Connecticut western news., 1871-09-29
Farm, Garden and Household.


 ScALDs.-A correspondent says that the readiest and most useful remedy for scalds and burns is on embrocation of lime water and linseed old. These simple agents combined form a thick, cream like substance, which effectually excludes the air from the injured parts, and allays the inflammation almost instantly.
 ToP DRAINING THE WHEAT FIELDS where needed, is of great importance, and it is better to do 1t as soon as the wheat is sown than to wait till the rains come. There are fields where it is neces- sary to blow out every dead furrow, but ordinarily all that need to be done is to make furrows from the lower parts of the field where water accumulates. Secure 0 good outlet from these, and the upper portions, unless there are hollows, will not need throwing.
 A CURE FOR RUNAWAY HORSES. A gentleman exhibited before the Farmers Club, patent device for stopping the noses of horses so as to prevent them from running away when so inclined. He said 1t was very effectual, and wanted five dollars for each specimen of his device. MT. Ely suggested that the plan would do as we'll for donkeys and asses as for horses but as none of the ami mals came forward to be operated upon, the Club was unable to pass an opinion upon the practical working of the patent, VoRAc1rY IN HORSES. "A subscriber to Heorh and Home, who has horse thin in flesh, but with an enormous appetite, which prompts him to eat the litter, asks what to do about it. This inordinate appetite is a symptom of disease in the digestive organs, or of the presence of worms. If no worms have been ob- served, the first may be supposed to be the cause. A simple remedy is to feed to the horse a handful of wood-ashes, one ounce of sulphur, an ounce of common salt, mixed in his feed every other day. If worms ale troubling the horse, give the following :one dram sul- phate of iron. powdered, one ounce of faxseed meal, and the same of sugar Give this for one dose in bran-mash at night and repeat in forty-eight hours.
 RoTTNG AND SWEATING APPLES Samuel Wilson, of Dodge County, Minn., tells the Farmers Club, that he reserved twenty-five barrels of large Spitzenberg apples about the 20th of last November, and although he put them away in a cool place, wheI he looked over them a month later, nor more than quarter of the entire lot was sound. He wanted to know whether the barrels in which the apples were stored should not have had holes in them. MT. Ely-said it was not the custom of large dealers to store apples in perforated barrels, as in cold weather the changes of temperature tended to make them rot. MT. Fuller said apples generally sweated after they had been picked or had fallen, and that if they were packed before this operation had taken place they would be very likely to rot.
 STORING WINTER APPLEs.-A cores. pondeEt of Laws of Life, who claims tc have extended experience, is "decided. ly of the opinion" that apples keep fal better. when put into close barrels ol boxes, and secluded as much as possi ble from the air. When thus stored, he says they will come out in the spring full and plump as when taken from the tree. Many varities, as the Tallmar Sweet, Spitzenberg, and those kinds that are not considered as long keepers, anc shrivel badly, will do well treated in thi. way I have, he continues, found uni versally that they keep better to let then lie without picking over. It is much better. to pile them into large bi1 across the cellar, say six or seven fee high and four or five feet wide, ant cover them up tight, than to lay then on shelves. I once saw such bin tha a man had kept through the winter About the first of April he thought h, would open the windows on the side o the cellar next to the bin to let in th air, that they might keep better. was at his place and he called my atten tion to the fact. Two windows over tn bin were opened about ten days or tw weeks, and the apples exactly opposit the windows, about one-third, rotte remaining part on either side, were nc routed at all.
 How APPLE TREES GRow.-If W make deep hole with crowbar in th substratum of the earth, fill 1t wit sand and mellow soil and plant appl seed in autumn near the surface of th ground where the hole was made: tn next spring the seed will throw out
 root directly downward, until the en reaches the strata of perpetual moistur, provided the earth Is not so firm that
 root cannot extend further and stel will commence pushing upward, at Il same time bearing the apple seed on i end, to the surface, where the kern will separate in two equal parts, formin the seed leaf of the young tree Meal while, the tap-root continues to obtain more firm hold of the soil, which fort fes the tree against injury incident 1 dry weather. In 8 congenial soil, res ing on porous subsoil, the tap-root
 tree of most any kind, will exter farther, by actual measurement, in the earth, when the tree is three or fo1 years old, than the top has grown u
 ward. But, when the trees have bet produced from pieces of roots plant. in nursery rows, they rarely send dov tap-roots. Consequently such trees c;
 be taken up and transplanted far mo
 advantageously than if the top root W
 severed and left in the ground. long as vegetation does not suffer ire protracted drouths it will make no d
 ference whether tree has tap-root
 not. But when the roots near the ST
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 out of the dry soil, if there be no ta
 root to bring up moisture to the leav'
 the fruit must fail, and the tree will ]
 ceive such injury that the half-form
 buds can not yield fruit the next seaso
 Every tree ought to spring from
 seed where that tree is to grow. If
 hole few feet in diameter were d
 eight feet deep, and filled with sods
 mellow soil, and an apple seed or p
 seed, chestnut or hickory nut w
 planted Iii autumn, and the soil ke
 clean. or were mulched during summ
 when the land is poor, a tree would pu
 upward over twenty feet in one deca
 of years and if the ground were ri
 it would grow thirty feet in the sa