Connecticut western news., 1872-05-31
Farm. Garden and Household.

Farm, Garden and Household.
 LANDs.-There are, says the Camada Farmer, two ways in which land may be ameliorated and brought into good tilth and condition for grain crops, and then seeding down to grass. The first is by growing roots with the help of manure, to restore fertility and get rid of weeds, which can be done to most advantage on fields already well worked and smoothed down by the action of the blow. The other is by Summer following.
 PoTAToEs.-I the Farmers Club, MT. Nash said :: Twenty years ago I heard of some experiments in placing potatoes on turf and covering with mulch. l tried the plan in small way, using leaves chiefly, with Q little over layer of straw to keep them in place. removed the crop in October, and found the potatoes clean, and the yield esti- mated at the rate of 800 bushels per acre.
 To HoUsE-C -CLEANERs.- When you have taken up dusty carpet, don't touch a broom to the floor until you have taken a dust-pan and filled it with moist earth from the garden or elsewhere. Scatter the earth all over the floor; then use your broom as if scrubbing, and finally sweep all up together. You will find that you raise scarcely any dust in the operation, and you will have 0 very clean floor, that scarcely needs mopping at all Don't fail to thy it once, and you will not need urging to repeat it.
 GRAHAM AND INDIAN BREAD.-Take hrk k0,, IL k a4s into 1t corn meal until it is about half thick enough for a good batter then cool 1t with cold water, and make thick batter by adding Graham flour; give the whole good stirring put into pans about three inches deep; let it stand an hour or so, then put it into hot oven, and bake steadily two hours and half. When taken out, cover with thick cloths for an hour or two. It is best if eaten when warm, but is good cold.
 WHEN TO Cur TMBER. the old of the moon of August, 1870, cut down about half an acre of small growth of timber, mostly hickory, from five to four teen inches in diameter. It lay in the tree as it fell till the following winter and spring, when trimmed it up and chop ped it into stove wood, and put in wood- house. In the winter of 1871 and 1872 burned it for common fire-wood, and have not discovered any worm-eating or powder-post, as is common for wood in such circumstances. saved few butts for ax-handles. I split one of them the other day and found it as withy and free from worm eating as the day it was cut. -CsrTespondent.
 A CURE FOR HYDRoPHoBIA.-Aco cores pondent of the Chicago Tribune states that the poison from the bite of mad dog can be eliminated from the system by vapor baths. He quotes from an ar ticle printed in Paris medical journal by Dr. Buisson, celebrated French sur geon, who says: "If the disorder has declared itself, prescribe single bath, and leave the patient in until cure is effected. Hydrophobia may last three days. Experience has proved to me that a cure is certain on the first day of the outbreak; on the second day, doubt ful; and on the third, hopeless, on ac- count of the difficulty of conveying the patient to the bath and keening him in. And as hydrophobia never breaks out . before the Seventh day, there is time to perform long journey to obtain bath.
 GAS LIME AND WIRE WORMS. A cor respondent of the London Ffeld says l have had some experience on three quarters of an acre of garden ground made from old turf land, and feel sure the remedy which adopted will answer the end on my land The first and second years was dreadfulIy pestered with wire-worm my potatoes, turnips, car rots, and other roots, were pierced through and through with this pest. A thought struck me that the application of spent gas lime would settle my enc mics, so sent for two carloads from the Denby Gas Works, and had il mixed with six times as much good soi and manure, equal quantities the man. ure was chiefly sawdust upon whicf pigs had run. This was spread on the ground in November, and dug in spade deep; then in the Spring I put earl, and other potatoes and the general crop excellent crops that year and afterwards but not single wire-worm could I detec after that dressing. It is very importan not to overdose with the gas lime di lute it we'll with soil and manure, ant it will destroy grubs as well.
 CONCENTRATED EFFORT ON THE FARM A Cape Cod correspondent, writin, well ill The Marine Former upon that olt topic of going over too many acres in
 superficial manner, makes some very in teresting statements in regard to his owl practices. Three years ago he purchase, Q farm of 140 acres. When he took DOS session he turned it all out to pastur with the exception of 25 acres. Tn first year he cut ten tons of hay, tile, about three acres, bought 25 tons of hay and stock to help eat it-believing if would pay to feed, hay that one raised it would pay to purchase it to feed. Hi hay crop has steadily incr eased in amount but Ee expresses his determination no to cultivate more than the 25 acres unti he cuts 40 tons of hay, with five acre in field crops-or two tons of hay to tn acre. To do this he intends to purchas and feed hay, shorts, cotton seed, o corn meal, and keep all the stock he can applying all the dressing to the 25 acre until 1t reaches his standard of produe tion, then gradually taking in large area. He does not allow single ounc of any substance that will make fertilize to go to waste :; uses muck, loam, saw dust, &c.; used 50loads of muck the pre- sent winter in bedding his stock tie up his cattle atnight, winter and summe, used 75 loads of old manure as tor dressing last fall steams all the hay an roots fed to his stock. He reads the pc pers carefully, and attends the meetin of the Farmers Club every week.
 KEEP YOUR WORD. When you pron ise to do thing, be sure to keep yor word, as we'll for the sake of truth as justice to others. This very interestin