Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-08-20

milk These are the sort that have won
the breed it's fame, and they should be
highly priced wherever found. Breed
TO bulls of good form, they are sure to
throw choice calves; and while the
thlck-set blocky females so popular in
the show yard and sale ring will always
be sought after at good prices, the
grand old matrons of the herd should
never be discarded. They are the main
stays of their race.
WHEN the boys have graduated from
the district school, if they are to re-
celve higher education-which is GER
talnly laudable ambition the ques-
ton arises: "Shall that education be
classical, scientific or practical" I
should say make it scientific if possible,
but practical by all means. If the study
OF the dead languages will make better
farmers Of them, let them study the
dead languages not otherwise. Let
them pursue, especially, those sciences
which relate to agriculture; this can
generally be best accomplished in some
agricultural Or industrial college Eu-
gene Secor.
VERY many of the privies throughout
the country are a disgrace to their own
ers. The sickening odor from the
vaults, which, though deep, are often
full to overlooking, necess1tates the
placing of the privies several rods from
the house, and this distance must be
Travelled through rain or shine, through
wind or snowdrifts, by delicate women
and children, and many times they are
obliged to carry with them brush or
broom to sweep from the seats and floor
the snow that has blown in through the
cracks. The man who will subject his
family to such discomforts, impose upon
them such disagreeable, unhealthful
tasks, and compel them to visit place
where the sights and odors are of such
a disgusting character, is cruel.-TIndi-
ana Farmer.
A RECENT Paris publication gives
some facts regarding the method en-
ployed at Gennevilliers for utilizing
the sewage of Paris. The surface irri-
gated this year amounts to 800 hectares
1882 acres-and this will be in
creased next year to 900 hectares, or
1928 acres. The ground is cultivated
in ridges, separated by burrows twenty
inches wide, made by running the pillow
each way. The sewage water is con-
Quoted through the burrows. In autumn,
as soon as the last crop of vegetables is
gathered. the land is worked, and the
irrigation resumed, the amount of sew
age used in winter being nearly as much
as in summer.
The descriptive words "cobs" and
hacks" as applied to particular types
of horses, are of limited use in this
country, and some of our readers seem
to suppose that they are used to desig
nate certain breeds that are known by
these names. This is q mistake. The
terms are not used to designate a breed,
but to indicate the type of an animal,
in his size and conformation, no differ
ence what his blood or whether he has
any blood. A "cob" is a short-legged,
stout, block and compactly built ami
NAL, varying in height frem thirteen
hands three inches to fourteen hands
three inches. The shack" is the same
tyye of an animal, varying in height
from fourteen hands three inches to fif-
teen hands three inches. The hack is
larger than the cob and the cob is larger
than the pony, and the sizes we have in
dicated are after the best English usage.
The Morgan horse, in his original type,
would have been the Englishman's true
ideal of the cob Wallace's Monthly.