Connecticut western news., 1878-07-04
FARM NOTES AND HINTS.

tory manner by showering the plants few times morning and evening with a solution of coal-tar."
 A good way to keep hams through the summer is to wrap them in several thicknesses of ordinary wrapping paper, and then put in thick manila sacks (such as millers use for hour) tie up tightly and hang them In some convenient place.
 We read in The Western Rural that tomatoes picked when just ripe and with portion of the stems retained, and at once covered with 8 brine composed of a tea cup full of salt dissolved in gallon of water, can be kept nearly all the year without noticeable loss of freshness of taste.
 1raospLa'ating Tender Plants" have never failed in any transplanting of tomato, cabbage or other tender plants, when | have first covered the roots of the plants with manure water and rich soil of about the consistency of thin mush, which is readily done by dipping them in vessel filled with this preparation"
 Pips Gnaong Chickens. s." I have dis covered that 8 little pepper, either black or Cayenne, mixed in soft feed and given three times day will arrest the trouble known as pips, in its early stages. The symptoms are quick, short ch1rrup at | intervals feed the pepper as soon as hear thls spasmodic sound The DID forms on the end of the tongue horny like scale."
 Sulphur for -L5ce.-" When my hens are ready to set make new nests with clean hay or straw, and sprinkle them either with little diluted earbolic acid, Persian insect-powder or common flour of sulphur. This insures the hens from lice, which otherwise would greatly annoy them, and sometimes drive them from their nests."
 At 8 recent meeting of the Pennsyl- vania Fruit Growers Society, several members expressed their confidence in whitewash as preventive of blight in the pear. MT. Meehan, a horticulturist of much experience, said that he never saw blight on trees that were white washed. He said MT. William Saunders, of Washington, believes it to be an ab- solute remedy.
 At the late meeting of the Western New York Horticultural Society, B. Ruhlman, of Niagara County, explained his method of raising celery. He en- ploys collar made of strip of tin two or three inches wide and nine inches long. This is bent into circular collar and put around the celery plant when it is first planted, and little manure is placed outside of the collar. As the plant grows the collar is raised up and kept in position around the crown of the plant, and is still retained in place after the celery is dug in the fall.
 BEST VARIETY OF ONIONS.
 D. P. Newsom asked the Farmers Club which is the best keeping variety of onions, the yellow or the red. He also desired information in regard to fertilizers for onions-how to make them "neck up" full, and if there is any ad- vantage in breaking down the tops.
 MT. N. Haley said that yellow onions keep the best, and as a rule find the best market, though for eating purposes he preferred the red. Hen manure and night soil were recommended as desira- ble fertilizers. MT. Haley breaks down the tops by rolling 8 barrel over them when full grown. As soon as the tops are dry, pull up the onions and let them lie on the ground a few days before gathering.
 A member added that where the soil is of light sandy nature, COW manure is suitable as fertilizer. Onions suc- ceed best on a rather strong, deep and rich loamy soil. They succeed equally we'll any number of years on the same ground If kept highly enriched with fine good manure spread on in spring and turned in with light furrow.
 EXPERIENCE IN SOILING.
 I have been soiling since 1875; began with thirty-fve COWS, and now have sixty. In the spring of 1875, and also in 1876, we had to quit feeding rye-my experience of it being that when fed be- fore it headed there was little or no sub- stance, and it affected our COWS unfa- vorably; and when left until headed, they shrank in milk immediately and considerably. A COW can be easily dr1ed by feeding rye. I think, too, it's effects were felt later in the season, in the Hu- merous abortions among the herd. Again, beets are recommended for milk. We had three acres as fine as you ever saw, but they not only did not increase the milk, but did very materially de- crease it, and after a weeks trial we quit them as COW feed and gave them to the pigs. Of all the green food tried, oats and vetches with us have proved the best. We wilt all from twelve to twenty-four hours before feeding This year we are not feeding any green food, having had fodder enough to last until the present, and we are now moving. From May l, 1877, until May l, 1878, we have kept an average of sixty COWS and six horses during the whole year, and raised the fodder, hay; corn and oats fed to the entire number, upon 8 farm of eighty-four acres. and our boys think they begin to know how to soil cattle.
 X Curious Law.