Connecticut western news., 1872-02-23
Farm, Garden and Household.

THE CosT OF DRAINING. G. w." wants information about the cost of underdraining. Draining by means of tiles, put four feet beneath the surface and forty feet apart, will cost from $35 to $50 per acre. The ditches will cost 50 cents per rod or less, according to the nature of ground, the tiles, 20 cents per rod, including the laying, and filling the ditches 10 cents, in all 80 cents.
 CABBAaE-LoUsE.-A Subscriber, y Succasunna, N. Y., has had nearly all his turnips destroyed by lice, which consum- ed the leaves. How shall he destroy them? The best remedy is lime, slaked dry with water in which carbolic acid has been dissolved, one part, and dry air slaked lime three parts mix together and sprinkle on the leaves, while wet with dew. Where they are very numerous on leaf, it is better to remove 1t and des- troy them by. burning. -r-.z ... ..,-l
 CURE OF .F1ATULRNoY.-A writer in the E,sgtish Mechaeic, in treating of the not unimportant subject of fatulency, says that of this there are two kinds
 In health the stomach and intestines always contain moderate quantity of gas that is nearly pure nitrogen. This appears to be secreted by the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines, and, in excessive amount, is one of the most troublesome kinds of fatulence. The other kind arises from fermentation or putrefactive change of the food, and contains carbonic acid and sometimes sul- phurated hydrogen, as we'll as nitrogen. Both these forms of fatulence are best treated by using pure vegetable charcoal finely powderel-taken in the first case with each meal, and in the second as soon as the symptoms appear. The dose may be teaspoonful, and its use should be continued for some time. This will usually correct constipation as well as looseness of the bowels, beside relieving the disease itself. '-'a asa
 HAPPENING PoULTRY.-Corn is in this country the obvious proper feed for fat tening fowls. 1t makes flesh of fair quality. Oatmeal gives better flavor but less fat. Corn should predominate, and be fed for the most part ground, because more can be digested than when it must all be reduced by slow process in the gizzard. The latter is perfect mill, but if employed too much the mus cular exertion of working it takes some thing from the rate of fattening. The corn-meal should, for a few days, be thoroughly cooked, but the mess will soon pail upon the appetite, and then the meal may be merely scalded and fin. ally fed raw since -fowlslike it the best, and they should be induced to eat as much as possible. They also like va. riety; give an occasional feed of buck wheat corn, and wheat whole, and oats winch last should be ground and screened
 so as to remove all the larger fragments of the hulls. Boiled potatoes and fresh cooked meat should be allowed sparingly, and every other day little cayenne and salt must be added to the dough. Feed adult poultry, for fattening, three times day and chickens four. It is especial ly necessary, when the days are short, te give the first food at the appearance oi light, and the last as late as possible
 After they have eaten to satiety, alwayi remove what is left. Feed at stated hours, and always keep the feeding trough clean and sweet. It is best to con fine grown fowls in rather small coops, a exercise prevents fattening. If, however
 individuals acquainted with each other ar, together, there is no gain in close quar ters, for they become uneasy and alst half-grown chickens ought not to be shu up, but rather induced to eat so mucl that they will roam as little as possible for if taken from their accustomed rul they are apt to worry constantly. Shu out light from the coop, excepting a feeding time, to promote qnietness There should be no perches. Cover tn floor with dried earth. often renewed.