Connecticut western news., 1872-02-16
Farm, Garden and Household.

BONE FELON.-As soon as the disease is felt, put directly over the spot fly blister, about the size of your thumb nail, and let it remain for six hours, at the expiration of which time, directly under the surface of the blister, may be seen the felon, which can instantly be taken out with the point of needle or lancet.
 SornNa vs. PAsTUR1NG. is shown by the results of long continued experi- ments that by soiling, three times the amount of stock can be fed from piece of land than can be fed by pasturing. Thus on farm of eighty acres eighty head of stock may be fed if the soiling system is followed.
 ROTATION OF CROPS IN NATURE. is generally considered that the principle of rotation in crops is modern discoy- cry, and yet nature has worked in this way from the commencement. Proofs of this are seen in the vegetable remains of rocks and coal beds, and even now we see the same principle at work whenever we cut down 0 pine woods, which if al- lowed to grow in timber again is replac- ed with deciduons trees, as oaks, beech es, naples, etc., while beech or maple or oak wood cut of will be replaced with pines. Here is undoubtedly rotation of crops, and we merely follow nature when we adopt the principle in our agricultu- ral operations.
 CosT OF KEEPING Cows IN MILK DIARIES. "Orange County" milk producer on Long Island thus feeds his COWS ;. namely, ten pounds of hay, four quarts of corn or oil-meal, and one bush el of brewers grains, daily. The cost of unis is, for hay 15 cents, meal 15 cents, grains IS cents, total 48 cents. The av- craze yield is ten quarts daily, which re- tails at ten cents per quart. Calculating for interest on cost of stock and other expenses, and a proper remuneration for the uncomfortable and unreasonable labor necessary, if an s Orange County dalryman is honest, he is far from being a." bloated aristocrat. ;" or one wLo does not we'll earn his money. tast.ss
 PooR FEET. O'Brien, Oneida County, N. Y., wanted to know of the Farmers Club, what he should do for his cows; he fed them hay, but they were rough, scrawny, and poor, and very weak. Would copperas help them, or is the soil deficient in lime, potash, or iron? He wanted light thrown on this subject. F. D. Curtis-Poor feed is what's the matter. He should give them some oil-meal with their hay, or steam their feed. sDr. Crane added that good hay with meal of some sort was all that was needed; it was poor feed that caused all the hollow-horn we hear of and most other complaints. It did not pay tc cook feed where corn was twenty-five cents bushel, any how. S '''''o7F' }
 EFFECTS OF GoRa1NG.- W. Mason D told the Club that he had two COWS, whicI devoured large quantity of dry corn meal, and died in consequence. How could he have saved them ? Dr. Smitl said he should have given them water this would disolve the meal and save them. Fl. Stewart said he could not d. worse thing, under such circumstance Water except in the smallest quantitie was certain death. A pint of linseed oi or quart of soft soapsuds would caus the stomach and bowels to act rapidl, and relieve the animal Cows anf horses should never be allowed acces to dry feed, which eaten to excess is of ten fatal.
 PORK MAKNa.-Mr Dievendorf say that, with proper management, pork ca, be produced cheaper than either beef o mutton. That a given quantity of cor meal will produce in a weI-bred pi more pounds of pork than can be pro puced of any other kind of meat, be cause pig can eat more, digest nor and asslmllate more, over and over tn amount of food necessary to sustai life, than any other domestic animal He said the secret of success in DOT making hinges notso much on any pal hcular breed, although the breed Ina something to do with it, as it does o liberal and regular feeding As t breeds, he perterred cross between ou common large hogs and some of tn small breeds, such as the Essex or Su folk, as well adapted to pork makin among dairymen. By such cross W get more constitution and @ quicke growth. It is putting the great dige tive powers of the large breed in th body of a small, refined and quick ia tening pig. He thought the cheapel way to winter a shoat was in the DOT barrel; hence he would fatten pie rather than old hogs. In proportion | the food consumed, young pigs gro much more rapidly than older ones, an besides, if they are grades of some the small breeds, they will be ready ft market when four or five months ol. and will always bring 8 farcy price.