Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-27

SPEAKING of farmers horses, the Ma
tional Livestock Journal says the kind
of animal needed by most farmers is one
weighing from twelve hundred to fifteen
| hundred pounds, and fifteen and a half
to sixteen hands high, compact, vigor-
orous, hardy, active and docile. If, be-
yond this, it has fine form and style al
lied to good action. SO much the better.
AS soon as the the first cut of grass
is made an application of well-rotted,
finely-divided manure may be made
with very profitable returns. The ma
nure protects the exposed surface of the
base Of the grass plants from The heat
| of the sun, and furnishes the necessary
nourishment to the roots of the plants
A new growth is soon produced, making
the land profitable either as a pasture or
for second neutrality-suspicious..
PosEY COUNTY, Ind, claims to have
raised the largest COW In the world. Her
name is Lady Posey, breed mixed Dur
ham and Big English. Her measure
ments are: Greatest height, five feet ten
inches; girth, eight feet nine inches;
length, ten feet six inches, or including
tail, seventeen feet; her form is good,
and, although not fat, she weighs 5000
pounds. Her color is red and white,
red predominating. Age. six years.
Her present owLer lives in Stark Coun-
ty, Ill.
A MASSACHUSETTS farmer says that
light valley lands can be made highly
productive by green manuring alone,
and advises buckwheat to begin with on
lands much worn by constant cropping.
Although not as valuable as clover, it
will grow where clover will not. It con-
tains large quantities of nitrogen, potash
and phosphoric acid. Two or three
crops plowed down in their green state
will make light soil dark and loamy.
Success is secured by shallow blowing.
By covering only three or four inches
speedy fermentation and rapid decompo-
sition takes place.
STACKS of oats if carelessly put to-
gether are often destroyed by exposure.
Every farmer may know that the heads
of bundles-of every bundle-should be
kept higher than the butts or straw end.
But Indifferent hands often place the
heads lower. or at least on level with
the butts, thus inviting mildew and de-
cay. If oats are to be saved for seed, it
is best to wait until they fully ripen be-
fore cutting. If the straw and leaves
are to be used for food, it is best to cut
while the oats are in a dough state and
while the leaves and stems are still
green. Dat straw so harvested is thought
to be very much more nutritious than
corn fodder, and nearly equal to limo
thy. Many, indeed, cut and house oats
the same as hay, and believe it to be
fully as valuable.
The New York Times says: 1.-The best
package for keeping butter through the
summer is a white-oak pail, vanished on
the outside and made with tight fitting
cover, or for large quantities a white oak
irkin should be used. To keep well the
butter should be perfectly well made,
sailed with an ounce and quarter of the
best dairy salt to the pound, and packed
while fresh and sweet in clean pals or
tubs. The pals should be thoroughly
scalded and then soaked in clean brine
before being used and busted with dry
salt on the wet sides before the butter is
pnt in. The butter should be packed
solid without any air spaces, and if the
tub is not filed at once, the butter
should be covered with a little clear
brine until the next packing is put in
When the tub is filed within a quarter
of an inch of the top a piece of clean
muslin dipped in brine should be placed
over it and pressed down; dry salt is then
laid on to a level with the edge of the
pail, and the cover is pressed down and
fastened. The package is then kept In a
cool, sweet cellar"