Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
Farm and Garden Notes.

Cornstalks cut, crushed and saltcd will keep the stock quiet between meals on the cold winter days.
 The best temperature to keep apples is as near the freezing point as possible with out actual freezing.
 A mans farm is volume, every acre of which is page bearing the marks of his character, indicating the degree of mental and moral culture to which he has attained.
 The connection between good grass and good butter is very close, and it matters not how good breed of cattle is used it is impossible to make good butter with poor pasturage.
 A good houskeeper has two thorough house-cleanings every year, one in the spring and one in the fall; good farmer, two thorough barnyard cleanings at about the same time.
 The last legislatures oleomargarine law has been effective, says the Massa- chusetts State board of health Less of the stuff is sold and much of that is dis tinctly labeled as olcomargarinc.
 The United States imported seeds this year to the value of about $4, 800, GOO. It would seem that q country tropical, and temperate, as is its climate, might raise the seeds required for general planting.
 Drainage is not less valuable to the stockraiser than to the grain farmer. It lengthens the season both ill the spring and fall, keeps the soil from poaching, and allows the cultivation of the finer and more nutritious grasses-three most important considerations.
 Guernsey breed of cattle have been over shadowed by the greater popularity of Jerseys, but are we'll worthy of equal at tention, and that, giving as rich milk as the Jerseys, they yield a larger mess and are considerably larger themselves.
 If manure is to be used in the orchard it should never be fresh, or such as will quickly fcrment. That which has been thoroughly composted, or well decom- posed is best. Wood mold, mixed with lime and ashes, has been found excellent, aad the better the manure i'll tineness of condition and freedom from decomposing matter the less liability of the trees to disease.
 Burn all old rubbish, prunings, etc., about the garden, vineyard and berry patches. Loose materials lying about will afford a harbor for insects, many of which but for this would freeze Anent this, MT. Samuel Edwards, of Illinois, who knows something about killing in sects, says little kerosene applied be fore lighting the fire is an excellent aid in burning damp brush or other refuse.
 Aneot trray ;,Orsos the ;re Stoc7. L,ur ,,al, London, says gray is a color which is promishing to become fashionable among draft-horsc breeders, that the gray horse is the favorite horse of art, also of the general public; and the Jour- nal would like to sec it better esteemed in the show-ring.
 London Garden says that ''thc sooner the notion is dispelled that roses, in order to make them grow vigorously, must be cut back to mere stumps, showing two or three buds, the bettcr' The florists of the U aited States long ago ceased to cut close, as they have ceased the prun- ing of trees into the thin. umbrella form supposed to s. t the moist climate. of England.
 The old practice f aising pu;npkins in the corn field is not as much followed as it should be. Exper; nee has shown that not only can as much corn be pro- duced with a pumpkin crop as without it, but that the value Of the latter IS od for milch cows tn winter, as well Us nsn fed to hogs whom fattsnias. Is large