Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-24

! A STANDARD bushel Is a measure eight
inches deep and eighteen and one-half
inches in diameter, containing 2,15O
cubic inches. The heaped bushel re-
quires six inches in the height of the
cone above the top of the struck bushel,
and contains 2, 748 cubic inches in all.
From these figures the farmer may cal
culate the contents of his granaries, and
divide them, into different quantities by
horizontal marks, so that he may know
very nearly at any time how much grain
there is on hand, by observing the num-
bers on these marks.
A POOR farmer cannot conceal the fact
that he is q poor farmer. All his sur
roundin9s proclaim the verdict against
him-his horses, cattle. wagons, harness,
plows, fences, felds-even his wife and
children bear silent but unmistakable
evidence against him. On the other hand,
all these things will testify favorably on
behalf of the good farmer. Every pas
ser-by can read the evidence pro or con,
This fact alone ought to stimulate every
farmer to do his best for the sake of his
own character, as well as interest; for he
may rest assured that every passer-by
will pronounce Judgment according to the
| 0FIueuCS.- DHhyO hNTtIt.
DEATH by strangulation always pre-
sents bad appearance, because the
| blood is simultaneously arrested, and
having no outlet to flow off in, it
coagulates IN the veins, presenting a
swollen dark appearance. This may
! take place, to some considerable extent,
when death is produced by any sudden
manner; therefore, the best way to kill
fowls for market is to cut off the main
arteries by putting a small-blade knife
! into the mouth Or upper portions of the
throat, and thus bleed them freely, hold
ing them quietly until the struggles
cease. Fattening is not to he done to
prepare for market. But to have poul-
try well dressed, preserving the color
and freshness which most nearly resem-
BILE the living flesh, is matter of prime
Importance in determining prices
Poultry World.
A CORRESPONDENT makes the practical
| suggestion that it costs no more to win
Ter an old hog han it does pig. The
practical difference is that breeding
SOW may be kept on the same feed which
pig would require, and in the spring
litter of young ones would make large
enough margin in favor of the old ones.
| Old sows are twice as profitable as young
ones, as the offspring are always larger
and more of them. They may be kept
number of years with profit. When
year old, small-boned breeds will have
their growth and require but little food,
only enough to maintain life and loco
motion, whereas q growing pig requires
| food for the same purpose and to pro-
| mote it's growth.
| A FARMER of somewhat extended ex-
perience seeds down his land as follows:
[ plough the land about four inches deep,
thoroughly harrow it, SOW six quarts of
mammoth clover seed per acre. / then
brush or roll, and never fail of getting
good stand of clover. had twenty acres
over-cropped two years. I planted it to
corn, sowed rye in the corn the last of
July, cultivated it on ten acres, kept
sheep on it in the winter and early
spring, and ploughed the rye under when
the berry began forming. The other
half was well MANFRED and sown to wheat
and clover ON the 10th of September.
The results was twenty bushels of wheat
per acre and a good seeding. Where the
rye was / got the best wheat.
AN old man who has had much expert
ence in handling and dealing in horses
for more than half century, says that