Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-07-02

within it's borders more people this
year who come to farm than any pre-
vious year in her history. Swedes and
Danes for San Luis Parks, Germans
for Montrose and Mesa Counties are
landing in New York nearly every week.
The first will engage in grain growing,
the latter in vine culture.
DoN'T feed the young chicks any
kind of feed that has been mixed up
simply by adding cold water, as such
food soon sours in their crops and fire.
quently does much harm. Many
young chicks are killed by feeding
raw corn meal dough. If soft feed is
to be given, use boiling water to mix
it, and wait until cool before feeding it.
The Utica Herald tells of dairyman
who was troubled with the smell of gar
lie or wild onions in the milk. To OBJ
viate this he put the COWS in the stable
at about o'clock each afternoon, and
fed them on hay and gave grain as
usual. The result was all he antici-
pated. A rest OF three hours allowed
the scent to pass off in other secretions,
though previously it favored both milk
and butter.
KENTUCKY blue grass is the best grass
! for dooryards and lawns. It forms a
close, thick velvet sod. Sow from ten
to fifteen pounds of seed to the acre,
either in the spring or fall. A mixture
of grasses in the lawn or dooryard
should be avoided. Red clover should
never be sown. Red top is good lawn
grass, but for this purpose it must be
sown very thick-say, fifty or sixty
pounds per acre.
Mr.. J. @. HILL, Of Ninety Six, s. c.,
says the following recipe for picking
beef cannot be excelled, and that his
family is now eating fine roasts put up
in November: To four gallons of water
add ten pounds of salt, quarter of a
pound of saltpeter and one pound OF
sugar. Boil few minutes and then
skim off. When cold pour over your
beef. Keep the beef covered in this
solution, and you can have it to eat all
winter.
RED clover will produce the heaviest
crop of any hay on suitable land that
can be grown. About four pounds OF
green grass make one of hay. Orchard
grass produces pound of hay to less
than three pounds of grass. Alsike
clover yields less than the red variety
but the proportion of grass to hay is the
same. While it is advisable to secure
as large yield as possible it is best to
grow a mixture in order to secure
quality.
The quality of food needed by stock
varies even among animals of the same
age and breed, and it necessarily varies
to greater extent among animals OF
different breeds. Upon this subject a
farmer in England says it is sufficiently
correct to reckon sheep consuming
twenty-eight pounds of green food, an
OK or COW $50 pounds, calf forty
pounds and yearling eighty pounds
daily. At this rate an OK or a COW con.
sumes as much as five sheep. The lat.
ter will require 1920 pounds, or nearly
five tons apiece, the former 54,75O
pounds, or nearly twenty-five tons OF
green food for it's maintenance.
AN Illinois strawberry grower writes
to the Inter-Ocean, saying: vacant
spaces may occur in the rows of plants,
and should be filed up the next spring,
using the plants which have voluntarily
come up in the garden. For straw
berries take out spadeful of earth
where the missing plant should have
been, then Lift strawberry plant in a
spadeful of dirt, set it carefully in the
hole, pull dirt around to fill up and
tramp it i'll. The plant will never feel
the effect of removal, but go on grow
ing without intermission. Do the
same with the raspberries, and black
berries, and you can have full rows"