Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-15

ment. You will live longer, enjoy life
more, besides laying the foundation of
many happy evening around the home
circle. We have too few holidays. The
ambition for wealth and position is i'm
posing mental strain that is filling our
insane asylums and making suicide a
malady to be feared. We recommend
earnest, faithful work, but just as earn.
est, faithful recreation. Rural World.
HORSES when working pillow in Scot
land are almost uniformly yoked abreast.
1t Is well known that anlmal-power Is
most advantageously exerted when en-
ployed separately and near to the work,
and that it is hardly possible when
horses are yoked one before the other or
harnessed at length that they will pull
equally. The line of the draught ofthe
fore horses indeed being horizontal. and
not at right angles to their shoulders,
their full strength can not be exerted.
and considerable portion of the power
employed tends to act against and to dis
tress the horse next the pillow or carriage;
OF part of the power of the first horse
is exerted to press down the back of the
one behind him and q part of the strength
OF the latter to resist that pressure.
The heshy part Of apples is made up
mostly of liquid contained In cells
whose walls are exceedingly thin and
delicate. 1t is of utmost importance
that the harvesting be done so carefully
that the cells are not ruptured and the
juices exposed to the air to induce fer
mentation. If gathered when the
weather is wet and warm the cells are
broken by bruising or Earring, the ex-
posed juice will be sure to ferment,
when rot will be irresistible and rapid.
| If the fruit atsuch time is put IN large
piles where it cannot dry, it will decay
without bruising. If gathered when the
weather is dry and cool, and kept where
it will dry for awhile, the Juice from a
moderate wound viii dry down before
fermentation begins, and If kep5 dry the
fruit may be preserved.
| MANY complain that onions do not
keep. The trouble is in keeping them
too warm. The onion is a bulb plant at
rest, and the least warmth starts it into
activity. 1t is much better that onions
should remain frozen through the win
| ter, provided they can thaw gradually,
than to put them into cellar Or lother
warm place where their vegetative pow
ers will be aroused. IF put in large
heaps onions will be sure to spoil; but if
spread in thin layers and covered with
hay and straw, SO that it frozen the
! Chawings will be gradual, they will keep
well through the winter. 1t is the GUS
| tom with onion growers to get their crop
to market as soon as possible. If they
were to provide proper storage they
would realize much more from them
when sent to market later In the season.
The following nut for farmers to crack
is copied from the Ohio State Journal:
" William Thorp, well-known resident
of Union Township, Licking County,
living mile or SO east of Kirkersvills,
seeded piece of bottom ground to
wheat in the fall Of 1879, and the spring
following seeded it III clover. In 1880
he harvested heavy crop of wheat and
then pastured it with cattle and hogs IN
til late III the fall In 1881 he cut a
heavy crop of clover from it, then pas
tured 1t again until late with cattle and
hogs, and last spring it came up thick
with what he and his neighbors thought
was timothy, he having previously soWed
it with timothy seed. AS harvest made
its appearance it headed out, and was
seen to be wheat. Re cut three and a
half acres and threshed it, the yield
being forty eight bushels of clean wheat.
! The wheat sown was Of two varieties,
Indiana club and gypsy, and each vari-
ETY. growing exactly on the same lands IS
first sown.