Connecticut western news., 1879-10-29
FARM AND GARDEN.
APPLES AND UNPRoFTTABL
 GnRTE

What most impresses one who walks through the orchards at this season of the year is the large number of unprof- itable sorts of apples to be met with. For apples which fall early and cover the ground and rot, for which there is little demand in the market, and which are far too abundant to be all consumed upon the farm unless fed to the pigs or COWS in greater numbers than is usually the case, are certainly unproftable vari cites. And yet at this time the promi- hence of these early fall sorts is quite noticeable. A very large proportion of these are common seedlings, having no positive character, but some are of quite desirable varieties, esteemed for cooking, eating, or for drying. For the former there is a limited demand at the local markets thro ough the country, though as most of the old orchards have an abundance of this class of fruit, the supply is generally so large that it hardly pays to carry them to the village. AS for home use, it is quite out of the question to think of utilizing all the fall apples of indifferent quality which are found in our orchards. Some can be used in the family, and more proba- bly, might be fed to COWS and pigs, al- though it is common to meet preju- dice against disposing of apples in this manner. But sweet apples are good feed for miloh COWS; and all apples, sweet and sour, boiled and mashed with corn meal, are a good ration for store pigs or breeding sows. Some varieties of these fall apples dry well, though generally they decay very quickly, and if period of damp or rainy weather occurs suffer considerable loss when drying.
 It should be the aim of the orchardist who wishes to obtain the largest amount of profit from his trees to gradually dis place the bulk of these early varieties by grating to the better and more salable winter sorts. A few of the choicer varieties of late summer and early fall apples may be proftably grown, both for cooking and dessert purposes as well as for market. But it is we'll to remember that the market will bear but limited quantity of ap- ples at this time; for it is season when there is on abundance of choicer fruits in supply-pears, grapes, peaches and plums-so that the apple market is limited to the wants of few for cook ing purposes, and generally everybody s neighbor has few to sell fo: just this particular use. Therefore, as stated al the outset, the fall apples are usually not profitable sorts. And while no or chard should be without it's few trees of really very good varieties of fall ap- pies, profit comes with the desirable winter and late keeping kinds, and these are the ones the shrewd orchard ist will endeovor to have in quantity for who ever saw too many good apple; in the winter or late spring, or goo6 winter apples too plenty at those sea sons of the year? So our little hint ii to change over these trees bearing the indifferent fall apples, by grating to those varieties that will give you bet ter supply of the standard and desirable winter market sorts. .-Ama. CUltiVator.
 SHUT YOUR OWN GATE BEHIND YOU.
 Here is hint from The Garden Lon don) that is applicable to farmers a' we'll as gardeners: When you leav. your garden, fruit patch, or grounds, oi whatever kind, shut the gate, and leave whatever there is behind it there-don' take it with you. Recollect that whel you visit the place of another you go tt see what he has to show and learn wha he has to teach. If you would be vel come visitor and be dismissed with pressing invitation to come again, plac yourself in receptive mood; be for tn time the attentive pupil and not tn teacher. When others visit your plac will be the proper time to teach. Of al the intolerable bores who visit us is the man who brings his own place with him and who, whatever may be shown him at once institutes comparison with hi own, and begins to tell that "mine ar, much better than that;" "I can bea you on so and so, and ignoring tn, thing before him, tells us, "Ah, yo should see my strawberries" "m, roses," "my tomatoes" and so on al through-in short, the man who doe not "shut his own gate behind him.
 Those who are so thoroughly satisfe
 with their own that they cannot forge 1t for few hours should not visit, bu remain upon the scene of their remark able achievements-at home. Wewoul not imply that one in visiting the ground of another may not, on occasion, drop useful hint drawn from his own expe rience, or that he may not give his hos , any information that he may ask fol But we have be en so annoyed at recei, ing visitors, and worse still, in visitin 7 strange grounds in company with thos whose only object in visiting appears t be to boast of their own affairs, that W feel called upon to protest against il
 Those who thoughtlessly fall into thi . unpleasant error need only to be re minded of it, and they will sensibl
 avoid it. From the chronic boaster c his own achievements we hope to be de livered.
 THE FARMERS GARDEN.
 The secret of success in garden the proper kind and application of ma nure. It should be thoroughly decom posed, so that all weed seeds may be de |; stroyed, and that it may be properl mixed with the soil, and furnish imme diate sustenance to the plant. Fres manure is apt to cause dryness of soil