Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-09-28

, serving it, because the very hghtest
sailing is always more than sufficient Tor
all the effect salt can have as preserva-
tive OF butter. Generally one ounce OF
salt to sixteen ounces of butter, so as to
obscure in measure the faulty taste,
the flavor of salt being less objection
able than wrong or faulty taste in but
ter. But if the flavor is very fine and
full it will not be desirable to hide it,
but, on the contrary, to give it more
prominence. Hence, less salt, say one
ounce to twenty OF butter, will give
better efect.-Prof. arnold.
CAPoN1zINa fowls is practiced to a
great extent in Pennsylvania and New
Jersey. It's effect upon the fowls is that
they grow one third beyond their 9th
erwise natural size, fatten more easily
and rapidly on less food, and their flesh
is of finer quality, the price they COM
mand in the market being 80 per cent.
higher than that of ordinary fowls of the
same age. AS an illustration of their
superiority, we quote from an exchange
of a recent date the statement that I" a
man in New Jersey has just sold lot
of $50 capons, averaging 10 3-5 pounds
each, the heaviest pair weighing 20
pounds"
Mr.. HAwnEY, of the Onondaga Coun-
ty IN. W Farmers Club, finds that
Indian meal fed to Jersey COW will
give both the color and aroma of grass
butter. Buckwheat bran and oil meal
both would make the color white. Mr..
Terry said it was absolutely necessary
to bring butter in the market that GUS
toners would take; they wanted color
butter, and it must be colored or the
dairyman would take the consequent
ces. IF the market says color, you
must color by artificial means or by
feeding. Mr.. Overacre urged the far
mers to adopt the method of natural
coloring. First select good COWS then
feed them well, and you will get good
coIored butter.
IT is now thought to be safely estab-
lished that apples of good quality may
safely be fed, to some COWS, even as
freely as a bushel or more day.
Many farmers, basing statements on
their own experience, affirm that apples
are worth more, ia years when very
abundant, for feeding to stock than for
cider-even twice as much, same say,
who have fed many hundred bushels.
Fed with corn, they are said to be worth
half as much as the corn. The general
opinion as to their value is more moder-
ate and reasonable. There is no well
established difference between the feed
ing value of sweet and sour apples, al
though there is some prejudice In favor
of the former. 1t is not based on any
careful comparative test.
The Cultivator notes an increasing
tendency in New England to SOW grass
seeds in the fall. It says: One of the
leading seed stores of Boston expects to
sell more grass seed this fall than was
sold by them in the spring. Their fall
sales of grass seed have been slowly in
creasing for several years past, but for
the last two or three years the increase
has been so rapid that they now prepare
for large fall trade. Those who are
contemplating seeding this fall should
bear in mind that the sooner they get in
the seed the better. Seed sown on or
before the 10th of September will make |
a good growth before winter sets in,
and the grass will make an early start
next spring. Quite number of lots,
within our personal knowledge, which
were seeded early last fall, were cut this
spring before some of the older seeded
lots were ready for cutting, yielding
very good crops, and now bidding fair to
give heavy crops of rowen. A bushel OF
red top with a peck and half of tim
othy, to the acre, is about the right |
quantity to SOW, with also about six
pounds of red clover in the early
spring.