Connecticut western news., 1873-10-31
Farm, Garden and Household,
( reh.rel and Nursery.

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 LABELs.--When trees arrive from the nursery the labels are often wired so close as to injure the bark. This should be watched, and if plan of the orchard has been made the labels may be re. moved altogether.
 CLEAR UP any weeds or rubbish which have collected around the orchard and fences during the fall, and see that the fences are repaired so as to prevent any stray animals from entering and in- turing the trees. A little time employ. ed Tn this now will often prevent hun dreds of dollars of damages.
 LATE PEARS are to be treated in the same way as recommended above, ex- cept that it is best to substitute boxes for barrels unless one has great quans tlty. Do not remove them to the eel lar until there is danger of freezing. The earlier sorts may be placed on shelves in the fruit room.
 CIDER AND VINEGAR.-The best use for inferior fruit is to manufacture into cider and vinegar. The best cider can b. made at this season, as there is less danger of rapid fermentation. Cider made from good fruit and run through filter of sand nay be bottled and placed in cool cellar, where it will keep we'll.
 FRU1T.-Harvest the late varieties of fruit before the frost becomes too severe. If handled with care, fruit picked now will last long time. A cool cellar is needed for storing and keeping fruit. Sort and place the fruit in barrels head, and lay the barrel upon it's side, inf %N c. ok |. tween the barrel and cellar wall. The cellar should not be closed until the low temperature outside makes it necessary.
 PLANTING.-If fall planting is prac- tlced the trees she uld be set out as soon as they can be had, so that they may have time to get established before win. ter sets in. Flow and prepare the land so that no delay need happen after the trees have arrived. Do not mix the sorts, and have plan of the orchard showing the position and name of each variety, 80 that should the labels be lost or the names be obliterated by the weather the plan will be sure guide to the variety.
 Sweet Potato Coffee.
 There are many persons who are very fond of good cup of coffee, but who dare not indulge in the favorite bever. age on account of the nervous excite ment or bilious affection that follows. To such 1t will be pleasing to learn that the new modes of evaporating fruits and vegetables by artificial processes have rendered it possible to so reduce the uncooked sweet potato, without taint, to the dry and brittle condition necessary for roasting and grinding as coffee. In this condition it's useful and economical properties are said to be manifold. Being very wholesome, as we'll as exceedingly nutritious, it is said to Ee very valuable substitute for cbicory and the indifferent article of peas, which make up large portion of the mixture usually sold for spure ground coffee." It's saccharine con- tents not only diminish the amount of sugar required, when it is used, but so completely agglutinate and settle the grounds that coffee mixed with this preparation may be used as fine as flour without making the infusion muddy, thus permitting double the ordinary strength to he obtained from the coffee itself. The ground sweet potato may be mixed with one-half its bulk of pure coffee. This mixture will cost less than half the price of pure coffee, and by many IS decidedly preferred as a mat ter of taste. More important, however, to those whs cannot drink pure coffee, is the consideration that in the sweet potato there is no headache, no excite ment of the nerves, and bilious affec- tlon.-SGcrGDae'ato Record.
 The Drin for Sowing.
 There is no one thing better agreed upon Tn this State, says George Geddes, ot New York, among winter wheat rais- CTS, that drill not only saves seed, but 1t saves labor, covers the seed just just at one uniform depth, and completes the work as it goes. The importance of this last point is illustrated as write these lines, for since I Commenced a shower has set in that promises to be heavy. I have just left large field. where our drill was sowing wheat. Now, we have the satisfaction of feeling that however severe the shower may be, and however long time may elapse be- fore the ground will be in condition to resume work, that whenever this time does comes all will be square starting mo ground half. or not at all narrowed after surface sowing with broadcast machine or a mans hand. Tho obiec- tion that Mir. D. says some of his ne1ghbors make to drills, that they en- courage weeds, is entirely new to me. l have not enumerated all the advan- tages of drilling winter wheat, such as standing the freezing and thawing of the ground in spring, and the protec- tlon the wheat has, by reason of being 1ntrenched behind little breastworks, afording cover in cold, windy days of winter, when the ground has no snow on 1t to shelter the wheat. It is not necessary, at this late day, to go over this ground and oppose theories to ex- perience. l did stand out against drills when they first came among us on theo- retical grounds that gave way before facts derived from trials that did not leave a vestige of my first opposition.
 r Corn and Hay.
 The theoretical value of corn as food in comparison with hay is in the pro- portion of 80 to 64. That is, 100 pounds of corn possess 80 parts of substance valuable for nutriment, and 100 pounds of hay possess 64 Hay is of greater value when cut early and we'll secured than when cut ripe, and early hay, of course, is meant in this comparison. Then if hay is worth $30 per ton, corn ls worth 80-64 of that price, which is $37. 90 per ton for feed, which is equal to $1. 12i per bushel. Corn then, at 65 cents bushel, is the cheaper feed. But practically y it will not do to feed corn wholly, as 1t is too concentrated, and some coarse fodder, as straw or stalks, should be fed along with it.