Connecticut western news., 1880-01-28
. FARM AND GARDEN.
PRACTICAL HINTS

| 4 OD4 uoA OA HaICu 4S U6GtGr tlmO GQan fall for preparing cuttings from the quince, but my experience is that cuttings of two or three years wood are very much to be preferred to those of one years growth. Such a cutting I put out in March. 1878, and had three branches grown that year, each about four feet. " ". Meech, Penasyz. VGnS0.
 POTATO EXPERIMENTS "My potato experiments have extendedsover series of fifty years. My theory has been to select for seed the finest potatoes of their kind at digging time, planting such the following year, then to select from their product the next year, and so on. In practice have not succeeded as could wish. l am not going to say that this method can be made success. have raised many years some of my best crops when small seed was nsed' in planting. In August last dug half bushel of Snowflake potatoes from eight hills and those planted with small seed, i; the potatoes were pronounced by a customer as the best he ever saw. In conclusion, I do not advocate the use of small potatoes for seed, but simply state facts that have occurred in my ex- perience. Readers must test the matter for themselves" ."-J Iaz5ot,f RoaSe,! M.
 ECONOMICAL FARM FENoE.-" The best and most economical. fence can make is a straight fence of posts and rails. I set the posts in line eleven feet apart, using twelve-foot rails laid on alternate sides of the postss which gives them smalllop preventing them from sagging together. I drive good stake by the side of each post, tied to the post by a wire placed above the bottom rails and second wire below the top rails. Fence built in this manner is strong and takes less room than an ordinary rail fence. ."-G. " v,
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 1 POTASH ON THE GRAPEvINN.-"E Ex- perience convinoes me that the euse of potash as found in wood ashes is not beneficial to the grape when used as a fertilizer for a market crop, though with due care in it's use it may be so in garden culture, when earliness is not one of the main points desired. Speak ing as grower for market, would not again apply wood ashes to Ives's seed lings except to weak vines, when g great wood growth is desired. ."-Jessie B. Rogers, M5l6ssrrs, N. J. '' ~'' '
 WHBAT.-Members of the Chatham Farmers Club seem to think that It would probably pay in Columbia Coun- ty, N. r., to return to the old practice of raising at least wheat enough for home consumption-on good soilzvery carefully prepared. MT. Jared Best, who harvested last year 120 Sbushels from five acres, mentioned as an advan- tage of some wheat instead of all rye, that as they do not ripen at. the same time there is consequently less pressure in storing the crops. He added that his COWS eat the chaff of the Olawson variety with great relish.
 MT. Henry Ives, who during the past thirty years has probably raised. from 500 to 1000 acres of potatoes, thus hap oily sums up his reply to correspond ent who wrote to an Ohio agricultural paper in favor of lunar influence :"After all my experience, l would advise plant ing in the dark of the moon-if the land was in the best order then if not, work o% Se ;v, Ioc% # you have to plant in the new of the moon." Fz-
 My way of clearing new land is as follows All white woods especially should be cut after August I, and be- fore March then let logs be cleared of, brush heaped and burned, all loose top Instructions removed, and the blow set to work. Prepare the ground as well as possible and plant with corn the next spring blow again and SOW oats, and as soon as oats are removed, blow and SOW rye and grass seed, being careful mean while to keep any sprouts that may come up around stumps broken down, and the work of clearing is mainly done. R., Chester Co.,, Penn.
 Some years I have jed the puna- mace from 5000 bushels of apples, and consider it worth two-thirds as much per ton as Swede turnips. When fresh, or partly dessicated, cattle and sheep prefer it to turnips, and seem to thrive on it equally we'll. I either feed it fresh from the press, or spread it on mows from four to six inches deep for winter use. At that depth, on dry hay or straw, it becomes partly dessicated, and is relished by all my stock, including horses. I see no reason why it should not be as valuable by the ton as the sugar beet.--[L. H. S., Orange O., Vt
 The advantage of my practice of cut ting grass eor1y, even before the tim othy is in blow, is seen in the condition of the COWS that eat it, in point of flesh and flow of milk, taking quality as well as quantity into account. Instead of beginning the season "Spring-poor," they come out of winter-quarters "Sum- mer-fat," and give from one-third to over half more than an equal number competing at the factory IL. D. Tan ner, Courtland Co.,, N. Y. .a.-<~.