Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1888-06-20


or thirty pounds less. These remarks
are intended 10 apply to the ordinary
grade sheep OF which market supplies
are principally made un. Of course Sc
lect punches of very heavy wethers
from purebred or high-grade English
mutton sheep are fine even in very
heavy weights.
The following ration for poultry, rec
commended by the Farmers Magazine.
combines meat ana vegetables at a small
expense: Take piece of liver, rough
beef, or even blood (about a poundj,
and boil it well in half agalloniot water,
adding half pint of soaked beans, the
same of rice and the same of linseed
meal When the whole is cooked add a
bit of salt and thicken to stiff dough,
with two parts ground oats, one part
bran, one part middlings and one of
corn meal. If it burns little no harm
will be done. Curds, buttermilk or milk
in any other shape may also be used.
When boiling, add a teaspoonful
of bread soda to the water. This
food may be cooked in shape of
cakes, and crumbled for the fowls, and
fed soft Just before adding the ground
grain. chopped clover seed may be
placed in the boiler also. Another
ground mess is to chop clover very fine
and steep over night in boiling water.
In the morning let the water come to a
boil and add quart of fresh bullock's
blood to each gallon of water, thicken
with mixed ground feed as before and
feed. Condiments, such as red pepper,
ginger, etc., should be fed sparingly
All soft food should be slightly sailed,
as salt is essential to poultry. Always
provide plenty of clean drinking water.
I11fo hof fnr f,11-
ness there is nothing to equal the barn
door or common fowl. But this is incor-
rect, purebred fowls can be obtained,
which are quite as goodin any way as the
best Darn-dOOr ones, and who possess
many advantages which the others do
not. The great fault of the mongrels is
that they can not be reli dupon. When
a person buys some of them he cannot
tell whether they are good layers or
bad, whether they will be continually
setting or will never set at all, or
whether they lay white or brown eggs.
If be obtains purebred birds he can
get quite as good layers and be sure
what colored eggs they lay, and whether
they are sitters Or not. Another ad-
vantage they have is the great uniform
ity and superiority of their appearance.
Compare two hocks of birds OH grass
runs. one mongrels, and the other
beautiful white Leghorns with their
large red combs and pure white feathers.
The Leghorns possess a beauty alto
gether absent from the common birds,
and 1T IS almost certain that they beat
them In laying powers.
Farm Notes.
Fence posts will last longer and be set
frmer if the holes are filed with coarse
broken stone or small boulders rammed
tight and filed in with thin cement
The cement should be rounded up
against the post to shed water and
coat OF paint or tar should be put on the
post for foot above the cement. Posts
thus set by the writer in 1851 were still
sound in 1885 and apparently good for
40 years longer.
In 1860 the British vice consul at
Copenhagen reported that the butter
made in Denmark was exceedingly bad.
Shortly alter Denmark commenced to
establish dairy schools, and now has ten
at the national expense, and her char
acter has SO improved that the Danish
butter is the finest and best favored in
the British market. Every branch of
agricultural industry could be improved
here in the same way.
According to a late bulletin issued by
the Agricultural Experimental Station
of Wisconsin (Madison), the following
winter wheats have given the best
yields during the past four years: Hun
Prolific, Arnold's Gold Medal, Champi-
on Amber, Finley, Washington Glass,
Martins Amber, Valley, Zimmerman
and Bearded Treadwell. The average
yield or the above as estimated on plots
of one-fortieth of an acre each, is about
40 bushels per acre. Of oats the follow
ing kinds yielded most: Welcome or
White Australian, Black Tartarian,
White Sch9nen, Holland, Bonanza,
White Swede. Rural Hybrid and Swed
ish. All Of the above yielded over so
bushels to the acre. White Australian
50, White Schenen SO, and White Swede
81. Of all the varieties tried we believe
the Schmnen as good as any, all things
considered, and the Welcome or White
Australian next.
A most important experiment has
lately been made by the London Omni-
bus Company-who are owners Of 5000
horses-on the subject of crushed
against whole food. One half of the
horses were confined to one kind of
feeding, viz, that of bruised oats and
cut hay and straw, and the other half
to whole oats and hay. The relation
allowed per day to each horse, accord
ing to the one system, was: Bruised
oats, Is pounds; cut hay, 3pounds; cut
straw, . pounds. The quantity al
lowed, according to the old system,
was: Unbruised oats, 10 pounds;
uncut hay, Ii pounds. There is thus
a saving of six pounds on the
feeding of each horse, and this saving is
not merely in the quantity, but in the
value of the articles employed, for straw
in the former case was substituted for
hay in the latter. The advantage of one
kind of feeding over the other was far
more apparent when reduced to money
value. The saving by using the bruised
oats and cut hay is nearly five cents per
day for each horse, which is equal to
$500 per day for 5000 horses. And this
saving was accomplished without any
sacrifice whatever, for all the drivers
and those having charge of the horses
agreed that the difference in the condi-
ton of the horses was decidedly in favor
of those fed on bruised oats and cut hay
and straw.
He Goes IncOg.