Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-07
AGRICULTURAL NOTES.

/ Anew 1OI q COW RO luSO WIuL0I uaI.
tiers in poor, thin condition.
The best feeders have decided that it
pays to raise artichokes for hogs.
A MAN in Easton, ME-, has this year
harvested 10000 bushels of potatoes
from 45 acres of ground.
The rain annually pours into the soil
q quantity of nitrate of ammonia fully
equivalent to three pounds per acre.
AT recent potato show in England,
where nearly ], 400 plates were shown,
a large number were of American varie-
ties.
BUCKwHEAT is one of the most staple
articles of poultry food. It is very fat
tening, an egg producer, and very much
relished by poultry.
GUINEA fowls will keep all bugs and
insects of every description off garden
vines. They will not scratch like other
fowls, or harm the most delicate plants.
MACHINES for shearing sheep and
milking COWS have not proved successful.
These processes are best performed in the
old-fashioned way.
ONE hawk has destroyed for MIR.
Charles Gillen, of Chester county, Pa,
over thirty chickens in one month. It
is of the kind called the long.tailed
pheasant hawk.
HERE is a rare specimen of the profits
of horticulture worth striving for. Tie
originator of q new white outdoor grape,
suited to our climate, is said to have sold
the copyright" of the same for 500, 600.
OATS should be bruised for an old
horse, but not for young one, because
che former, through age and defective
teeth, cannot chew them properly; the
young horse can do 80, and they are thus
properly mixed with saliva and turned
into wholesome nutriment.
A GOOD test of the hardness of any
, variety of forest trees is found in the
ripening of it's seeds (fruit). If variety
does not perfect its seed in a given
locality, it is regarded as very good evil
dence that it is not sufficiently hardy to
be generally cultivated in such sections.
THE product of scrub cow by a
thoroughbred bull will be half blood.
This, coupled with thoroughbred bull
would produce a three-quarter blood.
The nextcross would be sevep-eighths,
and next fifteen.sixteenths.
THE land Office at Washington never
was 80 busy as it is now. AS much land
was ever disposed of previously in a
year. The purchasers are nearly all
actual settlers.
The Rural Messenger, published at
Petersburg, Va, has received the follow
ing about farmer in Dinwiddle county,
that state: "He seeded last fall lot
of four acres, on which he put four
bushels and three quarters of seed, and
he threshed out of the straw made on
those four acres 1874 bushels of wheat"
FAsTEN short piece of log chain
say five or six inks-by means of a
light strap to his leg, just above the knee
in the stable, of course), and see how
quick the paving horse will leave off the
habit. In most cases few days will be
sufficient to effect cure.
THIS is good season to haul the wood
to the house for the whole year. 1t can
then be cut for the stove and fireplace
in stormy weather, when nothing else
can be done. It will make the women
folks pleasant to have plenty of good,
dry fire-wood cut and put away for the
year.
1T has been many years since we have
had as propitious time for reducing
or distinguishing mortgages. Farmers
should indulge in no unnecessary luxur.
les till the farm is relieved of q blister,
and creates many heart-pang besides.
Get the farm free, then keep out of debt,
and all will be serene.
On the subject of keeping eggs the
following has been contributed to q
country paper: would say that eggs
can be kept the year round. Pack them
in box with oats lends down, and nail
cover on nicely when full; then take
another box about four inches larger
each way, put about four inches of
plaster in the bottom of this box, then
set the box with the eggs into this box
and fill all around and on top with
plaster, then put cover on this box and
set away in cool place. Turn the box
each alternate day.
PARsNIPs, carrots, Swedish turnips,
and especially mangel-wurzle, will all
fatten pigs. These roots ought not to be
given in a raw state, but always cooked
and mixed with beans, peas, Indian corn,
oats or barley, all of which must be
ground into meal. When pigs are fed
on such cooked food as we have stated,
the pork acquires peculiarly rich
flavor, and is much esteemed, especially
for family use.-Dub!in Farmer.
CHAUvEAU is correct in saying that
the first ring appears on cows horn
after she is two years old, but is some
what indefinite. From large number
of observations, have seen that the
first ring appears at two years, or soon
after, and sometimes before that age;
that the ring gradually increases during
the third year, and is fully formed at
three years; the second ring appears
during the fourth year, and is complete
at the end of the fifth year; after that
one additional ring is formed each year.
A cow with three rings is six years old,
with four, seven years old. After nine
or ten years the rings are no indication
of the age.
A WRITER says: For seeding down a