Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-02
FARM AND GARDEN.

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ABERDEEN ANGUS stock at public sales
this year have averaged higher than any
other class of stock, being $516 per head
OVER $500, 600 worth of Jersey stock
has been sold at public auction in the
United States during this year. This is
boom.
| AN English correspondent says the
prospects for farmers IN that country
are somewhat better than year ago,
although anything but encouraging now.
In setting out an orchard, number the
trees and keep q register of them.
| When one dies erase from the register
and replace it with the name of the tree
set in it's place. ...
OWING to frosted cane, it is said large
portion of the northern cane syrup is of
poor quality this year. 1t is now about
the only pure syrup that can be had,
and it is said the st. Louis market is
well supplied with the choicest article.
IF cabbage that has failed to head
is hung by string from the top of the
hen house within reach of fowls, it will
be surprising to note how quickly 1t will
be picked to pieces. BY this method
the cabbage is kept from the dirt.
HORSES hard at work need water
much more frequently than the morn
ing, noon, and night plan. If not
allowed to drink between morning and
noon, they become extremely thirsty,
and will overload their stomachs with
water, so that their food will not digest
quickly.
Mr.. W. FL. BAND, the well-known po-
tato specialist Of Vermont, raised about
500 distinct kinds of potatoes this year,
besides nearly as many more seedlings.
He prOnounces Burbank's Seeding the
best market potato. Mr.. Rand exhib-
tied 108 named sorts at the Vermont
state fair.
The flavor of butter, and of cheese,
as well, is developed only by a process
of oxidation, airing or ripening, for all
| these terms mean the same thing, and if
the dairy or cheese room is not well VEN
! tilated and provided with abundance of
fresh, pure, moving air, good butter or
cheese cannot be made.
PoTAToEs intended for seed should re-
ceive no rough handling at any time.
If they are bruised, spread thlnly in a
| dry, cool place until the surface has
dried over. If. put in large bins while
the skin is bruised many of the eyes will
have their vitality Injured. Ihis is the
cause of many unexplained failures of
the potato crop.
In the report of the Massachusetts,
| board of agriculture for 1882, there is an
article on Fowls, Table and Market,
by Mason @. Weld. He states, on the
authority of an experienced friend, that
cross of Plymouth Rocks and Houdans
gives early maturity, plump form, and
fine laying qualities, and a cross of
Plymouth Rocks and Brown Leghorns
gives fine broilers and extra good layers.
WE don't insist that young men shall
all stay on the farm, but we do insist
that the farm is par excellence the place
to raise boys. It gives them chance
for health, habits OF industry, economy,
an education of the intellect that is not
lost by wrecked physical constitution.
Every good farm well improved and
adorned as it should be is a fortune in
itself simply as place to raise boys
| Homestead.
A wELL.BR hog will not root
for the mere love of roofing. His
owner has either not fed him properly,
or there are vile grubs in the pasture
which he thinks it is his duty to devour.
In either case his roofing is benefaction
either to himself or his owner. We
have entirely discarded the practice in
our herds for some years; will change
our views very radically if we ever allow
a ring to be used.- Wallace.
Mr.. r. B. MASON, of Athens, Ala,
has, doubtless. the smallest Shetland
stallion in the world. He was imported
from Mexico as a yearling. Mr.. Mason
bought him in San Antonio, Tex. At
that time he was 81 inches high, and
weighed rs pounds. This little stallion
is now two years old and past, is %
inches high, and weighs 126 pounds.
This little fellow is finely proportional,
active, and puts on as many airs as a
PercherOn.
TEE American Cultivator cautions that
'great care is required in beginning to
fatten sheep, particularly if they enter
winter in poor condition. Generally
thinness of flesh is the sign, not of in
sufficient feeding but of poor digestion.
It requires very careful feeding to bring
a sheep, in this condition, SO that it will
eau hCfAA OA1J 1hu Lay VI hDNA A"PAOAAJ' ~AS
a rule, the stronger and fatter sheep are
when feeding Is commenced the more
rapidly they will gain and the greater
will be theproft. F"
The simple plan of storing eggs in
dry ashes has been used for some time
by correspondent of the Live Stock
Journal with very satisfactory results.
Though rather fastidious about their
quality, he reports having enjoyed those
thus kept during period Of more than
four months, and in one instance a whole
year. The only precautions seem to be
(besides, of course, sound eggs to begin
WITH ''to see that the ashes are quite
dry, and to see that the eggs do not
touch one another"
A. B. ALLEN says: Sc Do not blanket
a horse in the stable except when he
comes in warm and sweaty in cold wealth
err; then, the moment the harness is Ia
ken off, put on blanket; but be careful
to remove it as soon as be has become
cool and dry, and ne will not take cold,
unless he is exposed to draught of
air below abont So degrees. To such
current he should never be exposed I'M