Connecticut western news., 1880-10-20
FARM AND GARDEN.

SHEEP DOGS.-l have been told that one or two belled sheep in 8 flock will keep away dogs, as they fear that the noise of the bells will call attention to them while at their mischief but I do not vouch for its truth, though I know that sheep-killing dog is as shy and fearful of being caught at his work as if he knew the wrong he was doing and the penalty. It might be we'll worth trying by those who desire to invest in sheep.-Thom0s Bates.
 PoRK.-Now is the time to begin to crowd the feed upon those hogs which you intend to fatten this fall. An old friend of mine, who used to fatten & great deal of pork and beef, said that three quarts of corn in October was worth more than four quarts in Novem- Der, and, as far as my experience goes, I thoroughly bel1eveit. And it is equally as true in regard to poultry as it is in regard to pork or beef. Yet it is whim of mine, for which I cannot give good reasons, that I like to keep on feeding
 
 weather begins, especially upon meat that am fattening for my own use The corn may not produce as many pounds of fat then as it does earlier in the season, but the meat seems to acquire more solidity. It does not "shrink in the pot" as they used to say about that | killed in "the increase of the moon, "- c. F.
 A NOVEL PRoTEoToR.-Many of the leading orchard proprietors in northern Italy and southern Germany are culti- vators of the common black ant, which insect they hold in high esteem as the fruit growers best friend. They estab- ish ant hills in their orchards, and leave l the police service of their fruit trees en- tirely to the tiny colonists, which pass all their time in climbing up the stems of the fruit trees, cleansing their boughs and leaves of malefactors, mature as we'll as embryonic, and descending laden with spoils to the ground, where they com- fortably consume or prudently store away their booty. They never meddle with sound fruit, but only invade such apples, pears and plums as have already been penetrated by the canker, which they remorselessly pursue to its fast nesses within the very heart of the fruit. Nowhere are apple and pear trees so free from blight and destructive insects as in the immediate neighborhood of large thil five or six years old. The favorite food of ants wouldappear to be the larvse and pupse of those creatures which spend the whole of their brief existences in de- vouring the tender shoots and juvenile leaves of fruit trees.
 1 ANSWERING CA11.-Mr. o. B. Eaton Coleman's Rural World says, gathers his flock of sheep from any part of hi, 40O-aere pasture by blowing 0 horn "They expect, and always get, salt O corn for their obedience to the call.'
 PACKING APPLES. Major Treas ad vises to pack apples in dry barrels, ant keep them under shed, protected agains rain or moisture, to remain there unti late in November and freezing weathe approaches then to remove them to { cold, dry cellar, and headed up the bar rels, is as good as any way, where tn quantity on hand is large, and the pur pose is to keep them over winter fo spring sales. In fact, he has know
 apples put up in this way, that hay been preserved sound and goodintoJune
 OUNCES. exchange says W have often remarked that it scene
 strange that so few engaged in growth quinces. Robert J. Swan, of Geneva
 N. Y., grows the quince very success fully in his vegetable garden, where h
 has sixty trees, twelve to fifteen year
 old, and four or five inches in diameter
 and some nine feet high, producing som two bushels per tree. Borers are ez cluded by mounds of coal ashes. O. the grounds of Ellwanger & Barry, a , Rochester, is a row of Rae's Mammot quince; the trees are many years ol and some twelve feet high, profusel
 loaded with fruit. They receive goo cultivation, and the ground has mod crate annual top-dressing of manure The trees have been freely cut back fo } buds, this variety being extensivel. propagated, says the Country Gentleman