Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-11-26

dows may be opened to permit the es-
cape of the fumes, which are to some as
unpleasant as are those of pennyroyal.
SOME one who has evidently had ex-
perlence in packing butter recommends
the following plan for putting down
butter SO that part may be easily Sc
cured without disturbing the rest !:
The butter is first made with all pos
slble care, and after being worked is
rolled into small cylindrical shapes four
or i've inches long and not more than a
couple of inches in diameter. These
rolls are then wrapped in muslin cloths,
and the ends drawn over. A large
crock is next nearly filed with strong
brine, and these rolls of butter are i'm
mersed In this solution. A weight is
put into the creek to keep them from
floating"
CoTToNsEED is very rich in all the
valuable elements of fertilizers. The
ash of the hulls contains % to % per
cent. of potash and s per cent. of phos-
phorlc acid. The meal of the seed, free
from bulls, contains Z per cent. of nitro
gen, y per cent. ofpotash, and per cent.
OF phosphoric acid. A ton of each would
thus contain 140 pounds of nitrogen,
equal to about ITO pounds of ammonia;
54O pounds of potash and 220 pounds of
phosphoric acid. One ton of Peruvian
guano contains $50 pounds OF nitrogen,
26O pounds of phosphoric acid and only
4O pounds of potash. The cottonseed
hull and ash and the meal together are
worth more than half as much as Peru
Wan guano.
In letter not for publication wide
Unknown and prosperous Iowa farmer
says: "There is very general impress
sion among old-fogy farmers that
those farmers who write for
the papers do so not from any sense
of duty, but to show their smartness.
But few men among farmers read any
thing on the subject of agriculture.
They are opposed to book farming; they
woulu rather pillow, and plant corn, and
reap cockleburs than learn from the ex-
perience of others that grass pays but
ter than grain. It costs too much for
them to tile-drain, besides it requires
work to do that, and all their time is
taken just now in running after political
gatherings"
IN regard to feeding wheat to live
stock the London Agricultural Gazette
suggests that it should be borne in mind
that when determining on the use of
wheat, for which As ($1) bushel is the
highest price that can be got, that this
is about guineas ($3625) ton, and
that ton of good oil-cake can be pur-
chased for that sum. Whether, all
things being considered, it is better to
let the wheat go to market and buy the
cake Is, to some extent at any rate, de-
termined by the value of the two in the
manure heap as well as in the carcass of
the fed animal; and there can be no
doubt whatever that the residual man
ure from the cake is worth immensely
more than that from the wheat"
1T would be interesting if not edify-
ing to know how much the earth has
been poisoned by paris green since the
mania arose for using this and other
deadly arsenites as insecticides; and
also curious to speculate as to the DOS
sible effects in the long run upon vege-
table and animal life. One Portland
dealer, who himself sold ten tons of the
green the present year, estimates that
more than 100 tons were scattered over
the potato-felds of Maine within twelve
weeks, at cost, for the material alone,
of not less than $4,000. In view of the
usual RECKLESS handling" of this
dangerous substance, Mr.. Cheever
thinks it wonder" that the number of
fatalities to men and animals is not
greater than it is.