Connecticut western news., 1879-08-27
FARM AND GARDEN.
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

A GOOD OAT CROP.-"l l had field of twenty-five acres, last season, one- half of which sowed and cultivated in without blowing the ground, and the other half was plowed, sowed and har- rowed in. I run a hinge harrow over the part cultivated which leveled all the stalks so that they were not in the way of the reaper in harvesting. The field was all put in about the same time and all rolled and no fertilizer used. The part cultivated yielded much the best crop. The straw was heavier and stiffer and the oats were heavier. They ripened four or five days sooner than the others. It was the heaviest crop of straw l ever harvested. It was taller on the average than wheat. Some of the stalks were seven and half feet high. I always SOW oats as early as can get the ground ready in the spring and find they do better than late sowing, even if the ground does freeze hard afterwards. have had several experi- ments of this kind and they always come out better harvest than later sown oats.
 BoRER AND WoRM.- .-"I do not allow either gooseberry or currant bushes to grow in swamp style. I trim and train them in single stems and with no limbs below fifteen inches from the ground. This secures larger fruit and gives the best chance for detecting the eggs of the fly, or of dusting with hellebore. De- stroy all the first that appear, and you will be successful in fighting the cur rant worm."-L Sunderland, Quincy, Mass.
 SQUASH CULTURE. -" In starting them I place liberal quantity of manure in 8 hole for each hill add an inch or two of fine soil; line up with coal ashes put in the seed and set the plants and, after hoeing, scatter on the surface a fresh supply of ashes. In this way the patch is kept entirely free from grubs." -J '. Chandler, Everett, Mass.
 GREEN CABBAGE WoRM-The green cabbage worm may be destroyed by spraying hot water or strong decoction of red pepper over them, or by drop ping salt upon them; they may be pre- vented by dusting the cabbage with a mixture of sulphur and plaster, by which the white butterfly which pro- duces them, may be deterred from lay ing eggs upon the leaves, or by cap turing the butterflies.
 BoNEs.-Fresh bones when dry con- tain about 40 per cent. of gelatine, and this contains to Der cent. of nitrogen; in addition they contain about 55 per cent. of phosphate of lime. When bones are burned the gelatine and its nitrogen are, of course, destroyed, and about 80 per cent of the ash left consists of phos- phate of lime. In burning 100 pounds of bones the loss in value is equal to that of or pounds of nitrogen, which is worth 25 cents pound. This loss, equal to one cent Q pound for the bones, is 8 serious one, but as it is difficult for a farmer to reduce the bones to fine powder it cannot be helped, and must be endured.
 CANNING SWEET CoRN.-Sweet corn is canned by first partly cooking it after it is cut from the cobs, then packing it in the cans and soldering on the cover. A small pin-hole is made in the centre of the can, and the cans are then placed in liquid which boils at temperature much higher than that of boiling water. The heat drives all the air in the can, or the corn, out of the small hole, which is then stopped by drop of solder. The cans are then boiled for severa hours, when the operation is complete
 BURNING THE STRAw.-I have thought
 that with wheat after wheat, where the
 Hessian fly had worked, it would be ad
 visable to burn tho stubble. l shal
 blow o number of furrows about tho
 field to protect the fences, and cover {
 portion of the lot with straw before ap
 plying the match. The ashes of th'
 straw will give some good results, ane
 many insects and seeds will be destroy
 ed. Fultz wheat will be sown largel.
 in place of Clawson, which has become
 unpopular. The fly works in it mor
 than in red wheat, and millers will no
 pay so much for it. Salt is being uset
 here more and more as fertilizer fo wheat. Wood ashes at from twelve t.
 twenty cents per bushel are the cheap
 est fertilizer for wheat or almost an.
 crop have not met with the soil tha would not respond to liberal dressings
 look for @ firm, if not an advancing market for wheat.-[ Chas. A. Green Monroe Co.,, N. Y.
 LocusT.-A correspondent tells tn
 Practical Farmer that he never coul
 get one in twenty of the seeds of tn
 common locust to grow till he adopte
 the practice of scalding, without whicl most of them might possibly lie do1 mant in the soil hundred years. " Ali ter the hot water is applied, portio are found double in size; these are SC
 lected and planted, and the process re peated several times, till all or nearl all are made to germinate."
 WINTER WHEAT. Hon. Henr Lane writes from Addison Co.,, Vt., t the NeaU- England Farmer that durin the past five years there has been 8 re turn in his section to the practice C raising winter wheat, from which tn growers were driven thirty or forty year ! ago by ravages of the weevil, and tn , clay soils of the Champlain Valley, a , ter this long rest, are now producin : orons enual to those grown when th