Connecticut western news., 1877-12-28
FARM NOTES AND HINTS.

A sound New Hampshire farmer says no acre of land ever cheated him when he had treated it with liberal hand. Cultivation and manure will re- deem swamp or sand bank.
 Sorghum molasses this year is of superior quality. When it is properly made it is healthy article of diet, and IS far better than the syrup made from sul- phurio acid and starch.
 Many consider that ducks are more profitable than hens for home use, taking into account the number and size of the eggs laid by them. The solid matter and oil in ducks egg exceed that of @ hens egg by fully one-fourth.
 Fall ploughing is Very destructive to weed seeds, and hence it is of greaa value to gardens and all cultivated plots, as thousands of weed seeds are turned up to the surface, and with the winter frosts they are largely destroyed.
 A good way to protect small ever greens or shrubs is to place around them barrel without heads. This does not exclude the light or frost, but it breaks the cold, piercing winds that prove as destructive to many of our tender plants.
 The Springfield Republican say ys the change in plan among tine farmers since tobacco ceased to be king is to be seen not only in the great increase of grain crops, but in the return to the business of growing and fatteniug stock. There never was such a demand for steck as this fall.
 Keep the teams at work pIow1ng this cool, bracing weather, whenever the frost don't prevent. It will be great help to man and beast in spring, to get that work done now. It will enable the crops to be put in earlier, and generally in bet ter condition. And above all blow dee andwell. Good blowing will give double the yield that poor, slovenly blowing will give.
 -" Rural, jr.," warns whom it may concern, that the crop of wire fence is large, and about ripe; in other words, it is now time for 8 couple of men to call on farmer who has barbed fence. and oemand damages from him for using it in unlawful manner It will be the old game of patent sharpers over again and readers are cautioned to be on their guard.
 A poultry raiser, in speaking of the care of poultry in winter, very properly recommends for them sheltered location exposed to the sun; the roasting and laying rooms should be warm, clean and ventilated, while dry soil, sand, ashes, broken oyster shells and sods renewed from time time should be scattered over the floor. Small pieces of raw meat should be fed twice week. Thus treated the hens will lay all winter.
 An Iowa paper very truly says that the extra price received for superior article is nearly all profit. And this is especially the case with the farm. It costs no more to raise good horse than apoor scrub. No more feed, care or time are required. And the plug horse can be raised so as to pay expenses there is fine profit in raising first class horses. The same is the case with neat cattle. In fact it coses more per pound to raise such steer as would sell for three cents per pound than one which sells for six celts per pound. In this case there are nearly double the number of pounds, and double the price per pound, and yet the choice steer takes no more food or care than the other In this case not only the extra price IS the profit, but the ezsra weight also.
 The importance of making animals comfortable in their yards, stables, stalls or pens-of giving them an abundance of pure air, keeping them clean, dry and warm, of giving them the light and the warm sunshine, of locating the barns property, so that 8 southerly and pleas ant exposure may be had, so that the cold north winds may be warded off and the sloping and dry yard may be enjoyed by them-the importance of all these matters is not sufficiently considered nor properly appreciated by the farmers.
 It pays to be kind to animals it pays to keep them warm and dry and clean and comfortable and healthy it pays in purse, in pride; in satisfaction, in the consciousness that we have been kind to our poor brutes. It elevates us in our social standing, and it reminds us that God breathed into us loving soul.