Connecticut western news., 1874-05-22
Farm, Garden and Household,
n...nt,.l to Produotive Farminr.


 < Esscntial to Productive Farming. The following sixteen essentials for productive farming are from the pen of the editor of the American Farnaer: l. Good implements of husbandry, and plenty of them, which should al- ways be kept in perfect order. 2. Deep blowing and thorough pull verization of the soil by the free use of harrow, drag and roller.
 3. An application of lime, mari, or ashes, where calcareous matter or got ash may not be present in the soil.
 4. A systematic husbandry of every substance on the farm, capable of be- ing converted into manure, system atic protection of such substances from loss or by evaporation or wastes of any kind, and Q careful application of the same to the land in culture.
 5. The draining of all wet lands, so sas to relieve. the roots of the plants from the ill effects of 8 superabundance tofwater, Q condition equally perni- cious as drought to their healthy growth and profitable modification.
 6. The free use of the plow, culti- vator and hoe. with all plow-culture crops, so as to keep down at all times the growth of grass and weeds, those pests which prove so destructive to crops. &
 7 Seeding at the proper time with seed, and an equal attention as to the period of working crops.
 8. Attention to the construction and repair of fences, so that what is made through the tolls and anxious cares of the husbandman, may not be lost through his neglect to protect his crop from the depredations of stock.
 g. Daily personal superintendence on the part of the master over the op- erations, of the farm, no matter how ever faithful his hands may be, as! the presence of the head of the farm and the use of the eyes, arc worth several pans of hands. @& esg5 10 Labor saving machinery, So that one may render himself as independent . as needful of neighborhoed labor as, 8 sense of the comparative independence of the employer upon such labor, be- gets disposition of obedience and faithf fufness on the part of the employe. II. Comfortable stabling and sheds for horses and stock, all the necessary outbuildings for the accommodation of the hands and protection of the tools and implements, as well as for the care of the poultry.
 12. Clover and other grasses to form 8 part of the rotation crops, and these to be at proper periods plowed in to form pabulum for succeeding crops. The clover field to be either plastered or ashed each succeeding spring-one bushel of the former, and six of the latter per acre.
 13. To keep no more stock than can be we'll kept, but be sure to keep as many as can be kept in good condition, as it is wise policy to feed as much as possible of the crops grown on the farm and thus return to it that which has been abstracted from it.
 IA. To provide a good orchard and garden; one to be filled with choice fruits of all kinds-the other with veg etables of all sorts, early land late, 80 that the table may at all times be we'll and seasonably supplied, and the sur plus contribute to increase the wealth of the proprietor.
 15. The taking of one or more good agricultural papers.
 16. It is better to cut grain just be- fore it is fully or dead ripe. When the straw, immediately before the gram ripens, is so dry that on twisting it no juice is extracted, it should be cut, foI then there is no circulation of juice to the ear.
 Farm Notes.
 Referring to last year'sproduction, a correspondent says: "Tried no new varieties of potatoes. Think the white peachblow and early rose good enough for anybody"
 A. B. Miller, of Henry County, Ind., says that hard Jumps from horses shoulders can easily be removed by amounting them with little oil of spike to be had at the druggists, applying il twice @ day for week.
 Nothing answers better for ordinary purgative purposes among horses thar aloes given in doses of four to si1 drachms, and as a laxative, aloes il doses of two or three drachms.
 A Maine farmer says of white weed fol fodder: I have fed white weed in some instances where there was not fit, pounds to the ton of any other hay mixed with it, with satisfactory results Even milch COWS with me will do as vel on early cut. we'll cured white weed, a on the best English hay. There is on thing about this weed to be considered it must be cut early to make good feed if left till ripe it is not worth the gath ering.
 Corn Fodder.
 A MT. Simmons wrote to the German town Telegraph that, as late as June 3 he drilled twelve quarts of corn in row two feet apart, on third of an acre o land, and applied one and half cord of manure and cultivated twice, maj following with hand-hoe. The cor grew ten feet high. Cut up just as tas sells began to blossom, it made 300 bun dles, averaging twenty pounds green and eight pounds dry, being at the rat of 7,200 dry fodder per acre-which h judged to be worth more per ton thal hay for feeding COWS.
 Another farmer, in Peekskil, N. Y. drilled two bushels of corn on two ant half acres of meadow land after h cut the hay, covered the drills witt fresh COW manure, cultivated four time up to Aug. 10, and cut with sickl Sept. 10, laying corn crosswise of row to dry for five days, then tied it up an shocked on adjoining grass land. H then replowed the corn ground, an seeded again te timothy. The stalk were tall and tender, and eaten clea without cutting. There were eight ton of corn fodder.
 A Simple Disinfectamt.
 Roasted coffee, says The Home opathtc World, is one most powerfu means, not only of rendering anims and vegetable eff1uvia innocuous, bu of actually destroying them. In proc of this, the statement is made that room in which meat, in an advanced de gree of decomposition, has been keI for some time, was intsantly deprive of all smell on an open coffee-roaste being carried through it containing on nonnd of newly roasted coffee: and i