Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-11-29

! balance In favor of the sprouts. The
sprout potatoes were the more regular
ia shape and the earlier in growth.
The early maturity of the small
breeds gives them great advantage over
the larger kinds. We have known Suf-
folk pigs to weigh 800 pounds at seven
months. TO secure this result they
must be fed with skinned milk when
first weaned, mixing it with little bran
and oatmeal, and gradually increasing
the ration of oats till the pigs have at
tanned such a size that it will answer to
| put on fat, when cornmeal may be sub
st1tuted gradually for the bran and oats
-NeaO York Times.
The secretary of the Indiana Horti-
cultural Society says black walnuts can
be grown and cultivated with large
profit, and that during growth crops caE
be grown between the young trees. At
fourteen feet apart there would be 200
trees to the acre, and these will sell for
IS each In twenty-five years, making
ST. 900 per acre, or $40 per year. AS the
land will be used for crops, the cut of the
walnut for sale is a clear gain. Although
it takes time to realize, the profit is
great when the period arrives for selling
the wood.
IT is an excellent plan to pillow the field
garden in the fall and re-plow it again in
the spring. If 1t can be plowed early
enough In the autumn to allow the weed
seed to start, they will be out of the way
the following season. If manure can be
plowed under in the beginning of au-
tumn, it will be well rotted and become
incorporated with the soil better.
Coarse manure is unsuited to vegetables,
but if ploughed under in the early part
OF the fall it will be all right in spring.
When this is not practicable, it is best to
compost the manure during winter. ,
COLTS should not bepermitted to stand
on plank, cement, paved or any hard
floor the first year, as these are liable to
injuriously affect the feet and legs. I'm
less the yard where colts run in the win
ter has a sandy, or fine, dry, gravelly
soil it should be we'll Uttered, so as to
keep their feet dry. Mud or soft, wet
fish ground is apt TO make tender hoofs,
no matter how we'll bred the colt may
be. One reason why the horses in one
district grow up superior to those In an
other in hOof, bone, muscle and action is
because it has dry limestone or Slice
GUS soil.-LjUe Stock Journal.
The tempering of cream Is one of the
most important operations in butter
making. This is especially true in colo
weather, The different parts of cream
are affected differently by heat. A can
of cream may be placed in kettle of hot
water and heated till the thermometer
indicates 620 to 650 without having heated
the butter globules in the cream at all.
! This will not ordinarily be the case, it is
true, but it is liable to be, and it is ap-
proximately so in all cases where the
heating is rapid. Cream should be kept
warm several hours before churning that
it may become warmed through. Or, if
it IS necessary to temper it hastily, it
should be raised considerably above the
churning temperature and suffered to
fall back, which it will do in a short
time.
THERE is no profit in allowing COWS to
lose flesh in the winter with the hope of
making it up on grass in the summer.
Every pound of flesh SO lost is equiYa-
lent to a loss of two pounds of cheese,
and every pound of fat lost is equal to
loss of two pounds of butter. There is
a good deal of lost butter and cheese
gong into the flesh of COWS about this
time. A COW reared on farm where
she IS to remain is more valuable to her
owner than a strange COW. She is &C
climated. She is acquainted with the
| herd with which she must associate.
| She is familiar with the lands from
which she obtains her food, and can
travel over it with greater ease than
strange COW. In consequence of these
things she will yield more milk and be
more profitable. Herd and
Home.
p PROF. j. 2. ROBERTS writes: [ believe
the greatest utility of silos Will be found
to consist III the means they furnish of
preserving foliage plants, in a green and
palatable state, which may be easily
grown in abundance in May and June,
but if not then secured they become
dried up and nearly worthless, or, if
dried and housed, the animals appear to
have but little relish for them in the hot,
dry days of August. The reasons for
building silos with small compartments
are manifold, a small compartment may
be filed and sealed up in single day,
thereby not seriously interfering with
| the regular work. Each forage plant
may be taken in its best condition. One
compartment may be filed early with
rye and clover which is showing ten
dency to spoil by lodging, or is full of
weeds that it is desirable to eradicate;
second with oats and a second cutting of
the former clover field, or weedy, be-
lated piece of timothy. A piece of fod
der corn and aftermath would fill third
compartment later in the season.
Governor Butler.
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