Connecticut western news., 1882-06-14
FARM AND GARDEN.

CUT GRASS EARLY.-Early cut grass contains larger proportion of nutritive material than later cut, and will produce better favored and richer colored but ter. It has been found by careful ex- pertinent that grass cut when ripe has only forty pounds of matter available for food in every hundred, while if cut when just in blossom or when the flower leaves are falling, there are fifty pine pounds of food in every hundred, and of much better quality.
 It will therefore pay the farmer to make an extra effort to secure his hay crop in season early enough to make it the most valuable.
 In many sections of the country the hay crop is the most valuable of any single product of the farm, and the diff ference of only ten per cent. in its value, will add enormously to the aggregate Another advantage of early cutting is the chance for 8 crop of towen either for pasture or late cured hay. In a late visit to Long Island, field was shown to the writer that had given four crops of feed last year, at the rate of over twelve tons of feed per acre. There were orchard and rye grass, with lu- cerne and clover, making 8 most admir- able mixture both as to quality and quantity.
 The lucerne and orchard grass start ing very early, and the clover and rye grass growing later furnish crop that made the great yield mentioned. A va- riety of grass not only will give more hay or pasture, but coming at different periods makes a crop available for 9 much longer season.
 Farmers are slow to learn the value of improved methods, but where practice and common sense agree, it is only a question of knowing the best when it will be practiced. We say to all who have grass for hay, cut it early, if you have not done so before, and see the difference in weight and value.
 r CORN FOR FODDER. The largest yield of crop of fodder corn is pro. duced by drill planting. The value of the fodder is also much greater. In close, broadcast sowing the corn does not grow tall and becomes very white and watery for want of light, and the fodder so grown is next to worthless. Fodder corn should be sown in drills three or three and half feet apart and about three inches apart in the rows, and the ground should be thoroughly cultivated. If this is done and Western dent corn of large growth planted, ol Southern white corn, the yield of dry fodder has been equal to eight tons, cured, to the acre upon good ground.
 CANADA TH1sT1Es.-Mr. Charles A. Green refers to the impossibilities o eradicating the Canada thistle by hoe ing or cultivating among growing crops and strikes the keynote for success by stating that the "only and sure method is early and often blowing during the entire summer"-in other words, thor ough system of summer following. How ever averse the average farmer may bt to this old-time mode, it is nevertheless the one which must eventually be prac ticed ere we even check tbe alarming advance of thls greatest of all weet pests, and it is gratifying to know tha many are accepting this as an estab lished fact.-LrVing D. Cook, Genese, Coa1aty, ~. y.
 YOUNG TURKEYS. - Young turkey should be fed very little of anything Their natural food consists of bugs ant flies which they pick off grass an, weeds, and worms from the ground Eggs boiled hard and chopped fine mixed with curd made from sour milk are the best food for them when young It is more important to keep them ou of the dew and wet than it is to give them any food other than what the, obtain for themselves. They should never be allowed to ramble around when the grass is wet.