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

of our country in these products can
only be measured by opening up new
markets for it to supply.
AN Indiana dairyman covers the COW
| with q horse blanket or sheet while
milking, thus preventing the annoyance
of flies and adding greatly to the COM
fort of the cow, which is otherwise con-
tinually engaged in battle with the in
sect world. If horse blanket is used
it should be clean one.
The Lancaster (Pa.) Intelligencer
says that the largest, best kept and best
stocked carp ponds in the country are
near that city, under the management
of the Lancaster Piscatorial Company.
Some of the carp in these ponds are
twenty-seven inches long and weigh
from six to seven pounds.
| UNRULY stock is almost always hun
CRY stock, and hungry, half-starved
animals are justified in jumping fences
to find meal. 1t is not creditable to a
mans farming to own unruly stock, as
it shows him to be poor, neglectful
feeder. When the pasture gets short,
supplement- it by feeding something
| Sbh11-At0u1uS IL ueC0SSdTy.
THERE is an idea among dairymen
that calves cost too much to raise for
COWS, but it is not entirely clear that
this is the best way. Many calves now
are sent West to be raised on Western
farms. The dairymen of a neighbor-
hood might own stock farm near by,
run on the cooperative principles,
where their calves might be grown into
COWS.
THOUSANDS of COWS are constantly
kept by farmers and dairymen without
knowing whether they pay for keeping
or not. That is shabby farming. Feed
well, keep a record of the yield, and
weed out oil the poor COWS after fair
trial. After year of good feeding and
after one more calf, some commonplace
COWS will then develop into rst-class
animals, ss experience shows.
The Texas Stockman thin ks the
time is not far so very far away
when Texas stockmen will find it to
their advantage to ship their cattle by
rail to the Mississippi and by steamer on
that river to the North. This plan has
been tried and abandoned, probably be-
cause railroad managers, as a rule, de-
termin ed not to allow water routes to
compete successfully with railroads.
The finest hams grown on this con-
tinent are from those portions of Texas
where the pecan tree fourishes.
Chunky young porkers are turned out
in the fall under the trees, and they
feast on the nuts until they become
very fat, equaling in favor the West
phalia meat. When hogs are thus at
liberty they do not grow as large as
when penned up, but their flesh is more
solid.
MUsTY grain, says the Milling World,
totally unfit for use and which can
scarcely be ground, may be rendered
sweet and sound, by simply immersing
in boiling water and let it remain until
the water becomes cold. The quantity
of the water must be double that of the
grain to be purified. The musty quail
ties rarely penetrate through the husk
of the wheat, and in the worst cases it
does not extend through the part which
lies Immediately under the skin. In
the water all the decayed or rotten
grains swim on the surface, so that they
can be removed, and the remaining
wheat is effectually cleansed from all
impurities without any loss. It must
be completely and thoroughly dried
afterwards.
AN experiment to test the effect of
light on animal growth and color is re-
ported. Two "deep red" calves, sixty
days old, and weighing $50 and 1872
pounds respectively, were given the
same space AID feed, but one had an
abundance of light, while the other was
kept where the light was dim. In three
months the latter weighed $50 pounds,
and its color was very pale, dirty red
the other weighed 40 pounds and re-
tanned it's original color. Both were
next kept out in the light, but the small
er one never equaled the other. While
the light, undoubtedly had an influence, a
single experiment is insufficient to show
exactly how much-and that is the
weakness of many agricultural expert
ments. They usually need repeating
great many times.