Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-27
AGRICULTURAL AFFAIRS.

k hay is put in too green, bed it down hard and solid to keep the air out.
 TAE New York Experiment Station found cut, few years ago. that seed corn nearest the tip produced the strongest and best plants, that from the butt next best, and that from the middle of the car the poorest
 PRACTICAL cultivators of hay, by raising both orchard grass and timothy, can crowd along the work each season by always hay ing one or two fields of that excellent grass, which can be cut and out of the way long before any other grass is ripe enough to cut.
 TAKE the horse that tl1s short ears with short, curly hair inside th em, that is broad between the ears and eyes, with a regular straight face and large, thin nostriis, for in him you will find an intelligent, spirited and wilGn 2 servant and faithful friend, if treated rightly.
 BOARD shelters for st, sck are chea per and better in the long run than shelters made of straw. Besides, traw answers well for feeding purposes, and when used for shelter can not be used for food. But it is better to utilize straw by making stock shelters of it than to bu an it
 KEEPING tools in good order, and ready to use, is as necessary as seeping them in the proper place. To take up dull saw, or dull chisel, and try to elo any kind of work with it, is worse than pl llhng boat with broom, and it all comes from just the same source as throwing down tools carelessly.
 ONLY a small proportion of farmers have continuous supply from the first of the strawberries, but all shot id. No part of their work will pay larger dividends than the small amount necesss ary to keep the home table well supplied. It is due the housewife, it is needed for the health of the family.
 ONE of the most lamentas le things i'll life is to see 8 young colt being "broken by an ignorant and incompetent ''breaker." Ills ignorance is exousable if he is kind, but your average breaker dos not believe in the power of "mornl suasio n " ill the equine kingdom. His motto is: "1'u break his spirit or I'll br.ak his hes lrt and he gen. orally succeeds. The colt "breaker" is colt killer, and he must give way to the colt educator.
 THE dise@, ,e known as piuk-eye is an cpl zootic whir h prevails early in the spring more or less over all this continent. 1t con sists OF Inflammation of the mucous mem branes of the throat and lungs and of the nasal P assages and other parts of the head, ah ectSng the eyes severely. Usually It passes of in two or three weeks with & discharge from the nose. In mild cases there is cough produced by any exertion; in severe cases the cough is tr oublesome. THE best way of handling potatoes IS as Follows: Using horse digg er, dig in the l morning all you can handle dming the day. ,, then scatter sacks along the rDws where you want them, just far enough apart so that each basketful will be handy to sack, and put as many rows into & TOW of sacks as sack will hold basketfuls. Pick the salable ones first, fill and sew the saclSsi ! then pick the seed, fill and sew sac ks. Ii for spring market, storein cellar in the even ing; keep out light; let in as much air as possible until too cold weather comes 1T for fall market, pile in a straw st ack until l marketed