost confidence. The bis
ter is only to be seen upon a close in
spection, but is plainly visible when
that is overwhelming.
RAISING HORSES. i believe it pays a
farmer to raise his own Goldsmith an
if or two. First, if you have deep
chestcd, strong limbed, keen-eyed.
good-natured mare Second, if you
know enough to train frst-class colt
when raised. If you have
mare defective in wind, limb,
or disposition, don't, for human
ity's sake. perpetuate these defects.
There Is no department Of husbandry
in which such utter want ofjudgment
and even common sense is used as in
breeding horses. Thee-fourths Of all the
old, soft-boned, broken-winded, deform-
ed mares in the country are breading,
and nine-tenths Of the fine-bred, splen-
did mares are seldom if ever bred. My
advice is, never breed any but a first
class mare; don't be guilty of knowing y
raising poor colt. 1t never pays to
train or wear out such a colt.
Again, having secured a tirst-class
colt, you are not sure of good, relia-
BILE horse unless you are capable Of
rightly handling it, My plan is to be
gin to handle a colt the first time it
ever seesyou, and never undertake to
do anything with it afterward and fail;
and if the colt ever needs Furnishing, al
ways make him punish himself; don't
strike or scold him, and before he is old
enough to work his knowledge and
Ohedience will he eollal Whom thiS