Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-10-01


AS of old the whispering beeches
Have their spell upon me cast
But their shade Is haunted only
By the memory of the past.
London ArgoSy
Profit in Farming.
Farming is like many other kinds of
business, mighty profitable if you strike
it in the right time of the moon. John
Hopkins has farm at La Sale, on Nj
agara River, less than four miles above
the Falls, that he bought five years ago
Mr.. Hopkins had a third interest in the
farm left to him, and, after considerable
hesitation, bought out the other heirs at
valuation of $4,000 for 12O acres.
From pear orchard of one and one-half
acres Mr.. Hopkins has received $1,000
in the past five years, and his crop this
wear amounts to 900 barrels of $50
pounds each for which the Erie Pre-
serving Company has contracted at 5
cents pound on the trees, assuring an
income of$4 800. The fruit is exception
ally fine this year.
Not only is the pear orchard very val
liable, but the entire farm is highly
| priced by it's owner Since the Niagara
tunnel scheme has got under way land
values have greatly appreciated in the
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| fered $3.50 an acre for his farm. Adjoin-
| ing property has been sold at that fig
ure, and his price is 81 900 per acre.
! Bataaia Neus.
Weaving Lambs.
Sheep Breeder and Wool Grower
says: If they are thriving as much as
! they ought, lambs need not run with
| the ewes above four months. They will
be more quiet if left in the field they
are accustomed to, with the ewes re-
moved out of sight and hearing.
If there are shade and water in the
field which they know where to find,
they will help themselves. l. not,
they ought to be driven to water every
day; and it is a good plan to fetch them
hot, to prevent them from rambling
aimlessly about the field, painting in
the sunshine, or crawling into fence
corners.
The lambs should have fresh rowen
or upland pasture, if one is available,
we'll stocked with June grass, red-top,
or some other short, tender, nutritious
grass. There should be strips of forest
! in it with shady knolls for stamping
grounds, where they may find an
! abundance of the dust which is SO es-
sential to their health during the dog
DAYS. An old eve should be left with
them for a flock leader. If they are ac-
customed during the summer to a sta
tionarv salt-trough the task of teach
ing them to eat feed will be reduced to
a trife, as they will approach the troughs
! freely. A mere busting of salt should
be sprinkled on their feed for few
DAYS (haing withheld from them other
wise); after that it may be left III guam
THY in the trough appropriated to it, or
sprinkled on clean sod. 1t is of the
highest Importance that lambs and year
lings should have daily access to salt,
summer and winter, at least in humid
climate. We will give brief descrip-
trough: For the supports take two
equal pieces of one-and-a- half-inch
plank, fifteen inches wide, and
saw notches in the top deep
enough to receive the trough.
Make the trough V-shaped, sixteen feet
long, of boards six inches wide, using
for end boards the pieces sawed out of
the plank. Let the supports be about
eighteen inches long, and nail to them,
one on each side of the trough, upright
standards. Across these standards nail
two V-shaped pieces to support the roof,
which is made like the trough and
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be high enough to allow the sheep to
insert their heads freely between the
roof and trough, which requires space
| of about nine inches.
Longevity of the Pear.
A New England horticulturist notes
the fact that the pear was planted early
in the history of our country. In 1869
we find records of pears in cultivation
it is a tree that thrives from SO north
latitude to the plains of Mexico. It is,
however, comparatively short lived in
Southern climates, and varieties inn
ported from France to this country are
not, as rule, long lived. Grating the
pear tends to shorten the life and i'm
pair the vigor of any variety, and, since
all varieties are multiplied in this way,
it becomes question of time as to how
long any variety can be expected to live.
Fifty or sixty years ago the st. Michael
was Justly esteemed the best pear grown;
it is now entirely abandoned. The
| Flemish beauty is another excellent
pear of twenty or thirty years ago, but
| it is fast going out of use.
| In 1888 William Kenrick published a
list of twelve old varieties of pears. none
Of which are grown to-day; and OF
eighty-seven new kinds, of which sew
enteen are now occasionally seen, four
still survive as valuable pears, the
Bartlett, Bose, Seckel, and Duchess. In
1889 w. r. Prince, of Flushing, L. L.,
published list of 367 varieties of pears,
of which thirteen now survive. There
| have been many hundreds of new vari-
cites imported since then of which less
than twenty are retained as worth cult
walton; many of these, of course, were
rejected for various other reasons, but
many would still be in cultivation if
they had not degenerated. Much de-
ponds in grating pears upon vigorous
and congenial stocks; a variety vigorous
on congenial stock frequently proves
worthless upon others less suited to its
| needs
Feeding Meal to Swine.
In the Eastern States the question