Connecticut western news., 1880-04-21
FARM AND GARDEN.

| der through the season, SOW it regularly every two weeks until the middle of August. Begin as early as practicable.
 Do NOT turn COWS on the pasture until there is 8 full feed of grass. It only spells their capacities for dry feed, and is too watery to produce much milk. Be- sides, it hurts the stand of grass.
 THE average COW drops in a year about O,O0O pounds of solid, and 5000 pounds of liquid manure. The solid is slightly the more valuable. This is ten tons, and multiplied by the current price will tell you how much your COWS are paying in this product, whether stalled or running in the pasture.
 ECONOMY in seed, and increased pro- duct in merchantable potatoes, lead us to cut all tubers planted, to pieces-of one or two eyes; the advantage of this is now so well established that it is not worth while to here give reasons or argu- ments in it's favor.
 THE peach borer, if looked after in spring and fall, is not serious enemy. | If the lower part of the trunk IS pro- tected with paper or 8 mound of earth, extending foot up the trunk, it is safe. If left to itself the worm is liable to kill ! the tree in northern attitudes, though | south of Ohio the growth is so vigorous that the long season allows it to grow faster than the worm can eat it, though they often weaken the trunks until the tree is easily blown down.
 MT. WA. WHEELER, Worcester, Mass, cites remarkable illustration of the value of mulch The surface under alternate rows of old apple trees on dry, rocky hillside, was covered ill July foot deep with swale hay as far out as the limbs extended. The next season, "the bear ing year," those thus favored were loaded with large fine fruit, and showed, he says in zhe American Cult5vator, Ca great growth of new wood and the leaves had beautiful green and spring-ike appear ance," while the unmulched rows were barren, though of the same varieties.
 AT THIS season of the yer do not forget the poultry house. Remove all dirt and filth from every part. Take out sll the old nests, and, where it can be done, the nest boxes too. Now provide yourself with sufficient quantity of petroleum, crude or refined, and good whitewash brush and apply it to the whole interior surface-foor, walls, ceiling, nest boxes and perches. Rub, spray or smudge it into every crack and corner, and on the bearings of the perches. When this has penetrated every point where nit or louse could be deposited, apply thor ough coat of whitewash. Go over the nest boxes in the same way, and put new nests of clean, soft hay or straw in them, and you need not fear your fowls will be troubled with lice for while at any rate Coops, too, that were used last year for young broods, should be similarly treated before being brought into requisition for this seasons campaign.
 THIS is the season for transplanting as well as planting and sowing. Trees and vines transplanted just as the buds begin to swell are more likely to live and thrive than when the work is deferred till May. Pransplanting can not be done at any time without giving the plants more or less shock, but the change of location is less felt when the ground is moist and the sap is beginning to circulate freely. Nurserymen often recommend fall trans planting, as it. gives them both a fall and spring market, but the observation of most farmers leads them to favor the budding month of April for this work. In Central New York formerly, the average cheese made per COW per annum was 300 pounds, giving net profit of $15 head. The record of herd of cows in 1876 showed 635 pounds of cheese. per COW, in Herkimer county, with net profit of $31 per head, for 8 dairy of 85 COWS. Another dairyman in the same county made 800 pounds of ! cheese per COW.
 The Gardeners Monthly approves of the whitewashing of stem and branches of fruit trees, as tending to keep them healthy and aiding them to get rid of the old bark.