Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-01-21

of the committee on dairy products, we
learn that the estimated expense of
raising heifer is $50 and her value $40
The yearly average production is re-
ported at $4,000, and the yearly cost of
keeping 1920. Some private dairies
report yearly productions from $74 to
1913 and yearly cost of keeping from
$55 to 500.
HE most common diseases of fowls
are catarrh and roup, and the diseases
are nearly the same. In simple catarrh
there is discharge of watery mucus
from the nostrils. In roup the dis
charge thickens and fills up the nostrils,
the eyelids and face become swollen and
foul odor is emitted. Remove the sick
fowls to warm, dry location, wash the
nostrils with diluted copperas water and
feed stimulating food.
A FRosT-BITTEN potato has no value
except to cook Immediately and feed to
stock. After freezing potatoes have
sweetish taste, indicating that some of
the starch in the tuber has been changed
to sugar, which, of course, is of the
glucose variety, and not SO sweet as
that made from cane. A frost bitten
potato, however, decays so rapidly that
great care should be taken to keep
such from cellars or from pits of sound
tubers.
WABASH COUNTY in Illinois is the
color bearer of all corn. growing counties
in the country. All the farms on the
bottom lands of that county produced
at least 70 bushels per acre planted in
corn, while some of them gave yields
respectively of 95, of SO, of 1O1, and of
| 106 bushels per acre. One small farm
on bottom land produced an average of
118 bushels per acre. Wabash proudly
asks, "What corn growing section can
come up to this?" 30 s..-.
1T is strange that planters put off till
spring setting small fruits, such as rasp-
berries, blackberries, grapes, currants
and gooseberries. Set in the fall and q
good shovel of manure or litter thrown
over each as soon as the ground freezes,
or if not to be had, bank up With earth
| just before winter sets in and draw
away in early spring. Remember, fall
set plants will make much stronger
growth next season than those set in
the SPRING Recorder.
GROWING more and better wool on
less legs should be the motto, rather
than keeping less number of sheep on
farm. Wool is product that does
not take fertility from soil like the
growing grain, but actually adds to the
value of the farm for grain-growing
purposes. Buyers are talking about
paying so cents to ST. less per head for
feeding wethers, and interested parties
are talking down the prices of store
sheep, but as yet no sales have been
made to fix values.
The diameter of trees vary not only
from summer to winter, but from day
to day. They are larger from noon to
twilight next morning than from twi-
light to noon; they are smaller in winter
than in summer. Water and the sap
expand not only in proportion as they
rise above but as they fall below the
freezing point. Low temperature as
well as high promotes evaporation, and
the trees evaporate from their branches
in winter, and so the colder the weather
the more they shrink.
"a CHEAP and very effective way"
says the New England Farmer, ''to
raise the temperature in cellar that is
dangerously near the freezing point is
to set one Or more common kerosene
lamps on the cellar bottom during the
daytime, when not wanted for lighting
the rooms above. We have all noticed
how much warmer a living room is in
the evening, when the lamps are burning,
than in the daytime with the same amount
of fire in the stoves or furnaces. All
the heat from burning lamp is retain
ed in the apartment. Twenty-Five cents
worth of kerosene oil will throw out a
surprising amount heat, and in many
cases it would be the cheapest means for
keeping cellar from freezing during
the passage Of an extra cold wave."