Connecticut western news., 1873-04-25
Farm, Garden and Household.
Hop Culture

Hop Culture.
 First be sure to secure good quality of the right kind of plants. The Eng fish Cluster stands far in advance of all, or any other variety, both for produc- tiveness and quality of hop. We should be as cautious in selecting the variety of hops as we would be on fruit-trees, seeds, &c. The English Clusterhop can be profitably grown in any climate or soil that will produce any kind of grain or potatoes.
 As regards profit to the grower, say first, at low average of 1,500 pounds per acre, and at low average price of 40 cents per pound, the crop would bring $500 per acre. The expenses of cultivation and harvesting are to be de- ducted therefrom. Some fix the ex- pense of production as high as 10 cents per pound others as low as 5 cents. The variation depends on the number of pounds produced per acre, as light crop costs nearly as much labor as a heavy yield.
 My experience teaches me that an av- craze yield of hops can be grown at an expense not exceeding seven cents per pound, making an expense of $105 per acre deduct this from the $60O and the grower is left in possession of a net profit of $495 per acre.
 To start with, the plants will cost about $22 per acre. The next year the vines need polling, which can be done at an expense of about $50 per acre. Many farmers have plenty of poles upon their own land which will cost them nothing but the time and labor of cut ting and hauling them. After the plants and poles are once secured, there will be no additional expense in that direc- tion for twenty years or more. The first crop will, or should, pay all those ex- penses and leave 8 profit of $423 per acre, and a paid-up investment for twenty years or more. Last year, 1872, good hops sold readily at the growers door for fifty and ffty-six cents per pound, many of them realizing from $1O, 900 to $15, 900 for their crop. No wonder they are the most jovial and happy lot of creatures on earth.-R,tral Netv Yorker.
 Corn i'm Hills and Drills.
 At the Michigan Agricultural College in 1868, two plots of land were set apart, substantially equal in character of soil each measuring fort weight rods in width. The ground was plowed May 5, and manure was spread evenly and worked in by cultivator and harrow. Yellow Dent corn was planted May 21 in rows four feet apart one of the plots being planted in hills, the other ir drills. The plots were cultivated and hood June 15, and again July the plants being thinned so as to leave the same number of stalks on each plot, in cluding the equal distribution of plants throughout the subdivision of the plots As nearly as possible, each of the two plots received the same amount of labor and cultivation. The stalks were cut Sept. IT, and stacked in good order three weeks afterward the corn was husked and weighed. The stalks ther again carefully stacked, and were haul ed and weighed, in good condition Oct. 12. The corn on the portion plant ed in hills was better in quality than o1 that planted in drills. But the drilled portion produced seventy-four and one sixth bushels of shelled corn, and three tons of stalks to the acre, against sixty five and one-half bushels of shelleG corn, and two and two thirds tons O. stalks per acre produced by the portion in hills.-Rural World.
 How to BroiI Fish.
 :. In the first place, says Pierre Blot the fish must be fresh, the fire sharp and the draught good. When thor oughly cleaned and washed, dry the fisl with towel; rub it inside and outside with little butter, and salt and pepper it on both sides also. Set on the fire turn over now and then in order to pre- vent the charring of any part of the fish, It does not matter how many times it is turned over, provided the fire is sharI enough to broil quickly. As soon as done place the fish on @ warm dish, the inside up, spread butter mixed with chopped parsley all over, and sprinkle lemon juice all over also. Serve quickly
 Let our readers bear in mind that vinegar is no substitute for lemon juice in this case,
 Many amateur fishermen believe that they can cook fish better than any cook . because they relish it better when on z fishing excursion. They have two ad vantages over the cook; the first is the freshness of the fish, and the other is 6 sauce that no cook can make-hunger
 The old saying about cooking fish is to be good, fish must go from the water VI "A.S R"1s on~ A@OA Ono PaA Vo Ous mouth.
 The American Indians say, As soor as caught, bleed it; as soon as bled clean it; as soon as cleaned, cook it; al soon as cooked, eat it.
 Treatment of Frozen Trees.
 MT. Hanford of Indiana stated, at tho recent meeting of the Michigan Pomo logical Society, that in the cold winte, of 1856he had 8 peach orchard of thrifty young trees absolutely killed to thu snow line, and of course total loss al far as appearances indicated or expert ence could suggest. Knowing, howev CT, that the trees had been vigorous ant that their roots must possess consider able power of reproduction, he proceed ed to cut off the entire top of every tre, that had been killed, and left nothin, but unsightly stumps throughout tn, orchard. The spring came on; ad vanced somewhat; he watched hi stumps with anxiety found that nu merous buds started out from thes stubs, put forth their shoots and made remarkable growth, and in two years h. had as good and healthy an orchard a that which had been cutoff by the frost Since that time he has frequently ha, occasion to treat other trees in simi lar manner, sometimes cutting off in jured branches only, and has almos uniformly had good results. But it i necessary to cut of the injured branche of frozen tops as early as possible afte the snow is gone, and always before tn sap has begun to ascend the tree.
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