Connecticut western news., 1880-09-08
FARM AND GARDEN,
THE APPLE CROP :

of fruitfulness. The orchards throughout the belt of country which is so famous for apples are loaded with fruit, and from all parts of the Union where apples are grown we learn that the prospects of the yield are equally satisfactory. The English fruit crop is bad one this year, and apples especially will be very scarce in England except as they are imported from abroad. We may therefore expect to see large shipments of our apples to Europe, though their export during the last year of abundance did not return profits to the consignors which gave much encouragement to the business. Rut~barEels sof apples will make up 8 large part of the cargo of outgoing European steamers in few months from now, and the experience of the former shipments on an extensive scale may have taught dealers lesson which they will now use to their adYantage. ''
 Cheap apples, cheap cider, abundant applejack, and great over-suppIy of the fruit, which will go to the hogs or rot on the ground, are sure to be seen this autumn. More fruit of all kinds will be preserved or canned this year than ever before, and it's export must be exceptionally large.
 THE USE OF LIME,
 The Journal of Forestry sums up many of the uses of, lime when, applied to the soil. The effects of lime. as will be seen, are in part mechanical and part chemical: ...
 1. Upon the deep alluvial and clay soil, it increases the crop of potatoes and renders them waxy. Sprinkled over potatoes in 9 store heap, it pre- serves them, and when riddled over the cut sets, it wonderfully increases their fertility. ........, ,.
 2. Lime eradicates the fnger-and-toe disease in turnips, and gives greater soundness to the bulbs.
 3. It gives, when applied to meadow land, larger product of more nutritious grasses. It also exterminates coarse and sour grasses, destroys couch grass and acts powerfully upon rye grasses. a1
 4. Upon arabic land it destroys weeds of various kinds.
 5. It rapidly decomposes vegetable matter, producing large amount of food for plants in the form of carbonic 0 6. i It dessspaayss ssa or aneutrslizss e the acids in the A sAsoils;I hence: it's adaptability to sour soas. sAs 7 FAX
 7. It acts powerfully upon some of the inorganic parts of the soil, especially on the sulphate of iron found in peaty soil, and the sulphate of magnesia and alumina
 t 8. It proves fatal to worms and slugs- and the larY@ of injurious insects though favorable to the growth of shell-bearers.
 9. Stacked lime added to vegetable matter. causes it to give off it's nitrogen in the-form of ammonia. - 2. E PURE WATER FOR THE DAIRY.
 The importance of having pure water for the dairy, as we'll as for animals; to drink, is not sufficiently apprehended. Prof. Sheldon says, in the London Live Stock Journal: "Not only is the blood of animals who drink impure water liable to be poisoned by the bacteria which such water frequently contains, but these putrefactive germs will impregnate both butter and milk if permitted to come into contact with them. The boiling water which should always be used in washing dairy utensils will destroy the bacteria; yet, as butter cannot be washed 7in boiling water, it is in the first degree Fimportant that the cold water it is washed in should be pure. The water is intended to purify the butter, not the, | butter the water. v r-f AN EXPERIMENT INTERESTING TO FARMERS
 There is great interest among the farmers over the triad on the farm of En- gineer Riggs of the Suf1ield branch road of g. new process "for the preservation of forage crops in their green state," which was experimented with for twenty i years by M. Gofart, of Salome, France, who half dozen years ago perfected it. This is the only trial of the process in 1 Conneetieaty saaa, with WitA fl single excsps tioh the nl lev EdgiaasE Thfs: first testwasE Enfade on Tuesday, Ahgdsttl "A. Aoheshp1ses pow ei iinaziss used to run the llllleh ll ao1ea sds sembles hay cutter.- Int this this see Funi thr ee or four and even hall. dozen corn stalks at a tihe,' which afe cuts1httto-very small piaces!I .AHerRsatd they 3all into a sidaswhieh, takes, thsems te7as yault 48euo- teen by twent,yzsslixa ,ysl a.Feee feet and, ten deep,
 wh5eh,ahas nthicko concrete walls and is capable f mt tlt1 E. ts
 thisfeed. The engine with sixty. pamnds of steam can hcutup- four tons ali hour, or half the YYarlltt'ffn day day. When the sE vault is filled and closely packed down
 thirty tons of stone arg placed on: top. q It is claimed. that the,9' :.fedder 2 .Mill keep green and retain its sweetttesss'so long as it. fisF Kept gcovered, thus making > it one of t4e besti$s we'll as tAe-eheSpas !, kinds ofzfs fssdl-ehtainabl leF for ssa6 e-the yeagsreund. It is not intended however, ] that's thisE feed shall be sold as ,.othel kinds,. and indeed it could not be, as
 aft ts.Bft!;i ifottfr IT, l9ff, lfi9R', sll2oAt r 3 mentatiun .Woald set ing which of eOl1rse would rum ,i.. "a It tH!ear l ioutpnly a little at attime,as 1t isneedef aI tforHase.r's ,Ele process is called the Zen silage" system ''1 " , 'I'' D '''''' sA .-4AMouNT OF -sEED.z~ <- 4Mere,is no precise: amount of wsea to be sowa per :acre-uo rigid. indBxibl ' rula5o be followed any more than in th
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