Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-07-25
FARM AND GARDEN,

CLSSlGE, In IL
BREED the best to the best. Then
give the best care, and you can always
get the best price. u=
THERE is an animated contest going
on by experiments ia the harvest fields
between the Irvine and wire self-bind-
ers. All other reapers are neglected.
IT is reported that two large eastern
milk condensing factories refuse to ac-
cept milk from dairymen that are in the
habit of feeding ensilage. They say the
product does not keep.
CORNELIUS FRANTz, Wabash County,
ILL.,, farmer, recently clipped from nine
| lambs, 227 pounds of wool that sold at
20 cents per pound. His sheep are pure
| Cotswold.
The Drovers' Journal is of the opin-
ion that a board Of trade as conducted is
more genteel than a secret and covert
| gambling house, but confesses its ina
ollity to discover the difference in the
principle between the two.
The protection of grapes by bagging
| should be attended 10 early. Paper
bags known to every grocer as two
pound bags, should be used. After
the sack is in place over the bunch one
| pin will serve to fasten it there.
A COW belonging to David Jacobs, of
Heth Township, Harrison County, In
diana, fell a distance of fifty-one feet
into q cave one day last week and re-
manned there for one day and night be
fore discovered. She was hoisted out
| alive.
Thus far this year, says the Dodge
City (Kan.) Globe, our stOckmen have
| placed on their stock ranges south Of us,
| about $4,000 worth of blooded bulls,
| which will show marked improvement
in blood among our young stock for the
next few years.
The men who made the bright pages
of American history laid the foundation
of their brawny character in natures
| fields. The merely artificial fields have
| never produced great man. The nat
ural fields bring regular harvests Of them.
Harvey Fuller.
The export trade in fresh beef is
reaching unusual proportions this sea-
son. Up to May 31st, this year, 60, 878,-
go pounds, valued at sc, 539, 669, had
been exported, while during the cores
ponding period of 1882 but 1928, 495
pounds, valued at 81, asa, 146, were ex-
ported.
The barb wire syndicates and its fun
eral gathering last week in Chicago was
a solemn affair. Washburn generously
offered to ''come down" on his royalty
tax to most any sum the licensees would
give HIM. If any of them pay him one
dollar they are fit subjects for the Asy-
lum of Feeble-Minded Idiots, Home
stead.
In these hot summer days, while mer-
chants, bankers and professional men
HE away to watering places and cool re-
treats, the farmers have TO be III their
harvest and corn fields, ensuring pros
perity to the country. But there is COM
tort IN knowing that while the former
fashionable classes are prominent char
acters IN bankrupt courts, the farmers
can pay their debts and have enough to
eat and to wear.
IT is stated by one who has been very
successful with ensilage that the proper
weight for silo is 40 pounds per
square foot Barrels OF fine loan or
ROAD dust make very good weight for the
sllo, and the dirt can be utilized as an
absorbent IN the stable as the packages
are removed in taking out the fodder.
This Is better than handling several tons
Of stone that must be gotten out Of the
way again in the spring.
STATIsTICIAN J. r. DODGE calculates
that the country loses nearly 5000, 900
sheep each year-mostly on account of
dogs. Exposure to storms and severe
cold in the west kills great many, and
southern thieves take some, Scab.
foot-Tot, paper-skin, dysentery, and
scarcity of grass are also destructive.
These causes bar extension OF fiocks, and
ID some sections almost annihilate this
otherwise profitable rural pursuit.
Miss JENNIE CoRsoN, the Montana
shepherdess, made her start in life as a
compositor in a Jacksonville (Wis.)
printing Office. She went to Montana
about a year ago and bought band of
sheep and ranch near Okla, Meagher
County, for SIC, 000 cash. She has man
aged her business entirely herself, and
now has as good sheep ranch as there
is IN Montana. Her sheep and ranches
are said to be worth 527, 800 more than
they were year ago.
A JUDICIoUs system of mixed husband
~, made up of dairy, stock raising,
grazing, hay making and fruits, careful
y followed, will seldom fail in the most
disastrous year we are apt to have, in
returning to the producer a handsome
income. Taking the present season and
the last one as examples of the most IN
favorable kind, the whole disaster, in
both cases, has fallen entirely on the
corn crop, while the dairy, stock grow
ing, and indeed any branch of husbandry
that can be named, have all been pros
perous.-E. II. CaLk6nS.
The Farmers Magazine thus says re-
garding sunfowers: "The sunfower
yields more seed than corn. A bushel
seed will yield gallon of oil, and the
residuun is equivalent to that of linseed.
The flowers make a good dye, and fur
nish bees with material for wax and
honey. The stalks make excellent fuel.
and furnish fine fiber for working with
silk. The leaves are a good adulferant
for Havana filters, and eaten by stock.