Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-07-01
E4RN AND GARDEN.

SELL all products of the poultry
yard as soon as they are ready for
market.
THE southern part of Africa has TO-
600 tame ostriches, producing So
100000 worth of feathers annually.
THERE are more than 100000
farmers in the United States, or near
ly one-eighth of the entire population.
MORE than 1000 bulls have been
sold in Colorado the present spring
| They have cost from 500 to 81 900
each.
THE Territorial Wool Association
has sold it's last pound of wool for the
season and closed it's Boston office for
| a month.
The great mass of the butter pro-
duced in the country is made on
| farms; the great mass of cheese is
made in factories.
A New YORK dairyman says he is
convinced that every bushel of wind
fall apples fed to his COWS was worth
a pound of cheese.
A BEEF animal is like anapple-frst
the green stage; second the ripe stage,
and third the over-ripe stage-when it
begins to deteriorate.
| SAVE in one county in California
the wheat yield, owing to decreased
acreage, will be only from one-quarter
to three-quarters of last years crop.
BETWEEN wolves and eagles the
farmers in theinterior of West Virginia
have been losing thousands of dollars
worth of sheep and other small stock.
VENTILATE, light, and make warm
| poultry houses, and don't feed hens
all corn if you want them to lay. Put
sulphur in the dust bath. Provide
lime.
ENGLAND annually imports from
Russia about $6O,OOO,OOO worth of
grain and flour, which is one-ffth of
all the grain that John Bull buys
abroad.
IT is thought that "the farmer who
has first-class farm implements is JUS
titled in disliking to lend them. They
are never SO good after they have been
| borrowed"
FEED the poultry just before it goes
to roost, and again just as soon as it
is light enough to see, or leave the
food where they can get it themselves
In the morning.
A DISEASE, the symptoms of which
are severe coughing, choking and bleed
ing at the nose, is killing off horses
rapidly in the southern portion of
Shelby County, Ill.
THE cost of feeding fowl for a year
is from ninety cents to one dollar
Two dollars per fowl profit can be
made by good management and
knowledge of the business.
The information is that chuck
wheat should not precede either corn
or wheat. 1t makes the soil too light
and porous for wheat, and corn never
does well after buckwheat."
AN orchard which is SO large that
manure cannot be had with which to
fertilize it is seldom profitable part
of the farm. It pays to raise only so
many trees as one can raise well.
IT is said that eff rye is kept closely
grazed and no seed allowed to form,
it's roots will live several years and
form turf, the young leaves of which
are eagerly eaten by all kinds of
stock"
A HALF-BLOODED Southdown, the
cross upon a Merino or long-wooled
sheep, makes a very good mutton.
The second cross is still better. The
third cross is hardly discernible from
the full-blood.
SIR j. B. LAWEs says the carbon
which is only another word for vege-
table matter, alive or dead-appears
to be the only medium by which nitro
gen is accumulated in the soil to be
used again by living vegetation.
THE Texas Live Stock Journal states
that an organized movement OF NUT
tons is likely to take place this season
toward the Kansas line. Sheep can
be driven cheaper than ranged and can
be improved by judicious handling on
the trail.
CARP cultureis destined to bring our
native water lilies into the prominence
to which their beauty and delicate
odor entitle them; they serve the
double purpose of feeding the carp and
helping to render attractive the coun-
try home.
The manure from the fowls, if all
saved, will be worth 40 cents per fowl.
1t should be taken up with dry muck,
plaster or road dust. Such manure is
too strong to be freely used in the hill,
but should be spread broadcast and
narrowed in
In one of the best dairy sections of
New York the average yield from f.
500 COWS supplying creameries with
milk was only a little over 14Opounds
per COW. This is probably the aver
age for all the COWS in the country,
good judges placing it at about 1875
pounds.
A New HAMPSHIRE farmer keeps
enough Yorkshire and Berkshire swine
in his large orchard to keep the wind
falls we'll cleaned up. The swine are
fed grain, and keep the ground so rich
that the trees bear every year. Sheep
can also be proftably pastured in the
orchard.
DR.. VoELKER found the average
weight of clover-roots on an acre to
be about three tons, and that this
furnished about 100 pounds of avail
able nitrogen, and for that reason the
clover-sod, when turned under, makes
on ayoel1ent Fertilizer for wheat