Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-05-07
FARM AND GARDEN.

that which is most soluble.
A VIRGINIA farmer protects his melon
patch with steel man-traps.
The counterfeit butter business is the
greatest fraud of the time.
THE wool-growers of the country are
organizing to protect their interests.
HORSES hard at work should have
water if possible more than three times
day.
To keep up the supply of horses in
the United States 100000 must be
bred annually.
SUDDEN and extreme changes in meat,
butter, cream and milk iniure their
keeping qualities.
SOUTHERN competition has injured the
business of gardening in the vicinity of
the Eastern seaboard cities.
MICHIGAN raises nearly one-half of the
worlds crop OF peppermint. The annual
yield of oil varies from 10000 to 10000
pounds.
A GERMAN paper states that the pene-
| tratlon OF roots in drain tile, which some
times occasions much trouble, may be
prevented by covering the Joints in the
vicinity Of trees and shrubs and red
clover with earth in which little coal
tar mas been distributed.
UNLESS you are able and willing to
personally superintend the scalding of
your mllk.pans, says the Tribune and
Farmer, it would be better to use earthen-
ware. Nothing but boiling water and
| plenty Of it will remove the germs of dis
ease that lurk in the half-washed tin
vessels.
FATTEN stock in the stall. Turn them
out for exercise, but never feed in the
yard. The animal that is obliged to
fight for its food among the herd and eat
it after it has been fouled and trampled,
| cannot thrive up to its fullest capacity.
There is also an enormous waste of food
when given in this manner.
SPRUCE butter tubs are the best; hem
lock makes a sweet tub; acids from the
the oak color the butter and injure it's
appearance; white ash gives the butter
a strong favor if kept long and increases
liability to mold; maple smells and
cracks badly. Soak all tubs four or
six days in brine before using.
UNNECESSARY precaution when roasting
large and fat loin of mutton is to cover
it with paper during the earlier stages
of its roasting. Caution should be taken,
however, not to get hold of the family
UNCONVENTIONAL paper, for it is so dry
that it will absorb all the juices of the
meat. Darlington Free Press.
For the prevalent disease of scaly
legs in fowls, caused by minute insect,
rubbing the legs with an ointment of
sulphur, kerosene, etc., it advised. The
remedy is good enough, but better
one is immersing the feet and
legs in tomato can of kerosene. Do
this every three days until cure is eff
fected.
NOTWITHSTANDING the low prices in
England, Australian farmers are ship
ping grain in large quantities. In Jan
uary from Melbourne, Adelaide, Sidney
and Queensland shipped 400, 900 bushels
Of wheat and 800 tons of -four. For the
corresponding period last year 100000
bushels of wheat only were forwarded,
though prices were then higher.
In feeding calves by hand great care
should be exercised to have the food of
the right temperature-as nearly as pos
and to feed often enough to prevent the
calf from getting excessively hungry,
and then overeating. By neglect of these
precautions promising calves are often
seriously injured, if not killed outright.
EXPERIENCE teaches us that it is
good place, no matter what size of
fowl you prepare the nest for, the safest
and cleanest place in which to deposit
eggs, and which affords the surest pre-
ventlve against the hens eating their
eggs or those under the sitter, and the
safest place from disturbances, is some
where in the dark or in the darkest and
the most secluded part of the hatching-
room or hen-house.
WHEN meal is fed plain to COWS, they
often pass it with but half digestion, or
in this shape it is apt to pass into the
intestines without being returned with
the cud to be remasticated. This Gre
ates loss, and to prevent it mix the
food with wet cut hay, straw, fodder or
other coarse feed. It is said that meal
fed dry, if not mixed with rough feed,
will be better masticated than when it is
fed vet Western Agricutturist.
ACCORDING to DR.. j. g. Peters, it is
filth that causes most of the diseases of
domestic animals. He mentions partic-
ularly the habit of allowing bedding and
manure to accumulate under the horses
and other animals In stables. The i'm
pure air thus generated is peculiarly
well adapted to injure the health
of the animals compelled to breathe it,
A WRITER in the Rural New Yorker
contends that by planting corn at the
earliest safe moment we not only in
crease the chances that the crop will
receive the necessary number of degrees
of accumulated heat during the warm
season, but the number of hours of sun
shine as well, and, what is of nearly as
much importance, we advance the epoch |
of blossoming several days, and by so
doing hasten maturity by several weeks.
AN agricultural writer, speaking of the
best methods of feeding cornfodder and |
other coarse foods, calls attention to the |
fact that since these are in themselves
incomplete foods, lacking the nitroge-