Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-12
FARM AND GARDEN.

of homeless beef.
The wheat yield of India only aver
ages nine bushels to the acre.
A THOUSAND tons of wheat was re-
Gently shipped from San Francisco to
New Orleans, thence to Liverpool.
The farmer who let's everything 90
to waste about him will generally be
one who complains that farming don't
pay"
A SMALL ear of corn can carry more
grain than large one. 1t is the grain
from tip to dent that makes the guam
tity.
ABOUT 10000 to 10000 Texas COW
ponies have been sold this summer at
Dodge City, at from $15 to $18 per
head.
EUROPEAN experiments with sugar in
breeding animals indicate that it pro-
notes barrenness, while salt has the
reverse effect.
The foreign cattle trade is risky and
uncertain, prices varying greatly within
short periods, but it grows in spite of
it's uncertainties.
A MOST prolific source of loss to the
stockmen of Southern Arizona are the
periodical excursions OF Mexican stock
thieves from Sonora into that territory.
HAMPSHIREDowN ewes are said to be
remarkable for bringing twins. Some
times as high as 20 per cent. more are
raised than there are ewes that is 100
lambs to 100 ewes.
IT is poor economy to neglect MAX
ing the most manure out OF what grows
on the farm. Vegetable manures never
fail to fertilize the soil and add to the
enlargement of crops.
The average weight of cattle now
slaughtered is third more than it was
half a century ago. It is certainly made
fit for food in little more than half the
time than was then required.
THERE are 100000 land owners in
France, the average size of the farms
being ten acres. The best land is
worth $400 per acre. The best vine
yards are worth 5000 per acre.
IT is calculated that the Southern
States, owing to the fine crops there,
will reduce their purchases of food stuff
this year from $l75,000,000 or $780,
100000 to less than $125, 100000.
GRAIN and hay are sometimes worth
more to feed to cattle for fattening pur-
poses than to sell at the market rates.
The judicious farmer will be on the
lookout to see when this can be done.
The black knot in plum trees, like
The yellows in the peach, demands in
slant attention. The knife is the only
remedy; prompt and thorough removal
of all affected wood is the only means
of saving the tree.
PROF. BUDD, of the Iowa Agricultural
College, says the peach is successfully
grown in Northern China, and he ex-
poets to find that the variety grown
there will withstand the hardest winters
of Illinois and Iowa.
Wool growers in the Pawnee Valley,
Kas., says a Western paper, and con-
tiguous regions are talking about estab
fishing central wool house, where
their wool may be gathered and stored
for shipment in bulk.
EVERY month is harvest season for
some section of the world, though the
harvest does not always consist of hay
or grain. There is fruit harvest as
well as wheat harvest, and harvests
also OF OGnor prOQucGS.
IT is said the Blue and Kansas Val
legs have shipped more thoroughbred
Berkshires, Poland Chinas and Jersey
Reds than any other state. This stock
has been mostly sold to breeders in sew
eral states and territories.
A WE'LL informed stock raiser claims
that the day is not only approaching,
but it is now at hand, when the Mon
tana cattle men have got to put up hay
for winter feed, not only for few days
in winter, but for several weeks.
The state of New York has 241, $50
farms of over twenty acres each, while
all New England has but 207, 232 farms
of twenty acres and over. Only two
other states have large number-Ohio
has 247, 1S9 and Illinois has 255,741.
ACCORDING to Prof. Thompson, of
the Nebraska Agricultural College,
grass fed hogs are less liable to disease
than those fed on grain exclusively.
Cleanliness is an aid, always, to ward off
disease, whether it relates to animals or
men.
STEPHEN POWERS argues in the Coun-
| try Gentleman that small focks of sheep
pay relatively better than large ones be-
cause they are privileged characters"
by which he means that they receive
vastly more care and attention than
larger focks.
WHILE the raising of cattle on the
Western plains is cheap, it is expensive
to fatten them. They have to tramp
over a large extent of ground to get
enough to eat out West, and heat in
summer and cold in winter make them
hard to fatten.
The low price of wheat this season is
inducing the wheat growers of Dakota
and Minnesota to look about for more
remunerative crop to replace it. Flax
will probably be more largely cultivated,
as the success of that crop has so far
been quite marked.
A TEXAS exchange states, with good
deal of satisfaction, that buyers hunting
| chean sheer are not finding tho c1oooss