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

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BEAR in mind that wool, like all ami
NAL product is made from food.
OVER three hundred patents on churns
have been taken out in this country.
IT is said that Connecticut farmers are
buying oleomargarine and selling 1t Tor
dairy butter.
The DalrympIe farm produced $780,
900 bushels of wheat and 40, 600 bushels
of oats this year.
In the British market ], 400 and 100
pounds are the standards for beef and
mutton carcasses.
GREAT BRITAIN has one-half as many
sheep and one-tifth as many cattle as
the United States.
IT is estimated that there are between
700, 900 and 500. 900 cattle on the Black
Hills ranges In Dakota, and not less than
25, 600 horses.
AN Ohio farmer has found that
bushel of timothy contains $4,000, 900
seeds, or about eight seeds to every
square inch if spread uniformly over an
acre of land.
THE centrifugal process of making
butter is becoming quite popular.
machine now In use in Pennsylvania has
capacity of about 1000 pounds of
milk per hour, and is run by water power
at a speed of nearly 1000 revolutions
per minute.
BUCKwHEAT intended for seed should
be hand thrashed. In thrashing by ma
chine many of the grains are so bruised
and broken that they will not germin-
ate. As buckwheat is very easily hand
thrashed it makes job for men in win
ter when other work is scarce, and it is
good policy to save it for then.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Bee Journal
reminds young apiarists that they
must not expect to have a heavy
increase In the number of swarms
and large crop of honey at the same
time. Many base their prospects on
the number of swarms they possess,
ignorant that excessive swarming so
weakens the bees that they gather little
surplus honey.
The Live Stock Monthly, speaking of
ensilage, says that while theorists are
still endeavoring to show the insignif-
cant value of ensilage for feeding to
milch COWS, the practical farmers con-
tinue to build silos, fill them with ensi-
lage and double the number of cattle on
their farms. Scientists cannot prove
impossible that which exists as tangi-
BILE, practical fact.
THE Farm and Garden reminds those
who are allowing themselves to be car
ried away by enthusiasm on the poultry
subject that because man keeps twelve
hens year and makes a profit of Sl2,
it by no means follows that he can keep
1000 hens the same time and clear
81, 200. With large focks comes almost
invariably the crowding of them into
close quarters, and the consequent de-
velopment of disease.
In making roosts for fowls let them
be level and on line. If they are SO
arranged as to have some of them high
and others low, the fowls will crowd to-
gether on the higher perches, leaving
| the lower ones unoccupied, which is not
only waste of space, but a cause of
store feet and other ailments, as the
heavier fowls cannot easily get on Or eff
the perches when they are very high.
The lower they are the better, provided
the coops are ventilated at the top and
warm and dry near the floor.
Hon. GEO. F. LORD, of Elgin. keeps
100 COWS on 800 acres of land, and has
not raised pound of hay for years.
The corn is sowed in drills 81 feet
apart, and about the time it blossoms it
is cut with a sef-raking reaper, cutting
one row at time, the machine throw
ing it off In ganels. When sufficiently
wilted it is bound and set in large
shocks and allowed to cure standing on
%oa nex0rz1o1 o4crS
is hauled to the barn. He secures a
yield of about seven tons of cured fodder
to the acre, worth as much as the best
hay. He is one of the most successful
dairymen in Illinois.
The secretary of the British Farmers
Association says he does not know q bet
ter method of packing butter than that
adopted by the consignors of Brittany
butter. Tons are sent to England week
~ in rough pine boxes, holding two
dozen pounds each. The butter is made
up In two-pound rolls, and is wrapped
IN muslin with an outside covering of
clean, white paper. The boxes meas
ure fourteen inches in length, ten and q
half by nine and half inches deep, and.
as the Jumps of butter are made of uni
form length and diameter, twelve of
them Can be easily, but closely, packed
on end in each box. This butter ar
rives in London beautifully fresh, per-
fectly clean, unbruised and Uninjured in
any way.
A RECENT writer says that a good
Short-horn or Hereford bull will sire SO
calves year for ten years. A
common scrub stock 4 years old
will make one thousand pounds
live weight, worth 3 cents pound, or
$50. A half bred Short-horn or Here
ford grade steer years old will make
/. 400 pounds, or $40. It costs some
thing less for one years less feeding and
herding, say SIS. The difference in val
ne, then. is $45; and multiplying the
annual product of fifty by forty-fve and
we get So, $50 as the yearly gain, or
800, 500 in ten years. If the stockman
is satisfied with so per cent. on his in
he ooT offorI 70 Give ovooIT--