Connecticut western news., 1874-02-13
Farm, Garden and Household.
SoilIng Crops.

pecks were sown per acre on the Fist of May. Aug. 2-seventy-thrse days after planting-it was gathered and dried, making 5,S04 pounds of excellent bright hay, which the horses and cattle eat with 8 relish, liking it fully as we'll as they did clover.
 Josiah Quincy's method of soiling is as follows:
 May 20 to July 1, feed cut fodder from early clover, rye or orchard grass. July to 31, cut from oat field which was sown in April.
 Aug. to 31, feed sown corn, planted from May l, every ten days.
 Sept. 1 to 30, recut the oats on field No. l; also feed one acre late corn, ,sown in June, every ten days.
 October to November feed tops of vegetables.
 After December to next May, feed hay and roots, mixed and finely cut or cooked. Lucern is most valuable for soiline. It requires no reseeding every year. The first year it yields two crops-June and September. In succeeding years it will yield four crops each season. June, July, August, and September. In succeeding years it will yield four crops each season-June, July, August, and September-about ton per acre from each moving. Most of it's nourishment comes from the atmosphere, hence 1t Is as enriching crop as 8 green manure.
 The following will be found practi- cal schedule for herd of cows. For green feed during summer SOW:
 l acre early rye the previous fall.
 norIxy tc
 acre sowed corn, May 1; resown Aug. 15.
 l acre cabbages.
 acres lucern.
 ? acres sugar-beets and mangolds.
 10 acres.
 For winter feed cut hay from 10 acres of clover or timothy, and ''roots from three to five acres additional. As the ground becomes more and more rich, the feeding capacity of each acre will be increased, and in time doubled, so that twenty acres can easily maintain twelve or fifteen head She year round. All the manure must be returned as 8 top-dressing.
 Preserving Corn Fodder.
 A Hungarian farmer communicates a way of preserving corn fodder without curing, in sour, succulent state for winter use:
 "The curing of the various kinds of green fodder into sour hay is, perhaps, in the United States, not commonly practiced, especially the souring of green corn, which should be practiced with more effect on the farms of the United States. The making of dry hay of green corn is an injurious manner of curing it. Although the writer is not acquainted with American farming ex- cept by reading, nevertheless, I commu- nlcate method of preservation of juicy fodder peculiarly important for corn producing America.
 "The corn Is sown broadcast, or drilled in rows nine to eighteen inches apart, nearly three and one-half bushels to the acre. The field must be kept free from weeds. At blossom time the corn is mown, loaded into wagons, and hauled in. The home-brought corn is put in large ditches ten or twenty rods long, and IS here pressed in by a few men walking on the green corn. The ditch IS twelve feet deep, twelve feet wide at the top, and six feet at the bottom. The length will need to be sufficient to con- tain the fodder to be preserved. The ditch must be dug in dry ground. When the ditch is filled the green corn IS built like stack upward about ten feet over the level of the ground. The finished stack is then covered with earth about two feet thick on every side. It is best to cover the top of the stack at first, because the weight of the earth pressing down the green corn, as much earth is not needed for covering as is the case when the sides are covered at first.
 "The sour-hay making enables us to store large quantity of juicy fodder for the winter, and if we'll covered with earth it may be stored for few years without any injury"
 Constitution for Farmers' Club.
 Article 1. This association shall be called the fill the blank with the name1 Farmers Club, and it's object shall be to increase the interest and knowledge in agriculture and horticulture in this town.
 Art. 2. The officers of the club shall be President, Vice President, Secre- tary, Treasurer, and Standing Com mittee of three, to be chosen annually by ballot on the first Tuesday of Janu- ary or other day agreed on.
 Art. 8. The officers of the club shall constitute 8 Board of Directors, and shall take charge of all the necessary business of the society not provided for by special assignment.
 Art. 4. The club shall hold regular weekly or fortnightly meetings, and the exercises shall be of such a charac- ter as shall be determined on by vote.
 Art. 5. Any citizen of the town or towns may become @ member of this club by paying $1 and signing the con- stitution.
 Husking Corn.
 An old farmer writes in cne of our exchanges There is @ great knack in husking corn, and some mems hands and strong, horn-like thumb nails are peculiarly adapted to rapid work. The operation of breaking off the husked ear is very trying to the hands, and the skin between the thumbs and fore fingers, if not usually tough and lea thery, become blistered and sore. Nit tens are inconvenient, gloves worse. I have tried and thrown aside the "husk- ing gloves" armed with metal claws, etc., and have gone back to the simple, old-fashioned husking-pin, made of hickory scraped smooth, with leather thong to go over two fingers, while the pin is held within the hand, across the base of the fingers.
 Weed-Seeding.
 Passing by the garden of careless farmer the other day, I remarked that ] thought 1t would be as we'll to pull up a large colony of mullens, ready and will ling to reproduce another and greatly enlarged settlement of plants next year. But I will pull them up when I have time; if not, l guess they won't hurt