Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-29

their soil, raise more grass, have less
labor and make more money. A pound
of mutton can be raised as cheap as
pound of beef or pork, and is worth
equally as much in the market, and the
wool is extra profit. Use thoroughbred
males of any Of the popular breeds, and
in few years your sheep will be a
source of pride as well as OF profit.
THIS advance in the areof butter max
ing will compel an equal advance IN the
quality of milk production. The skill
full manager of the butter factory will
see the absolute necessity that the milk
should be of the highest quality; and
when dairymen study this question OF
quality of milk, they will see that it
must include the quality of food. The
dairymen will soon learn that highly
favored milk cannot be made from
single food. This will leadhim to study
the quality of various foods. National
LiUe Stock Journal.
"SoI1NG is from an old French
word, which means the feeding of green,
laxative food to cattle and horses, and
such green stuff was considered as much
in the light of medicine as of food.
+" soiled" for their health. The term
has come to be used as meaning the
feeding of animals at the stable instead
of the pasture, and green food Of some
kind is generally supposed to be given.
Strictly no other can be fed under a
soiling system. We see no improperly
in using the term soiling in connection
with feeding enslage in winter. En-
silage is green food preserved more or
less perfectly in it's green state, and is,
undoubtedly, laxative food, compared
to many kinds of dry fodder.
SOME eastern New Jersey farmers
may "point with pride" to their sue
cess with fat pigs. They show every
year how it pays to manufacture raw
products into finished articles when it is
well done. A pound of cotton worth Is
cents is made into cloth worth so cents.
A pound of iron worth cent is made
into nails worth five cents; and into steel
watch springs worth hundreds of dollars.
A bushel of corn worth fifty cents is
made into pork worth so cents by these
New Jerseymen, not to count quantity
of valuable manure left. The following
are the particulars concerning these
Jersey pigs: Mr.. Southard's % pigs
ranging from 657 to 855 pounds. Mr.
Harrison's 20 pigs averaged 767 pounds.
Mr.. Carriers pigs averaged 1864 pounds.
If one begins with herd of 10 COWS
and all the calves are kept, they will be
at the end of ten years, after the calves
begin to drop, 1877 COWS, IS yearling
heifers, 63 heifer calves, and 226 males
of all kinds, in all about 462 head; that
is counting that one-haf Of the calves
are heifers. If we buy any of the i'm.
proved breeds, say 10 head, the sale of
the surplus bulls gives good profit and
pays all expenses, and the females are a
fortune besides. While every farmer
does not raise full blood or thorough
bred stock, no farmer can afford to use
any but full blood male. Then his
stock rapidly improves, and his profits
improve in proportion. This grading up
has been the success Of this farm stock
prosperity, and when farmer has thus
improved his stock, he takes good care
of it, provides good shelter, feed, water
and pasturage in abundance. Then stock
breeding is profitable.