Connecticut western news., 1873-09-26
Farm, Garden and Household.
To Cure Corn Fodder.

To Cure Corn Fodder.
 If your eor.. is not down or "lodged" bldly, let it reach maturity, or be thor oughly tasseled out and in blossom, be- fore cutting with corn cradle or, if too large or lodged too much for this, cut with 8 good corn knife, and leave in gavels to cure. Turn once. Select fine weather, if possible, for this, and let it get thoroughly wilted before bind ing in medium sized bundles. Now comes the point wherein so many fail 1: the standing or" shocking up to cure. When first bound, the sheaves may ap- pear stiff and able to stand alone, but as they wilt they become weak and linn Der as a three-months-eld baby, and want something to lean against. The object is to dry the juices in the stalk without unnecessary exposure to wash ing and bleaching. Select four of the shorter bundles and stand up in round- shock fashion, and put band around dies and stand up around the first snugly ; around the whole eight bundles put two more bands, one near the top. By this means you have a sugar-loaf shock, whose apex will divide the rain, so that none shall enter to injure the fodder. This size shock will stand firm, and not Gas the stalks get limber) be at every idle caprice of the wind, will cure out thoroughly before snow flies, and will be of an inviting green color inside, though perfectly dry. You can now store it away in your barn al- most any way, but the best way is to stand it on end, tier upon tier; but if you are so favored as not to have room in your barn this season of short crops, leave it out in shock until all is fed it witl not injure beyond slight bleach ing outside the shock.
 New for the Budding.
 We are now passing through the prop CT season for budding most trees. Peaches especially are growing luxuri- antly, and 8 bud or two inserted at this time will in two or three years give a bounteous return. It is very easy to go to 8 nursery and purchase 8 few young trees in spring, but it is not quite so easy to procure large ones of bear ing age. Therefore when there are any old pear, or even peach trees standing around our dwellings, it is but few minutes work to put in few buds of some excellent kind and thus insure a crop that will be remunerative in time to come. By the way, the quickest, easiest and surest method, when the bark separates easily from the scion, is to cut beneath the bud, half way through the scion, commencing half an inch below the bud and ending the same distance above. At the latter point merely run the knife around the bark and twist the bud of, leaving as mat ter of course all the wood adhering to the stick. These in the case of peaches rarely fail under the worst of treatment, and in fact so sure has the operation now become that the large propagators use this method if preference to all others.
 @ Worthless Manures.
 The North Carolina Agriculturol Journal reports the trial in Raleigh of a case in the United States Court, in teresting to farmers
 One of the leading merchants ot Raleigh purchased from guano com pany, in Baltimore, seventeen tons ot their article. It was ordered for a farmer who applied 1t to his crops, and finding no good results upon his crop, afterwards had it subjected to an analysis at the hands of Prof. Liebig, of Baltimore, and Professor Kerr, of this city. At the trial the evidence of the planter and the analysis of both of these gentlemen were produced, and the fact was established that the article contained sixty-eight per cent. of sand The fact was established by Prof. Lie big that the article was of no value whatever as manure. And in spite ol the evidence, the jury decided that the guano must be paid for.
 Arresting Decay in Potatoes.
 Various plans for arresting decay il potatoes after digging have from time to time been made public, such al dusting with quicklime, gypsum, char coal dust, etc. Prof. Church, of Ciren cester, England, the eminent agricul tural chemist, announces that sulphit of lime appears to exercise very re markable. influence in arresting tn spread of decay in potatoes affected b, the potato disease. In one experimen the salt was dusted over some tubers partially decayed from this cause, a they were being slowed away. Som months afterward the potatoes -.wer found to have suffered no further in jury. A similar trial with powdered lime proved to be much less effective.
 Preserving Eggs.
 Eggs may be kept from rotting b. packing them with oats in barrel, an then rolling the barrel partly over ever two or three days. The eggs will no rot so long as the membrane lining tn shell remains impervious to air by COT tact with the lubricating albumen c white. But if one position be kept the syolk' gradually sinks through tn white and falls upon this membrane and the latter becoming dry, admits tn air; decomposition soon follows; bu by rolling the barrel partly over occs sionally, this settling down of the vol is avoided, and the eggs kept sweet.