Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-10
AGRICULTURAL.
BANK up the cellar in time.

PACK celery away in dark place in
sand. 1t will help to bleach it.
CARRIAGES supply an excellent auxil-
larry for the winter feeding of chickens.
THERE is probably no potato that is q
better keeper than the Snowflake.
To keep cider sweet, put one ounce of
oil of sassafras in each barrel, and keep it
in a cool place.
Two sound eyes to hill are sufficient
As many potatoes can be raised there
from as if whole potatoes are used.
A BELvIDERE( I'LL man raised 1888. so
worth of clover seed this year from thir-
ty acres of clover.
Two THIRDS of the cultivated land in
America is cultivated by the personal
labor of the men who own the land.
The best potatoes grown under favor
able circumstances contain 20 per cent
of starch; poor ones, about 10 per cent.
THE favorable fall weather in Dakota
has enabled farmers to get in an immense
crop of wheat in the northern portion of
! the state.
TURNIPs are healthful for horses.
| They should be cut in slices, or, what is
better, pulped finely and mixed with 8
little meal and some salt. Rutabagas
are better than white turnips.
The value of farms in the United
| States is eleven billions, and the annual
product is three billions. In four years,
therefore, the farm products equal the
value of farms.
| A FARMER living near Sykesville, Md,
raised q brood of five young crows this
year, and two of them are perfectly
white. They differ in no other respect
from their black companions.
ONE of the phenomena of the season
is second crop of the raspberries and
strawberries in Delaware and Maryland.
One grower has shipped at one time as
many as 12O pints of raspberries from
his bushes.
The Rural Ne1o Yorker says: "We
take the liberty to regard the use of bags
as a covering for punches of grapes,
thereby protecting them from birds and
insects, as one of the vagaries of enthusi-
astic horticulturists.
For iron rust take dry cream of tar.
tar and rub On with the finger while the
cloth is wet. Hang or place where the
sun will shine directly upon it. Should
the rust not come out with the first
application, repeat.
A CELLAR that is cool, dry and dark,
and yet we'll ventilated is the best place
for preserving potatoes in large quanti-
ties. When smaller quantities are to be
preserved, there is nothing like dry
sand. The same may be said of fruits
and roots of all sorts.
COLD and wet do much harm to young
stock and stop the growth, which is
rarely commenced again till the warm
weather of the next season. A rough
shed in the pasture will furnish useful
protection, and small supply of rich
food is of value in keeping up the thrift.
In nearly all eases small boned ami.
mails are good feeders, will manure early
and possess fine flesh. On the other
hand, coarse bones and large joints indi-
cate late maturity, poor feeding quality
and coarse flesh, with large proportion
of offal.
The season is too far advanced for
turning horses out at night. A cold rain
coming on suddenly may do much harm.
If horses are caught in the rain and
thoroughly drenched, it will be well to
rub them dry, and then blanket them as
soon as they reach home. But the blan-
kets should never be put on till the
horses are thoroughly dry.
EARLY in January, 1877, it was re-
ported that Mr.. VIM. T. Lawrence, of
Lansingburg, N. Y, had prepared a
claim which, in the opinion of such ad-
vocates as the we'll KIN n chsncery law
yers, Messrs. Blake, Kerr & Boyd, would
satisfy the requirements of the English
court. We have, however, as yet seen
no allusion to a decision in his favor.
SHEEP need freedom of action and
variety of food more than any of our
domestic animals. In winter they re-
quire shelter only against heavy rains
and melting SHOWS, as even a cold storm
is better than a heated barn, ct least for
Cotswolds. A rough shed, facing the
south and capable of being closed during
the rain and snow storms is quite su FL
Gent They should then be kept in
small hocks, have spacious yards to roam
in, and at all times, except during
storms, fed in racks out of doors in
ordinary weather. Where cold storms
are rare, and the ground is free from
heavy snow, artificial shelter is hardly
necessary, for Cotswolds at any rate.
A NEW variety of winter wheat has
made its appearance in Iowa under the
name of the "Purple chaff." It is
bearded variety, and has taken several
first premiums. A correspondent of the
Western Stock Journal writes that on the
10th of last September, he sowed half a
bushel on a third of an acre, and got
from it sixteen bushels and thirty-fve
pounds, or at the rate of over fifty bush
els to the acre. It weighed sixty-two
and one-half pounds to the bushel.
Many of the farmers about that section
have sowed it this fall.
Conn loses one-ffth by drying and
wheat one-fourteenth. From this the
estimate is made that it is more profta
BILE for farmers to sell unshelled corn IN
the fall at rs cents than at 81 bushel
in the following summer, and that wheat
at $1.25 in December is equal to $3.50
~, tho o11oooodioa Cuno Tn the oaco IF