Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-03-04
FARM AND GARDEN.

than 1T IS to grade up the farmers
Homestead.
Now is the time to look over seeds
mems catalogues, so as to order in
proper season.
Two AND ONE-HALF tons of hay con-
tain an average of about 400 pounds
of mineral matter.
WARNING the drinking water for
mich COWS will increase the flow of
milk during the winter season.
In one of the best dairy sections in
New York the average annual WELD of
butter per acre was 40 pounds.
The South is spreading itself They
have organized an american Horti-
cultural Society,"" in Mississippi.
THERE are two privileges yet left,
that is to grumble if you feel like it,
and to emigrate if you don't like it.
INDIA cannot compete with America
in the produce to feed the world. They
have not the intelligence and enter
prise.
LEON SULE says Let children talk,
! it brightens their intellect; let them
laugh it produces health; let them cry,
it does them good
Snow has long been called ''the poor
mans manure and the farmer S
friend Some people will think bless
ings come in disguise.
The best absorbents to strew on the
floors and under the roosts of poultry
houses are dry muck, plaster Of paris,
and road dust, in the order named.
The want of cleanliness is one of the
most common causes of failure of
poultry keeping. The houses should
be cleaned daily, or semi-weekly at the
longest.
THERE is an apple tree in Randolph
County, Ind, which is 70 years old,
and is over eight feet in circumference
two feet above the ground. 1t is on
the farm of Henry Horn.
A PLYMOUTH Rock rooster Matched
in June made a bird dressing 81
pounds for Christmas, and sold at IS
cents pound. The man who raised
him says he cost 40 cents.
The receipts of European eggs at
the port ofNew York from August 20
to December 18, 1884, were 1924
cases, holding fifty dozen each, making
| u UOOotI vi COZ, AOO uOLtI.
OREGON and California apples are
very large, but they are less highly
| colored than those of other states,
and have lost their distinctive flavor,
| having become either neutral or pos
| ltlvely sweet.
RAISING peaches, long thought to be
among the impossibles in Colorado,
! bids fair to be q success. Afruit grow
er In the vicinity of Delta has eight
acres of peaches from which he is con-
| tident OF receiving Il good crop this
year.
THE total number of horses, mules,
cattle and sheep in the United States
! at last census was 100, 1881 S1. The
total number of hogs was 1851
700, or 363 per cent. of the combined
number of all other animals, than hogs
above named.
The Southern Live Stock Journal
contains an advertisement which says:
"OWlng to the nearness of my farm to
the depredating dog of the village, my
sheep require more care than | can
give them. | therefore offer for sale
my entire flock
THERE is no ration which, fed to a
COW, will give as good milk or butter
as cornmeal and good wheat bran.
There may be others which will pro-
duce these products cheaper, but the
quality will be inferior; so says the
wideayake Farm Journal.
THE United States fish commission
has succeeded in arousing considerable
interest in the introduction of carp.
At least $4,000 persons have com
menced the culture of carp in this
country. This fish should soon be-
come plenty in our markets.
THERE are more fools in this world
than is dreamed ofin your philosophy.
The St. Louis Rural World SAYS:
Heretofore men who have had hogs
die have attributed it to cholera.
when it was the merest and sheerest
neglect and the most inhuman treat
ment."
If animals are not fed at regular
hours they are in alternate conditions
of hunger and surfeit, and no animal
can thrive in that way. Moreover, if
the feeding is long delayed, there is
a worry that causes more waste from
the system than would result from
actual hunger.
HERE is a somewhat remarkable ex-
perience in growing Lima beans: A
man poled them with common four
feet laths, driven one foot into the
ground, and when the vines had
climbed the three-foot poles they were
pinched back. Result, more and ear
lier beans than ever before.
KINDNESS to domestic animals
means thrift and prosperity; abuse
End neglect results in viciousness of
disposition, loss of time, unthrift and
reduction of market value. When
this understanding becomes universal,
mans happiness and prosperity will
have been greatly augmented.
The Creator delayed the creation of
man until he created cattle, and we
haveno doubt the cattle fell about as
far as Adam did in his first transgress-
ion Good cattlecan only befound with
the highest civilization, and every bet
terment in mans condition is accom-
panied by their types in animal form
-TWallace.