Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-12-19
FARM AND GARDEN.

amounting IN the aggregate TO some
thing over /, 900, 900 acres of splendidly
watered lands.
IF there is a large accumulation of
coarse manure put it where the fowls
can reach it. They will not only scratch
it to az fine condition, but be benefited
by the exercise.
IN the five years ending with 1850
more than 100000 sheep and 200. 900
horned cattle were boiled down simply
for their tallow in the colonies of New
South Wales and Victoria.
WHILE pumpkins cannot be recon-
mended as fat-producing material, they
possess excellent milk reproducing quail
tiles, and, being cheaply raised, may be
counted as valuable food for mich COWS.
-NeU York World.
IT is a good plan to go through a
| young orchard and fasten to stakes all
trees which are getting into q leaning
| position, which will destroy their sym
metry. This is particularly necessary
to trees just set, which are not firmly
rooted. Wind bit of cloth about the
tree to prevent chatting the bark where it
is tied to the stake.
NORTHWEST Farmer: If your wife is
cross at meal time, take an observation
Of the wood pile. The woman who can
| go out IL a storm of sleet and dig soggy
wood out of the snow to cook her hus-
bands dinner, and still wear cheerful
countenance and speak honeyed words
is more than human.
WHEN fowls are kept for eggs it is es-
| sential to success that every autumn the
stock be replaced with pullets Matched
early in the spring. BY no other means
can eggs be relied on. The only excep-
tlOn to this rule is in the case of Cochins,
Brahmas or Hamburgs, which will lay
through winter up to their second and
sometimes third year.
In the stalls and styes the aim should
be to induce fattening animals to eat
just as much as they can assimilate.
There is more money in getting March
pig to weigh 300 before the ground
freezes than in any other way of polk
making. Fattening sheep and cattle
! should be made just as comfortable and
kept as quiet as possible.
A CORRESPONDENT of the New York
| Tribune recommends q tub largest at the
bottom and tapering at the top, of suf-
icient size to contain years supply, as
the best package in which to store pork;
if packed properly the meat will not rise
IN the tub, being held down by the
slant of the sides. 1t should be put
down edgeways, in layers as solid as
possible.
MILKING in the barnyard, says an ex-
change, is an old fashion that should be
abandoned. It is inconvenient and I'M
clean. It should go with the wooden
pail and the hairy butter, and never be
heard of any more; gone and forgotten,
too. 1t is q wonder that any farmer
would permit it, and still more a wonder
that farmers wives or daughters
would consent to it.
THE Iowa Register says it is not all
sunshine and prosperity with the Iowa
creameries. There have been several
failures, which will go far to shake con-
fidence In such enterprises, but which,
on investigation, have turned out to be
made by parties who entered into the
business with no capital to do business
on. Bat yet the truth is evident that
the creamery "has come to stay"
ATTORNEY GENERAL BREWSTER rode
| down to the Potomac flats early In the
summer, and when he saw the heaps of
mud he expressed great dissatisfaction,
saying it was an unsightly place and ne
would try to remedy it. When be re-
turned to his Office be secured lot of
sunhower seeds and sent man down
to the mud heaps to SOW them. Soon
there was quite a sunfower garden
there.
Mr., ISAAC GARTHE gives the North
west Farmer the following directions for
making a busbel crate for shipping po-
tatoes to market: For the ends use inch
| boards, cut twelve and one half inches
! square. For Stats use half inch stuff,
three and One-half inches wide, putting
three Stats on the bottom of the crate,
and three Oh each side. The crate, when
finished, should measure twenty inches
long, outside measure. These crates,
Mr.. Garthe claims, are the most con-
Yenient size for loading wagon box.
AN English exchange, Land and Wa
ter, IN commenting on the dairy show
held in London in October, thinks the
reason why English cheese has deterior-
ated in quality and quantity is because
farmers wives and daughters have got
above their business" and no longer
personally superintend the dairy de-
partments, and adds: "We think that
before English cheeses become as fam
Gus as they were of yore, certain of the
fine arts will have to give place to use
full knowledge, in the farmhouse at
least"
HERE are glad tidings to huskers &C
cording to correspondent of the n. Y.
World: None but the laboring man
who has suffered actual pain while Lusk-
ing corn can appreciate what cure for
cracked and chapped hands means. Dc
not wash your hands during cold wealth
er oftener than can be helped. Grease
them in the morning with clean sleeps
tallow; melt it and rub it in thoroughly;
the more grease you can rub III the bet
ter. At noon give them another greas-
ing and at night wash the hands. Ny
word for it, by this plan a man can husk
corn with pleasure.
IT is said that frst-class insect-de-
stroyer has been discovered in France