Connecticut western news., 1890-03-19

 of housekeeping that would be grand even to the present day monopolists. If plain living alone would help us, we know people in these days that would be both intellectual saints and millionaires.
 Farm Notes.
 Hens that set themselves out of doors usually hatch their entire setting. They are forced to hustle for their food, are ofteu wet by rains and dews, and this keeps the eggs moist.
 English farmers are taking kindly 10 barbed wire. It is certainly cheaper fence, labor considered, than the hedge, which occupies SO much ground and requires so much labor to keep it in shape.
 The care of raising an orchard win be greatly reduced by growing vege- tables or small fruits in it as long a they can be made to grow we'll with culture aud manuring. The trees will also grow more rapidly than in grass and weeds.
 Milk should never be put into dirty vessels, inasmuch as the organisms in- variably adhere to these, but can be destroyed by scaldin0. A COW should never be allowed to drink from dirty ponds or streams, which are invariably abodes of injurious organisms.
 Irrigation is usually pressing need in strawberry culture-though not greatly needed in 1889. But all who grow strawberries on large scale should be prepared to irrigate when necessary. A little forethought and some expense will often provide the means.
 Some years ago it was published of 8 Connecticut man that he changed the bearing year of an apple tree after picking off all the blossoms during four succeeding alternate seasons. This shows that continued effort is re- quired to overcome old habits even in 8 tree.
 In pruning fruit trees the intelligent | man will be careful not to cut away the fruit spurs attached to large limbs or to the main trunk. That is py all odds the best place for fruit, and not on the ends of tapering branches. An ignorant pruuer is simply tree | butcher.
 The farmers of Canada have lately had such falling-of in demand for their celebrated six-rowed barley from the brewers of this country that they are seriously thinking of substituting the growing of two-rowed barley for export to england. English brewers greatly prefer the two-rowed barley. The peaches so often seen in market which have a deep red flesh are have the styellers." Almost invariably the flavor of such fruit is insipid and characterless. Growers should be fined for sending such fruit to market. After bearing one crop in this way the tree dies.
 The careful and thoughtful culture | of old and tried varieties of fruit ia better (for man of moderate meansl than frequent investments in newI high-priced and much advertised vari- cites that bear all creation-on paper. i ] U0 Ou0 UlAu WuO 6ccS cAlTdOISludTy value in new fruits Is the nurseryman who s.controls" it.
 | Dwarf pear culture is usually de- fusion and snare. Ono can get fruit from dwarf tree little sooner than from a standard, and the crop ends sooner also. The dwarf is generally a short-lived affair, with many chances again,t it for satisfac ory success. Better invest in standards and take good care of them.
 Much of the comfort and thrift of COW tied up in the stable depends on frequent brushing and rubbing to clear off the dirt that will otherwise accumulate. In the field, at pasture, cows manage this matter themselves, rubbing against . post or tree; but in the stable there is more need of the currycomb and brush, and they get less of it.
 The popularity of barbed wire is