Connecticut western news., 1873-05-16
Farm, Garden and Household.
ALocal Market and its Lesson.


 ALocal Market and its Lesson.
 The first annual report of the Yer tains paper of more than local value, inasmuch as it goes to show how read fly periodical markets for specific agri- cultural products may be successfully introduced in other districts than i'll the butter center of Vermont. The estab- hshment of such markets as that at St. Albans is eminently desirable. They are held in foreign countries, notably in England, and have been for cen turies past. They bring buyers and sellers together and thus dispense with the services of the middleman, who is often parasite on both. Business is facilitated, and currency, the life-blood of business, Is freely and promptly cir culated. The general establishment of such Q market in every district where special productions seek purchasers, would result in Q vast saving to the pro- ducers and in much convenience to their clients. Besides the necessary contact between producer and dealer or con- sumer in certain sense would be pro- ductive of a better understanding be- tween them of the capabilities of the one and the needs of the other. The origin of the St. Albans market was natural. It grew, it was not made. Circum- stances gradually brought it into exist ence "Buyers went through the coun- try and bought the butter and cheese to be delivered at St. Albans Bay, which was center of shipment" "Then commenced the market. There are no 1lno Nv Ior ,l,,1 wishes buys, and anybody who has any thing to sell, sells. The buyers go be- cause the sellers are there, and they are there because the buyers are there. '" Before 1854 all days were butter days j; piled with ice, were run by the Central fixed upon as the most convenient for all concerned.
 The story is worth considering for it's gratifying features of mutual assistance and cooperation of farmers, dealers, and railroad company, which, in their successful application to a common end, have built up business which has amounted to a sum of more than $18,- OO0, ,OOO since its commencement, and which is steadily increasing. From butter it is natural to revert to the COWS which produce it. A paper entitled "What Breed of Cattle Shall We Raise ?" informs us that the Vermont dairymen have found the Ayrshire best adapted to their hilly and somewhat scanty pastures. Half-bloods are pre- ferred to full-bloods, and the average produce of such COWS is 37 pounds of milk day, yielding 103 pounds of but ter per week. The hardness of these COWS and their freedom from infamma- tory diseases, as garget and others of similar character, is not the least of their recommendations.
 Farm Notes.
 Let no farmer who wishes to raise a luxuriant crop of clover on his thin soils fail to buy few barrels of land plaster and SOW on it just as it begins to show on the ground and before the hot days set in.
 The practice of scalding poulty before plucking has been very properly vetoed better effect in preserving the flesh, i'm mediately after death, and before they have had time to cool.
 KEEPING EGGs.-Put into a tub one bushel unslaked lime, thirty-two ounces salt, eight ounces cream tartar, and add water until the mixture will bear up an egg. Into this put your eggs, and they will keep for two years. For small quantity of eggs, one ounce salt, one- fourth ounce cream tartar, one quart lime.
 To MEND CH1NA.-Take very thick solution of gum arabic in water, and stir into it plaster of Paris, until the mixture is of a proper consistency. Ap- ply it with brush to the fractured edges of the china, and stick them to- gether. In three days, the articles cannot be broken in the same place The whiteness of the cement renders il doubly valuable.
 There can be no doubt but that tor dressing grass lands in winter with fnt stall manure, or rich compost, is al economical process. What the manure loses in ammonia is made up in mulch ing, and if the manure is first fermentet the waste may be even greater. Prof Voelcker says that the ammonia of ma nure is generally one-half lost to tn, growing crops. But the soluble matte washed into the roots of the grass mus certainly be saved.
 A farmer says My experience il applying ashes to potatoes with the bes resultphas been to put on a single hand full to each hill soon after they ar planted and before they get out of tn ground. I have increased my crop one half by so doing. By making an exper iment in the same field, by leaving row without ashes, I have seen the re suit. I consider ashes better thal plaster for potatoes worth to me cents per bushel.
 Cost of Wintering Stock.
 As the expense of wintering dry stock or COWS, is a subject of general interes to the farming community, I give yo the daily allowance and cost of fee used by some members of the Pionee Farmers Club of Westerly, R. I. Tn calculations are made on the basis ( corn at 85 cents per bushel, and hay s $30 per ton:
 ". P. T.. horse, qts. meal, 6H fb hay per
 uay..'.. ........::.... ..................... 70
 9cows, 200 fb hay per day. y......... s % T. s.: horse 6 qts meal per day ........ 10 N. D. horse fb meal, 12 fb hay. .......... 25
 yoke of oxen, 20 ID hay each ....... GO
 AZ ats. meal for the pair. ........... Il
 cows, 24 tb meadow hay. .......... 12
 < qts. meal each. Il J. 0. s.: cattle los fb hay per day ....... 1 6l
 horse, 15 tb hay per day, fb meal 33 P. S.L. horse, 15 b hay per day, qts meal 8
 colt, 20 fb hay per day. ............ 35
 COW, 10 fb hay, bdls. stalks, ats.
 ER s 1 horse 14 ID hay dts meal l 27