Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-02-23

usually takes one-third for his labor
Then he supports himself. If the
tenants wife does work In the house for
the owners family that makes differ
ence, as does also the way the farm is to
be worked and its condition. A fair
bargain might be made on the following
basis: The mans work is worth SIG
month and his board and the woman
work is worth So aud board. That would
leave So a month for both. What part
of the salable produce of the farm would
make 1864 in the year? If one, third,
then a third would be fair share to pay
for labor Ten COWS and do sheep would
hardly produce 1892 in year, so that it
might be right to give even a larger
share than one-third if only this stock is
kept for salable produce. An easy az
rangement could be made by estimating
in this manner.
A SUCCESSFUL old farmer once said
that zone acre of land well prepared
and cultivated will produce more than
two which receive only the same amount
of labor used on one. One COW,
horse or mule, sheep or hog, well fed
and cared for, is more profitable than
two fed on the amount that will keep
one we'll One acre of grass is worth
more than two of cotton where no
grass is raised. The farmer who never
reads the papers, and sneers at books
farming and improvements, generally
has leaky roof, broken-down fences,
and complains of bad seasons and poor
land. The farmer who is above his
business, and intrusts to others to man.
age, III due season has no business to at
tend to"
A CORRESPONDENT from North Union
township writes to the Journal to the
following effect: "As the following Incl
dent is know only to few people, perhaps
readers of the Journal will find it inter
estirg, as it is out of the usual run, and
is true in every particular. Jacob Lind
enmuth, of North Union township, this
county, while threshing in the summer
of 1873, covered one of his turkeys with
straw, while the bird was setting on
nest of eggs in the barnyard. Forty
three days afterward one of the family
found the turkey, where she had been
covered over and forgotten. She was SO
weak rs to be unable to walk. She was
fed, and in time recovered her
pristine vigor While covered up she
could get no food or drink, and lived OBJ
nothing but air. How long she had been
on the nest when covered is not known
Miners Journal
LIZ any farmer who raises spring
wheat has not good, clean seed, now is
the time to be looking it up. There is
more leisure and better chance to find
it now than just at seed time 1t can
also be thoroughly cleaned. No farmer
should SOW weed seeds, as he will al
ways have volunteer weeds and mixed |
grains. A good plan to get good seed is
to get the grain dealer TO watch the
wheat as it comes on the market, and let
him buy it, as he can generally buy it
cheaper than the farmer can, and ia
midwinter it can generally be bought |
% to 30 per cent. cheaper than at seed |
seed time. Get good seed; SOW early; |
and thresh early, and, as a genera |
thing, sell early.
A MILFORD man tells of novel Their
as follows: ga certain farmer
Of old-time ideas, but sound ones, living
Town the state, is noted for his success
n raising and keeping sweet potatoes.
They are found on his table the year
round. A visitor to his potato cellar
noticed two turtles crawling around and,
asking the reason for their presence,
was told that when turtle would crawl
around the floor the weather was too
,old for potatoes to keep well, but when
he snappers drew in their heads land |
grew dormant then artificial heat was
necessary for the potatoes. When the
urtles were found quiet the old gentle
nan would sing out: "Boys, we must
nave some fire or the potatoes will not
10 well. ,"