Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-04-15

Nail strip of sheep skin about eight
inches in width the entire length Of
the crib; select a skin covered with
long wool and sprinkle it freely with
cayenne pepper. Renew it occasional
ly, and the worst cribber can be per-
Suaded to desist from his habit.
Too many, in breaking their horses,
put them Immediately at work. This
custom, while effective, destroys some
what the temper and action of
horse. The most humane and profit
able course to pursue is to make the
work light at first, gradually increas-
ing it until the full capacity of the
horse is reached.
The Dairy Farmer has it chat
there should always be milk enough
skinned with the cream to give the
butter, when churned, bright, clear
look. Butter churned from clear
cream, with little or no milk in it,
will usually have an oily or a shiny
look. This shows that the grain of
the butter is injured, which affects the
keeping qualities Of the butter"
THERE is little choice between Wyan-
dotte and Plymouth Rock fowls. The
two breeds resemble each other in sew
eral ways. Both mature early. They
are Of much the same size and shape,
and lay about the same sized eggs.
Both are hardy, and quiet and thrive
in confinement. AS a general purpose
fowl either breed may be selected.
IT is not certain that a hen, even
when pressed by hunger, will eat the
CurCullO insect. 1t is a formidable
looking monster even when quiet, and
we have seen fowls turn from it as if
afraid. The curculio, however, is a
shy insect, and will avoid trees in
yards where fowls run, provided it has
other plum trees not so protected on
which to prey.
IT iswelI known that ''fnely crushed
bones are excellent to make hens lay.
Partially burning them will enable
anyone to pound them in small pieces
with little difficulty. They contain
lime in much better condition for
making the shells of eggs than it can
be got in oyster shells, which are fire.
quently recommended. As proof of
the want which bones supply, laying
hens will eat them far more greedily
than hens which do not lay"
IT is told that "the cultivation Of the
sugar plant was introduced into this
country about the year 1851 by some
Jesults from Santo Domingo, who,
with some negro slaves, settled upon
the banks of the Mississippi, Just
above New Orleans. The first sugar
mill was constructed about 1853, but
the juice of the cane was not converted
into sugar until 1854. The business
was SO prosperous that in ITO sugar
was the staple product Of that re-
gion."
''IN boiling bushel of washed and
peeled Irish potatoes it was" we are
told, 'found that they had lost 80 per
cent. OF their potash and 20 per cent.
of their phosphoric acids, and the
water in which they were boiled killed
grass when poured on it. Potatoes
need more potash than any other
crop, but corn will not kernel out at
the tips of the ears if there is not suffi-
cient potash in the soil. Wherever
you put potash In grass land it brings
in clover, which contains large guam
tity of nitrogen"
OLEOMARGARINE and butterine have
apparently ''come to stay" All that
the law can do is to insist that these
artificial compounds shall be sold for
what they are. If butter is made and
kept as it should be, oleomargarine
will not take it's place. 1t does I'M
doubtedly diminish dairymen's prof
its, for if no imitation butter were
made there there would be a butter
famine all the time In many places
the real butter is worse than the imi-
tatiOn article. 1t is this second and
thirdrate butter which is crowded out
by the spurious manufacture.
AN expert in raising swine well says
that the notion that the more fat the
better pork is a wrong one. Little car
casses which may all be rendered in
the lard kettle do not make the most
salable, the best or most healthful
meat. His idea is to raise the frame
and muscles, and then put the lard on
to it. This does not controvert the
idea that the pigor hog should bekept
constantly growing. It's the constant
fattening which is Objectionable.
Good lean pork is very desirable for
many uses, in which the muscles is
not entirely lost sight of.
THE grass that grows in early spring
is less nutritious, not only because it
is tender and watery, but also from
it's being grown while soil and air are
cold. With warm weather its charac-
ter rapidly improves. In some coun-
tries, as England for example, the sea-
sons are always nearly on the point
where the grass will be poor in quality,
andduring thepast few years, when the
summer temperature has been lower
than usual, the milk and butter prod
uct has been largely decreased. Even
the hay made from this grass is so
poor that stock will not thrive upon
it and have to be fed with grain.
The Boston American Cultivator
observes that ''artichokes will furnish
an abundant supply of food, but of so
poor a quality that pigs need to be
half-starved to get much good from it.
The discovery of this root as pig feed
comes half a century too late. If a
pig is to be kept at all it should be in
at least growing condition. Barely
living is not good condition enough for
breeding SOwS The pasture that will