Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-12-15
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eggs than III any other way.
KEEP potatoes In a cool, dry, dark
cellar, with good ventilation.
HAVE you removed manure from yards
and stables for composing?
Pres that have been raised on milk,
grass, clover, tubers aud roots till they
weigh $50 or 200 are generally healthy
They are then IN good condition to fat
ten.
A MISSISSIPPI farmer dashes cold
water into the ears of choking cattle.
This causes the animal to shake it's
head violently, and the muscular action
dslodges the obstruction.
HORSES and cattle normally require,
in round numbers, four pounds of water
for each pound of dry substance in their
food, while sheep require but about two
pounds, half as much.
SAVE lameness and coughs by an i'm
mediate covering of the horse after a
drive, if only stopping for few minutes.
Do not cover the horse with blankets
when he is in exercise; not even In a
storm, but rub thoroughly. and cover
after the horse has found shelter.
The present is a fitting season in which
to finish off the year with making an IN
ventory Of the farm and it's belongings,
chat one year may be compared with
another; settling all accounts with
neighboring farmers SO far as may be
practicable and to balancing running ac-
counts at stores and markets.
WHEN potatoes are frozen the amour
of sugar they contain is doubled, the
starch undergoing a corresponding
diminution while part of the protein
passes from the coagulable into the
soluble form. During the process of
rotting the potato loses half its nitro
genous constituents and the whole Of the
sugar.
ONE of the best things in the world to
give horse, after he has been driven
is quart of oat meal stirred In pail of
water. 1t refreshes and strengthens
him, relieves his immediate thirst, and
prepares his stomach for more solid
food. So says Joseph Harris, after
twenty years trial of it.
For storing onions. there is no better
place than a dry, cold and airy loft,
where they can be spread out thinly,
and often looked over for the removal of
those which may have begun to decay.
Warmth and moisture are fatal to the
keeping of onions, and much handling Is
almost equally SO.
No doubt common salt is about to
take up prominent place as one of the
cheapest, as it is one of the best,
though not the strongest, fertilizer.
Many farmers, practiclans and observers
have pretty nearly arrived at the con-
clusion that a little salt for most of the
crops is nearly of as much benefit to
them as are regular ratiOns of it to the
whole line of domestic animals.
PROFESSOR CULBERTsoN has by expert
ments proven to his satisfaction that
wheat, barley, rye and oats should not
be covered deeper than two inches. #
planted five inches deep they will never
come up. At depth of three inches
the sprout from the grain, when near the
surface, formed a bulb, and from this
bulb roots were sent. out, and the stock
took a new growth from the bulb up
ward. He says that wheat should be
covered from an inch to an inch and a
half, instead of being covered deeper as
is usually done.
HIGH farming is harmonious, every
part fits every other like tnnbers
framed by a master carpenter Rich
food will make savory meats, yellow
butter and powerful muscles. 1t will
make heavy, firm pork, and large, deep
colored eggs It's benefits do not end
here. There is life and potency in the
very excrements; its rich manures will
double the crops on the farm; it Will
send life and vitality In every variety Of
the vegetable kingdom, and many dol
lars In the vest pocket Of the farmer who
practices good culture and high farm
ing.
In keeping sheep For profit the great
point is to secure cheap pasture
Where wool alone is the source of the in
come cheap land is an absolute Reces-
sity, and the supply of this is rapidly di-
mlnlshing. There are few loca litles left
In the United States where land can be
procured In large tracts for 80 cents to
81 per acre, or even less than 80 cents.
But such tracts can yet be procured in
the mountain regions of southwestern
Missouri, West Virginia and North
Carolina, where the climate Is all that
can be desired.
In making or selecting fence posts it
is possible to choose such as are bigger
at the bottom for land that heaves with
frost and throws out It's fence. A pro-
iecting knot at the lower end will help
anchor post, besides resisting decay
longer. A good under-drain close to the
fence line is radical remedy for heaving
by frost. A partial remedy is to rap the
lifted posts back into place early every
spring. The lifting is done by ice at the
surface of the ground, leaving, usually
the hole perfectbeneath the post, and
containing nothing but water.-Hdrt-
ford Coatro2at.
AMONG the safe remedies for insect in
festation, to which all plants are liable,
1T has recently been asceroained that
borax is most efficacious. 1t should be
tightly sprinkled on the underestimate of
the leaves, A little on the soil, will be
beneficial. In several cases plants have
seemed to be stimulated when small