Connecticut western news., 1874-08-14
Farm, Garden and Household.
{, Seed from Potato Balls.

ss k. Seed from Potato Balls.
 The Cdn0dG Farmer, in answer to a
 correspondent who asks for @ proper
 method of saving potato seed from the sEE balls so as to have it fit to SOW, says that the method usually pursued is to -f wash the seed clean from the pulp. -HV.si and then thoroughly dry them before
 sowing. ;s r H}lI
 ,aF'rt "I In the fall, the berries or apples of
 the old stock are hung in 8 warm room,
 and toward the end of winter the seed
 1s washed out, dried and preserved in Q
 dry place, in cloth CT paper bags, until
 sowing time. Some prefer taking the
 ball or apple when perfectly ripe, dry
 ing it, and disengaging the seed by
 rubbing it out with the hand. When '7 .A this course is taken, the seed is pre-
 served in bags, in dry place, until
 spring. precisely as is done on the other
 Inethed."
 As to the augmenting of new varie-
 ties the same journal adds:
 3'~g 2 (" It requires no small patience and
 judgment to originate potato really
 worth cultivating. Success must not
 be too readily taken for granted. A va
 riety should be thoroughly tested be- fore it's excellencies are blazoned forth
 in advertisements. Any one who un-
 aertakes to experiment in this line of
 things will arrive at appreciation and
 admiration of the persevering labors of
 others who have given choice varieties tt of potatoes to the world before he will ,. achieve distinction in this direction himself. We do not say this to dis courage endeavors by any means, but S simply to suggest to experimenters the -1 wisdom and propriety of counting the cost of the undertaking. What man
 has done man can do, and just as there are as good fish in the sea as ever came iH nsout of it, so assuredly there are as good
 potatoes to be originated in the future s .,... as ever have been in the past, and pos t',s sibly better" -
 Improving Seed Wheat. ss-s rz A writer in. the Rur01 NeD Yorker,
 who has been remarkably successful in
 the cultivation of wheat as farm
 crop, says: s''''
 tfB 2ai It has been my practice for the last ,4 eighteen years to run my wheat for seed
 over very coarse seed screen, so as to yUII SOW none but the largest kernels. By so '"i "- doing have improved my wheat so that have sold nearly all of my wheat at J5s. home for seed. But in 1871 hit upon
 new plan. I had piece of Treadwell
 wheat that was injured by insects in the ; 4 previous fall and killed by freezing in
 the winter, so that there were spots not
 worth cutting. After harvest observed sF 8 few scattering heads of unusual size It occurred to me that there was wheat
 that had withstood the ravages of the
 insects and the rigor of the winter. I ] k Os gathered enough to sowone rod square,
 from which realized twenty pounds of wheat, of unusually large, even berry, "a which was at the ratio of over fifty 2. s5 bushels per acre {; last harvest had
 twenty bushels which weighed sixty y pounds per bushel. It is my opinion
 that we realize the best crops from the & best and most perfect seed in the vege- a5 iaa table as well as the animal kingdom.
 Another good plan is to select the long, -'t .1 est heads for seed. The wheat can be .<f greatly improved in this way. Try it. ,@- Ten Rules for Farmers. ,sb.sd l. Take good papers and read them. ,s. Tsss,i ,5sH s1 Keep an account of farm opera s.l, $ .ol -I Hons. .ll : ... :. - -e.I 6 ---'ie 5. Do not leave implements scattered A .s over the farm, exposed to snow. rain, 4 5so,l and heat.
 @h .2 .ti51'4 Repair tools and buildings at ssE o proper time, and do not suffer subse- $ quent threefold expenditure of time
 and money.
 i. s4as 5. Use money judiciously, and do
 not attend auction sales to purchase all 5z zno. kinds of trumpery because it is cheap. ..zGu< ,6. See that fences are well repaired,
 and cattle not grazing in the meadows, or grain fields, or orchards.
 N / 2. Do not refuse to make correct ex-
 periments. in a small way, of many new .s things. ..-a -
 ,a- ;ass 8. Plant fruit trees we'll, care for
 them. and of course get good crops.
 9. Practice economy by giving stock
 shelter during the winter; also good A. food, taking out all that is unsound, half rotten, or mouldy. ao 10. Do not keep tribes of cats and
 snarlrng dogs around the premises, who 5 eat more in month than they are l worth in lifetime. E2s
 0Oat-2Ieal as Infants' Food. ss In a communication to the Societe Is lMedicale des Hopitaux, NM Dujardin. Ss Beaumetz and Hardy made known the JoI results of the employment of oatmeal T T W V5 on the alimentation and hygiene of in
 tants. According to them, oatmeal is :: the aliment which, by reason of its
 plastic and respiratory elements, makes
 the nearest approach to human milk 1t also is one of those which contains
 most iron and salts, and especially the
 phosphate of lime, so necessary for in- tants. It also has the property of pre-
 venting and arresting the diarrheas
 which are so frequent and so dangerous
 at this age. According to the trials
 made by M. Maoie, infants from four
 to eleven months of age fed exclusively
 upon Scotch oatmeal and cows milk
 thrive very nearly as we'll as do chil- dren of the same age suckled by a good nurse st sg1