Connecticut western news., 1873-11-07
Te tho Farmers of Connecticut.

The following questions are sent out for discussion from the State Board of Agri- culture, and you are requested to answer, with full details, as early as convenient:
 QUESTIONS ON MANUREs.
 What is your method of preparing and applying stable or yard manure?
 Do you apply it fresh or fermented?
 Do you increase the quantity by compost ing, and what materials?
 To what crops do you apply manure, sea- son and quantityi
 Do you practice ploughing in crops for green manuring3 If so, what plants do you employ, and with what success?
 Do you apply manure on surface, or plowed or narrowed in?
 Do you use night-soil. and in what man. ner?
 Do you use muck in compost or sepa rately. and with what results?
 If yon employ salt, lime, ashes, gypsum or other commercial fertilizer, give the amount, crops to which applied. cost and results. When fish, either raw or manu- factured, or sea-weed is used, give practice and results.
 Give the relative value of the different msnures of the farm, and of commercial fertilizers according to your experience, stating the character of soil in each case. Details of any practice that tends to in creuse the fertility of the soil, by manures or amendments, are solicited froEn every farmer in the state.
 A single premium of $25 % is offered by the State Board of Agriculture for the best practical essay on manures, or any separate topic embraced in these queries. Essays to be sent to the Secretary by Jan. lst, 1874.
 P. S.-The winter meeting of the Board will be held at Meriden Dec. IT. Is and l9 Programmes will be issued IS soon as ar engagements are completed.
 T. s. GoLD, Secretary.
 West Cornwall, Oct. est, 1873.
 CONNECTICUT FRUIT GROWERS.
 You will confer favor by answering the following questions
 What has been the degree of productive ness of your orchards this yearp What varieties have yielded most and best fruit
 Have your apple and pear trees suff red from blight, the depreciation of insects ol any other cause7 Please give details of your experience, and the list of fruits eu would recommend. ...
 would ask particularly of the quince How much of this fruit is raised in you town3 Mention any who make quince growing . specially, or who have attempt ed to do so. Have the trees suffered from the borer. or any other lnsect7 Detail any facts concerning the quince may observe
 Mention any interesting experience with the culture of small fruits, and the names of successful cultivators in your vicinity
 Any specimens of new fruits that may have originated in your town, not generally known, would be gladly received, and you will also confer a.favor by sending small package each of such varieties as will keep, to the winter meeting of the Board of Az Tieulture, which will be held December l7th, 18th and 18th, at Meriden, where g table of fruit will be on exhibition and trial. tsa@F E4 ARBoMCULTURE.
 We solicit facts concerning any noted tmbes or ornamental trees, either cut ol standing; their history, size and value. AL 90 the proportion of woodland in youl town, either original forest or recen, growth.
 Also any attempt to plant the white pine, chestnut, oak, ash, birch or other valuable timber plantations, with details or sugges- tions.
 To what extent have ornamental tree. been set in yeur streets and public places i
 We solicit correspondence with the many intelligent fruIt-growers of our state, and shall be quite glad to receive and give, SC 3 far as possible, any suggestions and facts which may tend to enhance the fruit inter est in our state
 2 P. M. AuauR, Middlefeld, Pomologist of Conn. Board of Agricult ure.