Connecticut western news., 1906-10-25

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 It isn't necessary to let the city rub the natural bloom from your boy and girl in order that they may become ,ac- quainted with the ways of the world.
 During the hunting season 1t Is pret- ty hard to round up trespasser and be supported by the law unless there Is absolute proof. That means fences up in good shape and patrol duty on your part
 The raising of alfalfa in the eastern states has not thus far proved n sue cess, though there Is reason to hope for better results and that the difficult ties of soil and cultivation may be over come.
 A great deal of loss is sustained after the harvest Is begun, but not finished, by the fall rains which come on. It isn't always easy to overcome this con- dition and prevent the grain and straw from being blown about. Keep things In shape as far as possible.
 A Of ln6 foY and damage could be prevented by re- fusing to allow the children to make playground of the barn or workshop. It Is quite as often the visiting chill iren from the neighborhood who make the trouble as your own. Fires often originate in this way.
 When possible take your consignment of cattle to market yourself. This gives you an opportunity to compare them with others and crfticise them from the standpoint of the market and will enable you to profit by past ex- perience. In fat cattle weight does not count for as much as quality and con. dition.
 Some peoples front yards remind one of an overturned woman's dress the beauty and symmetry of the lawn are marred by an overabundance of small flower beds, Towering bushes and shrub trees. When first put out these seem all right, but after q season or two of growth you have more than you bargained for.
 A recent bulletin issued by the Ne braska experiment station corrects the impression which has gained credencc in some quarters to the effect that solution of copper sulphate mixed with the feed of hogs will render them i'm mune to cholera. Experiments care fully conducted show that every hog out of a pen so immunized died of the plague within a short time.
 Strange 1t Is that until within a year or two 1t should have been entirely left to individual interest and enterprise in this country to effect along the line of raising pure bred horses what has been accomplished by government breeding In many European countries for. dec ades past. Within the past year two government studs have been started, and 1t Is expected that much benefit will result therefrom.
 The raising of the thoroughbred boy and girl is a proposition that brings a more permanent satisfaction than that which can be measured by the size of the pocketbook. Many the parent who realizes too late that fiiial love and re- gard cannot be measured much less bought, with dollars and cents and that, though rich In point of material wealth, In this other respect he Is most abject, poor and destitute.
 The fellow who will loaf around during the summer and wear his trousers out sitting on dry goods boxes when there Is an urgent call for help to do the simplest kind of work at $2 per day Is quite likely to be In the list of those whose wives will have to take in washing for a living next winter There should be law compelling chaps of this kind to get busy.or go to jail. A municipal stone pile would be one way out.
 A number of potato growers will this fall have to now the weeds in their fields before they can get at or even locate their crop. A suggestion made some weeks ago Is worth trying, that of sowing buckwheat about July 1. the time when the weeds begin to get their start. The buckwheat grows rapidly, occupies the ground as the potato vines wtther and die and can be cut before the potatoes are dug in the fall. This treatment srangles the weeds and at the same time results In two crops from the same piece of land.
 In picking out pony for the chfl- dren's use and pleasure hesitate be- fore taking one that has seen much active service unless you know its history. pony after having passed through many hands often acquires bad habits and mean and vicious