Connecticut western news., 1880-04-28
FARM AND GARDEN.
PRACTICAL FARM NOTES.

in feeding bran and corn meal to COWS in it's relation to the butter yield: Meal will make more milk than bran, no longer hesitate to say. The change in the butter product is remarkable; in changing from meal to bran, there was Q loss of 17.7 per cent. in the butter pro- ducing capacity of milk; in changing from bran to meal, there was gain in the butter producing capacity of milk of 21.9 per cent. There is @ substantial agreement in the two changes.
 | EVERY farmer who has not, should try patch of sugar beets or mangels this summer, for his COWS to eat next winter. He will know then what to do on larger scale next year.
 IT IS good and profitable plan to grind the cob with the corn. Pure cob meal has no perceptible nutriment in 1t, but it seems to have mechanical effect, so that it's value is about equal to bran mixed with corn meal.
 THE quality of the feed improves the quality of the milk, but only by slow and persistent efforts can this be done with the average COW, and it may be con- sidered useless to try and make Jersey out of Holstein by feeding straw alone.
 AN advance of one cent pound in the price of butter would add nearly $10,- 900, ,O0O to the total value of the product of the country for one year.
 ORCHARDS on low or flat ground in a heavy soil should be under-drained if the trees are expected to be healthy and pro- life.
 ALL seeds grow best from having the earth pressed over them. If the soil is damp it should be more lightly pressed than if dry.
 Do NOT disturb the garden soil, until it is dry enough to crumble fine when plowed. If lumpy, your "haste will make waste," and retard the growth of garden truck.
 I BOUGHT eight or nine English ducks, (Muscovies eat the buds and young shoots, and will not answer,) I turned them into the garden for three or four months, and was astonished at the suc- cess with which they gobbled the insects
 WHEN deep under ground, as in the sandy soils of New Jersey, the white part of asparagus is not tough towards the summit, but as soft and tender as the green part. When the white is ten der and soft, there is no comparison as regards delicacy of taste between that and the green.-Gardepaers Monthly. AT meeting of the Western New York Farmers Club, it was agreed that the average cost and profit of raising ap- ples were 45 to 50 cents per barrel, for picking, packing, handling, hauling and cost of the barrel. An orchard will yield from 50 to 75 barrels to the acre under good culture. One-half will sell for $2. % and the other and inferior half for $1. 50 per barrel. This is for years of average yield.
 A CORRESPONDENT in the Mai1ae Fur naer says that the best cure for hens eat ing eggs is capital punishment. A tenn porary preventive is to make the nest in nail casks by filling the casks about two thirds full of perfectly dry beech or ma- plo leaves. Then when the hen gets up the egg is under her and the more she looks for it the more she does not find it.
 SOME of the best butter-makers in Eng land use for every twenty pounds of but ter one teaspoonful of soda and alum mingled together at the time of churn- ing and put into the churn. This is for the purpose of rendering the butter firm and solid during warm weather.
 Or THE eighty-eight solid business men of Springfield, Mass, sixty-four were brought up on farms and were farmers sons, twelve were brought up ill villages, and of these six were accus, | toned to do farm work.
 TIMoTHY.-"I have succeeded in sow ing timothy seed at all times of the year, but prefer seeding on stubble ground as soon as the grain is harvested, sowing about twelve quarts to the acre and har- rowing till the seed is well covered. | Spring seeding will sometimes fail if it is very dry"
 BEET PU1P.-"I think very highly of beet pulp. feed it alone, about four quarts per day to each COW. I keep the pulp in my cellar and it is apparently as sweet and good now as when it was put in. It increases the flow of milk very much. "-E. ~. Chamberli1, Lisbon, le. OsAGE ORANGE SEED.-" My expert ence is that Osage orange seed should be soaked in water at least fortnight in order to sprout the seed, changing the water every day. My best luck has come from planting seed so treated just before corn-planting. I drop twenty-five to thirty seeds to the foot and cover about two inches deep" -. C., Ne,0 Brigh- i ton, Pa.
 POTATOES -" Last spring I plowed a piece of pasture-land that had not been plowed for twenty-five years. l planted five pecks of potatoes Burbank seed ings), without any manure except lit tie of the Stockbridge in the hill to keep off worms. I dug sixty-ive bushels of potatoes and only two bushels of little ones. Iplanted about the same quan- tity of Early Rose and got thirty-two bushels. ''-J. M., Marsht7eld, Mass.
 THE old-fashioned method of saving the poultry manure and wood ashes for top-dressing corn is worthy of preserva- tion. Poultry manure supplies phos- phoric acid, and ashes contain potash,