Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-01-22

Alike they wave in the balmy breeze
And bend their heads in the evening hour.
f. Waiting together till harvest time,
| Tares and wheat in the Masters field,
The reaper comes with his sickle KEEN
And each to his shining blade must yield.
"Cast forth the tares in the fire to burn
But saith the Master in accents sweet,
"Into my barns with Thanksgiving and JOY,
Gather my beautiful, golden wheat
All, thus in our Masters harvest field
| The tares and wheat grow side by side
He sendeth His sun, He sendeth His rain
Blessings He scattereth far and wide.
patient soul, in the harvest field,
Wait, oh, wait, It'll the Master come"
| He knoweth his wheat from the enemy's tares,
His own will he bear to his harvest home.
Winter Care of Sheep.
A successful hock-master writes to
the Country Gentleman that he has
learned that sheep require constant
watchfulness. Confinement in yards
and pens in the winter is adverse to the
habits and needs of flock; but it is un-
avoidable at times. It is a mistake,
however, to keep the sheep up the
whole season. Many new beginners
in strengthening make the mistake of
coddling them too much. A sheep can
stand anything short of fatal neglect
better than coddling. weakens the I'm
and does great deal of mischief. 1t is
better to have them lie out on a dry
snow-bank on cold night than sweat
ing in huddle in close pen reeking
with the foul odors of heating manure.
Every fine day the sheep should be
turned out and fed in a field or lot I'M
less the snow is too deep for them to
move about easily, and then short run
in yard where the snow is beaten
| down, and the grateful exercise of she'll
! ing Oft a few nubbins of corn will do
them much good.
Too much warmth is exceedingly dam
gerous. 1t infames and irritates the
skin, and causes the wool to drop off; if
induces chills and causes disorders of
the lungs or Inflammation Of the nasal
and bronchial mem branes. | don't
think a sheep ever died of cold. Even
those which die on the exposed plains
perish for want of water and food, and
not from the cold. FJocks have been
buried under snow drifts in the Scotch
mountains for days, but they have come
out all right whenever they could find
room enough to peck the snow away
from their bodies and get room enough
TO breathe. But they must have food.
They are easily starved, and regular ra-
tions are Indispensable. No other ami
mails are more regular In their habits
than sheep; they will follow in single
| file along their regular paths, and lever
ddiverge until on their feeding grounds.
| They become used to times and hours of
feeding very quickly, and do not forget
it, and if disappointed they worry and
suffer. Therefore the hours of feeding
| should be quite regular, and the food al
ways be given In the same way.
Farm Help.
| One advantage IN growing variety of
| crops, and keeping different kinds of
stock, is that the labor is more evenly
distributed throughout the year, and
the necessity for employing extra labor
Is largely avoided. With improved
machinery less help is required in har-
vest than formerly, 80 that the wheat
oats and hay cam be secured and made
ready for market with less extra help.
Yet on good sized farms more or less
extra help is required, and it is still an
open question which is the better plan,
to hire single men and board them in
the family, or to hire man with fam
lily, furnish him with a house and gar
den, and let him board himself.
There is one decided advantage with
the married man, and that is it lessons
materially the wiie's work, and this
alone is often quite an item, especially
when there is an average family of chill
dren to care for. Then there is less
reason for the boys to form bad associa-
tions. The man with the family will
not be with the boys near so much us
the one that is boarded IN the family.
These two items alone should weigh con-
cow, letting the team go occasionally for
the family to 60 to town or elsewhere on
q visit.
While not by any means always the
case, yet in great many instances the
| family man can be depended upon more
than the single man, and when hand
must be kept nearly Or quite all the
time as rule, the better plan is to fnr-
| nish a tenant house and keep man
with a small family. Give him garden,
and show him that you are interest
ed in his welfare. There are men so
constituted that they are ungrateful,
en- to make it pleasant for them they do
| not seem to appreciate it. But this Is
as liable to be found with a single as
with married man.
| There ia another advantage in some
| localities. There are quite number of
products that in many localities are
sometimes difficult to turn into cash.
Eggs, poultry, butter, fruit, bacon and
potatoes, and nearly all kinds of vege-
| LaDleS, can De SOLO, but II sold at the
store must be traded out. Wheat. fat
nogs and cattle will bring the cash, but
nearly all other products are battered.
This is not the case in all localities or in
every instance, but to a considerat lie
extent it is. and while the single man
| will want the money the man with q
| family will need the things that all this
class of products will buy, and in many
cases more or less of the products. 1t
is right that he should have such at the
market price. Not be made to feel as
though he was forced to take them, but
that the arrangement can be mutual
| benefit. A good hand will earn good
wages, and it will be better economy to
pay a good hand fair wages than to get
a poor hand for half the money.
| A large class of hired hands seem to
have but little if any regard for their
| employers interest. the principal point
| is to put in the time as easily as posi-
1 BILE. But occasionally a man will be
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