Connecticut western news., 1872-03-22
Farm, Garden and Household.

Ensily F. Moore.
 Farm, Garden and Household.
 EARLY LAMBS for the butcher must have warm, dry quarters, and the ewes must be well fed. Nothing is better than clover hay and bran, with say half pound of grain per day. Roots, of course, would be great help. Water regularly. The lambs should have a place, into which they can run through small opening, separate from the ewes, and be fed in small trough all the corn meal and bran they will eat.
 GRATING PEARS ON OAKs.-W. G. Burke, Glen Mills, Pa., grafted cion of pear on the root of an oak, and it grew vigorously, and bore fruit very early. Did the root sustain the cion until it formed roots of it's own, or did it unite with it ? A. s. Fuller said very likely the cion threw out roots of its own; he doubted if any union was formed be- tween the oak root and the cion.
 BoNE-MEA1 FOR Cows.-Hon. Harris Lewis of the Farmers Club to whom was referred the inquiry made few weeks ago about COWS eating rubbish, replied by letter, saying that bone-neal was needed. It might be fed to them in small quantities, like salt, or if two hundred pounds per acre should be spread on the pasture, it would furnish the COWS with bone material for lifetime. On sandy land, gypsum would have similar effect; one hundred pounds per acre was the right quantity.
 TIN-MMKNa PA1s.-The old wooden mllk-pail IS very properly being alto together discarded by wise dairymen. Tin pails are easily kept perfectly clean, and this IS now recognized as the chief requisite to success in making good cheese or butter. As soon as the milk is poured from the pail thorough scalding and washing should be given to it, and a sweet and airy place should be set apart, not only for milk-pails, but for all uten- sils used in the dairy. Any foul odor or mold will affect, to certain extent, even tin, while wood will very readily absorb it.
 How TO PRESERVE MEADows.-D. E. Easton asked the Club if bone dust, ashes, lime, and guano would keep meadow fertile without barn. yard man ure. Ex-Senator Geddes said if meadows were dressed occasionally with bone dust, and each alternate crop allowed to grow without cutting, and fall down and rot on the ground, they will remain in good order for many years when they became sod-bound they should be well narrowed in the spring, and some fresh seed sown. J. Crane recommended ashes and plaster or lime occasionally with the bone dust. MT. Smith had seen meadows Tn England which had been said to have been mown for centuries, which had no manure, but of late years dressing of guano was applied.
 THE FARMERS CnUB.-Moles, accord ing to MT. Smith, might be destroyed by placing pieces of apples in their holes, on which arsenic had been sprinkled, | Hams had been kept from flies, by the Chairman, by packing them in bar rels with pine shavings between them. MT. Geddes kept hams from the flies in dark smoke-house, in which the fire was placed beneath an arch of brick perfora- ted with holes for the smoke to pass through. Essay on bees the Chair man announced that the Secretary, MT, Chambers, had been preparing a paper on bee culture for two years, and it was not yet nearly ready. seeds were declared, by MT. J. Crane, to be bad for everything but hogs; they caus- ed poultry to be weak in the legs, the hens could not become roosters, and ducks could not even waddle if allowed to eat them. Water pipes, according to Thomas Hogue, of Pa, should not be less than an inch and half in diameter.
 TRAvEL1Na BOXES FOR Fow1s-Sb;,,- ping poultry in coops, is dangerous to the health, limbs, and life of the in mates. To avoid this danger, the American Agricultavist gives an excellent plan for box or cage, from which we gather the following: The box should be Of light lumber, planed on the inside, and well put together. Size IS to 20 inches each way. Instead of lattice on one side, cut hole in the box five or SIX inches square, cover this with woven wire nailed on the outside. The whole side may be used as door, and fastened to the box by nails, screws, hinges and hasp, as the shipper may think best, On one side of the window, inside, fas- ten the feed-cup, and on the other, the water-cup. A hand-hole should be made Tn the center of the top of the box s1ffi- c1ently large to admit the fingers of 8 large hand; grain may be dropped through this hole, in case the package should be delayed along the route. The water holder may be a common junk bottle, inverted in a small tin cup and securely fastened, the bottle with wire, and the cup with nails, to the side of the door. Fowls thus shipped, it is said, will go from one part of the coun- try to another with but little risk of in- jury.