Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-18
FASM AND GARDEN

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which weighed over ton.
AT the sheep hearing festival at
Woodstock, Ill the heaviest fleece was
thirty pounds. from a 4-year-old ram
owned by L. 2. Smith, of Cary Station.
HE process Of condensing milk is
really very simple, and consists in heat
| ing the milk IN vacuum pan kept ex
hausted by an air pump until it is re-
duced One-fourth.
PURE, clean water should at ali times
be accessible to the dairy COW, and is an
essential Tor health and profit as feed,
and without both Of good quality and
! liberal quantities the best results will
not be obtained.
DAIRYMEN say that a COW should be
capable of producing 200 pounds of but
ter annually, in order to be profitable.
lt1s believed, however, that the average
yield per annum of mich COWS does not
exceed $50 pounds.
GROUND oats are said to form one of
the best feeds to promote a flow of milk,
either III COWS, ewes or in breeding sows.
The oats will grind better if one bushel
OF corn is mixed with every two or three
OF the lighter grain.
HORSES at hard work should have in
the middle of the forenoon and afternoon
a pail of water IN which handful of oat-
meal has been stirred. It has q remark
ably stimulating and strengthening eff
feet, and is much better than the water
without the meal.
j. M. STUDEBAKER, of the firm of
Stakeholder Brothers, at South Bend,
Ind, has offered as a special premium.
at the next fat-stOck show, one Of their
finest tOp-spring wagons, to the exhibit
tors showing the five best Hereford
calves under year of age.
NANCE itch may be cured by scrub
bling the horse with a coarse brush and
then washing with CASTLE soap and
soft water, drying carefully. AS soon
as thoroughly cried, apply an ointment
made OF four ounces of sulphur, ten
ounces Of lard and one-half ounce Of car
bolic acid, well ,mixed.
! HARDENING of the skin frequently re-
suits from pressure of the harness and
from cutting the integuments and sub
cellular tissues with the calks of the
| shoes. Make a mixture of one ounce of
acetlc acid, one ounce or pulverized can
| tharides and five ounces of water. Alter
! allowing the mixture to stand two weeks,
filter it through linen, add one ounce
spirits of wine and apply with a sponge.
The sheep is q close grazer, and even
! prefers short pastures. It is scrupu-
lousy clean, though not very select in
the choice Of the heritage on which it
feeds. Wool, being highly nitrogen
GUS substance, requires a larger supply
Of albuminoid food for sheep than other
ruminants demand. Wool being the
chief profit of sheep farming, it will be
economy to feed oats or oil cake pretty
freely to secure a liberal growth of this
staple.
An old dairyman thinks fnely-ha-
vOred, aromatic, sweet butter can only
be secured through the use of q percent
age of new mich COWS in the dairy at ali
seasons. Darlington, the famous Phila-
| d6lphia butter maker, milks his COWS for
butter only three or four months after
calving, then diyerts their milk to cheese
or to the supply of the city milk trade.
| Butter made from the milk of farrow
cows is inclined to crumble and taste
cheesy.
PROFESSOR HENRY says: "I would
urge that our farmers feed more oats to
young stock, colts as we'll as calves.
There is no food easily attainable that
will so well correct acIdity of the stom-
ach and keep the whole system in good
order. To those who wish to raise
| calves on very little milk, [ would say,
use oats and oil meal freely, and by
studying the wants of the calves you
will be able to raise fine animals on q
small allowance of milk"
MOST of the troublesome weeds in this
country have come from Europe. The
ox-eye daisy, Canada thistle, purslane,
shepherds purse, mallows, wheat thief,
pig-weed, dock, chick-weed, dandelion,
mustard, etc., are all foreign weeds.
But few native plants have become
troublesome. The ox-eye daisy, one of
| the most troublesome weeds in the east,
is gaining ground quite rapidly in Ohio.
The southern limit of the much-dreaded
Canada thistle is said to be not far from
Columbus.
To straighten lap horn, put brass
knob on the end of the horn which is
bruised, and pully above the head and
one over the back of the calf; put cord
through both pulleys and fasten to the
horn, putting a weight of three or four
pounds on the back end of the cord, ac-
cording to the size of the animal. Oil the
horn near the end, which will soften 1t,
and keep it on. In little while she horn
will be where it is wanted. After the
horn is straight, there will be aridge left;
take a rasp, file it down and sandpaper
it afterward.
THE honey crop of the country about
Austin, Texas, promises poorly. So far
bees are making little or no honey. Re
ports from parts of New York say that
up to the first week of June the spring
was cold and windy, and where bees
were not in good condition at the begin
ming they have done badly. For those
who have bees the prospect is now fair,
as the fields are covered with clover.
From Kentucky come reports that the
white clover crop is immense. It is pre-
dicted that the largest crop Of honey
ever harvested in Kentucky will be gath
cred this year.
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