Connecticut western news., 1873-05-30
Farm, Garden and Household,
Stray Farm Notes.

stray Far1n NOtoSs
 First-class farmers are gathering first class crops this spring, that is, crops of manure.
 A member of the Elmira Farmers Club, declares that the discussions of that live body have been worth to him hundreds of dollars.
 A paper gives the following advice: ssTake good care of the hired men and horses. Let them have plenty to eat and sufficient time to rest, but while at work keep them lively"
 An English farm item is to the effect that tenant was fined g. 50 and costs for endeavoring to catch rabbit that had taken refuge on adjoining property, said rabbit having destroyed 2,0OO cab bage plants.
 An English writer, speaking from ex- perience, recommends the protection of trees from teeth of rabbits, sheep, or larger stock, by tacking loosely around the stems galvanized wire netting, say of l ] or 2-inch mesh.
 There are 10000, ,OO0cows in the Uni ted States, or, one to fourpersons. These COWS do not yield on an average more than 50 pounds of butter each, and therefore, the quantity per individual is only 123 pounds year, or about two thirds of an ounce day.
 The Practical Farmer gives the fol lowing average for last season of the number of pounds of milk required at the Worth Factory in Pennsylvania to make one pound of cheesein each month: April, SAY; May, 893; June, 8.85 :; July, 9.09; August, 8.97; September, S.49 October, 7.61 November, 7.03.
 There is no cure for any such canni- bal propensity among hens as eating eggs or each others feathers but sum- mary execution. In most cases, how fresh meat or offal from the butchers, and leaving no frozen eggs in the nest, and feeding no egg shells. As soon as her be made 8 swift example of before she teaches the trick to others.
 Col. Geo. E. Waring, Jr., writes to The Practical Farmaer that as the result of much experience and observation iA the matter, he would never think of con- structing stable without putting ma nure cellar under it, unless ip a case where the lay of the land might make the plan impracticable. "It saves labor !; 1t saves manure and 1t does not make bad odor in the stable. All that is needed is to ventilate the cellar in some this it is very easy to do."
 The expense of building cheese factory sufficient for the milk of 300 COWS would be $3, 900 to $4, 900, accord ing to the style of architecture. The internal fittings would cost from $1, ,O0O to $1, 200, or within trife as much as for factory suitable for twice as many cows. It is question if factory for 300 cows would pay expenses for the reason that the building, fitting, and superintendence would require an out lay nearly as great as one able to turn out twice or thrice the product.
 The question as to whether sleep should be washed before shearing is again to the front. Various opinions are given some think they ought to keep up the standard of honesty, others that it is best to half wash, others favor no washing, but it is agreed by all it would be wise for farmers to unite and either wash or not wash. As things stand at present he who does not wash, or who washes poorly makes most profit, because, as is alleged, buyers seldom can tell the washed from the unwashed, being instructed to pay 8 certain price, or not beyond it, and they are not par. ticular. If they would actually pay fol washed wool what it is really worth the case would be different.
 The cause of a COW giving bloody milk may be the result of inflammation of the udder, the formation of tumo1 upon some of the lacteal or milk vessels in consequence of inflammation arising from various causes or it may result from rapid driving or chasing by dog: when the udder is filled with milk, o1 from blow or bruise If from the frs mentioned causes it might possibly b, remedied by giving one pound of Epson salts with one ounce of ginger, ant bathing the udder where hard spots may be found with warm water, accom- panied with gentle rubbing, and draw ing the milk three times a day. If i arises from the aforementioned causes their immediate suspension will proba ply work an early cure.
 Wood Ashes.
 A correspondent of the IotUa Home stead finds wood ashes, after iftee years use, to be worth a dollar pc bushel for dressing fruit trees. Som years ago a nurseryman of Ontari county, New York, informed us that good dressing of ashes had doubled tn growth of his young pear-trees, as con pared with the growth of trees withou the ashes. Others have made as favor able reports. Yet the results vary i different localities and soils. We hay applied ashes to young pear-trees i the same way precisely as the nursery man just stated, with no visible resul While, therefore, they are general more or less useful, the benefit must | determined by trial in each locality.