Connecticut western news., 1875-05-07
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Choicest and Best.

The Choicest and Best.
 "Well, after all, " said the deacon, in "Walks and Talks on the Farm, " " farm ing is a pretty slow and discouraging business. We thought we had got mine of wealth in our apple crop, and now the price is so low that they hardly pay for picking, barreling, and drawing to market. The squire has got thou sand barrels, and it is hard to dispose of anything but the choicest and largest fruit. "That last remark" I replied, "is right to the point. We must pay more attention to quality. It is 0 wise and benefcent law, that the common necessaries of life should be furnished at price little above the cost of produc- tion. Wheat, beef, mutton, pork, wool, cheese, butter, apples, and potatoes, can never long afford extravagant profits. It would be great calamity should such fering. The same principle holds ill the manufacture of all staple articles ill gen. eral use. Competition fortunately keeps down the price. The aim of an intelli- gent manufacture is to lessen the cost of production, or to produce better arti- cle. It must be so in farming and fruit growing"
 There is no country ill the world to- day, where the incentives to better farm ing are so great, or so numerous, as in the United States. Poor farming isvery unproftable. It gives us fair crop in a favorable season. Slovens do well once in seven years," is an agricultural proverb. Slovenly, sGp-shod, hap-haz- ard farming, occasionally gives fair crop. When such is the case, in ooun- try so large and so thinly populated as ours, the markets are swamped, and down go prices. This will be the case for years in the future, as for years in the past. Corn will be twenty-five cents to forty cents bushel in the year when slovens have fair crop, and seventy five cents to one dollar iii the years when only good farmers reap good har- vests.
 Cure for Lock-Jaw.
 In the course of the Cantor lectures, recently delivered before British so- ciety by Dr. Benjamin Richardson, the following deeply important remarks were made upon nitrate of amyl: One of these specimens, I mean the nitrate of amyl, has within these last few years ob- tained remarkable importance, owing to its extraordinary action upon the body. A distinguished chemist, Po- lessor Guthrie, while distilling over nj Ire of amyl from amylic alcohol, observed that the vapor, when inhaled, quickened the circulation, and made him feel as if he had been running. There was flush ing on his face, rapid action of his heart, and breathlessness. In 1S61-62 l made q careful and prolonged study of the ac- tion of this singular body, and discov- cred that itproduced it's effect causing an extreme relaxation, first of the blood vessels, and afterward of the muscular flores of the body. To such an extent did this agent thus relax, I found it would even overcome the tetanic spasm produced by strychnia, and having thus discovered it's action, I ventured to pro pose it's use for removing spasmodic dis eases. The results have more than re- alized nay expectations. Under the influence of this agent, one of the most agonizing human maladies, called agina pectoris, has been brought under such control that the paroxysms have been regularly prevented and in one instance altogether removed. Even tetanus or lock jaw, has been subdued by it, and in two instances, of m extreme kind, so effectually as to warrant the credit of what may be truly called q cure.
 Farm Hints and Helps.
 A good farmer understands the ca pacity of his farm. He knows what his farm will produce, and grows that. He never runs to any special crop. He sows what he thinks best without reference to prevailing price.
 To insure early peas, we must SOW as early in the spring as possible, on early land, early varieties. When we say, SOW as early in spring as possible, we mean it literally. As soon as the frost is out of six inches of the surface, blow, and SOW your peas, even though the ground may freeze thereafter, and snow storms follow.
 That roots are of value for feeding to COWS that are giving milk, no reasonable doubt can be entertained. They shar- pen the appetite, improve the diges- tion, promote the health, and enhance the general appearance. They also in crease the quantity of milk, and, if prop erly fed, improve the quality of the butter.
 A Connecticut farmer considers corn a safer crop than tobacco. The consump- ton Of good GOTH crop results in large quantity of manure which can be most profitably used in the production of hay. Reliance mainly on animal products for income tends to increase the fertility of the farm.
 There Is a difference of opinion as to the relative profit of setting milk in deep or shallow pans, but the bulk of recel testimony seems to favor deep setting, especially if there are conveniences for cooling the milk properly soon after it is drawn from the COW.
 Planting Fruit Trees near the Line.
 The courts, it appears, have decided that man has no legal claim to part of the fruit of tree growing near the division line, and drawing largely upon his soil for it's growth and productions, not because the complaining party has no grievance, but because the " scales of justice" are inadequate to the exact division of the truth. It is decided that the aggrieved party may cut off the limbs that hang over his ground, but he must do this with as little damage as possible; which means, I suppose, that he must use sharp tools and WAX the ends of the stubs.
 LIBEL SUrr.-In the libel suit of J. F