Connecticut western news., 1875-04-09
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Farm Hints.

perseverance, with which we pursue them. The man who expects to make farm pay, cannot look back from the plow, and must take advantage of the modern improvements in applied science. To strengthen the agricultural business more capital and labor must be invested in the land. The soil, with the aid of modern chemical and farming science, IS proven safe place of deposit for wealth.
 Talking of turnips for COWS, Myron Hawks had raised turnips at small cost, but found it favored the butter when fed to his COWS, and after he stop ped feeding them the price of his butter advanced five and seven cents per pound. Turnips would do we'll to feed to young stock, but not to COWS; it is all loss.
 J. Johnson has thus given definition of farmer: ~ 's One who can run farm 80 as to make 1t pay him we'll for his labor and keep the farm improving in quality. < Almost any one, can make money at sttffnga farm, selling of the crops and stock, but such are not farmers.r ....
 Persons purchasing trees to plant should look closely to it that they are clean and bright. If they are discolored to any great extent, and show black streaks down. from where limbs have been cnt in pruning, the probability is that they will be tender and break in two with little bending, and be black in the middle, Avoid them-they will not make good, thrifty trees after transpiaarFttP2g. piaFtt2g.i .iIFka ,e~-yT5 ,..is
 Says correspondent: keep sixteen COWS, am milking ten winter, six new mllchs. make sixty-three pounds of buttera week. The cows are mixture of native with Jersey, but I; should pre- fer that they be ohalfo of each, for the reason that the milk is just as good, more in quantity and the COWS more hardy. than all Jersey. Of course the native COWS should be the very best. Hay is given three times day, and one quart each of cob and corn ground to- gether and shorts twice day. I add to this meal two quarts of sweet skim milk. The COWS are supplied with all the sslt they will eat Water is given twice 3 day, immediately after eating hay. Bed the COWS twice a day thor oughly with fine shavings and sawdust, to keep them dry and clean. ,
 AAn Experiment in Feeding. r..-.-
 The following experiment. in feeding hogs has been made at the Illinois indus trial university, under the charge of MT. Lawrence, head farmer: LtiT 1zt8 aIl
 Two Poland. Chinas and two Berk- shires, g SOW and barrow of each, were put in separate pens, Oct. 1, 1874. ' l '
 Weight, per pair: Polands, 1855 pounds; Berkshires, .183 pounds; and were fed to Dec. l, 1874, two months, with, the fol lowing results: ta ais7i 7.i-r.l.stj .-.t
 Weight, per pair: PoIands, 32o pounds; weight, per pair, Berkshires, 230 pounds.
 Corn consumed in sixty-one days: Polands, SIS bushels; Berkshire, 3.89.
 Polands, on SIS bushels, made l45 pounds; Berkshires, on 8. 89a bushels, made forty-eight pounds.
 Polands, one bushel of corn made 17.93 pounds gross;s Berkshires, two % bushels of cor corn made, 12,34 pounds
 Polands farrowed,, May NJ 7 8, 1874; Berk- shires farreWed Aprilr 15, 1874. > -rsr.y
 The pigs were fed on corn only, and of the eFopiof 1874, which has been gath cred and cribbed Oct. 1, and was of an average quality for the season, eighty pounds in the ear having been taken for the btishel, that being the market rate at the aIae; an equal weight of corn was put ln separate bins. At the end of two months the Polands had consumed the whole of theirs; and to determine the amount they had eaten, the remainder was weighed back at the; rate of seventy live pounds per bushel., ,3 ....
 The. Poland barrow; was killed Dec. l, and weighed alive 175 pounds at 2O7 days old, and dressed IA pounds, shrinking forty-one pounds, or 22.3 per
 To Flow Not to Flow. z.-
 A correspondent of the Prairie fornser argues against the ancient prac- tlce of splewing:sl1 I am inclined to think non-inversion,1 complete pulverization and surface man dring, that is, the natu- ral decay of vegetable growth, is best for continued fertility. In fact, I have com menced to practieethis theory. | planted SIX acres of corn the last season, plowine about two acres, the balance I broke with spading blow and.the cuftivator. leaving the broken stalks on the surface. The result was average crops, as good as on the: best plowed land, but not satis- factory, owing to the unprecedented drought and the universal chinch bug. l shall try again, and report in due season. '<'i .,....lti =. Etf =, 'i' .-,
 am satisfied of one thing, the man who will give us 3 machine that will cut and aipulyerize perfectly, mix soil and trash,o will prove 2 public benefactor I want that machine. The idea is not very7popular as yet, but let US investi- gate; let t1s get at the facts. My object in writing this1is to hear from somebody. Let us find the better way. Talk about political economy. can think of no question of more vital importance than the preservation of our soil. Tell us what the chemists say, about the laws of fertilization, the changes mechanically, chemically, or otherwise, what experi- mentars have had. to say on this sub. ject, and oblige many like myself who are struggling for temporal salvation by agriculture. ~' '.t'
 What Will Make the Hens Lay.
 Put two or more quarts of water in a kettle, add one large seed pepper or two small ones, then put the kettle over the fire, says the Ohio Farmer. When the water boils stir in g. coarse-ground In. dian meal, until you make thick mush. Letit cook an hour or more. Feed hot. Horseradish chopped. fine and stirred intoifhe mush has been found to pro duee good results Four weeks ago we commenced feeding our hens mush as prepared in the above directions, anc for result we are getting from five te ten eggs per day; whereas, previous tc feeding, we had not had eggs for long time, We hear great deal of complain Ia