Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-02-07
with heavy weights, and at the same.
time could be stored away or fed out

with heavy weights, and at the same
time could be stored away or fed out
much more easily.
To prevent horse from being scared,
if disposed to it, when first put into har-
ness without binders, take him behind
the carriage and at the sides, and LET
h1m touch these with his nose and smell
them we'll. If curtains enclose The car
rage, as is osuaj n a rockaway, loosen
and shake them in the face Of the horse;
then stand him fronting the carriage,
between the shafts, and if buggy, raise
aud lower the top, to accustom him to
this. Ii these brighten him little, re-
peat till he gets completely over it, then
attach him to the vehicle. .1...
JACOB VAN DOZEN, of Muscatine
Iowa, writes us: Molasses making with
me this fall was a decided success.
Made 4,223 gallons of the best average
quality that / ever made. Dedicated
! the juice In five pans and finished with
steam. This year was my first expert
ence with steam. [ had sixteen acres
OF cane that made l ,764 gallons OF mo-
lasses. raised Minnesota Early Am
Der and Neeazand or small white Inn
phee. l like the last-named cane the
| best, Will send you a gallon of it in, o
few days by express. I had 1900 gal
Ions to sell; 1900 are sold at So cents
per gallon r. p. #..a.
IT is recommended that "wet, lands
should not be pIowed deep until
have been thoroughly drained. Alluvial
soils and deep clay loans, where the sur
face and subsoils do lot materially diff
fer, can scarcely be titled too deep.
Thin soils, however, should not De
plowed below the available plant food.
1t takes twice as much manure to fertil-
ize land when it is plowed to depth of
ten inches, as when it is plowed five
inches; yet, on the other hand, by plow-
ing onl y five inches deep the soil viii be
exhausted much quicker than when the
blowing is ten inches.
IT is told that g the Fultz wheat was
originated by Abraham Fultz, of Aliens
vllle,7 Pc, twenty-five years ago. He
discovered three heads OF wheat whose
remarkable grace and beauty as we'll as
decided difference from all others in the
field attracted bis attention. The first
years sowing produced pint; the sec
ond year was unfavorable, and the crop
was only one gallon. This wheat is now
the leading variety in most winter-wheat
states, and is also grown in foreign
countries. 1t has been wortI Millions
to the farmer, on account of us hardi-
ness and productiveness. The n2ilIers
do not likeit, but are learning to man
age it better than they did, or else the
wheat is improving in quelity." ll
The Bee and Poultry Magazine for
January says as soon as the weather Will
Justify placing the bees. upon their sum.
mer STANDS IN, the spring, Commence
feeding the colonies, at a place conyen-
lent to the apiary, unbolted -four made
either OF rye, wheat or huckwheat, per
haps all combined is preferable. The
bees may be readily induced to take itby
saturating corn cobs in syrup and placing
one or more IN each hive until the bees
cluster on the cobs, then gently remove
the cObs to the -four with the bees id
herring; sthus they obtain the course, and
they go to work with will to appro-
pirate the -four, which, until pollen is
furnished in abundance by the flowers,
should be given morning and noon of
each day as long as the bees will take it.