Connecticut western news., 1873-05-02
Farm, Garden and Household.
Feed from am Acre.


 of hay and 12 pounds of oats for each. It will take IA to 16 acres of average land to raise this amount of fodder. A COW will consume IS pounds of hay and 6 pounds of corn meal daily, equal to 31 tons of hay and 40 bushels of corn, allowing for toll for grinding it, per year. This will require about acres of average land. One acre of good corn land will produce enough grain and stalks to keep COW during a year. This estimate, which is deduced from practice, accords elsewhere, as gathered from statistics, which prove that eight acres of land are needed to support a horse during year in Belgium and Holland-countries which, as regards the supply of food, are self-sustaining. There would be no practical difference between the crops mentioned and others that might be chosen, for the reason that more prolific crops require a greater amount to be consumed to yield an equal sustenance, with less prolific, but more nutritious crops. The most econ- omical single crop to raise for feeding animals is corn, when the whole stalks are well cured and properly used. y. Tribune. :
 Fruit in Tin Cans.
 The Boston Journal of Chemistry says: The impression prevails among those who use freely fruits which are put up in tin cans that they are injured thereby, and this impression is in many cases correct. We have long contended that all preserved fruits and vegetables should be stored in glass, and that no metal of any kind should be brought in contact with them. All fruits contain more or less of vegetable acids, and others that are highly corrosive are often formed by fermentation, and the metallic vessels are considerably acted upon. Tin cans are held together by solder, an alloy into which lead enters largely. This metal is easily corroded by vegetable acids, and poisonous salts are formed. Undoubtedly many per- sons are greatly injured by eating toma- toes, peaches, &c., which have been placed in tin cans, and we advise all our friends who contemplate putting up fruit the coming summer to use only glass jars for the purpose.
 Salt for Cattle.
 One thing cattle need they do not get, is plenty of salt; they ought to have some every day, but fear many do net get 1t once month. Our plan of feeding is to give from four to five quarts of corn meal, or corn and oats ground together (the finer the better), well salted the first thing in the morn ing the roots, after which the cattle are turned into the yard, where they have feed of straw and stalks to work at, and plenty of water to drink. At night, they get what good hay they will eat. They keep in frstrate order on this. Last summer we fed four quarts corn meal right through the summer to our COWS, each morning, and they looked well right through the season, but they were none too fat. It is something we never did before, but think it paid well in the extra quantity, and also in the quality of the butter. Try it one sea- son, and see if it don't pay you. Don't forget the salt. ..,'. ..- $.
 Soparatipg Honey from Bee Bread.
 A lady correspondent of the California Agrieult,1Hist gives the following con- venient and old-fashioned way of separ- ating honey from bee-bread
 Put such pieces of the comb as have bread in them into round tin butter cans (those little faring at the top are best ) until nearly full. Then set the wash boiler on the stove with water a few inches deep in it, but not enough to boil up into the cans then lay few pebbles or an iron chain evenly on the bottom and set the cans on them, put the cover on the boiler and let the honey steam until the wax is melted, which can be ascertained by a small stick or wire. The honey must be stirred If wished clear. When 1t is all melted, lift the cans out and set away carefully to cool, and when just about milk warm, with knife and fork, lift the wax and bread off the top, and your honey will be clear and nice in the can.
 Economy Of Fuel.
 A correspondent in The British Work naan tells how to build fire as follows The person laying a fire should fill the grate up to the top bar with coals, put. ting large pieces at the bottom and smaller over them, then upon these, paper enough to light the sticks, which should be laid upon and not under, the coal. Cover the sticks with the cinders remaining from the previous days fire these will soon become red hot; the coal below will be warmed sufficiently tc make 1t throw off gas; this, passing through the hot cinders, will burn witI bright flame, instead of going up the chimney in smoke, as it does when the coals are laid ontop. The fire thus lai6 will require no poking, and will burr clear and bright from six to eight hours without the necessity for more coals tc be thrown on.
 Made 1t Productive.
 A correspondent of the Ohio Farn,e, " having nothing to start with," pur chased, on easy terms, cone of tht poorest farms in the township" ant made it productive. His plan is aI follows First, blow deep, then seet with wheat in the spring SOW clove on the field; the summer after I talk, of the crop, I pasture one season, anG the next season let the clover grow LII and come out in bloom, and when thu heads begin to turn brown, I take m, three-horse blow and break up the lant nine inches deep, and then SOW in whea again. The year following, in tn, spring, turn up for corn to the depth O nine inches as at first.
 Narrowing Wheat In Spring.
 If ground for wheat has been proper ly prepared for seeding in the fall, ant the seed has been drilled in, or if it ha not been sown too thickly, we can SCI no advantage to result from narrowing If it is too thick on the ground and it i desirable to thin it, narrowing may b, the mode adopted for so doing, other wise we see no, and never saw any, gail from narrowing fall wheat in spring On lands that are likely to heave by frost, we should rather apply rolle than harrow, anyway and we certain grass the previous fall.
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