Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-10-22

only question of time, with the waste
1ql methods of many of our farmers,
When 1t will be live question. What
ever apparent profit there may be, there
is no economy IN any system of farming
that TAILS to make full return to the soil
| for all that is taken from il.
A HAZEL GREEN wis., corresnond-
enJ wishes us TO give the weight of the
| heaviest fleece of wool ever clipned
from an American fne~wool sheen. A
Mer1no ram that was sheared in Cali
tornla IN 1874 had fleece weiobino
fifty two pounds, the heaviest on record
There is question, however, whether IL
was not more than one years growth.
There are several Merino rams in this
country from which over forty pounds
OF wool is taken each year. But great
proportion of this weight is yolk and
oil, which are found in much greater
quantities in the feeces of rams than in
the wool of ewes or wethers. It is also
charged that Merino feeces are made
heavier by frequent application of oil to
the fleece during it's growth.
4 CORRESPONDENT of the Farmers
Home Journal says: ''The only safe
plan to follow in saving cantaloupe
seed, is to select just such a meIen in
SIZE, color and taste of flesh, and all ex-
terror markings as suits you, take the
seeds from it, wash and dry them, and
after being properly sacked and labeled
put them away till the following spring;
then, at the proper time, plant them
where they will not be near enough to
any kindred plant, such as pumpkins,
cucumDers, squashes, muskmelons or
inferior cantaloupes, to be in danger Of
their mixing. Cultivate them carefully
and sufficiently to keep down all weeds
up to the time they commence ripen-
ing. Select for seed from the earliest
that rlpen, such melons as come nearest
to your idea of a perfect melon"
IN prize essay in the Rural New
Yorker Prof. J. N. Muncey gives the
following results of experiment: First,
milk set at 80 degrees in water at 40
degrees for twenty-four hours, will
yield more cream and butter than milk
set at SC degrees in water at SO degrees
for the same time. Second, milk set at
~ degrees in water at so for twenty
four hours, will yield more cream and
butter than the same milk cooled to so
degrees before setting. Third, milk set
at 30 degrees in vessel four inches deep,
in a room at so to So degrees, for TWEEN
ty-four hours, will raise more cream
and make poorer butter than milk set
by the first two propositions. Practic-
ally, then, the most cream is obtained
from the milk when it is set as it comes
from the cow-at about 80 degrees
and gradually cooled to, say, 30 degrees
before modification. Milk in the creamer
Or elsewhere should be cooled so rap
IDLY that modification does not begin
until the cream has risen.
MRS. L. HARRISON, in the Prairie
Farmer, says: Extracted honey is kept
nicely in jars with cloth tied securely
ever the top, SO that if it is not ripened
sufficiently the air will evaporate it.
These jars can be piled one upon an
other, by putting pieces Of wood be-
tween them. A proper place in which
to store honey is desideratum. Many
persons complain that their honey
sweats and the cells burst, causing it to
run, making it sticky, unstable mess.
If honey is kept during the winter
| where it freezes the Gaping in spring
will be found full Of minute cracks, and
as soon as the weather is warm honey
will ooze from the cells. Some recon-
mend keeping in dry, cool place, but
my experience compels me to differ
| from them. A hot room well ventilated
cures the honey, and it will keep per-
fectly for an indefinite period. A large
honey producer has the south side of
his honey room all glass, SO that the
sun will heat it up, and burns sulphur
in it occasionally to destroy any moths
lurking within.