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


She was more blissfully content than l.
But, ah the dainty pillow next my own
Is never rumpled by shining head
My singing birding from its nest is flown;
The little boy used to kiss Is dead
Raise Your Own Cows.
A half dozen good COWS are worth a
dozen poor ones. 1t takes az much food
and care to keep poor cow as it does
good one, and while the former barely
returns enough at most 10 "pav her
wav," the latter returns a comfortable
profit to her owner. Those farmers
who are looking around for really good
COWS know how difficult it is to buy one,
when found, at price they can afford
to pay. Yet they frequently keep
Cooking around" for several years,
when they might, in the same time,
have raised several choice cows them
selves. OF course it takes time to rear
a good-sized herd of proftabl e COWS, but
this expenditure of time is only in lieu
Of the money expenditure absolutely
necessary to purchase desirable ami.
NAL. AS farmer usually can spare the
time better than he can spare the cash,
it is EASY to see what is the best course
to pursue There are but few farmers
who do not now have at least one, two,
or three COWS fairly good, which can be
used as start in improvement. Do
not use a scrub bull merely because
your neighbor happens to have him
and charges nothing, but rather pay a
fair price for good, pure-bred one.
Save all the heller calves and carefully
raise them. When they are about 3
years old, and less than four years from
the time the Improvement is started,
you will have fine young COWS. Other
calves will also be coming on, from
them as we'll as from the original cows,
and in five or six years there will be
quite a herd; the common, unprotit-
able COWS having been worked Oft to
the butcher. Many farmer wishes
that he had commenced five or SIX
years ago. He does not think that he
will likely say the same thing five or six
years hence, yet does not commence
now. Good, pure-bred bulls have now
become so we'll distributed that the use
of one can usually be secured without
much difficulty, while a good bull calf
can be had from such stock, eligible to
entry, for a comparatively low price.
Enough can, as a rule, be counted on
from neighboring farmers herds to pay
for his keep.-dHlerlcG1 44grlcu turlSt.
Use For Dead Animals.
Years ago we saw an old farmer dig
cling a trench near his residence and
dumping into it carcasses of red sheep,
and in answer to our query as to the
reason tor doing such thing at such
place, he replied: "To raise the finest
grapes you ever saw" We watched
the vines set above the dead animals,
and saw the words o. the old man veri-
fed. The growth of the vines was sim-
ply immense, and the truit-Catawba
grapes-as nice as we have ever seen.
The cause was apparent, as the soil Was
heavy clay. Many vine-groWers can
testify to the value to be derived from
dead animals, and it seems there is no
difference as to what the animal is.
E. E. Lee writes to the Germantown
Telegraph of his experience with dead
dogs, and says that their carcasses are
equally good. Several were buried six
or eight feet from the vines. and at the
end of the growing season he excavat-
ed the earth and found that there was q
compleie mass of grape roots all around
the bones of the dogs, and the vines grew
wonderfully. He ADDS: 'Some. sixty
wears ago | we'll recollect that in my
fathers orchard, in Central New York.
there was tree which always bore one
sided, scabbv and knotty apples, until
he had buried hali-dozen or more
sheep near the growing tree. During
period of more than thirty years after
the sheep were buried, was accus-
toned to go to that tree for fine, plump
and beautiful apples, entirely free from
imperfection and deformlties. learned
from that observation that If dead ami
mails, garbage, bits OF meat and bones
which may be collected at meat shops,
are buried near fruit trees and grape
vines, the growing root will devour ev-
ely particle OF bone, flesh and sinews,
and appropriate the material toward
developing fine and luscious fruit"
His practice has always been to see to
it that every dead hen or other fowl
and every dead cat about the premises,
has burial where the flesh and bones
will promote the growth of fruit or gar
den crops. Lately several hens have
died, every one OF which was buried in
the garden, where it is proposed to
raise garden truck in hills. After the
growing season has opened. melon seed
of some sort, or squash seeds, or cauli-
flower plant, will be put in the soil over
the dead fowls. One can raise magniti-
cent watermelons and Hubbard
squasbes by planting the seed over
dead fowl, or dead cat or dog.
Many years. ago colored gardener
in sole Virginy" was asked how be
he, 81 don't like to tell you fur nothin'.
Eff You gives me quarter to pay for the
rooster, don't mind tellin', seem its
you" The quarter was put in his
hands. Nov you see. boss, when it is
time to make garden, takes my melon
seed and feeds 'em to the big rooster.
and as he eats 'em up | kills i'm, and
buries i'm in the garden just where
want a hill of melons to grow. Oh.
my don't dem vines hump when they
get agrowin' ?" why do you feed the
seeds to the rooster and then kill him ?
Why not kill him and plant the seeds
above him?" ooh, that wouldn't do,
boss. We must put the seeds into him
when he's alive. 1t would never dc to
put seeds into dead rooster Oh,
never, never boss.
Animals that die in the winter may