Connecticut western news., 1874-10-09
Farm, Garden and Household.
Rules for the Care of sheen.

A circular issued by F. O. D. Mo Kay, the general agent of the American Emigrant Company, gives the follow ing:
 The company have already 10000 sheep scattered among the farmers who purchased land of them, in focks ranging in size from 50 to 200 head. l. Keep sheep dry under foot with litter. This is even more necessary than roofing them. Never let them stand or lie in mud or snow.
 2. Take up lamb rams early in the summer, and keep them up until De- cember l, following, when they may be turned out.
 3. Drop or take out the lowest bars, thus saving broken limbs.
 4. Count every day.
 5. Begin graining with the greatest care, and use the smallest quantity at first. -
 6. If an eve loses her lamb, milk her daily, for few days, and mix little alum with her salt.
 '. Let no hogs eat with the sheep, by any means, in the spring.
 8. Give the lambs little mill feed in time of weaning.
 g. Never frighten sheep, if possible to avoid it.
 10. Sow rye for weak ones in cold weather, if you can.
 Il. Separate all weak or thin or sick, from those strong in. the fall, and give them special care. 12. If any sheep is hurt, catch it at once and wash the wounds, and if it is fly time apply spirits of turpentine daily, and always wash with something I> Epo6or, L>;- S% up with splinters tightly, loosening as the limb swells.
 13. Keep number of good bells on the sheep.
 IA. Do not let the sheep spoil wool with chaff or burs.
 15. Out tag-locks in early spring.
 16. For SCOUTS, give pulverized alum in wheat bran prevent by taking great care in changing dry for green feed.
 IT. If one is lame examine the foot, clean out between the hoofs pair the hoofs if unsound and apply tobacco with blue vitriol, boiled in little water.
 IS. Shear at once any sheep com. mencing to shed it's wool, unless the weather is too severe, and save carefully the pelt of any sheep that dies.
 19. Have at least one good work by you for reference. This will be money in your pocket
 Covered Manure.
 Nothing is more common than to see discussions as to the comparative values of sheltered manure and that which has been exposed to the weather. It is but seldom that we are able to record care fully-tried experiments to prove the ex- act differences. From late English paper we notice that Lord Kincade, an extensive Scotch land owner and farmer, has carefully tested the matter and gives the follow ing as the result "Four acres of good soil were selected and two well covered with manure from the shedding and the others from the open yard. Of course due care was taken that, except that in the item of shelter, the manures were similar:
 Potatoes Treated ,oith Barnyard Manure. One acre produced. d.............. .272 bushels. One acre produced ced.............. 29e bushels. Potatoes Manured trono the Cooered She'd One acre produced .442 bushels. One acre produced. All bushels. The next year the land was sown with wheat, when the crop was as follows: Wheat oe Land Treated Usth Bdrnyard Md One acre produced Al bushels, 19 pounds (o1 61 pounds per busheD.
 One acre produced AZ bushels, 38 pounds (o1 61 pounds per busheD.
 Wheat on Land Manured from Couered Sheds One acre produced 55 bushels, 5 pounds (oi 61 pounds per busheD.
 One acre produced 53 bushels, AT pounds (o1 61 pounds per busheD.
 "It was also found that the two acres manured from the sheds yielded one. third more straw than the others, and that the difference could be traced il the ensuing crops for several years. The term unsheltered manure is very indefinite one. If the manure is kept in an open yard exposed to every rair and the water allowed to run off anc carry the better portions of the manure with it, we are not surprised at sucl results as the above, but when no es cape is allowed for the water there cal be but little loss of the fertilizing ma terial, but there still may be enougl lost to pay for shedding.
 Health Dependent on Cookery.
 So say the promoters of the school of cookery, and they are undoubtedl, right. Cooking is both an art and science. For it's progress as an art w are not greatly concerned. although tn medical profession would undoubtedl, suffer in pocket should fine-art cooker, go out of fashion. Elegant" dishe are generally whited sepulchres, an' the forerunners of blue pills and othe disagreeable correctives. We hop then that these schools will busy them selves mainly in imparting knowledg of the scientific principles of cooking and will teach their cooks that tn quality par excellence which all foo should have is wholesomeness. Thos unfortunate people who spend thei days in dark offices, chambers, or con sulting rooms, and keep their nose everlastingly upon their respectiv grind-stones, seldom know that goo digestion which should wait on appetite Hitherto their dinners have not bee so skilfully prepared as to demand tn least possible effort from jaded stom ach :; but let us hope that the nations disgrace of indigestion will no longe dim the brightness of our hospitality and the number of patent medicine which are sold so largely in this cou1 try as aids to digestion will undergo rapid diminution.