Connecticut western news., 1879-09-03
FARM AND GARDEN.

Va, in an article on the Strawberry, has the following. The summer culture of MT. Young is something that we can commend from experience:
 In this connection the following from the pen of MT. J. R. Young of Norfolk county, in regard to the summer culti- vation of the strawberry, may be of use to some of our readers. MT. Young is probably the the largest grower of strawberries in the world, his annual shipments often amounting to 5000, ,000 baskets. He says: For clayey loam, liable to harden after storms, I prefer the narrow row culture, with the rows as close together as can be worked. After heavy rains, as soon as the ground has dried sufficiently, run a fine steel toothed harrow between the rows, just deep enough to pulverize the surface. Kept loose, there will be no baking of the crust. In working young vines I keep my cultivators going from the mid dle of April till the middle of October, never allowing the surface to harden, or to lie undisturbed long enough to permit the weeds to start. I do not believe in working vines the spring they are bear ing. Immediately after the crops are harvested I start the cultivators, and give the old vines the same treatment as the young. I very seldom carry the vines longer than three years.
 BUSH BEANs.-In some parts of the country, and near New York, too, there is but one sowing of Bush Beans, and that late in the spring. Of such deli cious and healthful vegetable there should be continuous crop from spring to fall. The seeds may be put in now, and at intervals during the month. Sow in drills eighteen inches apart, the beans about three inches apart in the drills, and an inch and half deep. Do not draw any earth up to the plants, but keep the ground flat and mellow, using the hoe as often as weeds appear. A pushing hoe IS better than a draw hoe for the purpose. Of kinds to SOW, we prefer the Dwarf Black Wax to all others, especially at this season of the year. It IS not only one of the earliest, but is of unsurpassed excellence.
 OATS AND WHEAT.-The experiment. has been made of sowing oats and wheat together with a view to obtaining @ winter covering for the wheat. The seed, in the proportion of one part of oats to two parts of wheat, was sown in the fall, and the oats sprapg up quickly and were killed by the early frost, the leaves and stalks lying on the ground all winter, keeping the snow from blow ing .awayIand preventing the sun from thawing the frozen ground. In the spring the dead oats made good top dressing for the growing wheat. The crop of wheat secured on the following season was reported to be excellent, while wheat on adjoining land planted in the usual manner was of no value. - Scribner fo7' September.
 | SUCKERS AROUND APPLE TREES are per mitted ill some neglected orchards, dis figuring the trees and doing them harm says the Country Gentleman. Clea them of, and so they will not Asprou again. Seize them by the tops witl
 both hands, place the cowhide boo
 which you wear upon them, between
 sucker and tree, and one stamp with tn
 foot and corresponding jerk with tn
 hands will tear them off at the base. I
 too large, cut them out with gouge an,
 mallet.
 BEETs FOR SUaAR.-A ton of presses
 pulp contains the solids of five tons c green beets-all the solids of five tons and all of value except sugar-and, ac
 cording to high German authority , worth, as cattle feed, pound for pound fifty per cent. more than the beet fror which it is made; and this, if true, mus F prove to be good thing for our fal , mers, as all who deliver beets to tn 7 Sugar Company, under contract, are CT } titled to have the pulp delivered at an station on the lines of railroads centerin
 in Portland, by carload of ten tons, {
 SIS per carload for any distance, an
 under fifty miles $l5 per carload. No
 If the farmer can raise twenty tons pe acre, and receive $100 cash for it, an buy back two cars of pulp at cost ( . $50 or $36, according to distance, and this pulp is worth fifty per cent. mol than the beets sold for, he has made good trade, and many farmers who hay not planted this year will want to next. Boston CultiuatoY.
 Coop AIvIcE.-This is good advice A California correspondent of S Louis agricultural paper, after speakin of the advantages for farming in ths State, says: But let it be understoo we do not advise any man who has , home in the East, however humble ths home, to sell and come here. No! t such we say Stay where you are, in ? prove your home, and diligently striv ] to make it 8 place where righteousness and peace kiss each other, where COT , tentment dwells with gratitude, and lov holds benign sway-i in word, make j
 home.
 Cows. Some evidence from goo sources is being brought forward to shov
 that COWS which are the deepest milkers
 when dried off, fatten more rapidly am
 make better beef than those which ar
 classed as poor milkers. Mir. A. B
 Allen says this is the case with tn
 Guernseys, and his own experience Ina
 proved 1t to be true with the Shorthorns
 A Cheerful Prospect.