Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-29
AGRICULTURAL.

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stock sixteen feet high, with one hun
dred and twenty-seven pods on it.
IT is said that lice may be kept from
poultry by placing pieces of the bark
Of sassafrass root in their nest.
The Pennsylvania State Dairymen's
association will hold it's annual meeting
in MeadvilIe, Feb. and 6.
The epizootic has made its appear
ance at North Amherst, o., and has
done some great damage among horses.
THE best of all soils on which to es-
tabllsh a poultry yard is gravel or
sand, resting on a substratum of gravel.
The winter meeting of the National
Agricultural congress will be held at
Nashville, Feb. 25 to 81, inclusive.
IT is said that the cut-worm never
damages crops on land where sheep
have been pastured the year before
planting.
The latest horticultural humbug is
the grapevine raspberry" 1t is a
failure both as a grapevine and as
raspberry. "
POTATOES are being sent from Michi-
gan to New York in cars having double
walls, which are warmed by means of a
stove.
The twentieth annual meeting of the
Missouri State horticultural society
will be held in Jefferson city on the
2Sth day Of January. ~. 90
If a farmer or a business man wants
to find out now great spendthrift he
is, let him keep an exact memorandum
of all the time idly spent.
COOKED meat chopped up and mixed
with other feed is not only relished by
fowls, but gives back the strength lost
during the moulting process.
M. MEEHAM, horticulturist of much
experience, says henever saw blight on
pear trees that were whitewashed. He
believes it to be an absolute remedy.
ALL roads in Texas leading south and
west are lined with the canvass covered
wagons of the hardy pioneer farmer,
seeking home on the healthful, fer
tile prairie of western Texas.
The yield of sugar in Uvalde county,
Texas, will average from seventeen to
nineteen pounds per acre, with the
usual amount of moIasses, and both
the sugar and molasses are Of high
grade
The Illinois state board of agricul-
ture, at its session commencing Tues
day, Jan. II, reelected S. d. Fisher
secretary, and j. w. Bum treasurer.
The last Monday in September next
was fixed as the first day of the state
fair.
JAMES JAMES, probably fhe oldest
man In Texas, recently died, aged ia
years months and 20 days. He was
born near the Red House, Prince Will
liam county, Va, May 10, 1894. In
his 109th year he cultivated a water
melon patch and realized off the same
1925.
| ACCORDING to the statistics of 1878
there were 9,749, 333 acres of timbered
land in Ohio. In 1877 there were but
5,117,310 acres. If these figures are
correct they show the destruction of
over 100000 acres of timbered land
in Ohio in seven years. Gov. Bishop
calls attention to the matter and couns-
els a halt.
The number of persons who visited
the Smithfield, England, fat cattle show
was over one hundred thousand. Most
of the members of the royal family
were present. The number of animals
present was: Cattle, one hundred and
eighty-two: sheep, one hundred and
ffty-six; pigs, sixty-three; and the
prizes distributed, $4,000 against $500
in the year 1900.
A NEW material for covering walls,
called Muralis," has been invented
by Frederic Walton, Of London. 1t is
mixture of oxidized linseed oil and
fibre, and on this enumeration in re-
lief is very clearly stamped by ma
chinery. It would be admirable for
boarding-houses and school-houses, for
so we'll does it resist knocks that ii
struck with the sharp end of hammer
a slight indentation will at first be pro-
duced, but in half an hour the elastic
substance fills up the gap.
The american, Dairymam says: at
has been suggested that call be issued
for an Ohio da;rymen's convention to
discuss the milk question for 1879, and
elect delegates to the Northern Ohio
Dairymen's association, which meets i'll
Cleveland the latter part of this month.
All those favoring such a convention are
invited to send pestal-card to S. P
Thompson, Hudson, O., as soon as
possible, when, if it is found that suf-
| ficient number favor the movement, a
convention will be called"
The owner Of Smuggler is reported as
refusing to risk $1,000, or any sum, on
his horse, the loss of which would be
liable to cramp a mans family. All
speculations whatsoever may be looked
at in the same cautious way. Some
families may be cramped for the cash
spent at the gates of the horse-shows
merely-when they come to set up
business and want to pay for a horse.
But there is no use crying for spent
money any more than for spilled milk,
and the knowledge got at a horse-show
might prevent a body from being
| cheated in horse-trade.
THERE are now loaded daily in Bos-
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