Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-05-20

costs just as much to sustain the ami
NAL life, and the shorter time that
life has to be sustained In order to
obtain a given result, the greater will
naturally be the profit.
ALWAYS add a sprinkling of salt to
soft feed given to chicks, also a little
cayenne pepper occasionally. In fact,
season their food as you would for
yourselves. Charcoal is fine tonic,
appetizer and cleanser of the blood,
stomach and crop. Pulverize it and
mix it with their soft feed, or break it
up in small Jumps and place it in a
little box where they can always have
access to it. Also furnish a liberal
supply of bone meal and cracked oys-
ter shells.
T. B. TERRY says, in the Country
Gentleman: 1.-THE steady, moderate
gait is the easiest on man and team
and the wagon. Fast drivers are apt
to take long rests, to stop to talk
Give the horses what they can do east
ly, and keep them steadily at it.
There is no money made by overtax
ing horses strength. Better go three
times with a moderate load than twice
and have the animals obliged to over
exert themselves. Better yet to put
on three horses, and make the two
trips"
A CORRESPONDENT of the New En-
gland Farmer says that q New York
! farmer observed that some of his APP
pie trees that had been dressed with
unleached wood ashes, bore apples
which kept all winter without routing
while the rest of the fruit rotted bad
ly. His trees were infested with APP
pie tree blight. He finally applied
wood ashes, at the rate of 200 bush
els to the acre, to his orchard, and
washed the bodies of the trees with
| I've. The orchard recovered from the
blight and the apples would then keep
veil in an ordinary cellar all winter.
MRS. EDGAR J. BLISS, who. received
the first premium for dairy butter at
a recent fair, made the following state
ment of the way of making it: The
milk Is set in pans upon Slated shelves,
and after twentyfour hours, SKINNED
and churned in q barrel churn at a
temperature of 60 degrees. The but
ter is at once put into a wooden pail
with ice water, sailed and washed,
handled with ladle only Thisproc-
ess is repeated twice and the butter
packed or balled, as required, also
sailed to suit, but never touched sby
! the hands.
! JOSIAH HOOPER tells us in the New
York Tribune that one thorough hoe
ing or cultivating early In the season
is worth more to the crops than two
STRINGS later for obvious reasons.
| The accumulation of seeds in the soil
generally terminate as soon as the
weather is propitious, consequently
if destroyed soon after they put in an
appearance above ground the cause
of future trouble is at once removed.
Again, the formation Of new fibers on
our growing crops is most prevalent
early, and it is then they need a loose
soil for their development. Stimulat-
ing growth at the beginning of the sea-
son, when it should be the most active,
always pays.
SULPHUR is a good tonic, and al
though my horses and cattle are we'll
fed and kept in fine condition, I give
each one a heaping tablespoonful of
sulphur once week as long as kept in
stable on dry food. When in pasture
they don't need it. If this is done
Wednesday evening, then | give the
same quantity of pure wood ashes in
their meal mess every Saturday even
ing. | also give the same to my poul-
try. A tablespoonful is we'll mixed in
gallon of water, and the meal then
stirred up evenly in it. This operates
as a preventive of lice When wanted
to kill lice on cattle a heaping tea
spoonful is well mixed with about four
quarts OF bran, shorts, corn or any
other meal.-A. B. Allen.
WTTHregard to thefeeding value of dry
sweet corn, as compared with common
corn, the American Cultivator says
we need not expect that it will prove
more valuable than ordinary corn.
The two, as feed, are much more near
ly alike than would be thought, the
sugar in one being chemically Identical
with the starch in the other. Both
are fattening, rather than fesh-form-
less than the other, it is probably less
valuable per bushel as feed. The
starch in field corn is converted into
sugar in the stomach as a part of the
process of digestion. Most kinds of
stock soon learn to like sweet things,
and a portion of sweet corn meal may
thus be eaten by a fattening animal
after 1T has taken all it will of plain
rations. In this way sweet corn may
have value considerably greater
than any analysis would Indicate.