Connecticut western news., 1880-03-10
FARM AND GARDEN.
NOTES AND ErNrs

\ NOTES AND HINTS.
 MT. G. F. Nutting, Randolph, Vt
 who has had good deal of experiene
 in feeding apples to stock, believes thu
 they pay better for this purpose tha
 for cider-making leaving the morl
 question out of the account--and h
 even goes so far as to maintain, in tn
 N. E. Farmer, that this fruit is S
 wholesome for all animals that it woul
 be more profitable to raise it expressl
 for them than to raise roots.
 MT. A. Fl. Ainsley, Milo Centre, N
 r., tells the Rural Home that, havin
 several large oak stumps standing yer
 firmly, he two years ago "dug aroun
 and under them with spade, leaving
 basin to catch the water," and som
 were thus so lifted by the winter frost
 that the next spring he clipped then
 over by hand."
 A note from Mystic, Conn.,, state
 that farmers along shore have beel
 busy handling (and placing in heaps t,
 be covered with soil and thus rottet
 down for manure) "hundreds of tons
 of sea weed driven in by recent gales
 which thus proved no ill winds t, them.
 The Poughkeepsie Eagze estimates
 that 50 beet factories, each with a ca
 pacity for 100 tons per day and running
 15O days during the year, would only
 supply half the demand for sugar i1
 New York State, for which over $2O
 900. 900 is annually paid.
 An old teamster of experience says he has never had case of the gals up. on his animals where the following ore. 7entive was adopted: Rub the collars inside every few days with little meats. foot oil and the moment any dirt is found sticking like wax, wash it off with warm soapsuds and then oil. A yoke from oxen or collar from a horse should not be removed when brought into the stable from work until the sweat is en- tirely dry, and all chafed spots should be oiled.
 BARLEY. Barley is usually profit able crop with me. The land must be dry, clean, mellow and rich. Last year l used superphosphate with decided ad. vantage. It not only increased the yield but the quality. I SOW from two to two and one-haf bushels to the acre, as early as the land can be put in good condition. "- Joseph Harris, Roches. ter, ~ y.
 EARLY PoTAToEs.-"I I confine myself to the cultivation Of early potatoes for the main crop. Why cultivate a potato that requires the entire season to mature when we can just as we'll have the crop in market by August, in time for early seeding to turnips, grain or grass? I have grown good crop of winter oab- oages following the early Ohios. This 1ouble cropping only requires liberal nanuring and lively movement on the part of the cultivator. ". H. .Hazzs. PlaastoaO, ~. H.
 A Maine correspondent of The American Cultiv0toq' finds that saw lust in the stable keeps his COWS much leaner than the most liberal bedding # straw.
 The Farns Journal gives in few 7ords it's opinions concerning the fences f no distant future. It says list, he fencing material of the era now awning will consist more largely of | ron than heretofore, but, 2d, iron posts zil not be used unless there is great all in the price of iron, 8 circumstance ot likely to occur. 3d, to turn horses nd cattle only, fence consisting of 'ooden posts with three iron No. 6 'ires will prove the cheapest and best ence. The bottom wire, about two get from the ground, may have barbs pon in, to prevent cattle from pushing gainst it; the top wire should have lastering lath wired to it horizontally, he lath whitewashed, to prevent ami. lals running into the fence. 4th, to urn sheep and hogs wooden fence is heapest and best. 9th, as to the fence the more distant future for turning attle we are not prepared to name it, ut many farmers in the old dairy seo- ons will say ''fence no fence r The bling system that will feed and SUD- ort 100 COWS on 100 acres requires no snce at all, for the COWS do not graze ut are fed at the barn winter and ummer.
 At the annual convention of the Indiana State Short-horn Breeders' Convention Kentucky bluegrass was trongly advocated as the best kind to ultivate for grazing purposes. Some of he members recommended the mixing white clover herewith. It was enerally conceded that English blue- rass and orchard grass were both in- erior and not to be relied upon for ermanent pasture, although each is of alue as affording feed for cattle in the all when Kentucky bluegrass is always cast fourishing.
 At Farmers Club Meeting, MT. teddes said, in reference to sheep. icks, that within few days after shear. az these parasites congregate on the ambs, and by dipping the latter up to he eyes in the strongest possible de- potion of tobacco stems, very few of he vermin will be found another spring. Ar. Edwards advised the tobacco bath very year for each member of the flock. oung or old, though not when the ewes re heavy with lamb, saying that be- ides killing ticks it cures the scab, 7hich at the West they call prairie itch.
 The Maine Beet Sugar Company, t Portland, have reported results of be past years operations to the 1 7n0