Connecticut western news., 1874-09-04
Farm. Garden and Household.
Co.Operatiye Stores


 We have store in Fall River, says 8 correspondent of the N. Y. Tribune, which we call dividing store. There are over 80 of them here, and do busi- ness of from $30,000 to $40,00O members. They hire store or house that is large enough they have cOun- ters, scales, and measures. The off cers consist of president, secretary, treasurer, buyers, and weighers. The goods are bought and divided once month. Each man has a pass-book, the books are then taken to the store, them home. He has large sheet made out with column for each of the arti- cles, upon which he sets down each article under it's proper head the total is put on to what we call buying sheet, which is handed over to the buyers, who go to the wholesale stores and buy the goods. The clerk makes out list of the names of the members, and makes an estimate of what each man is to pay. The money is paid in all on one evening, before the goods are delivered; then the next evening the weigher divides them out. The clerk takes the pass-books and calls off the articles one at time, and the weighers weigh them for each member, who stands ready with his bags and pails to receive his goods. Four people will serve 50 in about two evenings. The clerk then takes the books and the buying sheet home with him, and sees what the cost of each article is, and makes up each mans account if he has paid too much, it is handed back to him if too little, he makes that up. They run these stores for about four per cent. above wholesale prices. They generally pay the clerk about BIO per month he loses no time, and does it all in the evenings the weighers are paid about 50 cents an evening. They get store or room for from $10 to SIP month. The books are brought in on Wednesday evenings, and the money on the following Wednesday evening; the books are returned in two weeks, and then there will be an interval of one or two weeks before the books are carried again. There is no capital invested, and not much risk. No one gets the goods before the money is paid. All there is invested is just the scales and counters.
 Fronts of Hog Patching.
 have kinsman in Iowa, who has grown rich by hog raising, while other farmers, who sold their corn and kept no hogs, grew poor. He not only feeds all his own corn, bnt he always buys corn largely from bis neighbors al- ways aiming to sell his ell-fattened hogs to drovers, when the market price reaches the maximum. He makes great saving by boiling his corn in the ear, which makes it easier of digestion and saves the toll of grinding. He gives his hogs all the pumkins they will eat, as these sharpen the appetite, and perform the office of water and he takes pains to keep the hogs in clean, warm lodgings, with water ir- stead of mud and filth, to wallow in.
 Testing Canned Fruit.
 When canned fruit is all right, the lid of the can that has been sealed is ooncave, pressed downward by reason of the exhaustion of the air in the pro- cess of canning. If fermentation com mences the can is filled with gas, and instead of being concave or hollow, the lid becomes convex, or bulged upward bnIOuSu hu0 PI0SSuI0 O4 1u0 gus W4bulus The process of canning fruit could not be fully described in the limits of our columns, nor could any person from any such description, go to work and can fruit. The business must be learn ed in the same manner as any other.
 .3atr Tree Planting.
 Forest trees may be planted in the fall, if the planting is deferred as long as possible, and the stems of trees are protected by straw bands from the weather, and by stakes from swagging back and forth. But careless planting in the spring is more successful in gen. eral than more than usually careful planting in the fall. It is best then to plant in the spring. But the greater part of the work may be done in the fall, such as digging the holes. If the holes are dug in the fall, good deal of planting may be done through the win ter very safely.