Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-11-27
AGRICULTURAL ITEMS.

! ZZ,ZSO,OUO acres OF land IN the United
States. This is indicative of genuine
national prosperity.
LADY CLIFTON, dam of the celebrated
trotter, Lucy, died recently, aged 26
years. at Vincentown, n. j., having
been bred and raised by her then
owner, Job ButterWOrth.
CAPT. PERRINE's experiment with a
floating apiary on the Mississippi was
not much of a success. He was a lit
tie behind time in ascending the stream,
and the honey collected was generally
of a dark color.
WITHIN radius Of two blocks in the
neighborhoo1 of Yates avenue and De-
catur street, Brooklyn, $50 COWS are
kept. The residents have complained
to the board of health Of the stencil
arising from the stables.
AN honest farmer sent some hand
some game and black Spanish fowls to
the Kingston (Ont.) exhibition. The
judges washed the birds and it came
out that the former were painted and
the latter had had their legs hlacklead-
ed.
The milk business of Sheffield, Mass,
is larke-the creamery having shipped
in September to New York, 1859 boxes
of one quart and Of two quart cans land,
besides. the farmers shipped 2,2I1 40
quart cans-the freight charge being
81 ,665.
A TRoTrING track on the American
plan is about to be inaugurated in
England. Breeders in this country
should see to it that it does not fail of
success for the want of good horses, for,
the trotter once introduced there, must
become popular, and an outlet for our
overstocked horse-market will at once
be made to their great profit.
FARM property in New England is de-
preciating sadly, as witness an adver-
tisement in Springfield (Mass.) paper
of farm two miles from the railroad
station, containing thirty-seven acres Of
good land, with buildings which cost
81 600 when they were erected in 1873.
An offer of $4,000 was then refused
for the property, which will now be sold
for $4,000, "a good part" of the pur
chase money remaining on mortgage.
AT the New York state fair there were
exhibited some sheep bred from COM
mon Merino ewes and the Cotswold
ram. The feeces Of the first cross
measured five inches in length, and the
wool was as fine as the Merino, and as
easily combed as that of the COtswold.
The wool Of the second cross, as long as
that of the pure Cotswold, was still as
| fine as MerinO wool. The carcass Of
| the cross-bred makes excellent mutton,
and is nearly as heavy as the pure Cots
| void.
4 WRITER in the London Garden says
ne has tried many differ nt sorts of to-
matoes, and that he esteems Railways
superior to any Of them for general
purposes, being a grower and cropper,
and having handsome fruit as large
and round as an apple" The last men
toned phrase would be slightly ambigu-
Gus in this country, as sorts vary from
the minute lady apple to the huge
monstrous pippin; and even in England
there is some difference between the
little golden pippin and the cathead of
past years.
A CORRESPONDENT Of a Canada paper
makes the following suggestions on the
subject Of weaving colts: Put the colt
and it's mother in a stable; tie both
side by side in a manger in wide stall;
have nothing between them; give them
an adequate supply of nutritious all
ment for a few days and the thing is
accomplished. | prefer this way be-
cause it prevents fretting on the part
| of both the mare and colt, and, as an
Irishman expressed it, about two pigs
in the same pen, the one encourages
the other to eat; so that the colt is not
reduced in condition, as is too often the
case during the weaving process. This
mode of treatment bel ps to halter break
the colt, too, if it has not previously
been done. i. H.. r... ...
J. B. WALTER, a veterinary surgeon.
addressed the Colusa San, as follows:
Every horse that runs at the nose is not
glandered; eight cases out of ten it is
nasal gleet accom- panied with farcy.
There are several in this county, and it
is also contagious. Mr. Cleek lost all
his mules and two COWS with this dis
ease. I have treated thirty-two cases
in this county, and eighty-three in Te-
hama county, successfully. The symp-
toms of glander are as follows: The
gland of the neck becomes hard and
swollen, painful, and adheres to the
jaw bone. The matter runs from one
nostril only, generally the left, and the
membrane Of. the nostril becomes
liberated. When a horse presents ali
these symptoms he should be shot. In
any other case he can be doctOred with
every chance Of success. | wish to
make these few bservations to calm
the fears of horse owners and stable
men who believe the exaggerated re-
ports of the San Francisco press on this
dreadful disease. . .g.. ..t
Corn AS FUEL.-The american AgricuE
t,yia says: "Some journals, whose con-
ductors know very little about corn
growing and other things in the west,
make their annual outcry in regard to
the extensive consumption of corn Tor
fuel, which they consider great and
inexcusable waste. Suppose the Ne
braska or Minnesota farmers were to
! sell two tons Of corn for $6. and buy a