Connecticut western news., 1906-08-30

Just as long as the people are eager for the bargain counter. with its cheap limitations, they will be forced to ac- cept shoddy, Inferior goods for their money.
 Our humanitarian iimpulses should more often find expression in. putting out of the way at once and in as pain less a manner as possible ccrippled, helpless or incurahly sick animals in our keeping.
 The New York university summer school has this year provided a special course designed to fit teachers for the giving of instruction in ,children's gar dens, the making of them and how to care for them
 One Iowa county reports 140 farmers living within its borders using the King road drag. TE.s was undoubtedly a locality in which therewas. great need of highway repentance and where the good roads 'gosper' was earnestly preached and cordially received.
 Hardly q day passes when some dis tressing accident is mot accorded as the result of the careless use or misuse of medicines. Much grief would be pre- vented if the medicines were properly labeled, whether harmful or not, and placed above the reach of children. It is hard to prevent or curb "a echild's in- Quisitive nature.
 That is a very practical and sensible move which has in view the addition of courses in the rndiments of agri- tural instruction to our public schools curricula. The course mentioned, coupled with O reasonable amount of experimental work. would seem to give promise of being not only practical and useful, but highly interesting and en- tertaining as well.
 The progress which has been made in the packing plants of the country merely along the line of sanitation and cleanliness would seem to Indicate
 
 necessary. These Improvements, cou- pied with more rigid inspection of animals before and after saughtering, practically remedy the evil which has been complained of.
 Every dairyman who Is in the busi- ness primarily for the money to be made rather than the improvement of his health will adopt some careful method of testing the individual milk and butter yield of different cows in his herd. It is too often true that the really profitable cows in the herd nre paying the board bill of one or more spongers and loafers
 Each year there is a scarcity of help on the large farms in the northwest, and as a result the days are long and the prices paid are high. It would be a fine thing If the incoming tide of immigrants could be landed in the middle of the United States, where they would do some good, instead of being left on the coast to block up the al ready overcrowded cities.
 When one has a cool and dry place for storing potatoes we believe it is better to dig them when they are fully ripe than to allow them to lie In the ground until late October, as is cus- tomary in good many localities. And this is particularly true if the early fall is wet, as the tendency to rot Is greater If they are left in the ground than when they are properly stored.
 An Iowa woman has made her village famous by advertising a certain day each summer as chicken day. This year 1t was July IA, at which time she exhibited to the many spectators who assembled over 2yOOO chicks newly matched in incubators of her own in- ventioa. She has remarkable success in poultry raising. and people come from fifty miles around to witness her annual hatch.
 Many long contested disputes would be averted by having the boundary lines on the farm firmly established and maintained. While 1t may cost something at first, one has the surety of knowing where his land begins and the other fellows leaves off. If you can't afford to he generous don't plant your blackberrfes next the fence, as they're just sure to be too neighborly and possibly make lifelong enemies.
 For many years our chief supply of turpentine has come from North Caro- lima, but the drain has been so ex- haustive that the pine trees have all been killed. The present source of turpentins Is from the farms farther south. where the pine forests extend for miles. Each farm consists of thou sands of trees which. though not large at the base. grow to q great height. The sap taken season after season at