Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-12-03
FARM AND GARDEN.

kODE apAII OAAO from GnE
heards and focks now, and give them
extra feed.
A TOP dressing of fine stable manure
in winter is great benefit to lawns and
grass plats.
A HAY crop of two and a half tons
carries off 400 pounds of mineral matte,
to the acre.
The government las sold more than
5000, 100000 worth of public lands in
eighty years.
The annual sales of sawed lumber in
the United States are said to aggregate
$4,000, 900.
The annual pack in this country Of
fruits, meats and fishes is said to amount
to about 600,000,000 cans.
SHEEP in Colorado have done re-
markedly well this season, not only in
wool production but increase.
INCLUDING imported and native born
it is claimed that there are now in this
country about $4,000 registered Jer
seys.
FLAX is South Dakota crop. The
high price at which it was marketed last
year caused large increase in the acre
age this year.
COMMON earth is good deodorizer
and only those who live in crowded cit
les have any use for chlorides, carbon.
ates and other bi chemicals.
The secretary of the American Carr
Culture Association states that 25,OO(
persons in this country are now en-
gagged in ths culture of carp.
DURING the past seven months Chi
cago packers have slaughtered and
sailed 100000 hogs, against 1885, OOC
for the corresponding period a yeal
ago.
For removing the seed from broom
corn, take board and make a comb OF
it by saving into one end of it to make
the teeth, which should be sharpened
at the ends.
HE first point to be learned in sue
cessful stock raising is, never to allow
an animal to lose a pound of flesh
This is equivalent to throwing two
pounds away.
The domestic supply of wool of the
United States for the year 1884 is es-
timated at about 330,000,0O0 pounds
This is an increase of about 10000 600
pounds over 1883.
The yield of onions, this season
throughout Masss chusetts ranges from
300 to 700 bushels per acre. In some
localities in New York the yield was
1000 bushels per acre.
WORKING oxen should have separate
feeding place, and due and regular
supply of food. There should be no
opportunity of their interfering with
other cattle or being interfered with.
WHOLE oats, wheat, bran and corn
meal forms an excellent ration for
young stock. The health and COM
plete and symmetrical growth of the
body are best secured by feeding va
riety of grain.
Corn gives strength to the horse.
Therefore, where his work continues
the same, give little more corn as the
weather becomes cold. But if the work
fall off, as in winter, the feed of corn
may be decreased.
SIXTY EIGHT per cent. of the 12,OOO,-
900 bushels of buckwheat grown in the
United States is raised in New York
and Pennsylvania. Buckwheat does
not do we'll on prairie soil, preferring
light and thin land.
PROF. ARNOLD states that it costs
more to make milk from old COWS than
it does from young ones, having the
same milk capacity. AS rule. the best
effects do not last beyond the eighth
year of the cows age.
NOTHING adds more to the comfort OF
the occupants of farmhouse than dry
and clean walks about it. They are
almost indispensable from November
till May, and do not come amiss during
the other five months.
PEACH and plum stones, if kept in a
cellar during the winter, must be expos
ed to freezing before spring. The best
way is to spread them on bed, and
cover them with few inches of earth
or tanbark and allow them to remain
out all winter.
The Mississippi valley produces 1885,.
600 tons of cotton-seed, one-fourth Oh
which is marketed in Memphis, much
"a IL ICING SAAHPOu III d. u uO0 SIdbe
from that point to Italy, whence it is re.
turned to this country in the shape Of
"pure olive oil.
The Husbandman insists that the
best way to thrash buckwheat is with
the fail, in the old-fashioned way since
by this way che grain is left free ano
whole. When thrashed by machine the
grain is cracked; with horses, more OF
less filth is mixed with it.
A MONSTER pumpkin, weighing 16C
pounds, which was grown on the farm
of Gen. Butler in Massachusetts and
has been exhibited in a Brooklyn
window, has been bought by baker Of
New York, who will make it into ar
enormous pie to be presented to the
next president.
The approximate number of sheep il
the world is set down at 100000
This does not include large number o.
sheep in the Asiatic and some of the
North African countries, as well al
upon certain of the more important
islands of which nc enumeration has
been attempted.