Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-04-24
FRAGMENTS FOR FARMERS.

THE advantage in well tiled land is tha, the surface water drains off rapidly without washing. It warns up quicker and seeding can be done earlier
 PUT the finest and best manure in the garden. Use the coarse manure on corn. Endeavor, however, to have the whole heap well routed before using.
 Coop land well cultivated, good stock well kept, and the farm home literally sup piled, tend in themselves to enrich the farmers and to advance the widest interests of the community.
 A STABLE floor of good sound spruce or pine blanks, thoroughly soaked through with crude petroleum, will resist dampness and decay for long time, according to the American Agriculturist, and will keep clean and wholesome.
 BE careful in using salt on the ground. Salt will kill weeds to a certain extent, and it is also a remedy for some kinds of grubs in the soil, but salt will kill other plants as well, and it's use may result in a loss of some of the garden crops.
 To MAKE success of peach h-growing one should select elevated sites and warm, sandy soils, or localities near large bodies of water. In most situations a peach orchard should be we'll cultivated. So ad- vises a practical horticulturist.
 DON'T trust to your memory when plant ing an orchard with several varieties of fruit but make a diagram and preserve it for future use. The trees may not bear for four years, when the location of each variety may then be forgotten.
 AN Illinois horticulturist recommends springtime, from the opening of the ground to the bursting of the buds, as the best sea- son for transplanting evergreens, and names as fine on large lawns groups of spruce, fir and pine or American arborvitse.
 METHOD, precision, industry, forethought, economy, sound and ready judgment and intelligence-thesea are the elements of suc- oessful business. They are as essential to the farmer of to-day as to the business man in the greatest commercial center.
 FARMERS doubtless can do much them selves in the way of economizing their working expenses. To be properly man. aged in all it's details farm requires the closest attention. Indeed there is no more difficult position to fill at the present day than that of the successful farmer.
 THE farmer who thinks there can be noth- ing new in agriculture should remember that thirty or forty years ago his grand father thought the same way. It is a fact agriculture has made more advancement during the past ten years than in any other ten years of the worlds history.
 A WRITER in the Boston Cultivator says that most of the pruning of fruit trees should be done when the sprouts are so young and tender that they may be cut of with the finger nails. Beginning when the trees are young, they may thus be kept in good shape with little waste of timber, the needless shoots being removed before they have made much growth.
 THE selection of seed is very important matter. Whether one imports fresh seed from another farm and district, or continues to use homegrown potatoes, a selection of the healthiest tubers must be made. No crop benefits moro from frequent change of seed than potatoes, and this is all the moro commendable on account of the increasing liability to disease.