Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-01-12

at the 6XGf6m1GleS Oh TIE ILLUS, WHICH,
often spreads over the whole tree, and
sometimes destroys it entirely within
few days. The remedy then is the
knife. Gut off and burn up the dead
twigs, cutting back to where the wood
is good, if possible. Then make wash
of strong soap suds OF weak lye and go
over them, using brush or cloth to
sprinkle it on. Its effects will be to
open the pores of the wood, and also to
destroy whatever insects may have
gathered beneath the bark to sap its
life. Its enlivening influence will be
apparent at once in a more healthy col
ored bark and renewed vigor; and, if the
tree is not already past redemption, it
will certainly help'to save it.
A WRITER in the English agricultural
Gazette asks: "Can any shorthorn
breeder give evidence of cow breeding
until 33 years old, and having produced
| 81 calves, having had twins on two
separate occasions? Her whole family
were proportionally ng-ived, the bulls
being serviceable until fifteen and six
teen years DID," Yes; Missouri has
common, or what is called a scrub COW,
belonging to Judge Payne, of Milan,
which is fourteen years old, and at nine
calvings has dropped twentythree
calves. 1t she keeps on at this rate
few years longer she will more than
| rival the English COW above, at least in
the number of her calves, if not in years.
One steer and three heifers dropped by
| this COW ON the 26th of June, 1876,
weighed on the same day in June, 1880,
LOO, 1,7O4, 1874 and 1856 pounds,
altogether 6,5l4 pounds. In June,
1878, the cow dropped three heifer
calves, which themselves calved before
two years old, namely, in March, April
! good mixers. In August of the pres
ent year, this same cow dropped four
calves-one bull and three heifers. If
any one can inform us of cow that has
equaled this at fourteen years old, we
shall be glad to hear from him.
souri, E't.
We are apt to be too negligent about
| the treatment necessary for the early
growth of young pigs. At the age of
three or four weeks pigs need the most
care. When the litter is large, at about
the age the milk of the SOW is not suf-
| ficient to keep them in a steady healthy
growing state. They should be cared
for before this time, by giving them an
opportunity to learn to eat. Too often
it is the case that the trough in which
the SOW is fed is so high that the pigs
cannot get into it for long time after
they are old enough to eat. This
should not be SO. My practice is to
make a trough very fat Take an inch
board a foot wide and about two feet
long, and nail stri ps about three inches
wide on each side and end In the fiat
box place the feed for the SOW while the
pigs are young Milk, meal, cooked
corn or anything else, is thus placed
within reach of the little ones. At the
age of about fifteen or twenty days they
will learn to eat other food than the
mothers milk. After a few weeks this
| low trough is taken away, and a higher
| and narrower one substituted 1t is
during the first few days and weeks that
| the SOW and pigs need the most care
| Country Gentleman.
In the majority of cases III thi
country turkey rearing hardly pays for
the large outlay III trouble and other ex-
| penses. But they are undoubtedly
profitable to raise when reared on profit
able principles, which mean plenty of
| lOOu, duO SA6ICISe. 1noTo Is u
| great difference in opinion in regard to
fattening turkeys, but experience has
shown breeders that the best way to get
the greatest number of pounds of flesh
is to feed the birds all they will eat,
right from the time they hatch out till
they are ready for market. While they
are running at large is the time TO de-
velop them. They undoubtedly get
much food in the fields, the scattered
grain, the choppers, worms, etc., but
then that must be supplemented by
daily or twice daily feeds of grain at the
barn. Turkeys cannot bear confne-
ment, especially when in small f1ocks or
singly, and should never be confined
longer than a week or ten days before
killing. An ordinary rail pen is one of
the best for the purpose, for they like
to be on the ground. At this time feed
principally on cooked or soft food and
plenty of milk, if you have it to spare.
giving, occasionally, hard, whole grain
to keep flesh solid and firm.
Mr.. J. S. WANBoRN, superintendent
of the College Farm, Hanover, N. H.,
reports experiments in feeding COWS.
giving full details of weights of each
kind Of feed, of milk and butter yield,
and the weights of hearimals at the be-
ginning and end of each period. In
summing up he says: Mealw make !
more milk than bran, l no longer hest
tate to say. The change in the butter
product is remarkable; in changing from
meal to bran there was loss of TT
per cent. in the butter producing Ca
pacity Of milk; in changing from bran to
meal there was gain in the butter pro-
ducing capacity of milk of 21.8 per cent.
There is substantial agreement in the
two changes, for it is matter OF expert
mental observation that good cow will |
make greater change in charge of food
than poor cow Mr.. Sanborn found
the tests with the cream gauge under
change Of food, at variance with the ac-
tual product of butter ''The results |
In weighing the COWS form an exception
10 previous experiments, bran and mid