Connecticut western news., 1906-10-18

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 A sound nubbln Is preferable to the big soft ear which spells in the crib.
 You might just as well let the hired man use the buggy as to leave 1t out In the rain and sun exposed to all kinds of weather.
 People will generally sympathize with and many of them Justify the Ohio woman who sought divorce from her husband on the ground that he in sisted on having nothing for breakfast but predigested breakfast foods.
 A nearby city reports a number of chicks as matching from an egg case placed on the platform of cold stor- age plant The eggs producing these chicks must have hau a good two weeks start before the local grocer got hold. of them
 Inasmuch as 05 per cent of all house flies are said to breed In horse manure, we would seem to be doomed to suffer from this pest as long as we raise horses or at least until we adopt sys- tematic methods of killing the larvae before they have chance to hatch cut.
 A little forethought exercised just now in the matter of starting the flow ering bulbs will insure most delight ful whiff of fragrance and floral beauty in the cold months of winter when oth- erwise we would have but the memory and anticipation of summer flowers to cneer the dark days.
 It would seem to be a bad bargain when order In the home Is maintained at a sacrifice Of actual comfort and good feeling among the different mem bers of the family. Order in itself amounts to nothing 1t is only jRstifi- able when 1t confers benefit on those who are affected amounting to more than the cost of maintaining 1t.
 Barring a burn out or protracbed sickness, there would seem to be no good reason why any family that has had access to q piece of ground the present season should not have in store enough canned fruit and garden vege- tables to supply the table through the winter. While downright shiftlessness is no valid excuse. it Is usually the reason why ample stores are not laid up for the winter use.
 Although the United States fur nishes only about 2G per cent of all the meat consumed in the British isles which Is imported, the per cent of staple articles used as food is much greater. All live stock imported into that country must be slaughtered within few days after arriving upon British soil. This is done, 1t is claim ed, for sanitary reasons and also as a protection to the British grown stock
 A good many farmers living in north ern Iowa and southern Minnesota are this year realizing nice return on the fields which they have sown to flax Representatives of a flax twine plant are paying as high as $11 per ton for the unthrashed flax, which means for many farmers a return of from $20 to S26 per acre. The flax Is pressed, snip ped to the plant and thrashed, the seed being saved and the flax being made Into binding twine.
 The plan of the Canadian govern ment of hiring an expert, at present man from Oregon, to instruct growers and shippers how to correctly pack apples and the enforcement of law compelling the honest packing and grading of apples. would seem to be one that might be followed by our own government with good effect. While somewhat technically worded bulletin is of considerable help to those who can digest it, practical demonstration by an expert In this line would be of far greater value. -
 While old country conditions may be such as to make 1t imperative that every inch of ground should be put to some practical and definite use in the line of raising stuff for the family con sumption, land Is plentiful enough in this country to admit of at least four square rods In front of the farm or town home being devoted to flower beds and lawn. That much space at least should be dedicated to a de- velopment in us of the aesthetic and love of the beautiful and should not be used as a hog lot, pumpkin or po- tato patch.
 There came to our notice the other day the case of farmer whose exam pie might be followed with profit by many today. Starting with a small farm fifteen or eighteen years ago, he resolved not to sell a pound of grain therefrom. Instead year by year he converted the products of his land into