Connecticut western news., 1886-08-18

I think this is better than salt water for this purpose. All the manc ought to be cut away that can by any possibility work under tho collar. This may seem great deformity on the animal, and so it is; but it is not nearly so deforming as sore shoulder. .-Otio Farmer.
 Fruitful Dishwater.
 "Sister Gracious" a plant lover, finds some compensation for the soul-weary round of dishwashing in the fact that the water judiciously distributed pro- notes both flowers and fruit. She says, encouragingly, in Popu.. ..ar Garaening:
 'Put in the coffee and tea grounds and even the scrapings from the sink. Begin with the rose bushes; you will be aston- ished at the new growth, and on these come the flowers next year. My scarlet geraniums were admired for their rich colors and abundant bloom, the more they blossomed, and this bed received a liberal portion of the dishwatcr once week. A poor mis rable apple tree that had never had a blossom, after one summers treatment, bore a considerable number and bids fair next year to have a large crop. But my scarlet runners surprised me; planted near an ugly look ing old shed, they covered it with such mass of rich red coloring that the cid shed, always an eyesore, became thing of beauty. To be sure they were nothing but beans, but the flowers were so per feet in form and coloring that they were we'll worth cultivating, especially as this result was brought about by applying the simple and ready stimulant, dish water."
 A systematic application day by day, so that each plant or tree is treated about once week through the season, is ob- viously better, than the slattcrnly 'dash- ing out" on the reedlng ground close to the house, or into foul and disease breeding "drain."
 The Potato Pest.
 Mr. A. w. Checver once reported in The Ne,o Eng. .and Farmer several potato fields badly injured by too free use of Paris green; and, after remarking on the almost ininitesimal quantity of the virulent poi sonrequired to kill an insect, he de- scribed his own economical method:
 "A leaf killed by the green is as use- less to the plant as if eaten by the bug. We have generally applied the poison dry, and mixed with very fine plaster of Paris, at the rate of one part in weight to 100 parts of the plaster; and then without making a very heavy applica- tion, the beetles have been thoroughly cleaned out. It is only necessary to have the poison remain on the leaves two days to destroy all that partake of it. Later hatchings may require subse- quent applications. As the insects are found upon the tenderest leaves, those which grow last, there is no necessity for dusting over the whole of a large hill of vines, but a little poison shaken into the central portion of the stems will be quite as cffectual. If one has large field to treat it would be we'll to cover mouth and nose with thin cloth wet in cold water, while doing the work, and special caution should be taken against getting particle of the dust int ho hands, feet or face. The past season we applied the poison in water, through a small sprinkler, which worked better than anything else previously tried. One teaspoonful of the pure green in two and half to three gallons of water was found sufficiently powerful to de- stroy all the weevils within two or three days after the application. This is put ting it on so thin that no color could be seen on the leaves; but it was there, nevertheless, and the beetles probably ate it more readily than if mixed with plaster, which is always more or less gritty"
 MT. T. B. Terry, who makes such a successful speciality of potato culture, raising large field each year, has dem onstrated by repeated comparative trials that manipulating the beetles is cheaper than poisoning them; and it goes without saying, that it avoids liability to the great danger inseparablc to man and domestic animals from proximity to the deadly arsenites.
 Farm and Garden NOtes.
 Bad drinking water for COWS makes bad m lk.
 Wood ashes or potash in some form oro,,nI bo roofy of old ,>oor tr,oe ,,,; ,c