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Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
THE DAIRY.
Feed After Milking in Winter.

The recent examination of q mass of
silo literature, says the Practical Farmer,
with special reference to the dairy and
results, went coGclusively to show two
things, that, for the dairy, the silage
corn fodder should be allowed to stand
in the field and mature as long as posi-
BILE, or up to the glazing point in the
ears. and the work of pitting fastened
That i'll the winter, it is best not to feed
or disturb the silage until after milking
the dairy, and then fork out the silage
and feed, putting the grain onto the
silage at the time of feeding. Slage so
handled and fed, showed no after effects
in milk. or influences on butter or cheese
A cow fed upon food that has peculiar
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
THE POULTRY-YARD.
A Yankee HenhOuSe.

Here is henhouse that can be built
cheaply, if one has any Yankee blood in
him. | think it makes neat warm
house for hens when it is desired that
hens should lay through the winter,
providing they have proper food and
care besides. II is boarded up first with
common lumber and tar-papered and
then sided with clapboards. The frame
is 10 by 10 it,, but can be built longer
if more room is wanted. The studding
is it. high at the back and IS inches in
front, or on the south side, with #. of
glass and II inches Of board at the top.
The glass sash is 6by 6 it., covering the
entire front with the exception of the IS
inches at the bottom and a ~ inch board
at the top. 1t slants back it. inches
from the perpendicular and forms part
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

b. c. Bennett says in Ru1al Life: When
COWS are fed on sour or mOldy ensiage,
it gives an unpleasant flavor to the milk,
cream, and butter, but, if the milk is
heated before setting to 135 degrees, this
tainted flavor is all removed: or it the
milk is set without heating, then the
flavor may be corrected by heating the
cream, when perfectly sweet, to the
same temperature, and the butter will
be perfectly free from the tainted flavor.
The writer at one time fed the clover
that was put in the silo, whole, and had
become mOldy at the outside, the cows
eating it eagerly, but the milk was so
badly tainted that good butter could not
be made from it until the milk was
heated as above stated, when the butter
had not a trace of the bad flavor. Tur-
nip flavor may also be removed by heat
ing the milk before setting. But the
flavor from onions and leekS is to be re-
moved by such heating. When COWS
have been suffered to drink from stag
nant pools in dry seasons, the milk is not
only injured in flavor but in it's health
fulness. If such milk is heated to 140 de-
grees the i'll flavor is dissipated and the
butter made from it healthful. 1t also
frequently happens that COWS eat more
or less of ill-favored weeds in pasture,
giving q disagreeable flavor to milk and
butter, but heating is ali effectuai rem
edy for this.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
how to Fail with Poultry.

To fail in the chicken business, VIM.
f. Rice, in Farm and Home says, clean
your henhouse once a year. If your
chicks have lice, let them alone. If you
can find only one kind, borrow from your
neighbOr and start right If there are
any cracks in the house, don't close them,
as you may wish to ascertain what roup
and sore head are. In case the roup APP
pears, just let it run it will stop after a
while and so Will the chickens, and then
you can boast that chickens don't pay.
For drink in summer, keep q cesspool
on hand; if you have none, by all means
make one. If your fowls get cholera,
simply give nothing; perhaps they will
get on all right: [ won't insure this, but
it is part of how to fail. Let your
fowls roost in trees, and if you have no
trees put up poles ten or twelve feet
from the ground, as the higher you get
the purer the atmosphere.
Again, you need not pay any attention
to the nests; the hens will look out for
themselves. If one should hatch abroad,
let her hover near a pasture SO the little
fellows can go out in the dew and catch
the gapeS; then you can save feed, for
they will not eat for some time, as it will
require all their time to open and shut
their mouths.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
THE KITCHEN.
Common Sense i'll tho Kitchen.

The main causes of failure in cookery
are lack of care in details and ignorance
Of natures laws, Emerson has said:
''We must learn the homely laws Of fire
and water; we must feed, wash, plant,
and build"
EXactness in measurement and care in
scraping dishes are essential; it is not
safe to guess" If syrup is measured
or an egg beaten, and either poured into
q mixture without rinsing cup or bowl,
the proportions cannot be exact Nor,
in order to rinse a dish, is it allowable to
add TWO or three spoonfuls of liquid be-
yOnd the limits of the recipe; but meas
ure dry ingredients first. then syrup, and
lastly the required milk or water.
Temperature is the rock on which
many cook wrecks the work of her
hands without knowing the cause of dis
aster. May the day soon come when
thermometer beating high degree of
heat shall be considered as great ne
cessitY in kitchen as teakettle!
Flour cannot be too cold for pastry,
cookies or kindred coughs, while for
yeast bread it should be warm enough to
favor the growth of the yeast plant. For
the same reason warm water should be
used with yeast, while with cream tartar
duO SOud III WOulu udSJcu UUC escape OF
the gas, and cold liquids only are allow
able.
Doughs that stick to rolling-pin board
and hands in hot kitchen should be set
away till thoroughly chilled, out all
trouble might have been saved by using
cold fat, -four and liqui, at first, and the
texture of the dough wonld have been
better.
Potatoes are boiled and drained and
then closely covered, instead of being
shaken in draught of air to become
white and tloury by parting with the SUI
perfuous steam.
Deep frying is loudly inveighed against
by those who have not the inclination to
discover that less fat is absorbed by pieces
of fish plunged in deep fat than those
which are turned from side TO side in
limited quantity, and that the Intense
heat of the fat cooks it more thoroughly
than is possible by any other method,
and if carefully drained on paper little
fat remains.
What is needed to-day in our kitchens
is less of the cook book and more natural
philosophy and common sense. e..
knowledge of common things and every
day phenomena Arthur's Home Maga-
zine.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
Another Table to Prove II.

A little less than a year ago the Dem
ocratic papers were publishing the cur
rent prices with estimated prices after
the Mckinley bill would go into effect
the latter always being from Is to so
per cent. higher than the former This
year is the Republicans year and so the
Republican papers are publishing prices
as they were in 1890, before the McI[in-
ley bill went into effect, and the prices
in 1891, after taking the Mckinley med
icine. In nearly all cases prices now
are lower than they were last year,
and that is why the Democrats are mad.
Take the prices, 1s9O-1891, compiled by
the New York Press from the Dry Goods
Economist, a free trade paper, bat reia-
BILE in business sense:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

The old GreenbackerS are on top in
the Peoples party in Ohio and elsewhere.
It's natural They are light and gaseous
enough to float on top almost anywhere.
Cleveland Leader
SENATOR SHERMAN says "the present
campaign is TO be the Gettysburg Of dis
honest money" And as the Uniol hosts
rolled back the miniOnS Of Lee on the
occasion OF the food tide Of the rebel-
ion, 50 will the voters of Ohio charge and
scatter the free-silver Democracy. Ohio
State Journal.
IT is the boast Of tho new party lead
ers that they will be able to throw at
least 40, 900 votes against the Republican
candidates for the Legislature III Ohio
and that they will certainly prevent the
elcctiol OF a Republican successor to
Senator Sherman. Their sole aim is to
control tho Legislature or to make sure
that the Republicans do not control t.
Cincinnati Times-Star
IN his address to the people of Pom
eroy, Ohio, Major McKin. cy was able to
make use of an argument that went
home with telling effect A large rol ing
mill was erected in Pomeroy several
years ago, but for a long time previous
to last October it had stood idle and
empty. When the Mckinley law went
into effect it brought an immediate in
dustrial awakening to the town The
rolling mill was promptly set to work,
and it is now RUM ng night and day
manufacturing cotton ties. 1t emp oys
800 workmen at good wages, where none
were employed before, and it furnishes
the means of comfortable support to
1900 or ]. 500 persons. New York Press
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07


lei me ask the reader how he is to know
whether his hogs, his poultry, or his
COWS pay him a profit, if he feeds each
class of these animals from the same
grain bin? The cows may be making a
profit on their feed, and thus cOncealing
a deficit that comes from Improbable
hogs and hens. Or the COWS and hens
may be cOncealing the fact that the hogs
are running in debt to the farm. 1t is
the same with other kinds of stock, when
when all are fed from common quantity
Of feed stuffS. Occasionally it is even
worse than the case mentioned, the COWS,
hens, and hogs might each and all re-
turn less than the cost of their keep, and
still the truth be undiscovered, provided
some other branch of farm operations
brought In sufficient revenue to make up
the deficiency. How can it be told,
whether certain crop of corn. oats,
wheat. or potatoes, has been profitable
one to raise, if no account is kept of the
cost of preparing the ground, dressing,
caring for, and harvesting the crop?
| would have separate grain bins for
each kind of stock: then upon the first
day of January of each year, or upon the
first day Of one Of the spring months,
if one chooses, large blank book should
be procured, and every time a sack of
bran or oats is put into the poultry
house, it's cost should be charged to
the account Of the poultry. If
ground meal, bone, or any other
article of food is purchased for
the hens, let the cost be charged to
them, and whenever eggs or market
poultry are sold, let the proper credit be
given, together with a credit for the
eggs and poultry used on the table. If
the hens have eaten a certain number of
bushels of vegetables, there value should
be charged TO the poultry account At
the end of the year it Will be pretty
plain how the fowls have paid.
The dairy will have charged to it the
feed that has been placed III the stable
bins, together with the value of the hay,
enSllage, and roots eaten; and credit will
be given to the same, for the butter sold
and eaten, the milk sold or used, and
the estimated value of the skim-milk fed
out. The dairy should also be credited
for the value of the calves, when Weaned,
and for the manure that is made.
1t is not necessary to go further into
details, to show that this is the only way
by which we can tell whether the work
is profitable or not. This is the only
way, IL III IS not pfOnJaOle, Dy winch one
can tell what branch is handicapping all
the rest 1t needs no great knowledge
of bookkeeping, to classify these i'm
portant facts. Any one with good COM
mon sense can make such debit and
credit entries, under the heading of each
branch of his farm operations, as he can
himself readily understand, when he
comes to reckon up the cost and the
value of articles solo and on hand The
great point is to begin keeping such ac-
counts, and the sooner one begins, the
better.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

of the top roof. The north side has a
shed roof, with rise of # inches |
cut the boards 9 it. inches long and let
them come over from the top it. to
form cover for the curtain which had
fixed up, and which rolls upon long
pole with crank at one end to let down
over the glass of cold nights For the
nests and roosts [ made platform fit.
high by 2 it. wide and ft. long. The
roosts are l #. above it over the center
A is the rOost i the nest G the opening
behind the nest for the hens to go in
from the back, D the doors to it to reach
into the nest from the front and e the
space under the next which is open so
that the hens have the whole of the floor
room. [ have given it d thick coat Of
Whitewash which has filled up all the
cracks in the common lumber or the in
side so that 1t looks like a hard finished
plastered house. For the floor / use
three inches Of old plaster. The plat
form under the roof enables one to clean
out the droppings once week, thereby
keeping the house clean. The house is
nicely ventilated by pipe five inches in
diameter, running from #. to it.
inches above the roof. which takes off all
the foul air from the floor l. B. Love-
joy, in Farm and Hone.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
Hints for the Housewife.

SALT will curdle new milk.
To SOFTEN old putty, use hot iron.
VARNIsH is trough on bugs''-bed bugs
especially.
MIX baking soda with brick-dust for
securing your knives.
You can clean mica, that has become
smoked, with vinegar
RAW beefsteak applied will remove the
discoloration from bruises.
LAYING tough meat in the vinegar for
q few minutes before cooking is said to
make it more tender.
SWEET oil will remove fnger-marks
from vanished furniture, and kerosene
from oiled furniture.
A FEW drops of ether dropped into d
bottle of oil will prevent it from becom-
ing rancid for long time
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
BABY PlLLOW-BUTTERCUP DESIGN.

stitching in yellow silk runs around all
four sides inside the hem and the two
handkerchiefs are joined together with
another row Of stitching inside the first,
which leaves the hens as border.
The cover is applied over pillow COW
cred with buttercup yellow silk. The
handkerchiefs simplify the work by sup
plying a ready hemmcd material. The
color and the flowers can be varied ad
libitum providing only that the flowers
selected are small. The pillow can be
made more elaborate by admitting ruffles
Of lace to the hemmed edges.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
Weekly Bank Statement.
Engineer Killed in a Collision.

CINCINNATI, o., Oct. Last night a
passenger train on the Big Four road
struck freight at the intersection OF
Eighth Street. The rear cars of the
freight were wrecked and the locomo-
tive Of the passenger train was badly
used up. Jonn Grassler, of Delaware,
o., the engineer, was, it is feared, IA
tally injured.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
Society Event at Marquette.

MARQUETTE, Mich, Sept. 3O.-The
wedding of Thomas Larke and Miss
Bessie Watson to day was brilliant So
cietv event. The groom is commercial
agent of the Duluth, South Shore &
Atlantic Railway, and the bride
the daughter Of Edward Watson,
wealthy merchant in this city. The
ceremony was performed at st. Paul's
Episcopal Church. Rev. William Galpin,
of Ishpeming, officiating. The couple
will reside at Duluth.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
TROOPS REVOLT BRAZIL.

Revolutionary Agitation in Which the
Army Took a Prominent Part.
PARIS, Sept. Sole Matin to-day says
that there has been a revolutionary agi-
tation in several provinces of Brazil,
causing the government great uneasi-
ness. In many places, according to LIE
Matin, the troops have nutinied. and
the government must adopt strong
measures if it hopes to maintain order,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

odor just before milking, will impart a
trace Of that order to the milk. When
fed after milking, the system discharges
this odor, through the probable oXygena-
ton Of the blood in the lungs and fluids
the twelve hours intervening between
milkings being ample time for this. 1t
is good plan to always feed the winter
dairy after milking, and itcorrects many
defects to do so.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
Lumber Fire at Chicago.

CHICAGO, H., Oct. Fire in the lum-
Der district last night, partially de-
stroyed the Holpuch sash, door and
blind factory, and consumed a large
quantity of raw manufactured stuff
Loss about SO GOO.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

A FEW SUGGESTIONS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.

The Farm Should Be Conducted in a
Business Way-A Drop in Fine Stock
Predicted-Tile Dairy-A Yankee I5en-
House-Orchard and Garden-HousehoId
Hints, Etc.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
End of an Arkansas Quarrel.

LITTLE Rock, Ark, Oct. 2.-As re-
cult of quarrel about hay press, Ben
and Ollie Carpenter, brothers, yester-
day killed Jud Hamilton, near Ham
burg, Ashley County. The sheriff and
large posse are in pursuit of the MUIR
darprE
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
Business Meth DDS on the Farm.

lTH all the eXhor-
tatiCns to farmers
to make greater
use of business
methods on the
farm, we see very
few Of them eX-
planning how such
methods should be
applied, or where
in they would be
specially valuable,
writes Webb Don
nell in the Prdc-
teal Farm en-.
GeneraliZing is not
the best way to
make truths plain.
To come down to
the root of the
matter at once,
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
THE HOUSEHOLD.


A dainty infants pillow is made as fol-
lows: Take two gentlemen's handker-
chiefs of fine sheer linen with deep hem
stitched borders. Over each are irregu-
larly scattered buttercups with their
leaves worked in the natural colors with
a single thread of flo floss A row of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

Miss WAYBAcK first visit to the sea-
beach How awfully dirty the ocean
water is Bah 1t tastes horrid, too. /"
Mrs. De Style Ga cottager)-"Y es, it has
always been so. | suppose it's those
excursionists. "-tStreet &, Smiths Good
Neus
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

therefore there is no roofing each other
out of the trough and filling it up with
dirt It is made of two-inch plank, one
ten inches wide and the other twelve,
and nailed up against the pcn.- 3. L.
Wheeler in Farm and Home
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
PRAYING FOR RUSSIAN JEWS.
Spe eial Services in All the Synagogues on
the Day of Atonement

LONDON, Oct. 2.-Chief Rabbi Her
mann Adler has prepared a special
prayer, which is to be said in all the
synagogues of England on the day Of
atonement. This prayer is in behalf of
the Russian Jews who are in a state of
suffering and restitution. The Russo
Jewish committee has made an appeal
for the collection of a relief fund, and
the Rothehilds in reply have promised
to contribute S5O. 900 towards the fund.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
WHITE HOUSE GOOD AS NEW.
The Presidents Washington Quarters En-
tirely Refitted.

tirely Refitted.
WASHINGTON, D. c., Oct. 2.-The fin
ishing touches are being given to the
White House decorations, and the his
toric old structure looks brighter and
fresher than ever before. The new
decorations are rich but not gaudy, and
are thoroughly in keeping with colonial
and renaissance architecture. The re-
furnishing Of the rooms will be complet-
ed in about week.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

Jail the edges sharp, rivet
| an iron rod about a foot
jlong to it, passing through
the center hole, and fit a
wooden handle to the rod.
You will then have a use
full implement to cut out
weeds from among gar
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
THE MARKET QUESTION.
FOREIGN MARKETS AND THOSE
AT HOME.

Shall Our Markets BE Opened to Other
Nations in Order that We May Gain Adj
mission to Foreign Ng&rlle ts?-Dem ocrats
Want to .'Michiganize" Iowa and Ohio
Ben Eranlxlin's Belief in Ruying at Homo.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

Little wonder that the Democratic
papers refuse to publish these interest
ing little tables.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
GROVER CLEVELAND A PAPA.

His Wife Gives Birth to Daughter in
New York.
New YORK, Oct. 3.-A daughter was
born to Mrs. and Mr.. Grover Cleveland
this ynOrniDp
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
TYPHOID FEVER EPIDEMIC.
Eleven Cases of the Disease in One House
of


at IronWood.
IRONwooD, Mich, Oct. 2.-There is
typhoid fever epidemic in this city.
At Johnson's clearinghouse, which is
occupied solely by miners, there are
eleven persons sick with fever. One
house, and others are looked for.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
No More Fights.

Here is the cut of a pig trough which
have used for the last year and find of
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07

Take a section of an old moving ma
chine knife, drill hole in center. grind
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
ORCHARD AND GARDEN.
A Homemade Weeder

Popular Gardener describes and illus
trates homemade weeder as follows:
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1891-10-07
ST IOIIIS.

WHEAT-NO. Red........... ...........
CoRN-Mixed...........................
Morning journal and courier., 1891-10-21
old Furniture Not Sought Now


 There is local collector who at one time used to do thriving business by col lecting in his travels ancient pieces of fur niture. He owns his occupation is about gone. He talks about it in this way: 'Be- ginning about ten years back the craze for following up auctions and buying old fur niture set in the country. In the cities it dated away back of that The first sym toms of the disease was old clocks. Some of them were fair looking and some were not. After clocks, chairs set in, fiddle back chairs, mostly. I've sold them as high as S10 each many time. Then old writing desks caught on. When you come to look at it there's more sense in buying an old desk than in any other old piece, for mod ern builders have made not so much i'm provement in these goods. In old times there were no safes used in houses to give secure keeping to the law and family docu- ments, so it was necessary to have some receptacle for them. An old desk of curled maple and slanting front, its lots of little pigeon holes, sly lock and drawer room, is really valuable piece of furniture. Buff fets and other furniture had there turn. Owners of houses out in the country and the dweilers in provincial cities are now the only people who can be roped in for old furniture. Old furniture which has be- longed to somebody else, and old furniture any way. is a fad of the past"