Connecticut western news., 1877-08-03
AGRICULTURAL.


 T FARM DIvIsION.-We think our far.
 mers areslowly but certainly approach.
 ing the point where they will scarcely
 fail to see that economy and convent.
 enee will demand that nearly all the
 inside divisions of the farm must be
 moveable, or must be so constructed
 that they can be shifted easily from one
 field to another. When we arrive at
 this point we can very materially de- crease the amount of fence needed, and
 at the same time make more of the ground available for cropping. Are we
 not correct in the opinion that our far
 mers will, sometime in the future, come to the conclusion that tis not profitable to pasture moving fields, but that as soon as they fail to yield good crop of hay they should be broken up for the grain crop, and again seeded down to grass? For the outside of the farm we have the choice of the osage orange hedge, the ordinary post-and-rail fence, and the barbed or smooth wire or cable fence. As to the comparative cost, value and utility of the three, farmers will probably always differ; but we think it is safe to assert that except for internal divisions, the snake worm, or Virginia fence should be banished from the farms. A good fence, if properly attended to, is not only effective but also ornamental. The old-fashioned post and-rail fence is effective while sound, but needs replacing every fifteen or eighteen years, and the wire fence, unless constantly attended to, soon be- comes unsightly from the leaning of it's posts, thus throwing the wires out of line.
 When the question is narrowed down to one of division fences, we decidedly prefer we'll constructed worm fence to any other it's advantages, aside from it's durability, are the ease with which it may be moved and reset in another position, and the fact that it may be made of timber which is fit for nothing else but frewood. Its objections are the width of ground occupied, or if cropped, must be mown by hand, and, to some eyes, a want of beauty. On our own farm no timber has been cut for worm fences for twenty years, and yet this class ot fence is now more effective than they were in 1857. It is true that we have fewer panels, but what we have now are more effective, as fence, than were majority of them twenty years ago. We think little manage ment would enable many of our farmers to decrease their fences fully twenty per cent.
 DoN'T Cur Too Low.-Now that our moving machines run with such light draft and the facilities for regulating the height of the cutter, bar are so exact and convenient, we have often thought that there was in seasons giving short hay crop tendency to cut too close, especially in timothy. In clover there is not so much danger, because the for nation of it's stalk and it's attachment to the root is different, and it's roots run deep, while timothy is compara lively shallow rooted. If timothy is cut below the lower joint the chances of the root being killed by dry weather and hot sun is very much increased, and it's tendency to tiller out is very much checked. Last season we tried the ex- pertinent of cutting three or four rows of the timothy as low as we could set the knife, and it is perfectly safe to say that to-day there is not half the grass on this plot as on the same area in other parts of the same field. The timothy is so long in starting its second crop that It is much more exposed than clover, and the trouble may be due to this cause alone. If half, or even an inch AhOA v VI ScUONAO VIII A0NO ally OACCG HI saving the root, it is poor economy to cut so close as to remove it. INK ROLLERS UTILIZED. A few years rgo met 8 German on the street one evening, and noticed on his arm prin- ter's ink roller. asked him what he was going to do with it. He said, t'That printer would not throw it away | if he knew it's value. I have several | fruit trees that don't seem to grow any | for some years back, and cut this old | ink roller into pieces about two inches square, and put them about eight or ten to tree, between the roots of the trees B foot apart, and two inches under ground. It is 8 powerful vegetable does not fully decay under about year, and gives the tree won- derful shoot ahead" He also said the powerful shoot ahead" was death to the knots on pear trees. Several hum dred pounds of old rollers have been used in this town and vicinity with ex- cellent effect in making pear trees 'shoot ahead, but cannot speak posi- lively as to the effect on the knot; those interested in fruit trees think, however, there is something in 1t. .A
 Queer Pictures of seNIerrie England,, in the
 Fifteenth Century.
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