Connecticut western news., 1878-08-29
FARM EXPERIENCES.

. 4 Preventive of Rust and Sn,ut.- At the time I SOW my wheat I have for several years past made an applica- tion of salt; harrow it in. This prao- tlce keeps my grain free from rust and smut. I am convinced the salt also acts as fertilizer to the crop.
 Burdock-A burdock is one of the easiest weeds destroyed if the right means be employed. Dig it out. The best way is to use an old adze, striking 1t down two or three inches below the surface of the ground, cutting off the root.
 Thinning out Raspberry Beds.-I cut the old dead wood out every season as soon as the crop is gathered, to give strength to the young shoots for the next years shearing. In the spring I remove the weakest suckers, leaving five or six of the strongest in each hill. By this practice have had frst-rate suc- cess. - Charles Robbins, Monmouth County, ~. /
 Cl0aOson Wheot.-I have found the Clawson wheat very satisfactory it is great wheat to yield, and makes, so far as my experience has gone, capital flour !; l don't want any better.
 Summer FalloVing and Canudo Ihasttes. have tried summer following for Canada thistles with full success. A certain field got so badly overrun with thistles that I was nearly discouraged about subduing them, but I tried the summer fallow and it cleaned them out so they have rever troubled me since, and that was some years ago. Ihad thirty-three bushels of very fine wheat to the acre after the summer fallow, and that paid for all the extra work.-CoL. Crocker, Elnaar0, ~. y.
 Top-Dressing MoaOing FSelds.-Not a doubt exists in my mind, after several years trial, about the good results of top-dressing moving fields as soon as the hay is removed. Try it and see for yourself.
 Cveoai'ag Pastures a0ith Sheep-'I notice one thing in my farming. Sheep will clean up land every time they are turned on 1t. They eat out great deal or ruoolsh that cattle won't touch"
 1S's'efos0er Seed tor Pouztry.-"After repeated trials gave sunhower seeds the preference over buckwheat for glossing the plumage of poultry. It accomplish es this equally as well as buckwheat, and is not so heating"
 Covering Straw6erry Plants.-"As the ground begins to freeze-from the middle of November till December. ac. cordlng to latitude-cover the plants thoroughly but lightly with any lite, that will prevent the ground from freez ing and thawing. have had good sue cess for some years by covering single plants or narrow rows with two or three inches of earth just before the freezine weather and then rake off in the earl, spring. "-E p. Roe, Cornaoazl-on-the Hudson, ~. y.
 A correspondent of Zne NeaO .E,ao I1''d Homestead says, if we understand
 hls statement, that during the past fiv, years he has kept from ten to twely, COWS all the year round on ten acres O land, four of 1t in young orchard Whel he took possession, eleven years ago, tn, place would hardly support horse ant COW.
 Gut up and mixed with scalde,
 meal, "pusley," Tie Poultry Worlt says, is one of the best of green feeds especially for young chickens. : Fowls may be easily caught in tn, ) daytime by enticing them to the poultry ) house and making it dark by hanging
 blanket over the window. MT. s. W. Jewet, Rutland, Vt., in forms zhe American Cultavator that h, sowed the first alfalfa seed ever con signed to California soil; that he crop ped during some seasons several thous and tons. stacking and bailing for mar ket; and he further asserts that tn,
 sap-root of this ''species of vegetable runs down to water, from ten to twent, feet, and when once we'll set is enduri m without irrigation.
 MT. J. Coutant, PlattekilI, Ulste Co.,, N. r., realized $8O this season fo 1000 pounds of fruit from 200 cherr, curraht bushes, growing in rows five fee apart and three feet distant in the rows
 and occupying about one-fourteenth O
 an acre.