Connecticut western news., 1876-07-14
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSE HOLDs
summer Care of Fowls.


 spondent of the Country Gentleman, all tbs corn they will eat, and give them all the water they will drink. They have . good walk, and I am well satisfied with the return in eggs. They have laid all winter. Some of my hens are eight and ten years old, and are good layers still. When chickens are matched I place the hen and chickens in box three or. four feet, square. l give no food the first day; the second l feed hard boiled eggs, chopped fine, and bread wet with water squeezed dry with the hand. had good success last sum- mer with ground wheat, vet with milk or water. I have always had good suc- cess with corn meal, wet with milk or water, mixed hard. keep the hen and chickens in the box for few days, then turn them out to run where they please, in wet grass or dry, in search of insects, keeping their water dishes well filed, in 3 shady place. My fowls are hardy, and the Derby cocks and hens will drive off the hawks. .s......- .-. In Illinois, I once placed clutch of early chickens in 8 room, having saw dust on the floor; the feet of two turned up; soaked their feet with iniment, and turned them out to take their chance. In few days their feet were well. Lice on fowls, when numerous are very annoying, causing their eyes to become sore. They go to the eyes and vent, and rubbing salt butter or lard about those places will destroy them. Fowls often become blind from cold in their heads, the passage from the eye to the mouth being closed with mucus. 11olx strong neck-hackle feather, having Q smooth end; hold the fowl with the left arm, the head with the left hand; open the mouth with the thumb and finger; run the end of the quill gently into the opening in the roof of the mouth, to the outer edge of the eye which is sore. When the quill appears, take hold of it and pull it through. This will open the passage if closed. Never feed whole grain to sick fowls, but always soft food. Blind fowls placed in box coop will find the food and water if it is placed there. Cover the bottom of the box with sawdust or dry earth; keep clean; sprinkle the coop with vinegar; .place roost about four inches from the floor, and they will find it. .....
 Buckwheat as n Fertilizer.
 Nature gives us three plants peculiar ly adapted for fertilizing wornout lands, viz.:a, Peas, clover and buckwheat ; of these clover is most used. and is best known, but as crop on very badly used land it is hardly equal to either peas or buckwheat. Peas will do better CD poorer land than either of the others, and can be followed the second season most proftably by buckwheat, after which clover will thrive we'll.
 The best way to utilize either peas or buckwheat is to SOW broadcast in June and turn under with large two or three-horse blow the vines or stalks when in full bloom, and just before the maturity of the seed begins. In this way all the phosphorus, nitrogen and carbonic acid, which the plants have gathered from the atmosphere, is absorbed by the loose soil, which there by obtains bountiful supply of phos phate food for all kinds of cereals.
 Lands that are too thin to produce good crops of peas or buckwheat, can be first treated to @ crop of rye, which should be sown in the early fall and turned under with blow in the green state, in May following. This fits it fol the reception of either peas or buck. wheat in June.
 In case the peas or buckwheat can be sown in May, two crops can be utilized in one year by allowing the first crop tc become ripe, and then turn them under with small blows, and do the same witt the second crop, only use large blows just before the frosts of October.
 A great benefit will be derived from o5kh or buckwheat. A compost of ashes anc one hundred pounds of the latter, ant three to five times asmuch of theformer per acre. Old, wornout lands, with { good clay subsoil, treated in this wa, for two years, pays better than any in vestment farmer can make-it is bet ter than lending his money at twenty five per cent. interest.
 Household Hints and Helps.
 On SPoTs REMovED.-To remov, oil spots from mating, counterpanes etc., wet the spot with alcohol, rub tn, wet spot with haro soap, then wash witt cold water.
 To WHTTEN TEETH.-For whitening the teeth there is nothing superior tt wood charcoal, very finely powdered Take few shavings of castillo soap ant dissolve in spirit with the aid of heat Use this solution to make with the char coal 8 very stiff paste, adding ittl, syrup or honey to sweeten it, and seen to suit.
 To WASH CoLoRED STOCKINGS. s.-Pu tablespoonful of salt in quart of wa ter. Let the stockings soak in that fo ten minutes, and then take them ou and wash in soap and water.
 REMOVING On SrA1Ns.-You can ge bottle or barrel of oil out of any car pet or woolen stuff by applying dr, buckwheat plentifully and faithfully Never put water to such grease spot o liquid of any kind.
 Value of Food.
 An interested reader of the reports o the American farmers club sent the fol lowing estimate of the different value O food: Taking timothy hay as standar, of comparison, and assuming that it re quires one hundred pounds of it to sup ply 8 certain amount of nourishment he finds, after careful experiment., tha the same amount of nourishment can b OuealAeu Dy uSlnS Ino IOllOW1nS Quantl ties of food: Oil cake, sixty-fou pounds; buckwheat, same amount; oats ffty-nine pounds; corn, fifty-si pounds; barley, fifty one pounds; rye forty-nine pounds; beans, forty -si pounds; peas, forty-four pounds; wheat forty three pounds; beets, 346 pounds carrots, 28O pounds; potatoes, 19 pounds; straw, 220 pounds; rye straw 335 pounds, and clover hay, ninety-tiv pounds.
 Ingratitude.
 While much that is good can be COT fidently expected in Detroit boys, ther are, alas few who have no memor