Connecticut western news., 1878-01-10
Farm Notes and Hints.

When cleaning the percnes In the poultry house, it is necessary to apply the mixture of kerosene oil and grease to the underside as we'll as the top. This is often neglected and the lice gather there Everything about poultry man. agement should be thoroughly done to avoid failure,
 The English feed for fattening sheep consists of cotton seed and turnips. It is claimed that it will put on the most fat, is the safest feed, makes the best mutt ton, at less cost, and produces the best and strongest manure.
 It is the opinion of an intelligent dai- ryman that there is difference of two quarts of milk day between COW con- fortably housed and the same one ex- posed to the cold for half $ day, as we see them,
 The young stock-calves and colts when allowed good food and sheltered, will be one-third larger in the Spring than if turned out to ali Weathers with the coarsest and most lnnutritlous food.
 The average steer in Texas is worth $9.24. Suppose he can be reared at 8 nominal cost, 1t seems he is worth but little when matured. The average steer in Massachusetts is worth $40.61 in New York, $32, 15; hence the Eastern farmer can afford to feed and- house his cattle.
 If you want to keep your hogs, horses cattle, and sheep healthy give them salt regularly. There is no better vermifuge than salt. Much of the so-called hog cholera is due to intestinal worms. Plen- ty of salt would prevent the accumula- tion of these worms. All animals desire salt, showing that it is 8 want of their nature, and undoubtedly for wise pur- poses.
 A correspondent to the Cincinnati
 Grange Bulletin makes thls important
 statement '' I am now milking sever
 farrow COWS, to which feed one bushe
 of corn per day, and one shock of fodder and we sell butter enough to pay sixty
 cents per bushel for the corn and have
 all the butter we want to use in famil, of four. Besides we have the milk fo the pigs. This is better than selling corn at 25 cents per bushel." A prominent Georgia agriculturis
 writes Keep things we'll up. The leas , expense and the greatest efficiency ar l both promoted thus. Land can be save
 fro,,o xpocbirn r,o,11oo Fro1,o 1.iYor o.,i } tools kept in condition, harness in sepai 7 all to best advantage Icy early atten 7 tion.
 Every year the field for farming O true scientific principles widens, and e1 l cry man should arouse to action,
 Some farmers drive their work al always up with it or ahead of it. The r anticipate the work of the farm in its ol der, and are always prepared to meet 0 half way or more. Other farmers a1 !, always behind their work there is a a ways something suffering from neglee
 or delay. They are heavy losers there r by. The crops don't get the attentio . they need at the right time the fence
 are not repaired till the stock have dor more public damage than the repafrin would have cost the seed is notplante till it is too late to get good crop u = wood is not hauled till the wood-pile exhausted, and that may be in summ' time when the crops are suffering to l harvested, and thus the work drag
 drags all the tune. Such farmers a.
 not happy. They have not the live X spirits of those who are always up wit and little ahead of their work. Reade U to which class do you belong? Mue l' work can be done in winter to advan spring work. Who will do it9