Connecticut western news., 1878-10-23
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.


 paper read by MT. George Geddes at a meeting of the New York State Dairy mems Society, induces them to believe that pasture of the best kind will pro- duce more milk of the best quality than any other feed. A quart of meal, twice day, IS worth something in promoting gentleness.
 Mixed grasses produce the best pas lures, and no difference is discoverable between the milk produced on the so- called grain farms and that produced on farms devoted entirely to grass and per manent pasture; but the milk from high, dry lands is superior to that from the low lands.
 Corn and oats, ground and mixed in equal quantities, make the most vaIu- able meal, and given quantity of such meal IS worth more than any other though barley meal made in "pearling," and meal from mixing split peas, and shorts and shipstuffs are all held as of great value to help sustain the yield of milk during the winter.
 Brewers grains. though the cheapest of any food, as sold in this market, are not approved, and if fed at all must be in small quantities, mixed with other feed, or the milk will be of inferior quality; and the directors of this asso- citation discourage th1s kind of food for the production of the best milk
 II thn rnono horc of Inc o,,o said to use sowed corn, to be fed when the pastures are poor in the droughts of summer.
 There are two members who cook the winters food for their COWS; one has sixty to seventy animals to feed, the other has eighty. Cooking is not thought to be profitable when less than forty COWS are to be fed.
 Some members of the association feed higher than others, and it is fully agreed among them that high feeding and con- sequent great yield of milk wears out the COWS and renders them no longer profitable after from four to six years use.
 4 Cheap Ice House.-An exchange gives the following plan for cheap ice house large enough to supply an ordi- nary family during the year: A pile of ice eight feet square and the same helght is enough for family use. For such pile build the house ten feet square and the same height, as there must be foot of sawdust all around the lce-sldes, bottom and top. The house can be made on the simplest plan possi- ble-two frames of four-inch stuff for bottom and top, mailing the boards on these upright. Only a single wall is needed. Lay loose floor in the bot tom so that the water can pass through to the ground freely. First put foot of sawdust on the floor, taking care to level it we'll, with slight inclination to the centre so that the ice will press to- gether. Then build the ice pile on this, one foot from the wall all around, pack ing ln sawdust between the ice and the wall as the pile rises. When the pile of ice is eight feet high-nine with the saw dust in the bottom-put foot of saw dust on top and cover with any kind of board roof that will keep out the rain, leaving the ends open for ventilation. Provide some way to carry off the water that drains through the sawdust and floor, if this is not naturally provided for. This is all that is needed to keep ice. Of course the house can be made as ornamental and costly as desired, but it will not keep the ice any better than the rudest structure built as we have described, the cost of which will be trihing.
 Points of c Good Cow.-She's long in her face, she's fine in her horn, she'll quickly get fat without cake or corn :; she's clean in her jaw, and full in her chin she's heavy in flank and wide in loin; she's broad in her rib, and long in her trump. A straight and fiat back with never hump she's wide in her hips, and calm in her eyes she's fine in her shoulders and thin in her thighs she's light in her neck and small in her tail; she's wide in her breast, and good at the pail; she's fine in her bone. and silky of skin she's grazier's without and butchers within.
 PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.
 Leaves and pine straw may be made available by penning COWS, mules, or hogs upon them. There is no better way if heaped by themselves they will not rot by spring. We would throw them into the pens and stables a foot deep or more, and pile them, when taken out, in flat, broad heaps so that they will get enough rain to keep them moist, when they will heat and rot
 Apples may be kept perfectly we'll in pits. The pits may be made small, and of such size that one can be open- ed and the apples taken for use as may be required. They will stand quite a hard frost if kept in a barrel in 8 dry room that is warmed during the day time.
 HoaO to Plant Peaches.- way I plant them: Dig hole in the ground, say six or eight inches, plant as soon as the pulp is off, let them remain ill the ground all winter. In the spring take them up, crack the stones, plant the meat. First year they grew five feet; out of one hundred not one bad peach, all natural.
 Tonic tOr FOaOls.-A few iron nails thrown into their drinking water makes a good tonic fer fowls, I have found