Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-07
present prices of salt it does not pay to
run any risk In using old brine.

present prices of salt it does not pay to
run any FISK In using old brine.
PROFESSOR ARNOLD says the points in
favor of dairying are: First. a dairy
farm costs ten per cent. less to operate
than grain growing or mixed agriculture.
Second, the annual returns average o
little more than other branches. Third,
prices are nearer uniform and more reli-
able Fourth, dairying exhausts the
soil less. Fifth, it is more secure against
changes IN the season, since the dairy
man does not suffer SO much from wet,
frost and varying seasons, and he can,
II prudent, protect against drouth.
The West Point (Neb.) Creamery AS
ISOLATION, which keeps $50 Jersey and
Guernsey COWS, has four silos, holding
$50 tons each. The ensiiage is being fed
the cows with very satisfactory results,
increasing the richness of the milk.
They report the cost, including blowing,
planting and cultivating the corn, cut
ting and putting in the silo, to be SO
cents per ton. The Nebraska State Agri-
cultural College is also using ensilage,
having built small silo. Their expert
ments have not gone far enough to give
results. They report the cost to be 81. 80
per ton.
The Journal of Horticulture gives the
follWlng method of renewing the bushes
OF the black currant, which yields scant-
lily after few years Of fruit1ng, as prac-
t1ced IN the gardens of Burghley, the
seat of the Marquis of Exeter: The old
currant bushes are made young again,
it would seem, by very simple pro
anrtoIY1 hor of than
down yearly, almost to the ground; they
push strong growth, and in a year or two
the inferior produce is replaced by splen-
did fruit. Some bushes that at a glance
appear four or five years old are perhaps
five times that age-perhaps more. If
the ground is not dug, but dressed with
manure and soil annually, black currant
bushes may be kept proftably for gen.
erations, as they bear cutting down
about as well as willows, and. like will
lows, afterward grow vigorously.
Az experienced horseman says no
glandered horse should be employed on
any farm, nor should glandered horse
be permitted to work on any road, nor
even to pasture in any feld he should
be destroyed. My friend has CLAN
dered horse; wishing to consult with re-
gard to him, drives him up to my door,
and bitches his horse to my hitching-
post, and. like most horses, he is not
long there until he begins to rub his
nose against the post, in doing which be
detaches from his nostrils small por-
ton OF the virus Of CHAMBERS, and it
needs but very small portion to pro-
| duce serious results. Perhaps during
the next "a hours the horses of my
neighbors are hitched to that post, and,
rubbing their noses on it in q similar
manner, become inoculated; and thus the
disease Is spread from farm to farm.
The mangel wurtzel is most valuable
root for STOCK feeding. 1t requires q
strong loan, and is a heavy feeder.
The land should be plowed in the fall
and cross-plowed in the spring, after
giving it good coating of manure.
After narrowing, mark out the ground
into rows two feet apart, in which the
seed may sown by hind or drill. 1t is
we'll to apply some prepared fertilizer to
the drill. The best varieties to SOW are
the Kinver's yellow globe and the long
red. Mangels should be gathered be-
fore frost touches them. On good land,
properly cultivated, immense crops can
be raised; as high as 1900 bushels to
the acre have been reported. AS food
ration for stock the mangel is excellent,
analysis, showing that 400 pounds are
equal TO 100 pounds of hay. Fed in
connection with hay and grain, it pro-
notes growth, and in milch COWS in
creases milk production. It is also good
TO feed with ensilage.