Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-02-01

apart. The iron attachments to the
wheels are bolted to 4x4 piece, holding
them firmly in place To this a box with
dump-bottom is fastened This box is
filled with manure, pushed along the
carrier to the post in the yard, where the
contents are dropped, and the box drawn
back for reloading The cost is slight
and the convenience great.
UNBLEACHED wood ashes contain all
the constituents of plant food that the
ordinary Or worn out soil needs except
nitrogen. By their chemical action they
render much of the inert nitrogen in
soils available, and in that way may be
said to furnish nitrogen. This is true
OF lime, and on this power of making
nitrogen available the greatest value of
lime, when applied as a fertilizer de-
ponds. Ashes also have good mechan-
ical effect upon the soil, especially
heavy clay soils, which are made lighter
and more porous, SO that air and water
circulates more freely. Ashes do not
suffer waste by being washed out, to the
extent that is true of the more soluble
and concentrated fertilizers sold in the
markets. Their effects are therefore
more lasting.
EARLY lambs may be very profitable
where they are raised for city market,
to be sold when three months old; and
the owner may find a consolation foI the
labor and worry of staying up nights
and coddling the ewes and fussing with
stupid lambs to get them to suck and TO
put them on their feet, In the very fair
price he may receive for them. Twenty
five cents a pound for 40-pound lamb
may cover up multitude of worries; but
the sheep-owner who produces only
wool and mutton had better avoid this
business Of having the lambs dropped
early. There is less loss If lambs, less
bother with the ewes, the lambs grow
faster and heavier, and one has more
contentment and comfort every way
when the lambs are dropped on the grass
after the weather has become warm.
May lambs will make better sheep than
February or March lambs, and viii give
much less trouble in the rearing.
THERE is no subject which is attract
ing more attention from the bee-keepers
of America at the present time than the
improving of the quality of their stock
by judicious care and selection in breed
ing. The fact that some colony or col
onies each year far excel all the others in
the amount of the stores which they
gather, suggests to the thoughtful
apiarist that were he possessed of the
requisite knowledge and skill, the preb-
able profits of his apiary would be far
greater than they are at present. Apis
Americana is superior strain or race
of bees that has appeared as the result
of superior tact displayed by some bee
keeper in the breeding of his bees.
With but little doubt there is in this
direction one of the most promising
paths towards improved apiculture
The "dollar queen" business, which has
grown to such deplorable dimensions in
the last few years, as it of necessity pre-
cludes all ns-taking, is right in the
way of this improved breeding. To
make the dollar queen business at all
profitable, haste and no pains must be
the watch-w0rds of the apiarist. To Sc
cure q better type of bees, the utmost
caution, and the severest selection must
be the firm rule of the bee keeper.