Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-07

| 1000 for large number of little chicks
but whatever is worth doing at all is
worth doing WELL" Chicks that are fed
generously and regularly on fresh
wholesome, cooked food, for the first
three or four months, will make better
breeding stock, better layers, and better
market fowls than those that worry
along through chickenhood on scanty
retions of raw meal and water.
PROF. SANBoRN, of the Missouri Ag.
ricultural College, has been experiment..
ing with the results of feeding grain to
cattle when running on pasture. He
fed grain to steers for fifty days, from
May to July, with 4 pounds each daily
on ship stuff. These animals increased
more rapidly in weight than the others
on grass alone; but the cost of the in
crease was IA cents per pound, or more
than twice what it was worth. Expert
ments with COWS did not confirm the
propriety of feeding them anything but
the best grass, during the season of it's
growth. Breeders of costly animals
may, however, find the feeding of grain
profitable, where live weight brings
many times the ordinary price.
PROF. DABNEY, the state chemist of
North Carolina, says, regarding what
crops take out of the soil, that 100
bushels of wheat contain 40 pounds of
phosphoric acid, 30 pounds of potash
and 125 pounds of nitrogen; 100 bush
els of corn contain 80 pounds of phos.
phoric ecid, 20 pounds of potash and Sc
pounds of nitrogen; 1000 pounds of to-
bacco contain 7 pounds of phosporic
acid and 81 pounds of potash, The
480,00O,OOO bushels of wheat produced
in this country in 1880 contain /, 100000
tons of phosphoric acid, 100000 tons of
potash, 100000 tons of nitrogen, these
quantities being ten times as great as
those contained in all the manures used
on all the crops in the United States
that year."
EVERY road not on dead level has
more or less debris of fertilizing value
washed off upon it's side. The water
itself is valuable, and will make grass
wherever it spreads. In billy country,
or one of gentle grades, nearly all this
water and the fertilizing matter it car
11es may be turned off at frequent inter
walls upon the adjoining pastures and
meadows. The dust and debris of the
highway consists of finely pulverized
soil and stone, which contains more or
less lime, potash and other valuable
matter, so infinitely divided that water
makes it Immediately available for plant
food. Iron and steel tires have been at
work upon it, horse and oxen shoes, and
the frost likewise, which thoroughly
pulverize it American Agriculturist.
We once experimental, says the Live
Stock Journal, by hauling twenty-four
loads of the best manure upon two acres
of clay loan land. Upon two acres
more no manure was used, but it was
well worked. One and half bushels OF
corn were drilled upon each piece, the
drills being sixteen inches apart. When
the corn was ready to cut, the unman-
ured two acres stood eighteen inches
higher than the MANFRED piece. The
MANFRED piece gave twenty-five tons
per acre, and the other twenty eight
tons. The excellence of the unman-
ured piece was due to the fact that it
was cultivated till the soil was as fine as
garden bed, four inches deep, and the
cost of the extra labor was only $3.50
per acre. It is, therefore, apparent that
the first consideration for furnishing
food for plants is thorough cultivation.
Dome something to distract his at
tention is perhaps the best way to start
balky horse. Some start readily when
a handful of sand is put in their mouth
or ear. Others will be Modified by an
ear of corn eaten and another held at a
tempting distance little in advance.
In cases of continued obstinacy cure
is sometimes effected by fastening the
horse securely and leaving him without
food or drink until he is willing to start.
A story is told of one farmer whose
horse baked with light load in the
woods. The animal was tied to tree
and tried at intervals through the day.
At night he was left standing. The next
morning, twenty-four hours after the
balky fit, the horse started freely and
never offered to balk again while Lis
owner was driving him. A balky horse
should never be beaten, as it will only
make him more nervous and increase
the difficulty. Evangelist.