Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-05

and good grass, and when cold weather
comes on deprive 1t of the milk and
force it to depend on accustomed dry
food. 1t is, better to wean them while
still on grass, if of reasonable age, ac-
customiug them to grain st the same
time, ii this has not been done before,
as it should be, wherever this is practl-
cal Oats we count the best food for
colts; but corn may be mixed with this
without injury. A healthlul colt will
withstand a good deal Uf i'll treatment
without seeming the worse for it, but
this is not sufficient reason for ex pos
ng them. Colts and young horses can
be kept In fair condition in winter of
tentimes without shelter, but it is usual
ly cheaper and every way better to give
them good shelter, saving part of the
food otherwise necessary"
A CORRESPONDENT of the Farm and
Garden has tried several ways of keep.
ing sweet potatoes during the winter,
and finds that they keep best by being
put up in dust. In the summer when
the dust is very dry, he takes as many
barrels or boxes as he may want to I'LL
with potatoes, and fills them with road
dust and puts them away in a dry place
to keep until he digs his potatoes. He
prefers digging before frost. He digs
them and lets them dry I'D the sun; then
they are stored away in cool place;
they are spread singly over the floor SO
as not to heat or sweat. When cold
weather sets In they are taken and stored
in the cellar. The bottom of the barrel
or box is covered with three inches Of
dust, then comes o. layer of potatoes, as
close as they can be without touching.
They are then covered with dust, then
comes another layer of potatoes, and SO
on, until the barrel or box is nearly
filled up with dust.
KANSAS Farmer: Works on liberal
scale for the manufacture of syrups can,
we think, be safely started and after
wards changed into sugar works by the
addition of the necessary machinery
when the requisite skill and experience
for sugar-making has been secured. In
one feature of this business it is unlike
many other manufacturing interests.
Instead of being concentrated IN cities
and manufacturing centers, it must, like
the creameries and cheese factories, be
scattered throughout the country. It's
base of supply is the farm, and it must
be alongside of it. The farm must fur
nish its raw material and the price of
the same must go to the farmer. Any
manufacturing industry which makes a
home market for the products of the
farm and furnishes employment for cap
itsl and labor, promotes the interests OF
the community in which it is located In
far greater degree than if the raw ma
terial We're shipped to distant city and
there manufactured. The sorghum in
dustry will be most emphaticalIy home
manufacture.
A WRITER In Vick's Magazine says:
st is evident that the wood and buds
of grapevines suffer winter injury more
from drying than from intensity of cold.
For when we lay them fat upon the sur
face of the soil, weighed down SO as to
be close to it, the wood is exposed-n
the absence of snow at least-to quite as
extreme cold as if it we're up on the trel-
lis. Yet even In open winters, this mere
pressure upon the bosom of mother
earth, cold as it may be, sutfices to save
the wood and crop. An exposed vine,
when injured, scarcely ever betrays any
apparent evidences of the injury by discol-
Grafton or shrinkage. The first evidence
of it's appearing is the failure of the buds
to open, while unhurt vines have ex-
panded their vines and are making
growth. But those tardy buds open too,
after many days. showing that the only
difficulty was drying Of wood and buds
which is evidently relieved as the pes
sure of sap from the roots, under the
genial warmth and moisture of the
spring time, gradually expands and fills
the broken cells. But this loss of time
is fatal to the proper ripening of the
crop. Even the well-varnish ed wood
and buds of the Concord sometimes suffer
from this winter drying and spring re-
tardation, although generally proof"