Connecticut western news., 1874-05-29
Farm, Garden and Household,
Reasonable Hints.


 Beans are sown as soon as we are through planting corn. They are usu- ally sown on clover sod. Rows 23 feet apart, and four or five beans in a hill 12 or 15 inches apart, or if drilled in with grain drill, drop the beans about two inches apart. Plow the land carefully and harrow very thoroughly, and roll before planting. Use the cul- tivator freely and keep the crop clean. If you can not do this, do not go ex- tensively into bean growing.
 Moving land should be got ready for the machine. Pick off stones. Put 8 stake by the side of any stone that can not be removed, so that you will not run the machine against it.
 Sow plaster on clover and on dry up- land meadows-say one to two bushels per acre.
 Pastures are frequently injured by turning stock on to them before the grass has got good start. Keep the stock on grass land intended for corn, potatoes or beans until the regular pas lures afford good bite.
 Young clover, when the dew is on, is very apt to produce hoven in cattle when first turned out to pasture. The green, wet clover ferments in the stomach.
 Milch COWS will be longing for green grass before it is ready for them. We do not believe in the notion that if they once taste grass they will. not eat hay afterwards. It is not true. Cut up hay, moisten it with water, sprinkle on a quart of corn-meal ard a qua, of bran to each bushel of the hay, and let the COWS have all they will eat, night and morning. Continue this feed after the COWS are turned out to pas ture as long as they will eat any of it. It will pay.
 Calves should be fed literally. Nothing, of course, is so good as new milk next fresh skinned milk, with faxseed tea or oilcake tea. A little nice early-mown hay, bran, oatmeal, corn meal, oilcake, sliced mangels, carrots, or parsnips are all good for calves, in addition to a run in a sammy, sheltered pasture.
 Let ewes and lambs have the best of pasture, and give daily feed of clover hay and sliced mangels if you have them. Dock and eastrate the lambs when three or four weeks old. Tag the old sheep, and keep sharp look out for any symptoms of foot-rot. If any are affected, pare and dress the feet of the whole flock immediately with crude carbolic acid or saturated solution of blue vitriol. Do the work thoroughly, and repeat in three or four days.
 Swine should have rings in their noses and be turned out to pasture every day. Clover is best for them, but they will do very well on grass. Young, growing pigs should have some grain in addition to the grass. Pork is likely to be high next winter, and it will pay to feed iberally.
 To Destroy Insects.
 Hot alum water is a recent sugges- tion as an insectcide. It will destroy red and black ants, cockroaches, spi- ders, chintz bugs, and all the crawling pests which infest cur houses. Take two pounds of alum and dissolve 1t in three or four quarts of boiling water ]; let it stand on the fire till the alum dis appears then apply it with brush while nearly boiling hot, to every joint and crevice in your closets, bedsteads, pantry shelves, and the like. Brush the crevices in the floor of the skirting or mop boards, if you suspect that they harbor vermin. If in whitewashing a ceiling plenty of alum is added to the lime, it will also serve to keep insects at distance. Cockroaches will flee 4l1 cool alum water. Sugar barrels and ing wide chalk mark just around the must be unbroken or they will creep over it; but continuous chalk line half an inch in width will set their dspredations at nought. Powdered alum or borax.will keep the chintz bug at respectable distance, and travellers should always carry package of it in their hand bags to scatter over and un- der their pillows, in places where they have reason to suspect the presence ot such bedfellows.
 Growing Onions.
 An account of successful growing oi onions was made by Herman Glass, be fore the Monroe County, N. r., Farm ers' Club. Most of his soil was sandy but he had 8 few acres of muck lan6 which had been wholly unproductive and it was given up to Soft Naples anc Films. In 1909 he cleared one-fourth o an acre of this muck and planted it tt onions of the Yellow and Red Danverl variety, and he was so encouraged that he has continued their cultivation evel since. Last year he. had five acres which yielded 2,310 bushels, and whicl sold for $2, 191. 35, an average of little over 90 cents bushels. The cost fol fertilizers, of which unleached woo6 ashes is best, and seed and labor were 13cents bushel, and of harvesting Il cents, total 23 cents, leaving profit of 6' cents. The onions are sown in rows l. to 16 inches apart, and the land Ii thrown in beds rod in width. Mucl soil is found far the best, because o1 other soils, and especially if sandy, tht onlon maggot is destructive. Womer and even small girls are the most profit able laborers.
 Diseased Fowls.
 Apoplexy in fowls is recognized b, sleepiness, dropping, staggering gait and blindness. The fowl mopes, or when moving, falls helpless, and gener ally dies in few hours. The remed, is to bleed from vein beneath thu