Connecticut western news., 1877-06-15
AGRICULTURAL.


 FARMING AS BUSINESS. man who is rnotr smart enough to run a store, is not smart enough to run a farm and do it successfully. It used to be thought that any fool could be farmer, but now, thanks to an enlightened nation of farmers. that day is passed, never to re- turn. Farmers are not made out of what is left after lawyers, doctors, ministers and merchants are sorted and picked out, and if man fails on the farm he is not likely to succeed in a store for it requires more talent to be thriving farmer than to be an average merchant. One great fault with the farmer is, that he is not satisfied to make farming business, and to throw his whole soul and ability to make his business pay. Too many want to keep store, peddle and speculate one way or another and neglect the farm; and whenever man does this, ruin will be the inevitable result.
 Another great cause of failure is too many farmers keep too much land. Large farms are all right if you have large capital; but large farms and small capital will not do. A farmers capital is his skill and money. If he has little cash he must have no more land than he can thoroughly manage by his per- sonal labor; every acre beyond that is an incumbrance. One acre well-worked is more profitable than twenty acres skinned over; for half-plOwed, half narrowed field will not produce good crop of anything unless it is weeds. It is this greed for land that keeps so many poor. Small farms worked well are the kind that pay best, because they are suited to the capital of the general far Telegraph. z~
 PRINCIPLES GOVERNING THE PRoDUC- TIoN OF MILK.-From an article on this subject in tine e.Scientifc Former, we con- dense the following items: "I under stand very well, as probably every man does who handles milk, that there is a wide difference in the composition of pure milk, especially in the matter of the percentage of butter. All milk is richer in September than in June, and it varies in this respect in different sea- sons in the same herd or COW. The COW that is fieshy gives milk richer in but ter than the COW that is thin and poor. One that has reached her full maturity gives better milk than she did before she reached that age. A COW that is gaining flesh day by day gives 8 richer milk than a COW that is losing it gradu- ally. Experience has taught me that a cows milk very deticientin butter often fattens a finer calf than that of first class butter COW. When man tells me what splendid fat calf his COW always rears. I do not wish to purchase her for 8 butter COW. A man cannot procure milk profitably for any purpose without feeding his cows literally with good, sound, healthy nutritious food. It re- quires a cer tain amount of food to SUD- ply the demands of natures All, above that amount which she will take and assimllate will be converted into milk and flesh. The herd should be kept warm in winter and fed and watered with regularity. This diet should be varied as much as convenience will al- low" Dif>
 A FERTILIZER FOR STRAWBERRIES An experiment made last year by my self may not come amiss at this time with those who grow strawberries. procured a half hogshead, filled 1t with rainwater, and put into it one quarter pound of ammonia and one-quarter pound of common nitre. When the strawberry plants were blossoming out, l gave them asprinklingo of the solution at evening twice a week, until the fruit was nearly full size. The result was double the amount of fruit on those where the liquid was applied to what was obtained rom those right alongside of those where none of the liquid was applied. Let all give it trial. T.,
 AsHEs.-Do not allow ashes of any kind to be wasted. It will pay to haul leached ashes several miles, when one has his own team and a, laborer at fair wages. Coal ashes when spread around berry bushes of any sort, or. around grape vines, will aid materially in pro- ducing large and fair fruit.-Gardener s Monthly.
 CLOVER seed may now be sown on the wheat. This plant will thrive nearly all over the Southern States if care be taken with it. A liberal dressing of superphosphate with the seed will help both the wheat and the clover. Ifsown alone, peck of seed to the acre will