Connecticut western news., 1880-02-18
FARM AND GARDEN.
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


 culture of asparagus read before the State Horticultural Society, said |: Asparagus wants a loose sandy soil. The land wants to be subsoiled very deep in the fall. In early spring ditohes one foot wide and two and a half feet deep and three feet apart should be made, and good COW or half-rotten horse manure spread three inches deep in the bottom of the ditches covered two inches deep with soil. Two-year- old plants may be put in one foot to eighteen inches apart and covered with three inches of soil. In the fall & little more manure spread in the ditch and on the top of the plants and covered with six inches of soil. The next fall manure spread again and the land all leveled. During the first and second summer row of cabbage or sweet potatoes may be grown on the loose soil between the rows."
 Rye straw is as valuable as the grain in Pennsylvania in the manufacture of paper.
 An exchange reports that some of the Western farmers have of late been utilizing buckwheat by ohopping it fine, adding meal to it and feeding to stock in small quantities.
 Mention is made of an Illinois apiary of fifty colonies kept by man who, having had the good sense to cultivate 8 home market by offering honey at moderate rates, has built up trade larger than he can supply. The Maisee Farnaey says that General Mattocks took 0 quantity of pulp from the beet-sugar factory to his farm in Baldwin, covered it in trench, and after several months it came out fresh and good, and was eaten by cattle with great avidity.
 RAsPBERRIEs FOR PRoFIT.-" Rasp- berry growing with mo is for profit {; early berries have always sold much higher than late ones. ."-J. c. Collins, 1foorestosOn, ~. J
 CONE SHAPE FOR THE SPRUCE.-"T The cone shape IS best seen in the spruce, and, being an evergreen, is desirable on that account while for contrast to the form of other trees they are very effective. ."-Janses Nick, Rochester, ~. y.
 DISSOLVED BONE FOR WHEAT.-ssAp- ply plenty of pure dissolved bone, say 400 pounds to the acre, drilled in, for wheat. Sow about the 25th September. I have averaged twenty-five bushels each year for the last four years. Two years ago I had an eight-acre field which made thirty five bushels to the acre."-N. P.
 +, Py1esvi1ze, Md.
 MT. W. J. Fowler remarks, in the
 Eran1iner and Chronicle, that some farmers and villagers seem to labor
 under the delusion that horses idle in
 the stable are misused unless they have
 hay always before them, forgetful that
 in the long hours of the busy season
 their teams work from early morning
 till noon without feed. The sensible
 way is to give certainly no more, three
 times 8 day, than will be eaten clean and all concerned will be better off Ii
 the supply falls even short of that libera allowance.
 Pork eaters are reminded by th London Examiner that the microscopic worm called trichina (because hair-like)
 and with the added epithet of spirali (because of it's habit of coiling up il cysts), whose presence in the human 3 patient occasions symptoms like thos l. of rheumatism or typhus fever, can onl :, be killed by temperature above 17 degrees, and that the thorough cookin
 should bs 80 slow that the remotest in @ terior of the ham or bacon is certa,alJ i brought to that degree of heat. A correspondent says:-We GOT ' struct paradise for our fowls, both o] ', and young, by building up three C e e four piles of coarse brush in their yard d such piles as we make in trimming u forest trees. The fall winds will lodg e them full of leaves. During the brigl windy raw weather in March and Apri h \. they will bank themselves in thes
 brush piles and scratch and sun then Ie selves with airs of the most intens
 enjoyment. Besides this, they are th
 best protection from hawks which I ca d devise. When an old hen gives th r. alarm, the chickens will start. for tn o brush pile in the most undignifie ? haste, and when once within there the r are safe. I thought to improve upo "a them by elevating one side on stick Is for foot or moro, but these prepare f piles are never recognized by them z o equal to the original and simple pile ( '.; ':; brush.
 The manufacturers of the variou d kinds of farm tools and implement d recently held meeting at Chicago, an l. agreed to advan ce the prices on a j. articles ten per cent. While the cor g vention was in session at the Gran e Pacific Hotel, the price of iron a6 l vanoed $4 per ton. Farmers, in orde n to save anything out of their crops, wi
 have to hold on to the old blows l. hsrrows, reapers, and mowers as lon 5 as possible. Better do little repair a ing this winter than be compelled t l purchase new implements next spring y The Weekly Stvs says:-Farmer B who are troubled by the crows pullin < up their corn in spring, should not pu q off the purchasing of materials fo r making solution in which to Soak thei r seed corn until it is wanted at plantin B time. Many do this, and then regre u it when they see their young corn pulle Q by the mischievous crows. The material | needed are gas tar and blue vitriol. Flo