Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1878-07-03
AGRICULTURE.

denerS, IS carefully cultivated, and con-
sidered very choice and delicate vege-
table, by those &C Europe. Prejudice
alone prevents people in every part of
the world from using many edibles
highly priced by those equally civilized
elsewhere druggists Circular.
TARRED PAPER FOR HEN-HoUsEs. "A
gentleman writing to the Poultry World
says: dread your recomme ndation to
use tarred paper as q preventive for
lice in poultry and your request
to those interested to report. / have
lined my buildings throughout with it
for two years, putting it between every
piece Of board or timber, and even into
my nests, and SO far have not seen
louise about. / had a hen-hOuse over
run with lice two years ago, but upon
lining it with tarred paper, they disap-
peared and have not been seen since"
AS a general thing farmers do not
pay that attention to the cultivation of
the mind and the development Of their
social faculties that they should. Too
many Of them have an idea that educa-
ton belongs to the professional classes,
and that farm ers should not take time
to advance beyond the narrow boundary
of their own domain in search of Wis
dom and knowledge. 1t is no sign that
because / am a farmer [ need not know
anything of history, biography. affairs
of government and the sciences. In
deed there is no other class has greater
opportunities for the cultivation of the
mind in its broadcast sense than the agri-
cultural class. No class possesses great
er chances for unalloyed happiness
Exchange.
WE have two kinds of shepherd dogs
in this country, the American and Col
lie. The points Of n Collie are these
rather conical, tapering gradually to a
sharp nose, with a long jaw. A foxy
and intelligent look, wide, large ears,
which are pendant and little feathered
Eyes have sort of flashing and miss
look, always on the alert
Neck long and we'll furnished
with apron and ruffle; shoulders fine
and deep: chest we'll let down; legs
straight and full of muscle; cat-like feet;
a good broad back; stiles we'll developed;
tail feathered and not carried over the
back; coat long and straight, wiry to the
touch. Color varies, but black and tan
prevails, the tan pale.-Proctical Farmer.
FREQUENT STIRRING OF THE SOIL.-To
keep the hoe busy between now and
haying is to more than half insure the
success of the crop. The young plant
needs all the nutriment the soil con-
tains in its vicinity to appropriate to
its own uses, that it may be what it
should be, fully developed. AS with
the animal. SO with the plant; if it is
but half fed, it is but half bred, and
must necessarily be puny and worth
less. Weeds, of all kinds, are rapid and
greedy eaters Of the plant food contain
ed in both soil and atmosphere, and
will soon outstrip the hardest of do
INVESTIGATED plants. But it is no use to
explain it. 1t can only be the "old
story" told over again, for all under
stand it. But the question Is, will we
act up to our understanding If We do.
and keep doaun the aueds, not only between
now and haying, but after haying, We
shall, in great measure, compensate
for not having manure enough on that
" other acre." by saving all the nutri-
ment there is for the growing crop.
And not only this, we shall be gaining
ground It will not be SO hard next
year to keep the weeds down, if we do
we'll at it this year. But keeping down
the weeds is not the only way in which
we get benefit from frequent stirring of
the soil. In dry weather it is exceeding
ly beneficial to stir the soil about plants,
because of the fact that the soil is thus
put in a condition for absorbing moist
ure from the atmosphere: and the
more frequently it is stirred, the better
in such time. But little fresh dirt is
invigorating to plant life at almost any
period, and hope we shall all see the
beneficial policy of keeping the hoe
busy.-A. p. Reed IN Name Farmer.
DIGESTION IN THE HORSE The horses
stomach has capacity of only about
sixteen quarts, while that of the OK has
two hundred and fifty. In the intes-
tines this proportion is reversed, the
horse having a capacity Of one hundred
and ninety quarts, against one hundred
of the OK. The OK and most other ami
mails have gall-bladder for the reten-
ton of a part of the bile secreted during
digestion; the horse has none, and the
bile flows directly into the intestine as
fast as ssecreted., This construction of
the digestive apparatus indicates that
the horse was formed to eat slowly and
digest continually bulky and innutri-
cious food When fed on hay it passes
very rapidly through the stomach into
the intestine. The horse can eat but
about five pounds of hay in an hour,
which is charged, during mastication,
with four times its weight of saliva.
Now the stomach. to digest well, will
contain but about ten quarts, and when
the animal eats, one-third of his daily
rations. or seven pounds, in one, and
one-half hours, he has swallowed, at
least, two stomachs full of hay and sail
va, one of these. having passed to the
intestine. Observation has shown that
the food is passed to the intestine by the
stomach in the order in which it is re-
ceived. if we feed a horse six quarts of
oats it will just fill his stomach, and if,
as soon AS he finishes this we feed him