Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-03

ana It's owner IS likely to be quite as
sorry when the animals sold. Giving
four quarts of oats daily to q young
colt the first winter is, if the animal is
what it ought to be, selling the oats
at about seventy-fve cents per
bushel.
THERE is great difference in the feed
OF COWS In various milk tests, and the
results are as often tests of the differ
ent kinds of feed and skill Of the feeder
as Of the capacity of the COW. If all
milk and butter tests were made on
grass as feed their value to most COW
buyers would be greater.
AN English man says OF the agricult-
ural resources of the Soudan: There
are hundreds of thousands of acres
that will grow anything in the world
sugar, maize, cotton. There is no
limit to the produce that may be
taken from the soil without any man
uring or costly cultivation.
THERE are now three large sorghum
sugar factories in Kansas. Last year
they produced 100000 pounds OF
sugar and 100000 gallons of syrup.
The product was manufactured from
10000 tons of cane. 1t is estimated
that each of the three factories will
soon produce 100000 pounds OF
sugar annually.
A COMPANY of Cleveland, O., capital
lists has bought strip of 100000
acres Of cattle lands in Southern Col
orado from syndicate, of which ex-
Senator Tabor is the head, and pro-
| fO r 10 10 1oL, &c
magnificent even for the plains. Their
tract IS one of the largest single grants
of land in the country.
A LAMB will live on very little milk,
if it is kept in g. warm place, and has
warm blanket on it. By the time it
is two weeks old it will begin to pick
clover leaves, and when three weeks
old it will lick little meal or eat oats
with it's mother. When eweloses her
lamb, always put her in close pen
or box and use her for a wet nurse to
help out the lambs that are short, and
feeble, or have but little milk. | make
her the adopted mother and let her
rear the lamb. A twin lamb can often
be reared in a much better way by
causing some eve to adopt it which
may nave lOSU n6r own.
III. L. JEFFREY, in the Connecticut
Farmer, recommends: Don't use first
class lumber for hives or caps, because
it does not stand the weather as well
as that containing good hard knots.
Oil your hives with two or three coats,
but don't paint them, except on the
tops. Paint fills up the pores of the
wood and keeps in all the moisture,
making the combs and packing damp
and moldy. Twice the amount OF
feather frost will be found inside a
painted hive as in one implanted. !
have watched them both for years.
Have q ventilator in your hive cap
under the roof to let the moisture
pass out. Don't let your cap rest
close on the top packing; it keeps it
wet.
THE causes of bloody milk, accord
ing to the Live Stock Journal, are
various; any blow or injury to the
udder might produce it. If it comes
only from one or two teats It'll proba-
bly, caused by some injury to that part
of the udder, or to the teats them
selves; but if from the whole of the
udder it may proceed from some de-
rangement Of the system. A red sedi-
ment at the bottom Of the milk often
occurs in the disease called cred
water" Heifers with their first cali
are not unusually troubled in the man
ner mentioned from a congestive state
of some of the small blood vessels Of
the udder. A mild laxative may be
given; abont half pound of EPSON
| n Of
ginger in a quart of water, and the
udder may be gently hand-rubbed
with the hands well creased,
| J. T. LovETT says that mulching is
more frequently neglected than any
other operation in strawberry culture
and nothing yields a greater return
for the outlay of labor and material
When the plants start growth in
spring, loosen or remove part OF the
winter mulching to permit the new
foliage to come through. Enough
should remain to keep the fruit upon
the ground, and to prevent the berries
rotting before ripe and shading the
grounds from the hot suns of June. On
the approach of winter, and as soon
as the ground has frozen, not before,
cover the entire bed with coarse hay
or other light material to a depth OF
two or three inches. Chopped corn
stalks are good. Stable manure is
best, the soluble matter being carried
into the soil, and the fiber remains on
the surface.
PROF. SANBoRN, of the Missouri Ag-
ricultural College, says the Rural New
Yorker, is doing some excellent work
His recent report neutrality-suspicious.
by grinding the whole corn ear, in
comparison with clear corn meal, is
of very great value for two things. 1t
shows that when the ear is finely
ground the cob may bepartly digested,
or that it aids in the more perfect
digestion of the meal. think the lat
ter is the truth, because the cob acts
as a separator OF the meal, just as
powdered glass does in dissolving
gums, by making the mass porous and
causing the dissolving action to go on
from a great many centers, while clear
meal will form in the stomach a more
solid mass. The second point-and
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