Connecticut western news., 1883-08-08
FARM AND GARDEN.


 is made by setting 14-foot posts feet in the ground 8 feet apart The poles for these posts should be about inches through at the top end. The rack is 6 feet wide. At the top of the posts, along the sides and across the ends, we spike on 2 by 6-inch piece to stiffen the rack and hold the posts in place. Just above the surface of the ground, we spike 2 by cross-piece at every pair of posts. On these, boards or poles are laid to keep the straw from the ground. The cross-pieces should be we'll spiked, as they must serve to keep the posts from spreading at.the top. There must be no cross pieces above these, except at the end of the rack. If put high up in the middle of the rack they will prevent the straw from settling down when eaten out from below. The object in having the rack so narrow is to allow the cattle to reach nearly to the center from each side, so that the straw will constantly settle down within their reach. Ten inches above the floor we spike on an- other 2 by 6-piece clear around, and 16 inches above this, still another is spiked on, making space through which the cattle can pass their heads. The space, between the lower piece and the floor answers for sheep to reach through. On many small farms this rack, 30 or 40 feet long, would hold all the straw. On large farms it might be filled several times during the winter from the main stack, which could then be fenced to keep the cattle away from the straw en- tirely.-Aneerdcan AgricuJturist.
 HAY HEATING IN THE Mow.-Hay is not injured by heating little after it is stored, provided there is no moisture about it except it's own sap. Of course it would be undesirable to have the heating process proceed beyond limited degree. It is better to have the hay heat little than t, dry it too much be- fore storing it. MT. A. w. Cheever, editor of the Neso E'eglaaad Faamser, in 8 report on the hay crop of Norfolk county to the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture several years ago, said: "I do not object to putting in hay that will ! slightly heat in the mow if it is from any moisture except it's own sap. I find that great deal more hay can be stored ill the same barn, if cut early, than if al lowed to get ripe. To have it feed well to my COWS, it must be cut and cured in such manner, and at such time, that it will come from the mow soft and linn Der, instead of hard and wiry." Good judgment, tempered by experience, is requisite to enable one to determine when 8 sample of hay is cured just enough to keep. It is better to have the hay little drier than is necessary than to have it green enough to mould in the mow.
 PECULIAR MODE OF CU1TIvAT1Ne ON1oNs-L. H. H., Charlestown, Mass. writes: "There have appeared this sea son number of interesting communi cations on onion culture. We have beer glad to see this exchange of expression about this vegetable, for the demand fo onions is an active one, with fine prices My object in writing to-day is to tell o 8 novel plan few of our New England market gardeners indulge ina plan think that is not generally known O. practiced. The idea is to have contin uous onion bed. In midsummer-Augus little bulbs from the seed stalk o
 plant are set out. These are kept cleal of weeds, but otherwise little or no culti vation is given, neither are they pro tected during the winter following. Il the spring they are cultivated, and b and by they throw up seed stalks, upo . which new top onions are formed : These are gathered and set out the sam l as the year before, the old plants re = maining in the soil. The followin , spring these old plants are fit for ma1 1 ket. The spot selected for this exper : ment should be protected one with e southern exposure.
 WOMEN AND Doas.-Kate Field say, , ''The way women travel with miserab " little dogs fills me with amazemen y Men don't; and when I think of the pan
 pering these creatures get, and what l. nuisance they are to travellers, an a how the same amount of care bestowe
 upon children would result in untol
 benefit to mankind, I become cynica
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