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

ABOUT ono ounce of meat three times
week is sufficient for one hen, or
about two pounds weekly FOR flock of
ten.
ONE COW which will give 5000 pounds
of milk in a season will bring more net
profit than three COWS producing 5000
pounds each.
The milk yield of COWS can be largely
increased in winter by warming the wa
ter given them, bringing it to temper
allure of about sc deg. F.
The wool crop from Australia this
year is 100000 pounds short, owing
to the drouth, which cut off the feed,
thus destroying millions of sheep.
A PUTRID puddle of water will spoil
the milk of all the COWS that drink
therefrom, and may cause sickness
among human beings who use the milk.
IT is asserted that the demand for
stock cattle and young steers in the
| Northwest this coming spring is not
| likely to be as large as that of last season.
In attempting to irrigate do not over
look the fact that the water should be
kept running. Stagnant water not only
Injuries the crops, but causes the preva-
lence of fevers.
DON'T forget to give young animals of
every class free access to water. It is a
mistake to suppose that the milk, no
matter how abundant, will be sufficient
to quench thirst.
A. B. ALLEN thinks that point which
merino sheep breeders ought to look
after now is the breeding off of the
horns, holding, with good reason, that
no benefit follows their existence.
A PUTRID carcass polluting the air of
a pasture will not only spoil the milk of
the COWS running there, but also the
entire contents of the vat into which
the tainted milk is poured at the fac
tory.
ALFALFA is considered by Colorado
stockm en- to be one of the most valuable
foods for cattle. It is said that some
animals on Wheat Ridge, Col, have put
on at least 100 pounds of flesh in forty
days on alfalfa.
| PETER HENDERSON says the most diff
icult and expensive crop raised in the
garden, year by year, is cabbage. He
counts, in the opposing scale, maggot,
worm, drouth, poorly MANFRED land and
frequently glutted market.
A CALIFORNIAN says he cleared his
poultry house of mites, with which it
was over;un, by sprinkling the inside
with the water in which the potatoes for
the household dinner had been boiled,
and that two applications were sufficient.
FOURTEEN years ago California start
ed in the fruit-canning business. Last
| year the business reached an aggregate
of 11,250,000 cans, of which 10,470,0O0
were fruits of various kinds, including
jams and jellies, and the balance vege-
| tables.
The Illinois Horticultural Society de-
nounces the practice of ringing orchard
| trees to produce early bearing except in
thickly- planted orchards where the final
| intention is to take out alternate trees.
In this case the trees to come out may
be protitably forced into early bearing.
CONSIDERABLY more than 100000
| is invested in hominy milling in this
country, and the annual product of
about eighty mills now in operation will
amount to twice as much more. Repre-
sentatives of this branch of the milling
business met in st. Louis in December
and organized an association.
IT is said that solution made of
water and poultry droppings will prevent
the striped bugs from injuring squashes.
The mixture should he allowed to fer
ment, and the application should be
made frequently. It will also greatly
assist in fastening the growth of the
vines.
FARMERS in many parts of Nebraska
are burning corn for fuel. Soft coal is
worth in that state about % cents
bushel, and corn does not find ready
sale for more than IL cents, and expert
ments have shown that two bushels of
corn will produce more warmth than
on g bushel of coal.
KEEP some ground plaster on hand
to sprinkle over the manure heaps and
in the stables every day. Nitrogen is
expensive, it it is what you need, and
you cannot afford to lose it. When you
smell ammonia it is wasting through the
air. The sulphuric acid in the plaster
will catch and hold it for you, and de-
liver it to your growing crops in such
form that they can take it up and di-
gest it, a.
NEVER use manure from the stable on
lawns, as the seeds of weed are thus
scattered, which terminate, grow up and
disfgure the lawn. A fertilizer made
of 200 pounds sulphate of potash, 100
superphosphate and OOpounds sulphate
of ammonia will be found excellent
The quantity is sufficient for an acre,
and should be applied in October and
April, half the amount being used at an
application.
AN English farmer says: @For two
winters I have placed six horses upon
the following weekly allowances: Forty
two pounds of oats, twenty eight pounds
maize, twenty-one pounds beans, twenty
one pounds hay cut into chat, fourteen
pounds oats straw cut into chat, seventy
pounds long hay. Total. 1876 pounds
of food per week per horse. Upon this
| food the horses have done admirably
while in constant work."
| COL. GEORGE E. WAR1Na, JR, says
| that drainage lessons the evil effects of