Connecticut western news., 1878-08-15
FARM AND GARDEN.
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

by p1duIlnS I0W SeeuS 1n a IuD auu training the vines t0 ah oblique frame or trellis-which is much better than compelling them to run on the ground.
 A Kentucky way of keeping hams flor two or three years is to coat them well with molasses, sprinkle all over with finely ground black pepper, and hang in the snaoke=house: .s
 kttlSstg A5sks1eed.-My experience is that constant cutting will kill mi1kweed and other obnoxious plants.
 UtSzase Old Bo,aes.-Old bones are utilized on my place in the following manner: I put layer of wood ashes In the bottom of 8 cask and then add 8 layer of bones, then layer of ashes, and so on till the cask is filled. Keep the mixture wet, and in few months the barrel will contain most valiiable fertilizer. s
 Keepitg Sheep.-In pasture of not more than twelve acres on the farm, I keep an average of five head of cattle, four head of horses, and from sixty to. seventy head of sheep. The reason for keeping sheep on cattle and horse pas lures is, that great many weeds grow which only the sheep will eat. Any patches of weeds or briers may be eradi- cated in 8 short time by introducing sheep. In dry seasons, if pastures are short, sheep will clean out corn fields, doing very little damage, and the corn the sheep may get will not hurt them any.
 Hoe0 to UtilSse O Bed of MucE.-L. Fl. s., Blossburg, Pa., asked the American Farmers Club how to utilize bed of muck on a recently purchased farm. The writer said that he had in contemplation the making Of one or two hundred loads of compost by mixing straw, muck and lime, to be used next spring, and con- cluded his letter by asking if muck can be made valuable by such mixture; if so, what quantity of unslacked lime should be added to every load of, say thirty bushels of muck? The Secretary, John W. Chambers, said, in reply, that the muck should be taken out ana laid ln heaps until dry it is better that it lie exposed to winters frost. In the spring compost it with lime; use about one-sixth part of lime, or it may be mixed with barnyard manure. Dried muck is great absorbent, taking up all the soluble salts and volatile gases. Mr..
 Chambers considered that great advan- tage is gained by using dried muck around stables and inclosures where cat tie, sheep or hogs are kept, thus absorb
 ing and deedorizing the liquid excre- ment. The. application of muck in it's
 natural state, MT. Chambers said, is not
 always followed by beneficial effects on
 the contrary, in some cases in has proved
 injurious. This he explained as follows All vegetable substances undergoing oxidation or decomposition attain g
 seeming inert or fixed state, and without the application or action of some power. ful agency, such as lime, will remain ir
 that condition long time.
 Cabbage Worm. numerous ex periments and very careful trials we car
 commend the following remedies, know. ing them to be safe, cheap and effect.
 i've: First, solution of one pound oi
 whaleoil soap in about six gallons o1
 water, applied two or three times during
 the season second, ar-water-prepared
 by placing Q few quarts of tar into g barrel of water, and applying this mix.
 ture two or three times during the ,, season.
 Cuttings and W&etering Irees.-]
 take off my currant cuttings in August and heel them in, in small punches, ir
 trenches, and cover them to keep till spring. dig all peach trees in Autumn as we'll as quince trees, as these are lia , ble to be more or less injured if fully exposed through winter they are heeled in the cellar. Roses are kept in the same way. No mice are admitted.
 "A number of years since, saw !, directions given for keeping at bay the destructive peach-borer. It was simply
 an application of air-slaked lime (half { , peckl early in May about the roots O u the tree, the earth having been previ ously removed to make room for it. Thi'
 Spring I set out peach orchard, ant bearing in mlnd the suggestion, made
 an application, of however, only one Q half the amount specified. A rain cam'
 on soon, forming 8 sort of lye Tn thu
 hollow at the base of the tree, and pres
 ently I noticed on quite number o
 trees leaves willing. I removed the linn
 as much as possible immediately, bu
 one fourth of my trees are dead. Coult
 the trouble have been the lime? Tn . lime used was fine lime procured directl,
 from the kiln. Aga1n, have seen tn /. statement that fine lime thrown upol | plum trees when the fruit is just set vii . save it from the curculio. For two O three years I have tried this, and al /, though it seems quite efectual, yet when about half grown, the plums begn 1. to rot, and O ten nearly the whole crol is lost. Has the l1me anything to d. , with this? T Whe0t Gfter Oats or Barley.-"Wher d wheat is to be raised after oats or barle, Q I would recommend blowing as soon Q l. possible after the crop is off, going dow n to the full depth required for wheat taking care that there are no haulks, an, q then give thorough cultivation as oftel ,r as opportunity allows, close up to tn a tune of sewing the seed.'
 Bark Bound Zrees.-"I take an ol
 ro,1ph iron and rrh all tho dad bark o-