Connecticut western news., 1882-03-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
FARM TOPICS.

FARM TOPICS.
 Commenting on the rec ent failure of J. w. Jones, which involved Gloss and suffering to many producers who sup. piled his numerous canning establish ments with raw material, mostly sweet corn, correspondent of The Maiaae Farmer suggests plan of cooperation which is not new but excellent in theory and dific but not impossible in prac- tice: s'If you will plant sweet corn, com bine with your neighbors and put it up at the least possible cost. Do not plant for man or 8 company who will cheat you out of your honest due or perhaps fail, and you must lose the whole amount; allow no man or com pany of men to stand between you and the consumer and take the lion's share. Do with this crop as with any other which you have to dispose of-put it up and on the market yourselves, do- ing the labor mainly yourselves, and receiving the full price the market affords. In this way the producer can receive fair and honest compensation for his labor-and think if the far mers knew aud understood this the large corn shops in the different parts of the State would have to start up some other industry. understand that small corn shops are being built by near neighbors combin ing and putting up their own corn, doing all the labor themselves and putting it upon the market. Where this has been done the farmers have received quite double the price paid by the packing companies"
 Professor J. l.. Budd, of The Zoaoa Homestead, quotes the experience of one of our correspondents on girdling trees to promote frultfulness, especially in the off years of apple orchards, and adds these cautlonary comments: "We think MT. Bundy will find that girdling will infict permanent damage, and that in few years he will discover that he is procuring early fruit bearing at the expense of the life of his trees. That is the effect that generally follows in this climate and latitude. Hon. J. N. Dixon and other experienced fruit growers who have tried the girdling process to hasten the fruiting of young orchards have become convinced that it is ruin ous to the trees. inficting serious dam age which often results in entire de- struction of the trees thus treated.'
 A writer in the British Garden who has experimented with ''much-lauded grease and patented nostrums" for waterproofng boots finds nothing equal to the fat of fowls "When these are dressed any fat to spare is put into a jar for the purpose and from time to time is melted down. I think it's water proofng qualities are superior in the natural or unmelted state, but so, used it does not sink into the leather as it does after being melted, and so is not so cleanly, being liable to rub of; any how those having supply of this article need not wish for anything better.''
 MT. Josiah Hcopes wrote recently in the Tribune. against deep planting of fruit trees. A cores pondent of The Ohio Farmer relates experience to the same effect: "Nature can do the best work, and it plants the seed near the surface. I have an orchard in which part of the trees were set very shallow and the other part too deep, and there is difference in favor of the shallow planted. I have some old apple trees blown ont by the wind; the trees that have been very deep have small roots, and in 8 cluster about the size of corn basket, and the other trees have very large roots that ruH out on the surface, and are much the best trees"
 MT. Parker Earle, Golden, III, writes to The Farmer and Fruit GroaUer that when fencing young orchard several years ago he tried 'many plans for pre-. serving posts." These were lately taken up and examined with the following re. suit, and reflections s'Those set with no preparation were decayed an inch or more in thickness. Those coated with thick wash of lime were better pre-. served, but were quite seriously attacke q by worms. Those coated with hot tal were as perfectly sound as when first put in the ground. Those painted with petroleum and kerosene were equally sound and as good as new. In future we shall treat all posts in the following manner before setting: Let the posts get thoroughly dry, and then, with a pan of cheap kerosene and whitewash brush, give the lower third of the post, the part to go into the ground, two or three good applications of oil, letting it soak in we'll each time. Posts so treated will not be troubled by worms or in- sects of any kind, but will resist decay to remarkable degree. This we find to be the simple F, easiest, cheapest and best method of preservation.
 THE PASTURE. in pastures is necessary, and unless the supply is per- manently abundant it should be made so. Nearly every summer and winter the local news in the papers tells ot dearth of water in the nearly level sec tions of the country. Cattle are driven away to water, and their thrift and the owners comfort disappear together. Sometimes a few hours spent in digging in place where water appears will liherate spring that will run continu- ously. Horizontal digging into hill will sometimes reach water as quick as perpendicular digging. The drainage of swamp lands will sometimes give g permanent supply, yet all these are un.