Connecticut western news., 1872-08-30
Farm, Garden and Household.

WHEAT ON STuBBLE LAND.-A large and increasing breadth of winter wheat s now sown after barley, oats, peas, or beans. Whether it is best to blow such land once or twice depends on circur- stances. As rule, we think it best on rather heavy soil, 10 blow twice --once immediately after the crop is gathered, and again just previous to sowing. On light sandy land we should harrow the stuhbl ], or cultivate 1t to start the weeds and fallen grain, and blow as soon as they had eerminated. Then harrow and keep the surface clean and mellow by the use of the cultivator until it was time to SOW.
 Uows.-During the hot weather in August, says the AgricHltUrist, the flow of milk is apt to fall fl considerably, and it is difficult afterwards to bring it up again. Brnu and sprout-feed are un usually cheap. and eau he used to great advantage. Our own plan is to keep q large trough of water in the yard, and mix as much mill-feed with the water every day as the COWS will drn nk. It paws in the manure, in the increase of milk, and in the improved condition ot tue COWS. If you have any green corn now is the time to feed it libprally Ii very succulent, let it wilt a little, and if very large and coarse, and consequently rather deficient in nutriment. let the COWS have enough corn-meal to make the fodder as nutritious as the best pas. tuce grass.
 SnME HINTS. Mr.. H ,rris I have generally aimed to SOW wheat from the 10th to the 18th of September and iu ordinary years, on good land, this is the best time, but this season as a rule, the early sown wheat is the best. And drill ed wheat is very decidedly better than that sown broadcast. I have nev-r been au enthusiastic advocate of drilling. have seen wheat sown broadcast just as good as that with | ill. But ft W will claim that broadca>t wheat is ever better than filed. And so, if every few years we have season in which drilled wheat is decidedly the best. and never one in which it is worst, it would seem to be the part of wisdom to drill in the wheat.
 The lesson that we. as farmers, have to learn is not to be discouragel, but to keep on the even tenor of our ways, study ing how to improve our farms, tc cheal,en the cost of production, to raise oSO ooA SuCA oiOth tto ttA' adapted to our soils and situations, t1 sell when we can get reasonable prices and he content with fair profits, and no, rush into every new thing that for the time being is bringing an extravugant price.
 Mir. Bowles says he has drained some of his swamp land with tiles, three feet deep, and the underdrains three rods apart, at a cost of $31 per acre, reckon. ing labor at $1. 75 per day of ten hours. My swamp land," says MT. B.. "used to grow only smart weed. The first year after it was underdrained il grew about 35 bushels (6S lbs. of ears) o corn per acre. The next year it grew SC bushels Of corn per racre. The next yeal Q871) S5 bushels per acre. It is now 1T coru again." Is not that better thar letting it produce smart-weed and feve and a9ue?
 . I know of no crop, unless it is cotton that affords such splendid opportunity of cleaning land as our magnificent cereal ln'iian corn. And have no little pleas ure in witnessing the aviiity with whicl all good farmers avail themselves of thi chance to kill the weeds. have alway said that it will not be many years befor the best farming in the world will b found on this continent, the more thor ough cultivation of the land while in corr will do much to hasten the time.