Connecticut western news., 1879-02-26
FARM AND GARDEN.

S0TVdb1V0 1OI loHCo posts. 4O uso 1b, prp pcure Q tight box or trough thirty inches deep, also barrel of gas-tar. Stir one peck of dry slacked lime into the barrel of tar when it is heated and poured into the trough. This neutra- lizes the acid of. the tar and prevents in- jury to the fence posts. Set the posts in the tar and let them steep for fifteen minutes. A kettle of the tar should be kept near by, from which fresh hot tar may be dipped into the trough.
 Fever in Pigs.-This is blood di- sease, and may be caused by variety of circumstances. Pigs are treated with such difficulty on account of their stub bornness, that medicine is generally use- less the excitement caused by subiec- tion to the treatment generally hastens death. If anything is done in the way of giving medicine, doses of one to four drams (according to the size of the pig) of bisulphite of soda might be given al- ternately with half to one dram of salt petre. It is very rarely of any use to do anything but use precautions, and the best of these is to vary the food and give half an ounce of Glauber salts once in ten days. .....ss. e..a-.. -.~....-.-.
 Sc0urs in C0Ws. The best remedy that ever tried is tea made of sumac root; feed meal scalded, and let the meal be very fine. Hyposulphite of soda is also good to correct peculiar acidity of the stomach. Give salt in minute doses. The tea can be mixed with the scalded meal if the COW will not drink it, but If no water is given her for twenty-four hours she will drink it. Small doses of Glauber salts is one of the best tonics that can be given a COW.
 WHEAT-GRowERs IN COUNCIL,
 At Q recent meeting of the Elmira (N. Y.) Farmers Club, when "Wheat Culture was the topic for discussion, a correspondent from Campbell Hall, NY. "a district not especially adapted to wheat-reported his success with the Clawson variety, which, all things con- sidered, had proved his best wheat. Another correspondent, writing from Clyde, N. r., had sown Fultz wheat by the side of Clawson which had been up two weeks, and gave the Fultz variety the preference. It ripened and was cut nearly one week before the other was ready, and yielded twenty-nine bushels from fifty-eight quarts sown. All of it was fit for seed, and was used for that purpose. At the last harvest it yielded forty bushels per acre, and made better flour than Clawson. The Fultz was fur. ther lauded by this writer as being a very vigorous and hardy grower; it has stiff straw with bold, white chaff, and will. in his opinion, stool more than any other variety. MT. Armstrong, who had not succeeded with the Fultz wheat, knew many farmers who prize it above | all other kinds. .s-E... In relation to the amount of seed to be sown to the acre there was the same diff ference of opinion. George W. Tomp kins, of Trumansburg, intends to SOW two bushels and four quarts to the acre he has experimented with all quantities from one-half bushel up to three bush els, and invariably obtains from the amount first specified the best results In his experience it is better to drill wheat..than to SOW it broadcast. President Hoffman thought that two bushels an6 four quarts of seed to the acre too much one and half bushels of clean gooc seed being, when sown as early as Sep tember 18th, enough later, more seec may be required. Early wheat tiller. more than that later sown, and there is therefore, less seed required. He failed to agree with the writer on another point. Were we striving for the greatest possible yield of wheat we would SOW the seed broadcast, as drilled seed i. liable to be planted too deep. Examina tion proves that tilling starts abou three-fourth of an inch below the sur face. There must be loss of vigor il the increased efforts to reach the surfac, when seed is buried too deep, and there is also loss of seed, as much that i. drilled deep never sprouts.
 MT. Armstrong could see no reason why two bushels of good seed should b. sown on one acre of ground. If all tn. conditions are right more than half tho seed is wasted when so much is applied James McCann had made the subject il | of his practice had found that about two bushels of seed to the acre have eiyer the best yields.
 MT. Armstrong commended ever, farmer who had good word to say fol summer following, as this preparation makes available whatever fertility there may be in the soil. F. P. Root, Brock port, said that no preparation is better for wheat crop than we'll titled sum mer fallow an inverted clover bed kep clean by surface cultivation is best Drilling in seed, he thought, is better than hand-cast sowing, but the seeG should not be drilled too deep, only covering the seed. Much injury is ofter done by deep drilling. A light roller should pass over before the drill but not after. Narrowing wheat in spring MT. Root considered beneficial on loose uniform soils, but on heavy and unever soils it is useless or injurious. George Tompkins did not consider it advisable to roll land in the fall after seeding, i makes such smooth surface that tho wind sweeps off the snow and leaves tho wheat unprotected; but he believer that it pays to roll wheat in the spring