Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-18

soil, whether dry or wet, Is Valuable,
If used as bedding, straw is still more
valuable, while as a fodder it is not to
be despised.
The horse like the driver and the dog
like his master. A nervous, t1morous
man is almost sure to have q sklttish
horse, shying at anything, unsteady, and
runaway If ne gets the chance. Many
COW is spoiled by lack of patience
and quietness in the mixer, and the
amount of milk depends more on the
mixer than on the pasturage. Ii a man
is afraid of horse the animal knows it
before he gets into the stable. A noisy,
boisterous fellow about fattening sta
bles Will cause a serious loss in gain of
flesh to the animals. So important is
quiet to them when they are digesting
their food.
The matter of the first importance in
orcharding and in gardening IS proper
drainage, so that the soil shall never be-
come sodden with water. The intelli-
gence of the farmer should readily show
him how this drainage may best be &C
complished, but, as q permanent invest
ment, draining with tile is beyond con-
troversy the cheapest in the end, to any
makeshift by means of surface drainage
it being first conceded that drainage
is necessary, for not all soils require
drainage for either of the purposes men
toned. A good test to know if this be
the case is to observe if water ever
stands for twenty four hours at q time
In well extending two feet below the
surface.
ECONOMY of food is promoted by
diminishing the demand for heat and
work. An animal at rest In stall will
increase in weight far more than an ami
NAL taking active exercise on the same
diet. In the same way the increase
from given weight of food will be less
in winter than in spring or autumn, q
far larger proportion of the food being
consumed for the production of heat
when the animal is living IN a cold at
mosphere. Hence the economy of feed
ing animals under cover during winter.
IF, however, the temperature becomes so
high as to considerably increase the
perspiration, waste of food again takes
place, heat being consumed in the evap-
Grafton of water. The temperature most
favorable for animal increase is appar-
entity about sixty degrees Fahrenheit.
Quietness and freedom from excitement
are essential to rapid fattening. The
absence of strong light is also desirable.
A FARMER who raises more calves
than are needed in his dairy gives the
following good reasons for such action
elm raising two heifers where ] only
need one, have two ideas in view:
First, if any Of them do not come up to
my standard for prospective COWS, they
are always in good demand by the
butcher, and If any of them turn ont
bad cows they can quickly be turned for
beef. / have third reason, which is
that if any of my old COWS fail up in the
summer, as they sometimes will, / can
let them drop out, and I have fresh
young COW to supply the demand
without having to run amy risk in buy
ing. Finally, whatever may happen a
heifer COW, have no capital invested in
her, except feed and care, and if she
fails as a mixer, [ have her body left to
reimburse me, and am not obliged to
look sharp to get enough out of her to
replace the money! should have paid
for her had / purchased her out of q
Drove"
CLOVER III the western states is coming
into almost universal use, and is re-
garded as an indispensable adjunct of
good farming. One great reason why
this product has been so slow in taking
the first rank in pasture and meadow as
a forage crop, has been the high price at
which the seed was held and the conse-
quent difficulty In obtaining it in suf1i-
Gent quantities to seed the ground re-
| CURED. The seed is so easy to raise
that the farmer should be no longer de-
pendent ON four or five eastern states for
his supply. He can not afford to send
abroad for it and pay the large price at
which it has been held. He must raise
his own seed. This he can do cheaper
than he can buy it, even if he has to re-
sort to the hand-scythe and the old
fashioned fail to procure it. But this
is not necessary. The members of a
grange might unite by each contributing
a small sum to purchase all the machin-
cry necessary for cutting, threshing,
hulling and preparing the seed.