Connecticut western news., 1880-05-19
FARM AND GARDEN.
PRACTICAL HINTS.

DO NUT AAA S'AO OA P4auI LuOI0 SdrU0u than you have manure thoroughly to enrich, nor more than you have labor at command to thoroughly cultivate.
 A GOOD GRAPHING WAX is made as fol- lows: Melt one pound of common rosin over gentle fire add one ounce of beef tallow and stir well; cool little and mix with tablespoonful of turpentine then add seven ounces of ninety five per cent. alcohol. Keep it warm and stir until thoroughly mixed.
 THE cURRANT AND GoosEBERRY seem in a hopeless condition of standstill, or de- terioration, caused by planting them along the fence rows, where they can receive no cultivation and become over grown with grass. If properly planted in open rows and cultivated, the fruit will be greatly improved in size and quality.
 THIS is the season that leeks grow in the pasture, which if eaten by the COW will give the'milk an onion taste. If the COW is we'll fed with ground feed she will not eat the leeks.
 IF COW is giving milk and has to be sent on a one or two days trip or more by cars, she would suffer less if given no food or water for twelve hours before starting, and none on the route, than if allowed both. She can stand starvation better than the accumulation of milk in the udder. If she is to be milked regu- larly, then feed regularly.
 IN THE principal dairy districts in France many of the dairymen milk their COWS thrice daily. A French paper, al-. luding to the marked disadvantage of the practice of milking but twice daily, says: In an experiment. of three milk ings day for eleven days, 8 COW gave 17O quarts of milk. With two milkings the same COW gave only 146 quarts in the same number of days. Moreover, analysis showed that the milk in the first case was richer in butter globules than that in the second case, in the pro- portion of A. to 3.5."
 IN SMALL gardens, where it is desired to bring forward melons, beans, etc., as early as possible, the following plan, though far from new, will prove service able. Prepare the soil the same as if the seed were to be planted in the usual way. Then place four bricks 80 as to form 8 square at suitable distances. Plant the seeds within this square and cover with pane of glass. In this way, as amatter of fact, miniature cold frames are formed without much trouble or ex- pense. The same plan may be adopted to- forwerd any kind of flower seeds.
 THE PRACTICE of chewing bones, sticks and old pieces of leather by COWS is an indication that their systems need some thing not furnished in their food, and frequently bone dust fed in small quan- titles, at first with meal, will supply the need.
 A NEW butter-worker is described as follows: When the butter comes in the churn it is dumped into cloth and its contents placed in revolving up- right cylinder, This " buzzes emilk out with perfectly even pressure, leav- ing it dry and in good condition.
 PoP-CoRN.-"I have experimented more or less with pop corn, having raised it for market The varieties which did best were the large popcorn, ten rowed variety, and the Mayard, a six teen-rowed kind. Rice and Shaker corn are also well thought of by my neighbors who have tried them. 70. HosOard
 NEVER FEED the young pigs on strong, concentrated food, such as ground corn, peas, or other. grain, alone. Give milk Gf obtainable) or water, with equal pro- portions of bran, shorts and boiled pota- toes, or ratherroots or vegetables if the bran and shorts can be scalded, so much the better. If you must feed peas or corn meal, mix sparingly with the veg etable diet until the pig is four months old at least, when the grain may be in- creased. But all through the pigs life give him plenty of good roots, boiled or raw. In short, feed the pig generously, but not to excess, with good, pure, mixed diet, and then there will be neither sickness nor want of fertility.
 SWEET CoRN-" Have had sweet corn as field crop since 1876, and am a planter of twelve to fifteen acres per year. I have also furnished seed to a large number of dairy farmers, and the acreage is now counted in this vicinity by hundreds, with an increase this year. 1 The chemist makes the value of sweet corn as about nine to five for other sorts. We begin to feed on the stalks about July 20 to our milch COWS and pigs, and before frost we cut up and cure for win ter use. Itmakes the best of COW feed. " --Asa C. Boaoen, Sand Spring, Pa.
 STARTING BEANS, ETC." Rich turi cut into pieces four inches square and turned upside down furnish frst-rate medium for starting lima beans, squash, melon and cucumber seed. I put them in sunny place during the day, and al night cover them if 1t is at all cold. have gained fortnight's time by this plan. TT J g., Gloucester Coataaty, ,A.J
 BRANCHING CoRN.-" One of the es sential things in growing branching corr is to put one grain in hill and let al the branches grow. think the reason so many have failed in it's cultivation i because they plant three or four grain in hill, as other corn, and the conse
 quence is it cannot grow nor branch 8 ) it would with only one grain. 70. Woy Montgomery County, Pa.
 THE harrow has prove