Connecticut western news., 1872-08-09
Farm. Garden and Household.

CALVES. VIII you aIloW farmers dauphter to give her cure for SCOUT in calves2 Take two quarts of milk from the COW add one tea cup of boiled flax seed give this night and morning till the calf is better. Then let it run sn the grass, giving it cold skinned or thlck milk do not warm it, as this gives the SCOUTS. give mine sweet milk till they are three weeks old, and then cold skim. med milk right out of the spring-house. Feed them separate, so that one will not get more than another. About three quarts is plenty for each one. l never have calf sick or die in the winter. We turn them into the stock yard, turn them out to water, and put them back to a trough of boiled oats and bran.
 QUANTITY OF MILK FROM Cows--In the address before the Essex County Association, Mass, last year, by MT Howe, of Methuen, we find some intel esting statements in regard to the quan tity of milk usually produced by the COWS in that county. He says the aver. age in the county is estimated at 190U quarts, but from the COWS in Essex county not far from 2000 quarts each, in year. In his own herd of twenty cows, the average yielding has been 2O0G to 22O0 quarts of milk annually j; varying with the quantity of pasturinp and freedom from accldents to the stock. He sets the average plice of milk at four and one-half cents per quart, making an average annual income for each of from so to $10O To offset this, the cost of two tons of hay, pasturing, grain, labor and interest on capital must be reckoned. -NeW England Farmer.
 How DAIRY STocK RUNS DowN.- Dairymen complain that they cannot afford to raise their calves, that it is cheaper to buy cows to replenish their stock than to raise them. This may be so when they look at the matter in the light or present expenditure of dollars and cents. But it is questionable whether the rule holds good to the end, and whether the dairymen or indeed farmers generally, could not, by expend. ing $50 in raising calf until it becomes a COW. start it on it's productive exist ence in an improved condition so as to make profit on the invt stment. As it is true that an animal starved and stuntet1 in it's early life can never regain what has been lost. so it is true that one fed and encouraged in it's period of growth may be made better and more produc- tive throughout its life. If the present destruction of calves for the market is persisted in, the scarcity of good COWS must increase, and the supply to which the dairymen look to replenish their stock must decrease, and as a conse- quence prices must advance. Further, as the best calves are taken for the knife and the poorest retained, another element is added to those which make up the sum of the defciency.-N. r Tribune.
 CUTTING WHEAT.-The safest general advice that can give says correspon- dent-as to the proper condition of ripe. ness of wheat for cutting-in instances where the owner has time and help so al his command, that he can govern the case, would be: select that time that will secure the crop as ripe as it can be aud not have the grain shell in handling. By so doing, think the greatest mum. Der of bushels will be secured at the least cost, and the least time will be re- quired between cutting and housing and thus the greatest safety against baG weather will be secured. have seen SC much wheat sprouted while curing il the shock, that it has become with me ( very important point to get wheat into the barn as soon as practicable after it ]. cut; and to this end I do not cut a. early as I would if knew, as the men O. California know, that there will be nt ram during all harvest and threshin, time, but would in no case start tn, reaper so promptly that tie kernel would shrink because of early cutting. Ate all that has been said, I must It peat tn, assertion, that nothing but actual know ledge derived from experience, cal guide the grain raiser in forming hi judgement as to when he should beeil his harvest and how he shall conduct it so as to best avoid the dangers of being either too soon or too late at this crisi in the business of the whole year.