Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-08-29
FARM AND GARDEN,


advice is all right, copied into western
papers where such advice is not wisdom.
A WRITER to the Breeders Gazette
thinks a lack of salt Will account for
many of the ills of stock. He thinks O.
trough constantly supplied with salt
should always be kept in the pasture
and yard.
A FARMER sintelligent daughter solilo-
quizes as follows about the fair: High
est prize for fast horse, $3.50; best farm
team, $50; best loaf bread, S.. How
much more does a director think of
fast horse than he does of a practical
housewife 2"
A NEBRASKA man says hay is good for
hogs. Out the hay short and mix with
bran, shorts or middlings, and feed as
other feed. Hogs learn to like it, and if
soaked in swill or slop food it is highly
relished by them. La winter use for
hogs the same hay that you feed to your
horses, and you will find that it will save
bran, shorts or other fool; it puts on
flesh as rapidly as anything that can be
given them.
The persistent use of pure-bred males
of any breed will produce animals not
distinguishable from pure-breds, what
ever the character of the females at start
ing. We cannot positively fix the num-
Der of generations required-ordinarily
four is sufficient; sometimes less, some
times more. This fact, which ought not
to need restating, may give hope to the
poorest Of farmers if he desires to i'm
prove his stock.
j. 81, SANDERS, ESQ.,, while on his
visit to Europe, visited the international
Exposition, at Ham burg. He speaks of
another diminutive race of COWS, as fol-
lows: AS matter of curiosity 1 was in
tereSted in the little COWS from Norway.
They are little bits of things, much
smaller than the Angelen COWS, remark
ably thin, fat bodied, on very short
legs, white on back and belly, the sides
light yellow streaked with black, mark
ing them much like tiger. About a
dozen of them were inthe show.
This item may serve as a caution.
The Boone Standard says: con open
ing the drain from the high school
building, which failed this spring and
caused the flooding Of the basement, the
tihng was found, la places where it
passed in the vicinity of growing trees,
TO be choked up with masses of root
lets. The roots had sought the water,
and penetrating between the joints of
the thing, which had not been cemented
as they ought to have been, they found
plenty of food and grew with vlgor,
filling up the channel"
IF ever there was time when the
small, restless, mettlesome horse de
void of either grace in form or movement,
and ready for fracas at "the drop of
the hat, could be reared at q profit,
that time has ceased to be, and with
but small probability of its return. AS
a rule the industrial classes are moving
toward another plane, and improvement
is the watchword all along the line. In
every department. of industry, as well as
in the intellectual callings, there is the
greatest amount of unOccupied space
g at the top. "-CaLkiraS.
SAYS Prof. Roberts OF the Cornell
University experimental station: Thin
seeding frequently does well, until the
freezing and thawing of early spring,
when it suffers more than thick seeding. |
If the weather of late spring is not ia
vOrable, the thin seeding does not tiller
as 1t should, or tillers SO late, that there
is a large number of small heads on
short stalks, in the standing grain. One
bushel Of good seed would be ample for
an acre, if all the conditions were most
favorable; but they seldom are, and it
is wiser to give q liberal sowing of the
grain than to run the risk for the advan-
ia oes of q thin seeding
A KANSAS farmer rises to remark that
"When cholera got among my hogs [
put corn on brush heap and burned it.
The hogs ate the ashes and the charred
corn. Then put coal oil in milk, few
spoonsfuls to every hog and fed that TO |
them. I have not lost a hog. The
hogs were sick with the cholera, and re-
covered under that treatment" An In
diana brother, per contra, who has never
had cholera among his hogs, furnishes
the following common sense recipe:
" To prevent hog cholera among your
herd, adopt and adhere strictly to rules
Of cleanliness. Keep the pens and hogs
clean. p Chicago Tribune.
IT is poor economy to sell all the eggs
off the farm, because they bring a good |
price. There is nothing more strength
ening and nourishing than eggs as an
article of diet, and farmers certainly, |
ought to indulge in the luxury of eating |
them. Four eggs contain more nutri- |
ment than a pound OF beef-steak, and |
will give more strength; and person |
will not tire of egg-diet as quickly as
they viii of fresh meat. They never
distress the partaker, and if properly
cooked can be eaten with perfect safety. |
Omelets, poaehed eggs, or boiled eggs
cut in slices and cream gravy poured
over them, are splendid substitutes for
meat at breakfast.
The aggregate losses of cattle on the
plains says the Stockman, every year is
enormous. The pecuniary loss is made
up by the profits upon what are saved,
but what vast amount of animal suf-
fering is included in this loss of three or
five per cent. There are probably FIVE
million cattle kept on the plains. Four
per cent of this is 100000 The cruelty
which is concentrated in the deaths of
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