Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10

Is q very easy matter to keep the bride
IN the house where it will be kept warm,
when not in uee. We have seen horses
the skin of whose tongue and lips was
as effectually burned by frosty bit as
they would have been by red hot one,
and all the while the owners were won
dering why the animals refused to eat,
and fell off in flesh.
IT has not been a long time since an
average bullock weighed but 400 pounds
net, but breeders would discard such
animals at the present day. Half a cent
ury ago the sheep did not reach over
sixty pounds average weight, and large
yields of milk and butter were not com
mon. Eight minutes was fair time for
running four-mile race. and the narrow
bodied hog was seen on every farm. Ut
is due to the improvement of stock that
all this has been changed, and, as there
is no limit in the matter, every farmer
should endeavor to further increase the
value and efficiency of all classes OF
stock
ASHES are valuable as fertilizer, and
should be stored In q secure place as
they accumulate in the winter. To
throw them out ON the snow or earth is
both wasteful and untidy. The feet of
passing children and older persons will
track the scattered ashes into the house,
and increase the labor of the housewife.
A barrel in fence corner is better than
nothing, but an ash pit of brick OF stone
Is the safest and cheapest. Disastrous
fires often originate from careless
handling of ashes. A smoke house;
that is, an ash pit, with a room above,
for holding meat, while being smoked, is
a convenient, if not essential, out-build-
ing on every well.regulated farm
american AgricuIturiSt.
MANY hogs are kept comparatively
poor by the high dilution of their food.
They take in SO much water that there
is not room for a good supply of nutri-
ment. Hence the reason that those
farmers who carefully feed undiluted
sour milk to their hogs have so much
finer animals than those who give them
slop. The hog has no room for much
water and if food which contains much
is fed to him it makes him big bellied
but poor. Hogs, as well as all other
animals, should be allowed all the water
they viii drink but it should not be
mixed with their food i'll excessive guam
tity. The hog should not be obliged to
take more water than he wants in order
to assimilate the food he requires
A DAIRYMAN should study the pecuE-
arities of each COW. Some COWS will
appropriate all the extra food they can
digest 10 the secretion of milk, and even
deplete their system to keep up full
flow of milk. Such COWS should be es-
pecially well provided for-their geuer-
osity should be reciprocated. These
are the COWS that pay for feeding.
They pay back the principal with large
percentage of interest on all the extra
food given them. They are the only
good COWS that will pay for extra feed
ing-in fact. they are only good COWS
that will pay for feeding at all. And a
dairyman may rest assured that a COW
that will not respond to liberal feeding
by an equal increase of milk is not
worth keeping, and instead of adding
to his income, runs him in debt every
year.
A COUNTRY GENTLEMAN correspondent
tells how to make a hood for savage
bull that completely hocdwinks him, 1"
and is safe, cheap and durable. He
says: "Take a stout, tough one and
a half by two-inch oak strip, fifteen
inches in length, and bore two three
quarter inch holes in it, so that hole
will come just outside of tina base Of the
horn. Then to this nail, with wrought
nails, an old saddIe-skirt, or, if the bull
Is simply unruly, a couple of old leather
bootlegs will do. To one side attach a
strap just below the eyes, and on the OPP
posite side buckle. Then slip good
bpckled strap through the holes Of the
cross piece, cross them behind his
horns, then bring them forward between
them and around the strap In front; then
buckle securely. The other strap is
buckled under his chin, which brings
the binder back sufficiently to prevent
his seeing in any way except backward,
and yet gives plenty Of air and light. By
crossing the strap between the horns the
binder is prevented from being drawn to
one side, SO as to give free range to one
of his eyes"