Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-06-18
AGRICULTURAL.

len tnOuSanU DuSnolS or corn were
sold at Davenport the other day for
shipment to Liverpool, via barge to
New Orleans.
REPORTS from the peach-gro wing pen
insula on the Atlantic coast indicate
the yield this year will be the largest
ever known.
The United States exported ,752,-
O6S worth of bacon and hams last year,
the greater proportion of them going to
the United Kingdom.
AN experiment IN feeding mich COWS,
conducted by Prof. Villeroy, of Berlin
between the Hollanders (Holsteins) and
the Devons, resulted in producing 20. 80
quarts Of milk for 100 pounds OF hay
from the Hollanders, and 1913 quarts
from the Devons, from the same guam
tity of hay. Barno Ockle in Wauken-
felde also made comparative expert
ment between Ayrshires averaging SO6
pounds in weight, and Hollanders aver
aging 1016 pounds in weight. The
smaller consumed SO. 10 pounds of hay
to 100 pounds of live weight; while the
Target breed consumed 2S.10 pounds of
hay to 100 pounds live weight.
Loss OF SHEEP BY DOGs.-According
to the returns of the department of
agriculture, the direct losses OF sheep
owners by the ravages of dogs reach a
million OF dollars annually in wool and
mutton, and the indirect loss in the re-
preston of sheep husbandry, and the
consequent waste of a large percentage
of the grass crop is still larger. Reports
from 500 countries, representing about
one fourth of the sheep of the United
States, shows total of 1925 sheep
killed during 1874; and even these
returns are not complete. In some of
the states the loss is from four to
eleven per cent. Of the whole value of
the sheep kept. In this state the loss
is com aratively small, though larger
than it ought to be. This should not
bear against dogs generally, but only
"sheep dogs" tribe without ancestry,
blood, or the I'D eanest kind Of pedigree.
| SQUAsHEs.-At a recent agricultural
meeting in Salem, Mass, the following
practical points we're brought out with
reference to raising souashes. First
if squashes were planted in season to
give full crop one must fight the
small striped bug and the large black
| bug. Keeping the vines sprinkled with
| fine plaster was the best way to protect
them from the striped bug. A shingle
at each hill for shelter for the black bug
at night and d trap from which to take
him in the morning was the best known
way to protect the vines from his
depredations. Some thought much, if
not all, that has been charged to mag
gots and borers should be charged to
black bugs. Farmers in the vicinity of
Lowell and Lawrence prefer to plant
after the Goth Of June, with the ex-
pectations of smaller crops, but no
trouble from bugs, borers Or maggots.
| HOG CHOLERA.-A farmer writes to
the Nebraska Fd1 mer that he has been
watching this dreadful disease for years,
and has found that wherever the fol-
lowing rules were observed there has
been no disease: keep the hogs clean
inside and out. Do not feed rotten,
nasty feed, that is not fit for even hog.
Give him dry, clean place to sleep,
and corn cobs for bed. They are
much better than hay or straw, for they
absorb the moisture and do not sweat
the hogs. | think sprinkling sulphur
on the cobs occasionally would be
good thing to destroy ffeas and other
insects. Give hogs plenty of wood ASH
| es and charcoal mixed with salt Give
some stone coal occasionally, the more
copperas in it the better. have talked
with quite number of hog men Of late
| that practice the above in the main,
and they say they have never lost
hog from the cholera"
HINTS ABOUT RURAL HoMEs.-Happi-
ness is the grand aim of life, and to Sc
cure its fullest blessings we must cult
vate the mind and all the graces of the
spirit. We always associate leisure, in
nocence and peace with rural life, COM
bined with the kindred joys which COM
petence and contentment bring. AL
most our first thought of a country
home is one of pure air, green earth,
gentle breezes ladened with the breath
Of many flowers and whispering pleas
ure, and where every shade
promises cool and sweet repose. The
thought of 3 rural home is rull of prom
ises of the fond ideal and of cherished
meditation. Every person ofsentiment
reverts to the country with pleasant an
ticipatiors; it is a feeling inbred in our
very natures. Fields, meadows, and
groves, singing birds and fragrant flow
ers, running brooks and grazing herds,
are ever the delight of mankind.
Money-making is not one of the incen-
tives of a country-residence, upon which
a practical Or a sensible man builds ar
dent hopes. Nor does man of sound
judgment seek q county home upon
which to foolishly squander the fortune
his industry and his economy have en-
abled him to accumulate through years
of toll and sacrifice and self denial. But
it is the place where he can realize the
cherished tastes Of cultivated thought,
refinement and study-the place where
his fond ideals, long anticipated, be-
come the real enjoyments of rational
realities--the quiet abode of retiremen
and domestic ease--Jhe place of rest
the place where the alter is sacred to
the affections, and where love radiantly
reigns supreme, and peace spreads over
the fruoal hoard and iOv Ia rcHootod