Connecticut western news., 1874-06-05
Farm Garden and Household.
Notes Of the Farm.

Notes Of the Farm.
 If the eve will not suckle the lamb if she has not the milk, instead O.
 feeding with . spoon take the lamb tt
 nilch COW and let the lamb sucklt
 her, aiding the lamb if necessary b,
 squeezing the teat. This is an easie1
 and surer way than hand-nursing the
 lambs.
 Sulphur fed once a week to cattle
 mixed with salt or meal, or both. will
 keep of and help to expel lice. There IS no kind of live stock that small quan
 titles of sulphur occasionally will mol benefit.
 It takes eleven pounds of milk to add one pound of live weight to calf and an OK that weighs one thousand three hundred pounds will consume twenty two pounds of hay in twenty-four hours to keep from losing weight. If he is to fatten, he must have just twice that quantity, when he will gain two pounds 8 days This is ono pound live weight to eleven pounds good hay. To obtain fifty cents 8 hundred for his hay. a farmer must sell fat steers at five dol lars and fifty cents per hundred pounds. F4E a,s EE
 The Hon. John P. Reynolds, State agent of Illinois, estimates the number of elevators owned and operated by the Sfrange at eighty; the saving secured IS believed to be ten to fifteen per cent.
 It IS mentioned that when cattle, in being driven to market, have been kindly cared for and fed and watered, they have actually gained weight upon the road, On the contrary, when they were kept thirty-eight hours without iood or water, it required ten days feeding to bring them up to their origi- nal weight. --
 Do not insist on your hedges taking care of themselves. As soon as the soil IS sufficiently dry to work nicely, har- TOW each side of the hedge row thor oughiy, and give the soil liberal oresslng of compost; and above all clean out every weed you can find. Do not be mean in this particular, for if you did but know it, this is actually Putang money in your pocket, by say Ing the cost of fencing material. The man who cannot afford to attend to the requirements of an ornamental hetlpe as well, is too poor to have one, and he should never plant it.
 One of the wonders of the recent fat cattie snow Tn Paris was white Nev- 9rna1s 51; OK, II feet 9 inches in length. Fms, however, was only moderately respectable animal compared with a Texan steer exhibited at the Union Stock-yards in Chicago, and which was above 20 feet long, all over Tt is trne there was seven feet of horn and seven ot tall, but of course these members are included in the aggregate, or should be. -e' A very prolific Short-horn COW of Sir Charles knightly's herd, now in her 1nn year, has bred regularly since she was 5o months old, and produced twin calves on the 12th of February last. Sns mas more than enough milk for Dotn, Is still very healthy, and beau 'iAul specimen of this favorite breed.
 Clover for Hogs.
 A clover field is @ most excellent tblng for your young hogs. I set apart | 2 held for that purpose, and have now from one hundred and thirty to one hundred and forty hogs upon it, and they have been doing we'll all summer With scarcely any corn. When tbe weather is very wet, the best plan is to m move them off from it. to prevent them from roofing up the land. They will graze on green clover all the while. and It IS an excellent food for them. The cheapest way to make meat in the mn country IS to have good clover pasture TOT your hogs, and after you cut your small grain in the summer, turn them ID 1n for a time and pasture them there, daking the two together, you need feed Shea very little corn until August or September. Then, as soon as your corn IS Tn roasting ear, fence of a small Plece at time, turn them upon it. or cut 1t and throw it to them, stalk and au. They will eat the ear and chew up the cob. the stalk and fodder-and it is su nutritious. You will find it will ssart them of to thriving, growing and rattenng as fast as dry corn and they get great deal more of the stalk. in ciudlng the fodder, ear, etc., than they e do out of dry ear of corn. la this way tney may be carried on until corn time, and then feed them for snort tune upon dry corn and they are ready for the butcher.
 Toads Eating Bees. A Missouri correspondent writes the pee keepers Magazine II have read that toads do little or no damage to the !. pee Keepers, but I lately found several . on the front board of my hives, and one , watched, and within fifteen minutes saw him eat four Italians and two flies < 6hen executed and dissected him, and : found his stomach perfectly crammed with Italian workers. This was a very small toad, and I suppose could not : nave had less than twelve bees in his :. U A toad twice as large would I lkely eat twenty-four bees, and three : meals day q think am r1ght) makes ' bees for one toad in a day. : md small family of four would make . way with 288 bees day. Pretty stiff . Ierhaps my calculation may be too hieh v bout his three meals day, but I am r 'ertaln that when toad finds how easv oo IS to get his meals at the entrance of :, bee hive, he won't looks for bugs or . Vorms. But the most serious thine U hey can do is to gobble up the youn9 $ |ueens returning home from their bri. . Ial trip. Let those who have their : ayes near the ground look out for u