Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-12
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kota, where he was visiting bis sons.
OVER 400 people are engaged in ban
ding tobacco at the Elperton packing
houses.
E. T. JOKES, Of Utica, Winnebago
County, is feeding lot of high grade
steers for the market.
LAST week the Beckwith brothers. at
Lone Rock, sold j. H. CaYswell twenty
five COWS at $45 q head.
IT is expected that the warehouse at
Deertield, Dane County, will pack 900
cases of tobacco this season.
ALVIN COOK, of Heart Prairie, Wal
worth County, has purchased the fine
yearling Shorthorn bull Sambo.
A. @. CLIFFORD, Of Johpstown, Rock
County, has purchased fifty head of
tbree-year-olds, to feed for the May
market.
JERRY BOWIE, of Trenton, Dodge
County, owns a team Of year-oId
ClydesdaIe colts which weigh $3.50
pounds.
AMONGST lot of sheep shipped from
Ocon0mowoc last week, was a. eve 3
years old, weighing $50 pounds. It was
raised by Capt. John Whitaker.
JAS. MoNAHAN, who was injured in a
logging camp near ClintonvilIe, died
while undergoing the amputation of
leg.
H. r. HoAG, Of Walworth, recently
sold his tobacco crop at Fort Atkinson
for 81, 732.42. The crop was from four
teen acres, and weighed 5000 pounds.
The Rock County Tobacco Dealers
and Growers Association recommends
the disCarding of all artificial rnanures
and phOsphates in tobacco cultivation.
SINCE April last Mrs. hIinatta Meal
lister, Of Fittsfel5, Brown County. a
sprjghtly lady Of 70 years. has made
/, $50 pounds of butter which she sold at
tie uniform rate of % cents per pound.
THERE are low ], 200 COWS owned in
the town of Utica, Winnebago County,
which give a yearly product Of $48, 900.
The yield has been increased 80 per
cent. by improvement IN stock and bet
ter keeping.
A GRINDsTONE collapsed in the J. I.
Case plow factory, fragment striking
George Kohl N the head, inficting ia
tel injuries. He was about % years of
age, and unmarried. His home is at
South Bend, Ind.
A BOOM prevails in the tobacco grow
ing districts of Wisconsin. At Edger-
ton last week, John Patterson, Of Dun
kirk, sold his crop for % cents per
pound. Fifteen acres netted him be-
tween S., 900 and $4,000.
CHARLES MARTIN, before the Wal
worth County Farmers Club recently.
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acre of Strawberries, allowing 10 cents
per quart for the berries. This for the
first year. The sect nd year. he said, a
good crop can be harvested for half the
expense.
II. r. WEST gave his experience in
potato culture at a recent meeting Of
the Walworth County Farmers Club.
He said he tried planting the tubers
whole and cut TO single eyes, and has
learned that to get good field of uni
formly large potatoes the seed should
be cut to single eyes.
A HUDSON dispatch says L. K. Brad
ford. a school teacher at North Wlscon--
sin Junction, was instantly killed at that
place by jumping from moving train.
He struck upon hard snow and rolled
under the wheels, which passed over his
chest. Bradford was about so years Of
age, and unmarried.
S. S. RICHMOND, Of East Troy, Wal
worth County, claims to be the Oldest
tobacco raiser in the state, having
handled a crop of tobacco every year ex-
cept 1860 since l847. During these
thirty-fve years the highest price re-
ceived for any crop was 35 cents through,
ro
COOP Spanish tobacco seed is getting
scarce. Only light crop of seed was
gathered last year and then again pretty
much all the large lots of surplus seed
have been gathered up and shipped out
of the state, most Of it going to Pennsyl-
vania and New York, where the Spanish
craze seems to prevail extensively.
JOHN MCSHANE, of Muskego, recently
purchased of Powell Bros, the famous
Springboro, Pa, breeders, the finely
bred imported Clydesdale stallion, War
rior Bold. for $4,000. The animal is
3 years old, and his pedigree is recorded
IN the Scotch and American stud book,
and is q valuable addition TO the draught
stock of this state.
The Edgerton Tobacco Reporter says:
GO An ounce of seed will SOW bed so
feet long and feet wide, and with good
care VIII furnish 10000 plants, which
will set a acre field. It is an
excellent fault to have plenty of
plants when setting commences, so most
dealers count not less than an ounce of
seed for every two acres to be planted.
Some even buy more than this. A per-
fectly safe estimate would be two ounces
for every three acres of ground.
THE annual winter meeting of the
Sank County agricultural and horticul-
tural societies, which closed on the 29th
ult., was very interesting and profta bic.
Prof. VIM. Trelea6e, of the State Uni
versity, read a paper on "Weeds, . and
Prof. n. T. Armsby, also of the State.
University. discussed the question eff
Cooking Food for Stock" The farm
ers OF the county also presented able
papers, among them being one by S. G.
Fish, of Winfield, SIS there a General
purpose Breed of Cattle?" and one bv
A. F. Lawton, 'How far shall Amuse-
ments receive Consideration in Arrange