Connecticut western news., 1872-05-10


 Seventh do .......... =. 35 to 40 Elsth do .............. 15 to 20 Ninth do ............. to 10 It follows that it would not be pro, fitable to keep hens after the fourth year, as their produce would not pay for their keeping, except when they are of valuable and scarce breed.
 FRENCH METHOD OF SAVING GREEN FODDER. Prof. Whitney read 8 paper on method of preserving green fodder for winter use in France. The fodder, which in this case is the leaves of the beet root there grown extensively for sugar, is moistened with a- solution of hydrochloric acid and allowed to drain for two or three days, during which time the pits are dug two or three feet deep. In these pits the wilted fodder is beaten down, that air may be excluded, and closely packed with earth. The fodder is taken out after lapse of some months perfectly fresh, and when fed to milch COWS is said to improve their condition and yield an improved quality of but ter. One pound and half of acid is added to sufficient water to moisten thoroughly one hundred pounds of fod- der. The method is applicable to corn fodder. clover, or the pulp of beet-roots used for sugar.
 PrAzzAs. - The plainest farmhouse should have it's broad piazza. To no oth- CT persons is the luxury so desirable as to a farmer and his family. When the heat of Q summers day has passed, and the cool shades of evening begin to ren- der Gall outdoors an inviting place of
 
 his close shop, the lawyer from his mus ty office, the minister from his study, the banker from his counting-room, to enjoy with their wives an evening call. or walk, or drive, and to them, as to the weary seamstress, it seems like Q glorious rest. While the farmer who has been bronzing and blisIering all day in the sun, and to his wife who has for @ large share of it been broiling over a hot cook.stove, the thought of a walk would prove anything but refreshing and comforting. To him, when he would rest ut will, and surrounded by the love- ly evening sights and sounds of nature, refresh his mind with the news of the day, or the pleasant chat of his assem- bled family, the broad piazza becomes an inexhaustible, almost an indispensa- ble source of pleasure and comfort.
 AMERICAN FARMERS CLUB.
 POTATOES. G. 0, Brown, of Cro- ton, N. r., stated that the question of most importance was, what shall we plant :? And this he wished to answer as follows Commencing with the eari est. the King of the Earlies, Early Rose and Excelsior were the best sorts, and the last sort was decidedly the best in the market for quality. Of late pota. toes the Peerless, which is rightly named and has yielded 460 bushels per acre. comes first, then the Late Rose. and finally the white White-eyed Peachblow, which he thinks is strictly first-class, He then advocated a certain seeding, which as yet being strictly private prop. erty, should figure in the advertising columns.
 WHAT CROPS TO RAIsE.-An Iowa far mer who was ill debt for his farm, asked if there was not some better way to pay for it than by selling corn and oats ai twenty and wheat at seventy-fve cents per bushel, and hogs at two cents pel pound. H. Stewart advised him to feed his crops to cattle, to grind his grain, cut up his straw and stalks, and raise all the fodder possible, by which he would not only have the profit of the crops but that of manufacturing them into meat, for which there was a ready casl market at all times; he would also keer his farm improving, and on 160 acres O. land, managed, he might have twenty ol thirty head of beef cattle to sell every year. besides doubling his crop of wheat
 MUCK ON MEADows.-J. S. Peacock of Porter's Corners, N. Y., asked if h, should spread muck which had been due last fall, now, or wait until fall. A. $ Fuller advised him to wait until fall and spread it as evenly as possible, ant If there were Jumps to crush them witt roller. Mir. Smith advised him to pu all his muck through his stables or barn yard, and mix it with the manure, b, which 1t would become routed, and woult be valuable applied at any time. A stocl of manure might be increased fourfol, by this method
 FLOWING ORcHARDs.- George Kinni son, Ligonier, Ind, had an orchar which had never been plowed the tree had been planted on newly cleare g ound twenty years ago, and now bor gnarled fruit he asked if it would in jure the roots to blow it now. A. Fuller said he would certainly blow tha orchard. but not deep enough to iniur the roots; it should also be careful pruned. cutting out old branches an, shorter ing new ones. Corn and potatoe should be planted alternate for a fe, years, and if the fruit does not improve the trees should be grafted over again c cut down.
 SUNDRY MATTERS. -J. s. PeacocI Porter's Corner, N. r., planted half a acre of potatoes on the mulching sy. tenn, covering the plot thickly wit coarse hay as soon as planted. It yielde just eight and half bushels of pots toes, while an adjoining plot yielded $ the rate of 150 bushels per acre. D. Curtis exhibited an apple from Ka1 sas, Gloria Mundi, which he said ha been travelling about the country sine last September. It had been to Ricl mond and various other exhibitions, an now was in excellent preservation. B knew of no other fruit but Kansas fru which would stand this usage so lons A. s. Fuller recommended black berrie and rasberries for planting in shade places where there would be but itt sunshine, or where they would be over shadowed ny trees. F. D. Curtis sai bnckwheat-h were not worth u trouble of drawing for manure, bl would answer for bedding. MT. Shit said they were apt to ipjure stock bedde with them; they rapidly heated, ar had been known to cause the halr to fs of from COWS and horses and to mal pigs scabby that had lain on the1 Broom-corn is better cured on raise scaffolds under shelter where it is e posed to the air, than by artificial hes
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