Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-03-26


found that it will not come with the
rest. She says she gets just as much
butter with this cream left out as if put
in. One days cream is, therefore, al.
ways left over for the next churning,
when it comes all right.
IF the fruit trees have not been
mulched, now is a goot time, before the
frost is out. There is double advantage
IN mulching. 1t retards the spring
growth, and afterward enriches the
ground, besides retaining the moisture
later IN the season. IF the strawberries
and other small fruit have not been
mulched, attend to it at once.-Dairy
FARMER.
EIGHT drops of tincture of aconite
dropped on a piece of bread and mixed
with the food at night, and next morn
ing four drops given in the same man
ner, is recommended by DR.. J. r. Mich
OILS, OF the Massachusetts Board of Agri-
culture as remedy for garget.
For success in the great agricultural
world Of industry there is ten times more
need of more thorough acquaintance
with the use of the best class of micro
| scopes than there is of knowing more of
| the corrupt kings and rotten dynasties of
the old world. There is increasing in
terest in the use of the microscope, and
the possibilities of it's revelations excite
the deepest interest of the scientist.
OLD plaster and ground oyster shell
are important ingredients in the forma-
ton OF good, strong egg shells. Hot
food and table scraps for eggs. Secret
nest boxes, well cushioned with soft
hay, for the safety of the eggs. Coal oil
on the perches, and Persian insect pow
der, now and then, sprinkled into the
feathers on the backs of the occupants,
to prevent lice. A clearly kept house,
not over crowded, and plenty of fresh
air for their health. -Fanc5er' Gazette.
THE Manchester Press reports the
shipment of butter from that city in the
month of February at II, $3.50 pounds,
and quotes prices there as follows: The
market for butter has been a trihe bet
ter this week, the advance being from
to 4 cents per pound over last quota
tons. Unsalted may be quoted at 81 to
20 cents, and 291 cents has been paid in
some instances Of extra choice; good to
choice dairy packed, 90 to 80 cents;
creamery, 81 to 80 cents; at Elgin Tues
day prices advanced to 81 cents over
the previous week, with sales of $1,000
pounds; cheese, 10 to 104 cents.
A FARMER on Long Island, n. Y,
who has farm of So acres, raised on it
last year the following: Strawberries,
15,0 900 quarts: early cabbage, 100000
heads; early potatoes, 1900 bushels;
early beets, 120 bushels; potato onions,
Sc bushels; onions from seed, 3,100
bushels; late potatoes, 1900 bushels;
carrots, II 800 bushels; corn in ear, 1,
500 bushels; white beans, Is bushels;
potato onions from seed, % bushels;
Brussels sprouts, 400 bushels; onion sets,
100 bushels; hay, 5 tons; abbage seed,
Is pounds; carrot seed, 25 pounds; onion
seen, 100 pounds; Brussels sprouts seeds,
2 pounds; cabbage plants to carry over
5000
How many well-to do farmers have
sold their land, moved into town, and
started into some mercantile business,
only to find themselves at the end of
year or so in debt, insolvent and in de-
spair. Few farmers seem to realize the
value of good land possession. Rail
road stocks ere treacherous, trade is a
lottery in which many fall and few sue
coed, horses and cattle may die, but the
farm, properly worked, is the most last
ing of human possessions-its title is
good while society stands. Its owner,
undistrrbed by the harrassing cares of
business, may enjoy the fruits of his in
dustry, and. in his old age, sit content
eddy beneath his own vine and fg-tree.
The London Times says that statis-
ticians have pronounced the United
States to be not only potentially but
actually richer than the United King
dom. Counting the houses, furniture,
manufactures, railways, shipping, bull
ion. lands, cattle, crops, investments and
roads, it is estimated that there is a
grand total in the United States of 49,
no, 100000 Great Britain is credited
with something less than $40, 900, 000,-
900. or nearly $40. 100000 less than
the United States. The wealth per in
habitant in Great Britain is estimated
at 81, $50, and in the United States at
1895. With regard to the remuneration
of labor, assuming the produce of labor
to be 100, in Great Britain fifty-six parts
go to the laborer, twenty-one to capital,
and twenty-three to government. In
the United States seventy-two parts go
to labor, twenty-three to capital and
five to government