Connecticut western news., 1882-05-31
FARM AND GARDEN.

SoUAsHEs. Es.-"New Hampshire" says he ehas suceeededin raising good squashes for two years past by the following method: "The soil is we'll drained and loamy. The hills are made three feet apart and one foo! deep, and are ma- nured with night soil. Then 8 hand full of corn cobs are we'll mixed in with the manure. These prevent the worms from gnawing the roots; cover with about two inches of earth and put in about twenty seeds. After they come up, visit them once day to de- stroy the bugs. About noon is the best time, as they are most destructive then" I have heard before that corn cobs would drive away worms, and knew one man who thought he must have piece of corn cob in every corn hill, when planting upon ground that he thought was likely to be infested with worms. had not much faith in it, but it is easily tried, and may have facts to back it up.
 WHAT CAN BE SowN IN JUNE.-Those who have time of ''making garden" in early spring, and doing up the sowing all at once,> do not get the greatest good from their gardens. There are many vegetables of which the season can be greatly prolonged by making successive sowings. A striking example of this Is sweet corn, which, by judicious sow ings, may be had every day until frost stops it's growth. In many localities, the most thoroughly tropical plants, such as Lima beans, okra, and the mel ons, do better if put in now than if sown earlier. For succession, after the first sowing, put in bush beans, beets (allow- ing plenty to be used as beet greens), cucumbers, and other pickle plants. Carrots, kohl rabi and salsify are among those that may still be sown and make 8 crop before frost arrives. s.-Ameerica a,a Agricultewast.
 ENsIbAaE. F. W. Eldridge, Taunton, Mass, reports this experience with ensilage: "I fed heifer on nothing but ensilage and two quarts of meal per day for seventy days, and she gave nine quarts of milk per day. After the seventy days she was fed on all the best quality hay she would eat, and three quarts of meal and three quarts of shorts per day, and she shrank from nine quarts to seven per day. I have fed ensilage to six COWS, and they all did well. I made butter from my COWS while being fed ensilage, and it was as good as any butter that could be bought, and it dld not have any flavor of en- silage."
 PRUNING IN JuNE.-The American Agr5culturist says We have tried pruning in almost all months of the year, and on the whole prefer June. This being about the busiest month of the year, there is usually little time for pruning, and so the favorite time is early in spring, and many of our old orchards, in their rotting limbs and decayed trunks, bear testimony to the mischief wrought by the ill-timed use of the saw and ax. Small limbs, an inch in diameter or less, can be taken off at any time with comparative safety. But the thorough pruning called for in 8 long-neglected orchard is best done in early summer.
 The sap is absorbed by the rapid formation of wood and leaves the wood laid bare in pruning large limbs soon becomes scared, the healing process around the edges of the wound begins immediately, and in few years the wound will be completely covered with new wood and bark. There is no chance for decay as when large limbs are To moved in the early spring. There is fal too little pruning done in the farm orchard. A dead limb should not be suffered upon the fruit trees. Good pruning leaves no stubs, but cuts close to the trunk or branch to which the pruned limb is attached.
 CABBAGE WoRMs.-The very easiest method of protecting tomato, cabbage and such plants from being cut off by the cut-worm is to wrap about each stem, as one plants it, piece of paper it hardly matters what kind. A piece two inches square is large enough. Our this about the stem and hold it by press ing the soil about the lower edge. The work soon becomes easy and may be rapidly done, so says the Rural Neal
 Yorker, which furthermore adds that this is not one of those preventive meas ures that cost more to execute than they are worth.