Connecticut western news., 1880-11-03
FARM AND GARDEN.


 KEEPING POTATOES. Yeomans, of Holland Co.,, Ct, says: My cellar is cool and what would be considered pretty moist in fact; in the wet season more or less water runs in the drains under the tiagging. The potato bin is on one side of the cellar and directly over drain, with open joints in the Tagging. When dig my potatoes they are put into the bin without even straw upon the bottom and with the sides against the wall, and yet they will keep, save as they disap- pear to satisfy culinary demands. Hay ing decided to spend some time in Vest ern New York, I dug part of my pota- toes in August, or as soon as tho tops were partially dried, and put them in the cellar as described above, while the remainder were left in the ground until late in the fall. The result was that, so far as l know, not a single potato of the first lot routed after they were dug, while of those that were left in the ground at least half routed during their stay there, but none of them did so after having been placed in the cellar. From the little experience l have had in that line, am convinced tlfht, other things being equal, it is far better to dig pota- toes early, or as soon as they are ma- tured, storing them in cool cellar, and then should have no fears of their rot ting.
 How TO MAKE THE FARM PAY.--An acquaintance who has city business has @ farm of about one hundred acres con- nected with his country seat. He has no time to farm it himself, so he rents it. For the first ten years, though every care has been taken to get good men, there had been an annual change. In some cases there has been loss of rent ; in all there was the confusion that noth- ing could be made of the farm. Two years ago man took It who was not Q professional farmer, but an intelligent man who had already much experience ill matters connected with farm affairs He took it at $500 year rent. He made something the first year, how much we did not hear but the last year it is said that his profits were not less than $5, ,OOO. We might go on and-show in detail how all this was done, but 1t would not learn anybody anything. He simply finds out what to grow and how to grow it, and what will sell best, and raises that which best will sell. He is liberal in his expen- ditures after he sees clearly that expen- ditures will pay, and careful to stop all leaks that so often fritter great suc- cesses away. It is simply common sense business tact, which nobody can teach, but which everybody may learn. Now, it does not hurt any one to know how much carbon, or nitrogen, or pllos- phoric acid, or what-not there is in his breakfast steak it hurts no one to be able to say that he was able to hold the blow or take his turn with tie mowers when he was fifteen years of age. We like to know that people are well in- formed on these topics but when we are asked how to make farm pay, we like to point to such men as the one we have just described for our answer Germgntopn Telegraph.
 STORING APPLEs.-The Massachusetts Ploughnan has the following letter from correspondent which we give for what it may suggest. The time is com ing that trial may be made: "Two years ago last spring advertised for five hundred barrels of apples, and purchased nearly that many, and noted carefully the result of the various stor- ing. Those stored in damp, dark eel lars, were brighter, firmer and less de- cayed. In one cellar in Woodstock there were some eighty barrels in this eel lar there was spring the water was some three inches deep the barrels of apples were not headed up, they were just above the water on stones and tim bers, and they were Russetts, Greenings, English Beauties and Baldwins. In some of the barrels there was not sin gle specked or decayed apple; they were the best of all bought ; the oth- CTS that I bought varied in firmness and bright appearance Q dark, damp eel
 lar, in every case proving the best"