Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-11

nips, other roots, barley, clover wheat;
for six years, clover, wheat, wheat,
clover, corn, wheat; in cotton fields a
good rotation is clover or peas, cotton,
wheat. In much of the cotton growing
region of the south cotton is grown year
after year, without change, to the great
detriment of the lard, a course similar
to that pursued by farmers with wheat
and barley In California.
FEEDING young pigs is most profit
able. A bushel OF corn will produce
more pounds of increase in weight when
fed to a pig three months old. The cost
of producing O given weight Of pork in
creases with the age of the swine. If it
is desired to produce an increase of one
ton of pork by feeding 100 swine, that
increase will be more cheaply obtained
by feeding pigs under six months of age
than by feeding those which are year
old and older ones. The man who allows
his young pigs to have scanty allow
ance of food permits the opportunity for
most profitable feeding to slip by and is
obliged to produce his pork at an in
creased cost by feeding when his swine
are older.
DRYING apples is work which will, if
properly done, add no mean help to the
profits of the apple crop. Doing it by
the evaporation process is much the SUI
perior process. There is no chance for
the moth to deposit it's eggs and thus
render the fruit wormy. When fully
prepared, If they are clean and nice
they will probably bring at least ten
cents per pound. In this way the wind
falls may be disposed of, reserving all
sound fruit; it can be done in rainy
weather, and the work lis not unpleasant.
A fifty pound box only the size of a
bushel measure, represents ten bushels
Of green apples. True, those residing
near towns and cities might obtain more
for windfall apples, bat it is not always
convenient to dispose of them.
ONE of the great mistakes in feeding
ensilage has been In combining it to corn
fodder alone. Nature provides great
variety, and the closer we immitate her
In this respect, the nearer we reach the
desired result. 1t is true that all the
varieties OF grasses can not be secured In
this manner, but if clover, millet, rye or
oats are added to the corn, one or all j,
then the sllO becomes a factor IN the
milk and meat producing line that can
| not be ignored. Still after the examin-
/ alton of all the evidence that has met our
eye we are convinced that it is not well
to depend upon ensilage alone. A dry
feed is indispensable, but ensilaged food
used with it, in supplementary manner,
will be found to be inval ble.--CJeUe-
land Leader.
ALTHOUGH it is generally admitted
that the cellar of the farm house should
be kept clean all the time. such is not
always the condition of things. Ere
vious TO storing the garden vegetables
this fall, an extra effort should be made,
where necessary, to have the cellar clean
and free from any disagreeable odor.
Not only is this necessary for the best
preservation of hevegetables contained,
but it is also necessary for the health OF
the inmates of the rooms above, the
cellar In most houses being Immediately
beneath the living room or Iutchen.
Better days work in purifying the Gel
lar and preventing disease than doctor s
bills and sickness. During the summer,
too, many farmers set the milk in pans
"down cellar" and unless the atmos-
phere there is free from any faint the
mix will be rendered more O, less inn
pure, ard so unhealthful