Connecticut western news., 1873-10-24
Farm, Garden and Household.
Seasollable Hints.

and dispose of them. It will not pav to winter them.
 For winter fattening we want sheen that have got their full growth and are now in good thrifty condition. Merino sheep for this purpose should be three or four years old. Let them have good pasture and little grain-say half pound each per day. They will gain very rapidly this month.
 Long-wool sheep and lambs should be dipped or dressed with solution of carbolic soap to kill ticks. If this is neglected now the ticks will be very Troublesome next spring.
 For combing-wool and mutton com blned there is no more profitable sheep than grade Cotswold or Leicester Merino. Select out the strongest and best common Merino ewes, and procure q tull-blood Cotswold, Lincoln, or Le1cester ram. For 20 or 25 ewes a last-spring's lamb will answer. Good for from $40 to $50, and nothing will pay better.
 Farrow COWS that are giving milk should be fed two or three quarts of corn-meal per day. This will fatten them, and they can be milked at the same time.
 Mich COWS will also pay we'll for a quart or two of meal per day. It will get them into good condition for the winter, as we'll as keep up the supply of milk.
 Look out for storms, and have the sheds and stables ready to shelter the sheep, calves, COWS, etc. See that the stables are we'll ventilated.
 SwNE.-Pork has been so low for two or three years that many farmers have paid no attention to the improve ment of their breed of pigs. They make mistake. There will be a re- action: Good pigs will soon be wanted.
 Early maturity is more than ever de- slrable in our breedof pigs. The de- mand IS now greater and the price higher for young, small, well-fattened pigs than for large hogs.
 AS soon as 8 pig is fat he should be sent to market. Sell the fat ones, and buy lean ones to feed.
 Fattening pigs should be pushed for ward this month as rapidly as possible. There is no better food than sound corn. If it does not cost too much. grind and cook it. At any rate, shell it and soak the corn for 24 or 36 hours Let the pigs have all the soaked corn they will eat, and then tempt them to eat more by throwing them some dry ears of corn. Let them have full SUD- ply of fresh water at all times.
 Young pigs should have all the milk you can spare. Our own plan is to feed them cooked corn meal, and when they have eaten as much of this as they will, give them some more cooked meal mix ed with milk. This induces them to eat more, and they grow very rapidly.
 Breeding stock should have plenty of exercise, with liberal allowance of food of not too concentrated charac- ter-such as pumpkins, bran, mangel leaves, turnips, etc.
 Spring pigs are better wintered in the pork-barrel. .s-..s..
 Early fall pigs should be pushed for ward rapidly, so that they may have strength enough to stand the winter.
 Late fall pigs must be kept in pens by themselves, and should have the best of food. It will not do to let them rough it with the common herd.
 Horses should be kept up at night; or, at any rate, if turned out to pasture they should be allowed grain and hay in addition.
 Poultry should not be neglected. See that they have abundance of food. Clean out the hen-house often.-Agri- c,tlturist.
 S'+ Beef Broth.
 Process Put two pounds of beef in pot or kettle with two quarts and a half of cold water, 8 small tablespoon tul of salt, and set 1t on good fire :; after about thirty or forty minutes the scum will begin to collect on the sur lace; take a skinner and skim it off as soon as there is enough of it; when it begins to boil add about g wine-glass- fuI of cold water to stop the boiling, and allow all the scum to come on the surface in order to remove it. When no part of 1t comes up, add small tur- mp or part of one, medium sized car rot, two cloves, an onion, 8 stalk of celery, leek, and clove of garlic simmer constantly for about six hours, then add a tablespoonful of burned sugar, and the broth is made. The meat IS served either with the carrot,
  and 1t IS ready for use. It does not Keep long in summer without turning sour; 1t is then necessary to cool it quickly by exposing it to draught, and to keep 1t in dark and cool closet, or on ice. It keeps longer by giving it one boil every twelve hoars.
 Ea Kerosene for Hen Lice.
 Hen lice are among the greatest drawbacks to the pleasure and profit of the poultry yard they are especially troublesome Tn small yards and GOODS. where the fowls cannot have free access to green food and dry earth. We have tried various remedies, and have found kerosene oil to be very little trouble pour 1t from the can upon the perches where the fowls roost, and when the hens are ready to brood, saturate the in- side of the box before the clean hay or straw is put in with the eggs. It is very much less trouble to apply the oil than to use a wash of tobacco. or to % through process of whitewashing once 8 month.
 "Buggy Peas."
 A farmer asks us what he had better do with "buggy peas." There are sev- l"i P4"ns 1ecouAnenoeo 1or Killing the bug-or, more properly, weevil-but the best thing farmer can do with meas affected with the weevil is to feed them out as fast as he can. Pigs will eat the peas and weevils together, and grow fat on them. If fed out before the middle of November there will be comparative ly little loss.
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 Taking Wild Horses.
 The editor of the Pleasanton Stock